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Climate change, marine resources and a small Chilean community: making the connections
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Climate change is affecting large-scale oceanic processes. How and when these changes will impact those reliant on marine resources is not yet clear. Here we use end-to-end modeling to track the impacts of expected changes ... -
Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and the Risk of Violent Conflict
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2012:77, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This PhD project aims to assess the relation between natural disasters triggered by extreme weather events and the risk of violent conflict. The focus on these natural disasters stems from expectations that climate change ... -
Climate policy choices : do environmental taxes work? A mixed method study of the OECD and Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)Til tross for en overveldende vitenskapelig konsensus om klimaendringer, finnes det ingen konsensus om hvilken tilnærming som raskest sørger for reduserte utslipp. Diskusjonen rundt ulike policy tilnærminger står i ... -
Climate policy choices: An empirical study of the effects on the OECD and BRICS power sector emission intensity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)A crucial and challenging part of the worldwide energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is the decarbonization of the power sector. As governments struggle to pass politically feasible, emission-reducing ... -
Climate politics in hard times: How local economic shocks influence MPs attention to climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Most countries struggle to implement CO2 reducing policies. Implementation is politically difficult since it typically forces politicians to trade‐off different concerns. The literature on how parties and members of ... -
Climate variability and conflict
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:100, Doctoral thesis, 2017)While there is an overall consensus on many aspects of the natural science of climate change, the understanding of the potential effects that climate change and climate variability have on human societies is limited. Among ... -
Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Earlier research that reports a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict routinely refers to drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism ... -
Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration
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Climatic Disasters and armed intrastate conflict : A quantitative analysis assessing how abrupt hydrometeorological disasters affect the risk of conflict termination, covering the years 1985 to 2007
(Master thesis, 2015-10-28)This thesis covers the relatively unstudied connection between hydrometeorological disasters and the duration of armed intrastate conflict, and aims to discover how abrupt climate changes affect the prospects for conflict ... -
Coaches’ Criteria for Talent Identification of Youth Male Soccer Players
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Introduction: The main aim of this study was to examine which criteria coaches considered in the talent identification of youth male soccer players aged 13–16. The second aim was to describe how the coaches considered these ... -
Cognitive and violent radicalisation: An empirical inquiry into the process of jihadi radicalisation in Europe
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:19, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Summary: Much has been written and spoken about radicalisation in Europe in the last ten years. While terrorism as a phenomenon is relatively rare in a European context it has garnered increased interest in the last ... -
«Come to mama. Æ vil ha fesken min, den må bare skynde sæ å komme»
(Master thesis, 2021)Tematikken i denne masteroppgaven ligger til det kjønnsdelte arbeidsmarkedet i Norge, og spesifikt det mannsdominerte fiskeryrket. Kvinneandelen er svært lav blant fiskere, og denne studien tar for seg hovedproblemstillingen ... -
Coming soon to a fjord near you: future jellyfish scenarios in a changing climate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Over the last decades, a dense population of the deep-sea/oceanic scyphozoan jellyfish Periphylla periphylla has established itself as top predator in the Trondheimsfjord in Norway, which has caused the traditional fisheries ... -
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The diversification of information sources has reignited the controversy on media-induced fragmentation endangering social integration. The media's capability to set the public agenda and create issues as a common core is ... -
»Common meeting ground« in Gefahr? Selektionslogiken politischer Informationsquellen und ihr Einfluss auf die Fragmentierung individueller Themenhorizonte
(Journal article, 2018)The diversification of the political information supply has raised concerns about social integration and collective democratic self-determination. Automatically personalised media content on social network sites such as ... -
Communal invalidation of young adults with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health issues
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study explores how young adults with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health issues experience the challenges of belonging to their local communities. The data were generated through qualitative in-depth ... -
The Communicative Constitution of the World: A Luhmannian View on Communication, Organizations, and Society
(Chapter, 2022)This chapter introduces Niklas Luhmann’s theory of organizations, which he conceived as communicatively constituted social systems that are created through decision-making. Decisions are thereby also understood as communicative ... -
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Muslims and immigrants have both been subjected to negative attitudes over the past several decades in Europe. Using data from the European Values Study, this study analyses the changes in these attitudes in the period ...