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Illusionary Transparency? Oil Revenues, Information Disclosure, and Transparency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)xperience shows that discovery of valuable natural resources can become a curse rather than a blessing, and transparency has been identified as key to better resource governance because it can limit opportunities for ... -
Imaginando territorios plurales de vida: una lectura feminista de las resistencias en los movimientos socio-territoriales en el Ecuador.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)As the Critical Geography Collective of Ecuador we have accompanied socio-territorial movements in struggles for their territories. Based on our work in four communities in Ecuador, this article aims to extend the ... -
Immigrant entrepreneurship : towards the realization of immigrants' entrepreneurial performance and success in Norway
(Master thesis, 2015)The area of immigrant entrepreneurship is emerging as significant research area in the field of entrepreneurship. This is especially pronounced in the countries where there has been a marked growth in the number immigrant ... -
Immigration and the “Welfare Magnet” hypothesis: An examination of municipality-level crime in Norway, 2007–2016
(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 ... -
Impact of Mining on Livelihoods of Rural Households. A Case Study of Farmers in the Wassa Mining Region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2007)Radical reforms and liberalization in the mining sector of the Ghanaian economy stimulated increase in mining sector investment with new multinational mining companies coming on board as well as the rehabilitation of old ... -
Impacts of climate change on glacier runoff and hydropower production in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)Klimaendringer forårsaket av menneskelig aktivitet utgjør en stor trussel mot ferskvannsressurser over hele verden. Til tross for at bare en brøkdel av Jordas ferskvann er lagret i isbreer, bidrar bresmelte betraktelig til ... -
Impacts of interannual variability in runoff sources and glacier lake outburst floods on river flow in two drainage basins in Western Norway
(Master thesis, 2023)Gjennom de siste tiårene har menneskeskapte klimaendringer i økende grad forårsaket endringer på jorden som har direkte påvirket vannressurser. Kryosfæren gjennomgår dramatiske endringer over hele verden som er blant ... -
Impacts of labor migration for rural householdsin a particular setting in southwest China:: Resource Distribution and Second‐Generation Migrants
(Master thesis, 2009)This thesis studies the impact of out‐migration of people from rural households in a particular setting in Yunnan Province, China, and the distribution of resources between these households. Household interviews were ... -
Impacts of Maize Policy Changes on Small Scale Farmers' Vulnerability to Exploitation in Nyimba District, Zambia
(Master thesis, 2011)Taking cognisance of the fact that SSFs the major producers of maize in Zambia were most affected by the 1991 agricultural policy reforms, from 2005 onward, the state became very active in the maize market and production ... -
Imperienes Kirkegård og Dens Skjulte Rikdom: ekstraktiv industri og geopolitikk i Afghanistan
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)I denne oppgaven har vi utforsket hvordan Afghanistans utenriksinteresser, og andre lands interesser i Afghanistan har formet den ekstraktive industrien i Afghanistan. Gjennom geopolitiske perspektiver har vi sett på hvordan ... -
Implementing maritime battery-electric and hydrogen solutions: A technological innovation systems analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Maritime transport faces increasing pressure to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to be in accordance with the Paris Agreement. For this to happen, low- and zero-carbon energy solutions need to be developed. In this paper ... -
Improving people’s well-being through urban garden farming.(Case of allotment gardens in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)
(Master thesis, 2009)The study seeks to understand the importance and relevance of Urban Agriculture (UA) in the form of urban garden farming for vulnerable groups of people in the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. The study is based on fieldwork ... -
"In Holland we are a nice family. In Norway we are a happy family!": Om nederlandske entreprenører i bygde-Norge
(Master thesis, 2011)Norwegians keep moving away from the small villages in the countryside to the bigger towns. They seek the urban life far away from the boring and all too safe life in the parish. In other countries we can see something ... -
In the heat of the moment: A local narrative of the responses to a fire in Lærdal, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In the wake of a disaster, narratives about the event will be constructed. The paper presents the dominant local narrative of a major fire in Lærdal, Norway in 2014. Based on semi-structured interviews with residents in ... -
Income and armed civil conflict: An instrumental variables approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The large empirical conflict literature has established that there is a strong negative link between economic variables and the onset of an armed civil conflict. However, it has been difficult to demonstrate a clear causality ... -
Income generating activities in Zambia : a case study of entrepreneurs and SMEs in Masala market, Ndola
(Master thesis, 2017)Due to the introduction of globalisation and free markets, coupled up with structural adjustment programmes in Zambia, markets have produced several opportunities and threats for entrepreneurs and small and medium scale ... -
Incumbents' diversification and cross-sectorial energy industry dynamics
(Journal article, 2017)Within the sustainability transitions literature, established, mature or incumbent firms have been stereotyped as ‘locked-in’ to socio-technical regimes. However, we believe regimes have been black-boxed, and few studies ... -
Influences of Social Representations on the Development of Wildlife Management Policy: A Case Study of the Muskox of Dovrefjell- Sunndalsfjella National Park
(Master thesis, 2022)Moskusen (Ovibos moschatus), også kjent som «Muskox» på engelsk og «Umingmak» på inuktitu (den skjeggete), er en taksonomisk unik arktisk planteeter funnet i polare områder rundt om i verden (Kutz et al., 2017). Moskusbestanden ... -
Informal play areas : children’s opportunities to play in the poor urban context of Dhaka city
(Master thesis, 2015)Dhaka city used to have an image of greenery, even few decades ago, but over the years it has become one of the most polluted and densely populated cities in the world and recently has been marked as one of the worst cities ... -
Innovasjon som kombinasjon, teknologi og omstilling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Artikkelen drøftar korleis synet på teknologi og innovasjon har utvikla seg frå Joseph Schumpeter sin teori om økonomisk utvikling frå første halvdel av 1900-talet og fram til nyare tids innovasjonspolitikk som siktar mot ...