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Natural Disasters impact on children, with a particular emphasis on girls and children with disabilities A case study from Haiti assessing children’s vulnerabilities to natural disasters and its underlying causes
(Master thesis, 2015)This thesis explores whether children, and especially girls and children with disabilities, are more vulnerable in natural disasters. In addition, the thesis investigates what the underlying factors of children’s ... -
Neoliberal Uganda: A Critical Analysis
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the impact of neoliberalism in the context of Uganda. Neoliberalism is a contested concept but is often defined as an ideology or doctrine which elevates free markets and promotes skepticism towards ... -
A network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation
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Network measures in animal social network analysis : Their strengths, limits, interpretations and uses
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NON-FORMAL ADULT EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT : An assessment of the contribution of an NGO implemented program in Southwestern Uganda
(Master thesis, 2020)This master thesis assessed the contribution of non-formal adult education programs in the process of community development. The study took a case of a training program designed and implemented by a ... -
Norwegian Food Security towards Climate Change: Farmers perception on how climate change affects national food security in Agder and Vestfold & Telemark County
(Master thesis, 2022)The global food is in trouble and farmers all over the world are experiencing challenges in food production due to climate change. Climate change is making the possibility to produce food unpredictable and created a ... -
Norwegian NGOs in the nexus
(Master thesis, 2022)Uganda hosts almost two thirds of all refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the five countries in the world hosting the most refugees, with an estimated 1,4 million refugees currently residing in the country. This ... -
Null models for animal social network analysis and data collected via focal sampling: Pre‐network or node network permutation?
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Offentlige virkemidler til bærekraftig by- og boligutvikling : Hvordan to norske kommuner jobber for at private aktører skal bygge bærekraftig
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis deals with sustainability in urban and housing development in two Norwegian municipalities. The purpose is to look at how the municipalities of Kristiansand and Fredrikstad use various instruments to push the ... -
Oiling the Wheels of Conflict? Local Grievances, Relative Deprivation and the Potential for Conflict in Cape Three Points, Ghana.
(Master thesis, 2015)Natural resource, particularly oil, has been predicted to be a core factor of internal conflicts in the post-cold war era (Le Billon, 2001; Klare, 2001). This thesis explores the potential for conflict in new and emerging ... -
Online environmental activism and Internet use in the Indonesian environmental movement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article investigates the use of the Internet among Indonesian environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and how this use influences the mobilizing structure of the environmental movement. The discussion is ... -
Paramilitaries, parochialism, and peace: The moral foundations and personality traits of SlovenskíBranci
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Paramilitary organizations have increasingly become a cause for concern among policy makers and the media in recent years, in part because the former are often seen as a potential threat to peace (or at least to the status ... -
Peeling Back the Layers : A critical analysis of climate change adaptation policies and programs in relation to differential vulnerability. A study of the Áncash Region, Peru
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis is grounded in the discourse on differential vulnerability and climate change. People throughout the world are disproportionately affected by climate change effects, and a growing number of researchers argue ... -
Planning to meet challenges in shrinking rural regions. Towards innovative approaches to local planning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this article we ask to what extent is current demographic development reflected in the present planning and policy practice of shrinking municipalities; whether there is a focus on strategies and measures for population ... -
Plant a tree! : climate change communication and perception in rural Uganda
(Master thesis, 2019)The impacts of climate change are one of the most pressing issues in our times. Thus, climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies are of key importance in development. For individuals to employ adaptation ... -
The politics of emotion in a parenting support programmes for refugees in Norway
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Politics, planning, and ruling: the art of taming public participation
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Possibilities and constraints of the lithium extraction and industrialization in Bolivia: A case study of local impacts
(Master thesis, 2019)With the pressing issue of an inevitable energy-transition, lithium batteries present itself as part of the solution.Lithium batteries have the ability to harness and store great amount of energy and arethus key for the ...