Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Benjaminsen, Tor Arve"
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Communities and conservation in West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania : participation, costs and benefits
Mariki, Sayuni Bildad (PhD Thesis;2015:45, Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-11)This thesis contributes to the current debate on how to balance conservation and development objectives. The extent of land under protection globally has increased enormously over the last 30 years, and there are still ... -
Conflicting knowledges, competing worldviews : Norwegian governance of Sámi reindeer husbandry in West Finnmark, Norway
Johnsen, Kathrine Ivsett (PhD Thesis;2018:87, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis contributes to the field of political ecology by presenting an empirically driven analysis of the power dynamics between the state and Sámi reindeer herders and the knowledge systems that inform the governance ... -
Conservation through intensification : adoption of agricultural technologies introduced by a REDD project in Kondoa, Tanzania
Putnina, Santa (Master thesis, 2019)One of nine REDD pilot projects was implemented in Kondoa District. This pilot project had been managed by the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) from 2010 to 2014. The aim of the project was to achieve strict forest ... -
A critical study of Kenya's REDD readiness process and the feasibility of Carbon Removal Strategies
Kirchoff, Ingrid Synnøve (Master thesis, 2020)Carbon removal strategies and negative emissions technologies have in later years been emphasised as mechanisms that can help human-kind halt rising temperatures and fight climate change. However, such mechanism has been ... -
Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa
Ikdahl, Ingunn; Hellum, Anne; Kaarhus, Randi; Benjaminsen, Tor Arve (Noragric report;26, Report, 2005)Land is a vital resource for rural livelihoods. Establishing and clarifying land rights through formalisation has become a key issue in development policies that aim to promote more productive uses of land. This report ... -
Knowing the landscape : science, people and power relations in Namaqualand, South Africa
Hongslo, Eirin (PhD Thesis;2011:64, Doctoral thesis, 2011)In this thesis I explore the links and co-production between science and politics in Namaqualand through answering three research questions: 1. To what extent have landscapes in Namaqualand changed during the last 66 years ... -
Mining or traditional use : conflicts in the Northern Norwegian copper frontier
Rør, Anders Vieth (Master thesis, 2018)There is a growing global material and energy extraction and consumption. Especially mineral extraction of metals such as copper has increased by 25 times during the last century thus pushing the extraction frontiers into ... -
Nature Park Zlatibor : a political ecology study
Malesevic, Tijana (Master thesis, 2023)Set in the Southwestern region of Serbia, Nature Park Zlatibor poses an issue to the local people who reside in the area. The park has been created in 2017 and has since been managed by the state-owned enterprise ... -
Navigating the landscapes of 'green' : policies, discourses and institutionalizations of the green economy in the Global South
Buseth, Jill Tove (PhD thesis;2019:58, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis discusses policies, discourses and institutionalizations of the green economy in the Global South, and analyzes how the green economy is being implemented in the Global South particularly through the case of ... -
Plague of bureaucracies : producing and territorializing difference in East Africa, 1888-1940
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph (PhD Thesis;2017:40, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Mahmood Mamdani (1996a: 8) once provocatively argued that “apartheid, usually considered unique to South Africa, is actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa.” The research objective of this dissertation ... -
A political ecology of the climate-migration-conflict nexus in Syria
Shaw of Tordarroch, Iselin Katinka (Master thesis, 2021)This dissertation holds the objective to contribute to an assessment of the climate-migration-conflict nexus as applied to the Syrian conflict. It does so by investigating how displaced Syrians perceive and react to the ... -
Strategies of de-growth : the role of eco-communities in politics of change
Juskaite, Greta (Master thesis, 2019)In the age of climate change, political efforts to ensure sustainability for future generations have manifested in the rise of the ‘green growth’ objective and the green economy model. However, critics have argued that ... -
Tensions within nature management in Inner Troms, Norway : different narratives on power and decision-making
Finn, Karina Eileen (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis sets out to investigate conflicts surrounding nature management in Inner Troms, focusing on different narratives expressed within three cases: 1) The merging of MaukenBlåtind Training Area and Firing Range, ... -
The world's deadliest peacekeeping mission : how to protect civilians in Mali
Olsen, Mari Furuseth (Master thesis, 2018)Since 2012, Mali has experienced a rapid escalation of violence as political armed groups, including ethnic and jihadist rebel groups and transnational networks, fight for control and hegemony in the north and central parts ... -
Why REDD+? : a study of the continued support for REDD+
Agerup, Rikke (Master thesis, 2020)Well into its second decade REDD+ is still struggling to achieve what it set out to do. The envisioned win-win scenario was believed to be a cost-effective measure, where the protection of forests would be made more ...