• Immigration and the “Welfare Magnet” hypothesis: An examination of municipality-level crime in Norway, 2007–2016 

      de Soysa, Indra; Kaasa, Jorunn; Rød, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Large segments of populations in the industrialized West believe that immigrants cause crime. Some scholars suggest that it is generous welfare that attracts so-called “welfare magnets,” increasing the possibility that the ...
    • Kartlegging av egnede områder for boligutbygging i Sona i Stjørdal kommune 

      Dalen, Hilmar Øverås (Master thesis, 2019)
      Masteroppgavens problemstilling er å kartlegge egnede områder for boligutbygging i Sona i Stjørdal kommune. En multikriterieanalyse (MKA) ved bruk av geografiske informasjonssystemer (GIS) ble benyttet for å avgrense ...
    • Klimatilpasning i nasjonalparker og naturområder 

      Beitnes, Synnøve S.; Brendehaug, Eivind Andre; Rød, Jan Ketil; Hagen, Dagmar (Research report, 2022)
      I dette prosjektet har målet vært å utvikle kunnskap om hvordan kommunene kan møte konsekvensene av klimaendringer for ulike naturtyper både i og utenfor verneområder. I prosjektet har vi utviklet en GIS-modell for å ...
    • Land degradation vulnerability assessment using GIS and remote sensing in Beshilo River Basin, Ethiopia 

      Wodaje, Sileshi Tadesse (Master thesis, 2016)
      Land degradation is a complex environmental problem resulting from various factors. Identification of areas vulnerable to degradation is a first step to develop natural resource management and conservation activities in ...
    • Legends of the dashboard: an empirical evaluation of split and joint layout designs for geovisual analytics interfaces 

      Gołębiowska, Izabela; Opach, Tomasz; Çöltekin, Arzu; Korycka-Skorupa, Jolanta; Rød, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Geodashboards are often designed with explanatory elements guiding users. These elements (e.g. legends or annotations) need to be carefully designed to mitigate split attention or information integration issues. In this ...
    • Map functions to facilitate situational awareness during emergency events 

      Opach, Tomasz; Rød, Jan Ketil; Munkvold, Bjørn Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Emergency events such as floods and wildfires are handled by various responders and at various levels: strategic, tactical, and operational. To facilitate situational awareness, emergency responders require customized ...
    • Map-based interfaces for common operational picture 

      Opach, Tomasz; Rød, Jan Ketil; Munkvold, Bjørn Erik; Radianti, Jaziar; Steen-Tveit, Kristine; Grottenberg, Lars Ole (Chapter, 2020)
      Common operationalpicture (COP) map-based interfacesdisplay operational information to support integrationofemergency responders. Such interfacesintegrate different subsystems and present the resulting information into an ...
    • Mapping wilderness like areas in Tanzania based on the Norwegian INON methodology 

      Kvalbein, Susanne (Master thesis, 2011)
      The purpose of this master’s thesis was to produce a national wilderness map of Tanzania by using a Norwegian method for mapping wilderness like areas, called Inngrepsfrie naturområder i Norge (INON). In English this means ...
    • Navigating urban heat – Assessing the potential of a pedestrian routing tool 

      Neset, Tina-Simone; Navarra, Carlo; Graca, Marisa; Opach, Tomasz; Wilk, Julie; Wallin, Pontus; Andersson, Lotta; Santos Cruz, Sara; Monteiro, Ana; Rød, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Cities are experiencing unprecedented climate impacts related to increasing temperatures, which vary within a city due to the heterogenous nature of urban environments. Adapting urban areas to heat requires efforts on ...
    • Opinions of Ghanaians on the management of petroleum revenue in Ghana 

      Ogbe, Michael; Rød, Jan Ketil; Halvorsen, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Scholars of natural resource governance argue that national and local governments must engage ordinary community members. When ordinary community members access information about the utilization of natural resource revenue ...
    • På vei mot universell helsedekning : en GIS-studie av helsetilbudet i Namibia 

      Langenes, Petter (Master thesis, 2018)
      Tilgang på helsetilbud varierer avhengig av hvor man bord, og hvem man er. Tidligere forskning på helsetilbud har vanligvis studert konseptet tilgjengelighet som enten romlig tilgjengelighet, eller de sosioøkonomiske ...
    • Pedestrian routing and perspectives: Wayfinder's route down the lane – come on with the rain 

      Opach, Tomasz; Navarra, Carlo; Rød, Jan Ketil; Neset, Tina-Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      People living in urban areas are often exposed to heat and inundation caused by heavy rains. Therefore, pedestrian routing in areas exposed to weather-related threats can be of value to citizens. In this study, water ...
    • Project report: Requirements specification 

      Munkvold, Bjørn Erik; Opach, Tomasz; Radianti, Jaziar; Rød, Jan Ketil; Snaprud, Mikael; Grottenberg, Lars Ole; Pilemalm, Sofie; Bunker, Deborah; Majchrzak, Tim A.; Hagen, Dag Auby; Moen, Eivind; Steen-Tveit, Kristine (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 ...
    • Registrering og analyse av naturskadehendelser fra flommene i 2011 og 2013 langs Gudbrandsdalslågen : en GIS-studie 

      Sæter, Martin Vestnes (Master thesis, 2018)
      Det er forventet at klimaet vil endre seg i fremtiden som følge av utslipp av klimagasser og økt menneskelig forbruk. Klimafremskrivingene for Norge viser blant annet at regnflommer vil øke i frekvens og omfang, noe som ...
    • Seeking commonalities of community resilience to natural hazards: A cluster analysis approach 

      Opach, Tomasz; Scherzer, Sabrina Stefanie Claudia; Lujala, Päivi; Rød, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The aim of the study on which the article is based was to identify groups of communities with similar resilience profiles, using Norwegian municipalities as a case. The authors used a set of socioeconomic and environmental ...
    • Sharing Incident and Threat Information for Common Situational Understanding 

      Munkvold, Bjørn Erik; Radianti, Jaziar; Rød, Jan Ketil; Opach, Tomasz; Snaprud, Mikael; Pilemalm, Sofie; Bunker, Deborah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents the INSITU research project initiated to provide a systematic approach for effective sharing, integration and use of information from different sources, to establish a common operational picture (COP) ...
    • Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tool suite for consensus-based siting of renewable energy structures 

      Hanssen, Frank Ole; May, Roelof Frans; van Dijk, Jiska Joanneke; Rød, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Expansion of renewable energy development causes concerns which traditional land-use planning may have limited capacity to address adequately. The complexity and multiplicity of scales, criteria and actors involved in ...
    • Star and polyline glyphs in a grid plot and on a map display: which perform better? 

      Opach, Tomasz; Popelka, Stanislav; Dolezalova, Jitka; Rød, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Glyphs are small geometric shapes that in geovisualization are often used to represent multidimensional spatial data. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of their two 10 types – star and polyline ...
    • Stormeksponerte skogbruksareal i norske kommuner : en GIS-basert vurdering 

      Vestli, Magnus Eggum (Master thesis, 2016)
      Det er liten tvil om at vi opplever klimaendringer og at behovet for å tilpasse oss et nytt klima er tilstede, men de eksakte konsekvensene av endringene er vanskelige å forutse. På den ene siden kan en økning av temperaturen ...
    • Stormeksponerte skogbruksareal i norske kommuner : en GIS-basert vurdering 

      Vestli, Magnus Eggum (Master thesis, 2016)
      There is little doubt that climate change is upon us and that we have to adapt to this new climate, but the exact consequences is more difficult to predict. On the one side an increase in temperatures may give a more ...