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Corporate Social Responsibility as a mechanism of Community Development A Study of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited’s CSR for Bonny Kingdom, Niger Delta Nigeria
(Master thesis, 2015)The study focuses on how the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of a gas company can be a factor in the development of the local community in the Niger Delta. To understand the perceptions of the company and the community ... -
An analysis of women’s empowerment through microfinance in Flores, Indonesia
(Master thesis, 2015)The potential of microfinance in poverty alleviation has long been recognized by development practitioners and academicians. However, many scholars are critical about the effectiveness of microcredit programs in women‟s ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
THE REAWAKENED BOLIVIAN NATIONALISM CREATED CHANGES THAT INITIATED BENEFICIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE PEOPLE The case study of Students Grant Recipients at San Francisco Xavier University
(Master thesis, 2015)Natural resources have demonstrated to be viable resources in the development of revenues that benefit a large number of Bolivia’s population. Hydrocarbons, oil, tin, are just few examples of the natural resources located ... -
Environmental Concerns and Pro-Environmental Behaviours in Shanghai – Closing the Environmental Concern-Behaviour Gap
(Master thesis, 2015)Environmental issues are among the biggest problems of our time. While green technology and global initiatives are steps in the right direction, there is an environmental concernbehaviour gap among individuals that ... -
Towards an integrated approach to emergency management: interdisciplinary challenges for research and practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This article presents an interdisciplinary vision for large-scale integrated emergency management that has been inspired by the transition from platform centric to inte-grated operations in the oil and gas fields, which ... -
An attraction-based cellular automaton model for generating spatiotemporal population maps in urban areas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)We develop a cellular automaton (CA) model to produce spatiotemporal population maps that estimate population distributions in an urban area during a random working day. The resulting population maps are at 50 m and 5 ... -
Vote buying and Its effect on democracy and development in Uganda : a case of Rwamucucu Sub-County, Kabale District, South Western Uganda
(Master thesis, 2016)In this study, I have investigated vote buying and vote selling as a phenomenon in Uganda, using Rwamucucu Sub-County as a case. The major aim has been to understand local people’s perception of vote buying and selling and ... -
Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local communities in Malawi: Experiences of women fish processing groups in the Lake Chilwa Basin
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Ecotourism in Bolivia : an ethnographical study of ecotourism impacts in Madidi National Park
(Master thesis, 2016)The concepts of ecotourism are widely defined but it is often used as a marketing instrument in order to promote tourism businesses related to nature. Ecotourism experience a fast growth in world tourism industry and many ... -
Refugees in exodus: Statelessness and identity : a case study of Rohingya refugees in Aceh, Indonesia
(Master thesis, 2016)Stateless people are extremely vulnerable, and the risk of exploitation is high. The Rohingya are a severely oppressed minority in Myanmar, within a system that does not protect them but rather abuse the power to mistreat ... -
The Voice of the Vanni Tamil women for Peace
(Master thesis, 2016)The civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end in 2009, costing more than 40,000 civilian lives and resulting in major destruction of private and public property. At the end of the civil war the government of Sri Lanka promised ... -
Doing and undoing child marriage in Nepal : an exploratory study using institutional ethnography
(Master thesis, 2016)Child marriage is a practice that occurs across regions, cultures and religions. Every year approximately 15 million girls under the age of eighteen get married. The practice often has serious impacts on the lives of the ... -
Promoting sustainability through enhanced capacities : a study of the role of a non-governmental development organization in promoting sustainable local development, through an enhancement of local community capabilities : the case of Joint Aid Management (JAM) International’s Operations in Machengue community, Inhambane, Mozambique
(Master thesis, 2016)During the last two decades of the twentieth century, there emerged an increased interest within the development field in how to promote sustainable local development. By responding to the danger of inducing aid dependency, ... -
Small streams make big rivers : exploring motivation and idealism in Norwegian personalised aid initiatives in the Gambia
(Master thesis, 2016)Little is known about personalised aid organisations in Norway, and those initiatives are not recognised as part of the official Norwegian development aid structure. The organisations are small in size and by themselves ... -
Welfare State Development, Individual Deprivations and Income Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Gendered battlefields : women in conflict, household livelihoods and post-conflict resilience building in Bawku, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis mainly explores the gendered role of women in conflict and the livelihood implications of ethnic conflict on selected households. The USAID sustainable livelihood framework supplemented by the concepts of agency ...