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Civil War Impacts on Youth Business Groups in Tigray: A Pre-Analysis Plan and Documentation for Ethical Approval by Institutional Review Board at NMBU
(CLTS Report;02/23, Report, 2023-08)This is a revised plan for the finalization of the “Youth Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” (Researcher project under NORGLOBAL2, funded by the Research Council of Norway). The project ... -
Climate change and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : four approaches to modeling rural households
(PhD Thesis;2015:7, Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-28)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to increased knowledge of potential impacts of climate change on the welfare of households in developing countries. It focuses on impacts of changing temperature and precipitation ... -
Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
(PhD Thesis;2019:47, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The thesis consists of an introduction and four research papers assessing impacts and responses to climate change. Particularly, there are two key reasons that motivates the thesis. First, climate economic models are often ... -
Climate-smart agriculture in Malawi : uptake and opportunities in the face of climate change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Is agriculture becoming climate-smart? Can recurrent weather events such as droughts explain increased use and adoption of agricultural technologies that are perceived climate-smart? I have merged a four-wave household ... -
The CO2 compensation scheme in Norway : an analysis of the incentives and potential environmental effects of the 10 GWh threshold
(Master thesis, 2022)The EU Emission Trading System’s goal is to put a price on carbon to internalize the external costs of emissions. In Europe, non-renewable resources still constitute a large share of the inputs in electricity production. ... -
Coastal commons and codified commodities : exploring the role of intellectual property rights on genetic resources in Norwegian marine biotechnological innovation systems
(Master thesis, 2014-08-14)Exploitation of the extensive Norwegian marine resources has entered the era of modern biotechnology- the third strategic technology in the post-war period-with the potential to transform our future, following nuclear- and ... -
Collective versus individual property : tenure security and forest tenure reforms in China
(CLTS Working paper;2011:4, Working paper, 2011)This study assesses the determinants of forest land allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005 using data from three provinces in Southern China; Fujian, Jiang Xi and Yunnan. ... -
A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act
(CLTS Working paper;7/18, Working paper, 2018)The Land Consolidation Act has recently been revised. The changes came into force on 1 July 2006 and 1 January 2007. The main changes in the Act are that the land consolidation court now has formal jurisdiction to handle ... -
Commodity market investments and behavioral finance : the case of coffee
(Master thesis, 2015-11-06)In this thesis I test for whether strategies that are constructed to exploit possible price patterns that are created by cognitive biases described by behavioral finance are able to earn excess returns in the Arabica futures ... -
Commodity markets : an updated study of the "timed momentum" trading strategy
(Master thesis, 2016-08-25)This thesis provides the reader with an updated study of the “timed momentum” strategy proposed by Miffre and Basu (2008). Their article shows that this commodity trading strategy is able to achieve significant mean returns, ... -
Commodity prices and market institutions in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:14, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This PhD Thesis comprises five chapters including an introduction and four separate papers. The overall objective of the thesis is to evaluate the performance of agricultural commodity markets in Ethiopia. Economists have ... -
Consequences of green certificate and volatility in green certificate price : a case study of Norway
(Master thesis, 2017)In last two decades national governments have increased their support to renewable energy sources (RES). The European Union (EU) has been considered as a pioneer in this area. The Norwegian governmental policies have also ... -
Conservation agriculture, livelihoods and deforestation in Zambia
(PhD Thesis;2016:102, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Conservation agriculture (CA) practices such as minimum tillage have been promoted for about two decades as a way to conserve soils and increase agricultural productivity and farm incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including ... -
Consumer preferences for animal welfare : what can we learn from restaurant, store and web experiments?
(PhD Thesis;2014:60, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis uses experimental methods to test Norwegian consumers’ preferences for animal welfare. First, it investigates the benefits of using such methods in consumer studies of credence goods in general, and in the case ... -
Consumer willingnes to pay for renewable energy : a meta analysis
(Master thesis, 2016-08-25)The electricity generated from renewable source i.e. wind, solar, hydro and biomass are considered to be environmentally stable from the point of Co2 emission and resource depletion. According to International Panel of ... -
Consumers and bioenergy : the effects of behavioural factors in households' heating consumption choice in Norway
(PhD Thesis;2013:63, Doctoral thesis, 2013)How energy consumers behave, namely, what type and how much of different energy products and services they consume, direct and indirect affects the environment, as well as personal (and collective) well-being. Understanding ... -
Controller eller endringsagent?
(Master thesis, 2023)I dagens samfunn er det en økende etterspørsel etter bærekraftig forretningsdrift, og norske bedrifter følger denne trenden. Som svar på denne etterspørselen har mange bedrifter etablert stillinger som bærekraftsansvarlig ... -
The Corona pandemic among university students in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;06/21, Working paper, 2022)This study provides the initial survey data from a sample of 764 students at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe, Malawi. It aims to provide evidence on the extent of exposure ... -
Cost gain of implementing load shifting in residential buildings
(Master thesis, 2019)There is a clear trend today that we use more and more appliances with a higher power demand, something that is a real challenge for the electricity grid. Also, the shift towards electrification of the transport system ... -
Country Socio-economic Development and Disparity in School Children's Reading Skills Learning in Africa
(CLTS Working paper;08/23, Working paper, 2023-12)To achieve the overarching goal of "education for all," there is a growing interest in understanding school learning outcomes and disparities among school children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Africa. This study employs ...