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Developing global awareness among young students: A study of students’ experiences with the museum exhibition A World at stake
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:12, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Abstract The dissertation presents a case study of A World at Stake, a museum exhibition inspired by the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. A World at Stake was displayed at Glomdalsmuseet in Elverum, Norway, ... -
Disastermentality: Discourses and Practices of Disaster Management in Norway
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:356, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Summary In January 2014 a fire broke out in Lærdalsøyri, the administrative center in Lærdal municipality and home to 1200 inhabitants. The fire could potentially have left the village center in ruins. As the ashes ... -
Land Injustices – Tracing the Impact of Land Development Projects on Farmers’ Land Justice in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Life in contested lands: The discourses and practices of mainstream conservation in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:83, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Tanzania and Kenya are renowned for their extensive safari tourism on vast protected areas teeming with diverse wildlife. The most celebrated of such destinations is the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem (GSME), which ... -
Living in Transition: Peasant-Workers Working Between Farmland and the Workplaces of the Urban in Post-Deng China
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:178, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Summary of the thesis: Deng Xiaoping China´s ascendancy into the "workshop of the world" is largely premised upon the supply of cheap labor from the countryside. The 277 million strong army of peasant-workers generally ... -
Navigating emerging technologies and knowledge demands System perspectives on knowledge development in Norwegian manufacturing industry
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:169, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis explores the development of technology and knowledge capabilities in Norwegian manufacturing industry, with an emphasis on two manufacturing clusters and their surrounding regions. Recent technological developments ... -
Reassembling Liquified Natural Gas Production Networks. The globalization of gas markets and the implication for energy development and politics in Southeast Asia
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:5, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The center of gravity of the global energy system has shifted towards Asia. In Southeast Asia, energy demand is expected to increase nearly two-thirds by 2040. There is a large need for the development of affordable and ... -
Risk judgement, Risk taking behaviour and Road Traffic Accidents in Tanzania: Geographical Analysis
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2016:236, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Urban road traffic and driving culture in Tanzania is partly characterised by low level of safety behaviour. The present study has investigated road users’; 1) underlying pattern and tendencies of their risk perception, ... -
Transboundary Conservation and Conflict
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Voicing Noise: Action research with informal settlement groups and their partners in Malawi
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:114, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Does participatory planning enable informal settlement groups in Malawi to realize citizenship rights such as housing, services and political voice? Is their participation really transformative? These are some of the ...