Institutt for geografi
Recent Submissions
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The glacial geomorphology of western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Reconstructing the response of present-day ice sheets to past global climate change is important for constraining and refining the numerical models which forecast future contributions of these ice sheets to sea-level change. ... -
Associations between women's empowerment and children's health status in Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Although women’s empowerment has gained attention over the last two decades, our understanding of the associations between different dimensions of women’s empowerment and different children’s health outcomes is limited. ... -
Learning to teach climate change: students in teacher training and their progression in pedagogical content knowledge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Climate change adaptation is a notorious example of a wicked problem. Teachers need to have extensive knowledge to design high-quality education that addresses the wickedness and contributes to wicked problem-solving. The ... -
Spatial crowdsourcing in natural resource revenue management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In many resource-rich developing countries, policymakers, academics, and practitioners alike seek to promote citizen engagement and monitoring in the management of natural resource revenues. However, many of the approaches ... -
Poverty Trap or Means to Escape Poverty? Empirical Evidence on the Role of Environmental Income in Rural Nepal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Understanding how poverty persists and how this affects environmental reliance has policy implications for poverty reduction and environmental conservation. Employing a panel data-set from rural Nepal, we shed light on ... -
Cross-scale interactions in flood risk management: A case study from Rovaniemi, Finland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Cross-scale interactions affect resilience in a wide array of social systems such as flood risk management, but it has been argued that studies of such interactions remain limited. Based on qualitative interviews, quantitative ... -
Recent acceleration of a rock glacier complex, Ádjet, Norway, documented by 62 years of remote sensing observations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Recent acceleration of rock glaciers is well recognized in the European Alps, but similar behavior is hardly documented elsewhere. Also, the controlling factors are not fully understood. Here we provide evidence for ... -
The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article introduces the special section on "The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction". It highlights the inherent conflicts between official techno-regulatory and corporate schemes ... -
The consultation in Ecuador, institutional fragility and participation in National Extractive Policy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)An analysis of five lawsuits against the infringement of the rights to participation illustrates that effective compliance with free prior and informed consultation and popular consultation on extractive projects in Ecuador ... -
Environmental Reliance Traps and Pathways – Theory and Analysis of Empirical Data From Rural Nepal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Existing theoretical and empirical work on poverty traps does not in detail investigate interactions between environmental reliance and socioeconomic factors over time. A string of studies has documented that environmental ... -
Developing Local Community: Municipal Policies Oriented Towards Place Branding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)To date, there has been scant research on place broadcasting activities (PBA) such as promotion, marketing and branding in Norwegian municipalities, especially research into effects. This paper examines two rural Norwegian ... -
Making land grabbable: Stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper seeks to answer the question: how does land become grabbable and local people relocatable? It focuses on the historical and current conditions of land tenure that enable land grabbing. While recognising the ... -
Assessment of environmental impacts in the Norwegian licencing process for wind power.
(Master thesis, 2022)Utbygging av vindkraft krever nøye vurderinger av ulike politiske mål, miljøpåvirkninger og andre interesser. Disse hensynene ivaretas gjennom en konsesjonsprosess, som en potensiell utbygger må gjennomgå for å kunne bygge ... -
Policy mixes for just sustainable development in regions specialized in carbon-intensive industries: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Research on the Geography of Sustainability Transitions (GOST) has enhanced our understanding in how place-based factors condition sustainability transitions. Its emphasis on the geography of niche development, however, ... -
Ecological correlates of large carnivore depredation on sheep in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Sharing space with large carnivores on a human-dominated continent like Europe results in multiple conflictful interactions with human interests, of which depredation on livestock is the most widespread. We conducted an ... -
Fra oppdrettsplast til verdi Drivere og barrierer for sirkulær økonomi basert på hardplast fra norsk havbruk
(Research report, 2022)Rapporten er et av flere resultater fra kompetanse- og samarbeidsprosjektet POCOplast. Prosjektet skal utvikle ny kunnskap om hvordan man kan oppnå mer bærekraftig utnyttelse av hardplast fra oppdrettsnæringen, ved å skape ... -
A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE USE OF NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE IN GHANA.
(Master thesis, 2021)ABSTRAKT Ghanas National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) er en tilnærming for å løse problemet med økonomiske barrierer for tilgang til helsetjenester. Det høye frafallet blant ghanesere i bruk av forsikringsordningen ... -
Coexistence of large mammals and humans is possible in Europe’s anthropogenic landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A critical question in the conservation of large mammals in the Anthropocene is to know the extent to which they can tolerate human disturbance. Surprisingly, little quantitative data is available about large-scale effects ... -
Using locational data in a novel mixed-methods sequence design: Identifying critical health care barriers for people with disabilities in Malawi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The primary aim of this study was to determine which health care barriers were most important for people with disabilities in Malawi. To accomplish this, we devised a sequential mixed-methods research design that integrated ... -
Identifying and correcting spatial bias in opportunistic citizen science data for wild ungulates in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Many publications make use of opportunistic data, such as citizen science observation data, to infer large-scale properties of species’ distributions. However, the few publications that use opportunistic citizen science ...
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