Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Lein, Haakon"

“Actually, water is life!” The importance of the Mara river and transboundary water management to users in Merenga, Tanzania

Rogers, Emily Bly (Master thesis, 2019)

This study examines the importance of the Mara river and other water resources to humans and wildlife in Merenga village in the Mara River Basin (MRB) of Tanzania, as well as how the ways in which local, national, and ...

Anthropogenic drivers of forest change in Miombo ecosystems

Kulindwa, Kassim; Lein, Haakon; Hepelwa, Aloyce; Mshale, Baruani (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)

As the basic purpose of REDD+ is to avoid deforestation and forest degradation, a good understanding of processes that cause deforestation is obviously of importance. However, many REDD+ programs and policies have rather ...

Aquaculture: A Tool for Sustainable Development in Uganda.: A Case Study of Kigoowa Catholic Women’s Association in Kampala District.

Aganyira, Kellen (Master thesis, 2005)

Abstract Global aquaculture production has grown rapidly and is now among the fastest growing food production sectors in many countries.Introduced over the past 50 years or so,aquaculture in Africa has gone through different ...

Assessing the Impact of Crop growing on Wetland Values, Services, Functions and Goods: A Case of Nakivubo Wetland Kampala District, Uganda

Male, Rashid (Master thesis, 2011)

For a country to develop, it requires a well and fully employed populace to earn income and carter for their basic needs and hence achieve a better standard of living. It is a global concern to protect and conserve vital ...

Assessment of livelihood resilience in relation to cyclones and climate change along the south-western coastal Belt of Bangladesh

Haque, Farhana (Master thesis, 2018)

The world has started to witness the increased frequency and severity of extreme natural disasters, due to the impact of climate change. This added risk for already vulnerable coastal poor as their lives and livelihoods ...

Climate change and natural hazards: the geography of community resilience in Norway

Scherzer, Sabrina; Setten, Gunhild; Lein, Haakon; Lujala, Päivi; Rød, Jan Ketil (Research report, 2019)

Community resilience beskriver et lokalsamfunn sin evne til å forberede seg på, håndtere og komme seg etter en krise. Gjennom bruk av kvalitative og kvantitative metoder, og geografisk visualisering, har prosjektet Climate ...

Climate change, natural hazards, and risk perception: the role of proximity and personal experience

Lujala, Päivi; Lein, Haakon; Rød, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)

Understanding public risk perception related to possible consequences of climate change is of paramount importance. Not only does risk perception have an important role in shaping climate policy, it is also central in ...

Community resilience in a Danish coastal context : a case study of Løgstør and Thyborøn

Thomsen, Mie (Master thesis, 2016)

Climate change in Denmark is estimated to result in increased precipitation, a rise in sea-level as well as more intense storms. As a result of this, small low-lying coastal communities will be particularly exposed to storm ...

Constrains and potentiality of scaling up pottery production units in Bangladesh : a comparative case study of micro enterprises of Dhaka and cottage industries in Tangail

Shabab, Syed Afsan (Master thesis, 2014)

Pottery products with its both localized and worldwide recognized market demand, location advantages in natural and human capital and environmentally green features have offered the potential to be a main stream micro/cottage ...

Drought index insurance and the risk behavior of smallholder maize crop farmers in the northern region of Ghana

Kpodo, Henry Selasi (Master thesis, 2017)

Smallholder farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana are at risk in crop production because of uncertainties in the rainfall patterns and amounts caused by changes in the climate. This study revealed that, smallholder farmers ...

Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resiliency to Glacier Change in Vestland County

Bly, Kristine Katherine (Master thesis, 2022)

Isbreer og deres miljø er veldig sårbare til effekene av klimaendringene. Etter en kort periode på 1990-tallet hvor isbreene vokste har breene på Vestlandet i Norge trukket seg tilbake i en alarmerende hastighet. Smeltingen ...

Eviction for forest conservation : the case of West Kilimanjaro forest, Siha, Tanzania

Mjema, Paul Emil (Master thesis, 2015)

In 2007 about 12,000 people were evicted from the forest of West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The government took such decision in response to various reports that quoted the decline of forest due to relentless pressure on forest ...

Farmers and Farming: Punjab at Crossroads: An attempt to understand trends in agriculture in the northern Indiand state of Punjab

Malhi, Bharat Deep Singh (Master thesis, 2005)

Punjab, a modest-sized state tucked away on the north-western border of India, is often known as the bread basket of India. Huge grain surpluses produced by its farmers since the green revolution helped the country gain ...

Food security in the Norwegian debate on agriculture : an analysis of global trends and their reflection in the Norwegian media debate

Bråtveit, Borghild (Master thesis, 2014)

The food price crisis in 2007/2008, and the warnings that climate change might have a negative effect on the world’s ability to produce enough food in the decades and centuries to come, have placed food security back on ...