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Vulnerability Visualization to Support Adaptation to Heat and Floods: Towards the EXTRA Interactive Tool in Norrköping, Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Municipal actors are increasingly expected to consider climate adaptation in operative and strategic work. Here, digital environments can support strategic decisions and planning through visual representations of local ... -
Vurdering av elevers kompetanse i geografifaget : en kvalitativ studie av geografilæreres vurderingspraksis
(Master thesis, 2018)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg geografilæreres vurderingspraksis i den videregående skole, og problemstillingen er: Hvordan vurderer geografilærere elevers kompetanse i faget – og er vurderingspraksisen koblet til ... -
Vurdering av læreboken Terra Mater : en studie av hvordan geofag X læreboken gjenspeiler Kunnskapsløftet
(Master thesis, 2016)In Norway, textbooks have traditonally played an important role as a teaching resource. Research has shown that 70 – 90 percent of teaching is controlled by the subject textbook in stead of the subject curriculum. There ... -
Vurdering av lærebøker i geografi - En studie av hvordan tre lærebøker tar for seg kjerneelementet Bærekraftig utvikling og globalisering
(Master thesis, 2022)I august 2020 tredde Kunnskapsløftet 2020 i kraft i den norske skolen. Dette er et nytt læreplanverk gjeldende for grunnskolen og videregående utdanning. Temaet bærekraftig utvikling har her fått en sentral plass både i ... -
Vurdering av romlige mønstre i Stavanger Kommune ved bruk av skadedata og multivariat regresjon - En GIS studie
(Master thesis, 2015)Denne oppgaven utforsker romlige mønstre vedrørende intensiteten av hendelser og erstatningsutbetalinger knyttet til vannskader i Stavanger Kommune. Hot spots som ble identifisert, svarte på spørsmålet om hvor, mens de ... -
Wanted and unwanted nature: Invasive plants and the alien–native dichotomy
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:152, Doctoral thesis, 2013)This thesis explores how plants are perceived and categorised as alien, invasive and native respectively at individual, professional, and political levels. The thesis demonstrates how perceptions of and interactions with ... -
Water on devious ways : a GIS analysis
(Master thesis, 2014)Flood events are after storm the most damaging natural hazard in Norway. As a result of global warming, it is anticipated that heavy rain will fall more often and with more intensity in the future which may lead to more ... -
We care about the environment, don't we?
(Master thesis, 2020)Vi står nå midt oppi en økologisk krise og en masseutryddelse forårsaket av menneskelige aktiviteter. Menneskelig påvirkning har vært ødeleggende for miljøet og ville arter i århundrer, men konsekvensene av denne påvirkningen ... -
Weaving Partial Stories: More-than-human Entanglements and Environmental Governance Experiments in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Different goals and assumptions enable and legitimise the ways that climate change is understood and governed through increasingly urgent, experimental, and heterogeneous interventions. We examine the ontological politics ... -
Weights of Evidence Model and Onset of Civil War: Favourability Analysis and Evaluation
(Master thesis, 2010)This thesis explores the use of the weights of evidence (WOFE) model for studying civil war onset in a spatial context. Previous study of civil war has extensively studied a range of geographic factors, and how these affect ... -
What makes a good gift in kind? - A case study of second hand donations sent between a Norwegian and Tanzanian NGO
(Master thesis, 2017)Recent years have seen a change in philanthropic giving away from check writing and towards gifts given in kind (GIKs). Nonmonetary assets like goods, services and voluntary work are donated by corporations, institutions, ... -
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers : a case study about the stability of a small private children’s home in Ghana
(Master thesis, 2015)The field of development today is teeming with new actors and philanthropists. Now, small private actors and individuals are contributing with services and aid to the poor living in the Global south. These services used ... -
‘When helpers hurt’: Women’s and midwives’ stories of obstetric violence in state health care institutions, Colombo district, Sri Lanka
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background The paper explores how age, social position or class, and linguistic and cultural background intersect and place women in varying positions of control and vulnerability to obstetric violence in state health ... -
When the dust has settled : a post-disaster recovery study of water and sanitation reconstruction after the 2015 flood in Phalombe and Nsanje Districts, Malawi
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis is the result of the research project carried out as part of the Master Programme MPhil in Development Studies, Specialising in Geography, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The aim of the ... -
When two worlds meet : an analysis of possibilities for cooperation between Norges Bank Investment Management and UNICEF around children’s rights protection in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector
(Master thesis, 2017)The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implemented in 2015 present a comprehensive normative framework for global and national actors in politics, civil society and business. As the SDGs underline the ... -
Where are the outcrops? Automatic delineation of bedrock from sediments using Deep-Learning techniques
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The delineating of bedrock from sediment is one of the most important phases in the fundamental process of regional bedrock identification and mapping, and it is usually manually performed using high-resolution optical ... -
Where the Arctic River Meets the Sea; Connections Between Fluvial and Shoreline Processes in Isfjorden, Svalbard
(Master thesis, 2021)Denne oppgaven er en geomorfologisk og overflatesedimentologisk studie av fem forskjellige steder i det store fjordsystemet Isfjorden, som ligger på det vestlige kysten av Svalbard. Denne studien tar sikte på å få en bedre ... -
Who are the 'citizens' in co-producing smart sustainable cities? An intersectional analysis of the Borgerkraft citizens' jury in Trondheim
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis uses the citizen co-production initiative Borgerkraft in Trondheim as a case study to explore the function of citizen participation in smart sustainable city work. More specifically it looks at the use of a ... -
WHOSE DEVELOPMENT COUNTS?: Political Ecology of Displacement of Bulyanhulu Mining Community in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2007)In 1996, an estimated 400,000 people in a gold mining community in rural Tanzania were forcibly evicted from the area to allow for the development of a large-scale gold mine project to take place. The good-intentioned ... -
Wind farm site selection assessment in the Greater Accra, Volta and eastern regions of Ghana : a GIS spatial multi-criteria assessment
(Master thesis, 2016)Global temperatures have increased since preindustrial times and will continue to do so unless practical measures are taken to halt the emission of carbon and other ozone depleting substances. Wind energy alone has the ...