Institutt for geografi
Recent Submissions
-
The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe's Anthropocene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The cumulative impact of human activities has driven many species into severe declines across the globe. However, the recent focus on conservation optimism has begun to highlight case studies that go against this trend. ... -
The lived experiences of female heads in Malawi - An exploration of their health care accessibility by making use of a triangulated access model
(Master thesis, 2018)Ensuring that everyone has good accessibility to health services remains a challenge, especially in developing country contexts, even though the concept of health care accessibility has been extensively investigated in the ... -
Current agri-environmental policies dismiss varied perceptions and discourses on management of traditional rural biotopes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Traditional rural biotopes (TRBs) are threatened habitats that host significant biodiversity and several ecosystem services, and depend on active management such as low-intensity grazing. The current study explores private ... -
Make at home or abroad? Manufacturing reshoring through a GPN lens: A Norwegian case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The explorative paper investigates the drivers for the emerging trend of manufacturing reshoring from low- to high-cost locations. To date research on the reshoring phenomenon has been dominated by micro-level analyses of ... -
Project report: Requirements specification
(Research report, 2020)The SAMRISK project “Sharing incident and threat information for common situational understanding“ (INSITU) commenced in May 2019. The INSITU project develops solutions for establishing a common situational understanding ... -
Trust Funds as Localized Strategies for Sharing Mining Benefits in Ghana: Experiences with Transparency, Participation, and Community Development Practices
(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, ... -
From Place to Emplacement: The Scalar Politics of Sustainability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Sustainability has emerged as a central concept for discussing the current state of the human-environment system and planning for its future. To delve into the depths of sustainability means to talk about ecology, economy, ... -
People are the greatest resource
(Master thesis, 2019) -
Smartbyen og diskursene
(Master thesis, 2019)Hva er en smartby? Dette høres kanskje ut som et relativt enkelt spørsmål – men er det egentlig det? I løpet av de siste årene har det generelle verdenssynet endret seg som et resultat av det økte fokuset på effektene av ... -
Othering Pastoralists, State Violence, and the Remaking of Boundaries in Tanzania’s Militarised Wildlife Conservation Sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines the ways in which Tanzanian conservation authorities utilise biodiversity “extinction narratives” in order to legitimise the use of violence in redrawing protected areas’ boundaries. Militarisation and ... -
Navigating emerging technologies and knowledge demands System perspectives on knowledge development in Norwegian manufacturing industry
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:169, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis explores the development of technology and knowledge capabilities in Norwegian manufacturing industry, with an emphasis on two manufacturing clusters and their surrounding regions. Recent technological developments ... -
Liquefaction of freshwater carbonates led to the February 10, 2011, landslide at the Cöllolar coalfield, eastern Turkey
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In February 2011, two landslides in which 11 people were killed, occurred in the Çöllolar open pit mine, situated in the Elbistan Basin in eastern Turkey. In the coalfield, a thick sequence of clay (>100 m) overlies karstic ... -
Morphological dynamics of an englacial channel
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Despite an interest in the hydraulic functioning of supraglacial and englacial channels over the last 4 decades, the processes and forms of such ice-bounded streams have remained poorly documented. Recent glaciological ... -
Gentrifying the African Landscape: The Performance and Powers of for-Profit Conservation on Southern Kenya’s Conservancy Frontier
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Across eastern and southern Africa, conservation landscapes increasingly extend far beyond the boundaries of government-owned protected areas. Several countries have now granted full legal recognition to various types of ... -
Reassembling Liquified Natural Gas Production Networks. The globalization of gas markets and the implication for energy development and politics in Southeast Asia
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:5, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The center of gravity of the global energy system has shifted towards Asia. In Southeast Asia, energy demand is expected to increase nearly two-thirds by 2040. There is a large need for the development of affordable and ... -
Disastermentality: Discourses and Practices of Disaster Management in Norway
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:356, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Summary In January 2014 a fire broke out in Lærdalsøyri, the administrative center in Lærdal municipality and home to 1200 inhabitants. The fire could potentially have left the village center in ruins. As the ashes ... -
Utredning om forholdet mellom sørsamisk språk, kultur og næring
(Research report, 2019)I denne studien har vi sett nærmere på og diskutert sammenhengene mellom sørsamisk språk, kultur og næring ved hjelp av fire kontrasterende caser, henholdsvis to forvaltningskommuner for språk med varierende fartstid (Snåsa ... -
Interpreting eddy covariance data from heterogeneous Siberian tundra: Land-cover-specific methane fluxes and spatial representativeness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The non-uniform spatial integration, an inherent feature of the eddy covariance (EC) method, creates a challenge for flux data interpretation in a heterogeneous environment, where the contribution of different land cover ... -
Climate change and natural hazards: the geography of community resilience in Norway
(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 ... -
Mot nullutslippshavner i 2030? En studie av handlingsrom med fokus på havnene i Oslo, Narvik og Kristiansand
(Research report, 2019)Rapporten drøfter norske havners mulighetsrom for utvikling til nullutslipps energiknutepunkter, med utgangspunkt i tre case-havner: Oslo, Narvik og Kristiansand. Studien viser hvordan et økende ytre press for bærekraftig ...
RSS 2.0