Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Lujala, Päivi"
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Strength in Numbers: Community Resilience to Natural Hazards in Norway
Scherzer, Sabrina (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:175, Doctoral thesis, 2021)As part of the now-concluded project ‘Climate Change and Natural Hazards: The Geography of Community Resilience in Norway’ (ClimRes), this PhD research set out to investigate how resilient Norwegian communities are to ... -
The political ecology of unplanned land use changes in Kampala City, Uganda : a case of selected parishes of Kawempe Division
Wandera, Peter (Master thesis, 2014)Kampala City is undergoing massive unplanned urban land use changes caused by political, social, economic and environmental push and pull factors. Both local and transnational companies are rapidly locating in Kampala due ... -
The role of Information Accessibility in achieving Transparency and Accountability in Ghana's oil Industry: A reality check from Cape Three Point
Yaw, Ofori Jerome Jeffison (Master thesis, 2013)The possession on natural resource wealth has in most cases has turn out to be a curse rather than a blessing to many countries that Possesses them. The discovery of oil and gas resources in Ghana has brought to the fore ... -
There is no one amongst us with them! Transparency and participation in local natural resource revenue management
Kasimba, Sam Akol; Lujala, Päivi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)To redistribute natural resource revenues back to local communities and to promote equitable benefit-sharing and inclusive decision-making, companies and governments increasingly use local benefit-sharing trust funds ... -
Trust Funds as Localized Strategies for Sharing Mining Benefits in Ghana: Experiences with Transparency, Participation, and Community Development Practices
Kasimba, Sam A. (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:215, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis examines the role of trust funds in the extractive industry in Ghana. Since the 1990s, mining companies have increasingly adopted trust funds as approaches to enhance the flow of mineral wealth to host communities, ... -
You can’t sit with us : a quantitative analysis of the middle eastern and north African countries’ reluctance to membership in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Almås, Synøve (Master thesis, 2017)The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was created in the early 2000s as a response to the growing concern of corruption in the natural resource industries. 52 states have since joined, but countries ...