Browsing Institutt for geografi by Subject "Social and Behavioural Science, Law"
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BLACK ROSES Faces of Jamaican Youth: - The Significance of Identity and Place
(Master thesis, 2011)Youth is a contested term which has been described as difficult to define and ‘pin down analytically’ (De Boek and Honwana 2005:3). In much youth development related issues, youth is categorised as a person between the ... -
Challenges to Refugees' Freedom of Movement in Uganda: A Case of Self-Settled Refugees in Kisenyi, Kampala
(Master thesis, 2011)The thesis discusses the challenges to refugees’ freedom of movement in Uganda. The main objective of this study was to explore the factors confronted by refugees in a bid to exercise their relative freedom of movement in ... -
Children’s Institutions: A study of Children’s Homes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Master thesis, 2011)The issues that children in Ethiopia face are some of the most challenging in the World. The situation for millions of Ethiopian children can only be described as a crisis. As a result many thousands of Ethiopian children ... -
Community Self-help Development , Spaces for Scaling Up: A Case Study of Awura Amba Rural Self-help Community in Northern Ethiopia
(Master thesis, 2011)By positioning within an alternative development and agency/actor-oriented perspectives, and by employing diverse qualitative research methods, this study examines the dynamics of community self-help development and scaling ... -
Delt bosted - helt hjemme?: Et geografisk perspektiv på samværsordningen delt bosted og hjem
(Master thesis, 2011)We live in a fluid and mobile world, where rapid changes in our lives may suddenly occur. This is the case also for many people living in families. Family breakups are rather commonplace these days, being events usually ... -
Determinering av sol- og utsiktskvaliteter ved hjelp av geografiske informasjonssystemer og regresjonsanalyse
(Master thesis, 2011)The background for the thesis was a desire to find methods that determine prices of new homes and estimate how much the value of existing houses diminish when neighboring land is developed. The problem was as follows: "Is ... -
Dialogstyrt landskapsforvaltning?: Landskapsforvaltning og lokal medvirkning i verdensarv Røros Bergstad og Circumferensen
(Master thesis, 2011)Røros is a historic mining town and municipality in the mountain area of central Norway. Themines were established in 1646 and exploited until 1977. The mining town has been onUNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1980. In ... -
Elg i kantsone: - En GIS-analyse av arealbruk hos elg
(Master thesis, 2011)Oppgaven er knyttet til prosjektet Elgundersøkelser i Nord-Trøndelag, Bindal og Rissa 2005-2010, som er gjennomført av Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA), og bygger videre på enkelte av deres resultater. Formålet ... -
Et geografisk perspektiv på trafikkulykker: Trondheim kommune og fire skolekretser i perioden 1990-1999 og 2000-2009
(Master thesis, 2011)A geographical perspective on road traffic accidents in Trondheim and four school districts in the periods 1990-1999 and 2000-2009. This thesis is about the risk for traffic accidents in Trondheim and the four school ... -
Forced Resettlement in Ghana: The Dam and the Affected People: The Bui Hydroelectric Power Project in Ghana
(Master thesis, 2011)Forced resettlement is an issue of great humanitarian concern. The disruption it brings to the lives of the people it affects cannot be fully expressed. Many of such people lose the ability of restoring their lives, never ... -
Fra bistand til business: Kommersialiseringen av mikrofinanssektoren i Uganda
(Master thesis, 2011)Mikrokreditt har lenge blitt ansett som en viktig metode for å redusere fattigdom. Etter hvert har man innsett at fattige trenger flere finansielle tjenester enn lån, og man har derfor utvidet begrepet til mikrofinansiering. ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
Interminably Displaced?: Home-making practises among Georgian IDPs in Collective Centres in the context of privatisation
(Master thesis, 2011)This master thesis explores different forms of home-making among internally displaced persons living in Collective Centres in Tbilisi, Georgia in the context of an ongoing privatisation programme. Following the break-up ... -
Mapping wilderness like areas in Tanzania based on the Norwegian INON methodology
(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 ... -
"Privatbilisme er kollektivt vanvidd": En studie av miljøvennlig transportutvikling i to norske byer
(Master thesis, 2011)The increasing emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere from the transport sector contributes to the global environmental crisis and degrades local environments, which in the long run can threaten human existence on Earth. History ... -
Straume - en ny by: En studie av planer og visjoner for Straume med vekt på samarbeid, medvirkning og landskapsverdier
(Master thesis, 2011)Straume - a new city. A study of land use plans and visions for Straume with emphasis on participation and landscape values. This master thesis is a case study that focuses on a spatial planning process in Straume, the ... -
The Life and Landscape of Slave Women in Guadeloupe from the XVIIth to the XIXth Century
(Master thesis, 2011)Slavery started in Guadeloupe in the XVIth century and lasted until 1848. Slavery created in Guadeloupe a society based on domination of colonists over the oppressed slaves. This thesis is about life and landscape of slave ...