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Research, knowledge, and policy on goitre and iodine in Norway (1850–2016)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Our aim is to shed light on the relationships between research, knowledge, and policy in the case of goitre and the use of iodine as a preventive measure against it in Norway from the 1850s onward. Goitre was previously ... -
Researching Players to Understand the Game
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008)Since the advent of the study of games, scholars have emphasised the idea of games as subsets of the real world, as make-believe and as representational systems. Games have been understood as delimited from the real world ... -
Researching ‘liquid integration’: breaking new ground for processual and contingent methodology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although there has been a broad and controversial debate on the concept of integration in social science over the last couple of decades the methodological debate of how to measure the processual, contingent side of ... -
Reserve-dependent capital efficiency, cross-sector competition, and mineral security considerations in mineral industry transition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study pinpoints three current factors that could be momentous in a possible transition to marine mining, namely reserve-dependent capital efficiency (accessibility and grade-dependent output per unit capital), ... -
Reserved but Principled – and Sometimes Functional: Explaining Decentralisation Preferences Among Regional Bureaucrats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent decades, decentralisation measures have been implemented in most advanced democracies. While such reforms may be driven by subnational pressures and demands for empowerment, the central government usually has the ... -
Residential Rooftop Solar and the Utilities Death Spiral. A system dynamics analysis of the effects of rooftop solar diffusion on the electricity rates and CO2 emissions of the U.S. electricity supply sector
(Master thesis, 2015-08-12)U.S. electric utilities are concerned by the recent exponential growth in rooftop solar installations among their customers. They fear that if their customers continue to adopt such self generation technologies and buy ... -
Resilience of small-scale farming to the emergence of bioenergy as a climate policy: lessons from Brazil’s social biodiesel programme
(Master thesis, 2019-08-06)This master thesis describes effects of the Brazilian social biodiesel policies on smallholder farmers. Through interviews, documental analysis and a simulation model, it rejects a dynamic hypothesis about market manipulation ... -
Resistance to Control—Norwegian Ministries’ and Agencies’ Reactions to Performance Audit
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03)Ministries are increasingly subject to control, primarily by State Audit Institutions’. This control is assumed to contribute to improvement. Based on survey data from 353 civil servants in Norway this article analyses the ... -
Resource management in the Anlo-Ewe migrant fishing community Abakam in the central region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)The study is focusing on resource management of the Anlo-Ewe migrant fishing community Abakam in the Central Region, Ghana. The study identifies that access to fishing rights among the migrants depends on the chieftaincy ... -
Responding to the gig economy: A comparative case-study of platform work in Norway and United Kingdom
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The rise of the gig economy is a challenge facing many established economies in Europe. The ongoing digital transformation of society has resulted in rapid changes to the labour market. Work through digital labour platforms ... -
Responsibility to Protect in Application: A Comparative Analysis of Libya and Syria during the Arab spring
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Responsibility to protect (RtoP) is a recent concept of international politics, whose goal is to define the best attitude to adopt when the world is confronted to grave humanitarian crises. Within RtoP, each state carries ... -
The Responsibility to Protect: En løsning for konflikten i Syria?
(Master thesis, 2014-05-26)Konflikten i Syria startet mars 2011 og har utviklet seg til en borgerkrig med store menneskelige lidelser mens denne studien har blitt utarbeidet. Reaksjonene fra verdenssamfunnet har vært å fordømme volden, men avgjørende ... -
Responsible innovation in mobile journalism : Exploring professional journalists` learning and innovation processes
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-19)Denne avhandlingen handler om innovasjon i mobiljournalistikk, og utforsker hvordan profesjonelle TV- og avisjournalister bruker smarttelefoner som journalistisk produksjonsverktøy. I tillegg reflekteres kritisk over ... -
Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The last two decades have witnessed major disruptions to the traditional media industry as a result of technological breakthroughs. New opportunities and challenges continue to arise, most recently as a result of the rapid ... -
Responsiveness to a Digital Age: Voting on Artificial Intelligence in the European Parliament
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Artificial Intelligence is a growing technology that is likely to be central for economies and industries across the whole globe. The European Union wants to be at the forefront of the development and deployment of this ... -
Ressurspooler i sykehus - en organisasjonsteoretisk studie
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)Etter tusenårsskiftet ble det lansert nye organisatoriske løsninger for bemanning ved norske sykehus. Ofte kalt bemanningsenhet, vikarpool eller ressurspool. De ble lansert som virkemiddel mot deltid, alternativ til private ... -
Ressursrente og kapasitetsbruk i et fiskeri - med særlig fokus på den norske fiskeflåten
(Master thesis, 2016-12-16)Oppgaven har som målsetting å analysere ressursrente og kapasitetsbruk i et fiskeri, med særlig fokus på den norske fiskeflåten. For å oppnå dette formuleres en todelt problemstilling. Først illustrerer oppgaven utviklingen ... -
Restaurering av våtmark i Haukåsmyrane, Åsane - muligheter og utfordringer
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Formålet med denne avhandlingen er å belyse muligheter og utfordringer rundt restaurering av våtmarker. Våtmarker har over lengre tid blitt gjenkjent for flere nyttige økosystemtjenester som gagner det menneskelige samfunnet, ... -
Restoring Democracy in The Gambia?: An Analysis of Diaspora Engagement in Gambian Politics
(Master thesis, 2017-06-16)The role of the diaspora in ‘homeland' politics has become more visible over the last two decades, and the amount of diaspora literature focusing on diaspora contribution in the socioeconomic and political development of ... -
Restoring heathlands after afforestation on two islands in western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ongoing loss of red-listed coastal heathlands is a threat to biodiversity and cultural heritage legacies throughout the Atlantic coastal regions of Europe. It is possible to restore degraded and afforested heathlands, ...