Blar i School of Economics and Business (HH) på forfatter "Navrud, Ståle"
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Betalingsvillighet for økt trafikksikkerhet : en betinget verdsettingsstudie av dødsrisikoreduksjon i trafikken
Gjermstad-Timraz, Siv Iren (Master thesis, 2016-11-17)Bakgrunn: Daglig dør omtrent 3400 mennesker i trafikken verden over og vil påvirke folks helse på mange måter. Skader og ulykker kan i stor grad forebygges og et godt sikkerhetsarbeid har mye å si for folkehelsa. I Norge ... -
Bioenergy for sustainable development in developing countries
Nakamya, Miria (PhD Thesis;2022:42, Doctoral thesis, 2022)The main objectives of this thesis are to evaluate the policies to promote bioenergy in developing countries and to assess the related impacts within the realms of sustainable development. The growing interest in bioenergy ... -
Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
Kaushal, Kevin Raj (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 ... -
Consumer willingnes to pay for renewable energy : a meta analysis
Pokhrel, Kewal Raj (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 ... -
Do they get what they want? : an analysis of cost and biodiversity effectiveness of voluntary versus government initiated forest conservation in Norway 2005-2013
Kolle, Stein Olav (Master thesis, 2015-05-28)The study analyzes cost and utility-cost effective use of government funds for voluntary conservation and government initiated conservation of forest in Norway from 2005 to 2013, to better understand bias in voluntary ... -
Does respondents' recruitment method affect the willingness-to-pay for clean-up of contaminated marine sediments? : comparing two internet panels and SMS recruited respondents in a contingent valuation survey
Fredriksen, Kaisa Andrea Ferguson (Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this study is investigate the effects of combining recruitment methods from two survey agencies in a contingent valuation (CV) survey on Norwegian households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for restoration of ... -
En kostnads- og optimaliseringsanalyse med forskjellige lastebiltyper
Myrvang, Fride Olin; Brunstad, Øyvind Lothe (Master thesis, 2021)Nasjonal Transportplan setter som mål at 50 prosent av nye lastebiler skal være nullutslippskjøretøy innen 2030. Denne oppgaven tar for seg en kostnadsanalyse av klimanøytrale og nullutslipps-lastebiler, sammenlignet med ... -
Er bærekraft lønnsomt?
Strand, Mina Agner; Heiberg, Sarah Stensholt (Master thesis, 2021)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker sammenhengen mellom bærekraft og lønnsomhet. Vi har sammenlignet bedriften Norrøna med konkurrenten Bergans gjennom regnskapsanalyser og analyse av bedriftenes CSR. Formålet med oppgaven ... -
Essays in transport economics : challenges in modeling travel mode choice and user benefits
Flügel, Stefan (PhD Thesis;2015:61, Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-19)The subject of this PhD thesis is transport economics. The thesis concerns the modeling and application of transport-related choice data, in particular data from choice experiments, and contributes on the field of specifying ... -
Essays on economic valuation of cultural and natural resources in Vietnam
Tuan, Tran Huu (Dr.scient.;2007:9, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The thesis consists of five self-contained papers. The first four papers are concerned with the economic valuation of cultural heritage sites, while the last one estimates direct use values of coastal wetlands in Vietnam. In ... -
External cost of electricity in Northern Ethiopia : households’ willingness to pay to avoid blackouts and environmental costs of windfarms
Aweke, Abinet Tilahun (Master thesis, 2018)This study aims to value the external costs of a wind farm, and households´ welfare loss due to electricity blackouts in Northern Ethiopia. A Contingent Valuation (CV) survey of a random sample of 200 households was conducted ... -
Freight trip generation and consumer preferences for reducing externalities from last mile deliveries
Caspersen, Elise (PhD Thesis;2021:19, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Freight transport is a key contributor to negative externalities in terms of congestion, noise, emissions of local air pollutants and greenhouse gases, road damage and accident risk. The issue is particularly significant ... -
Graham på norske veier
Mangset, Jon Simen Hilstad (Master thesis, 2020)Nettoringvirkninger av samferdsels innvesteringer er at av temaene innenfor samfunnsøkonomiske analyser som har hatt større fremskritt de siste årene. Det er spesielt agglomerasjonsvirkninger ved reduksjon av reisetid som ... -
Health economic evaluations of shoulder pain, colorectal cancer and scoliosis
Joranger, Pål (PhD Thesis;2015:16, Doctoral thesis, 2018-04-25)Key conclusions In Paper I, a cost-of-illness (COI) study on shoulder pain in Sweden, showed that the mean health care cost per patient was €326 during 6 months, and physiotherapy treatments accounted for 60% of this cost. ... -
Mapping farmers’ preferences of cimate change adaptation measures : stated preference and field experiments in Ethiopia
Meressa, Abrha Megos (PhD Thesis;2019:46, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis maps preferences for climate change adaptation measures and ecosystem services among Ethiopian smallholder farmers; by analyzing their decision-making behavior under uncertainty in a framed field experiment, ... -
Methodological issues in meta-analysis, benefit transfer and environmental valuation
Lindhjem, Henrik (PhD Thesis;2008:18, Doctoral thesis, 2008)This thesis consists of four papers on methodological issues in meta-analysis (MA), benefit transfer (BT) and environmental valuation. The first paper presents a MA of stated preference studies valuing non-timber benefits ... -
Norwegian households' willingness to pay to preserve a global public good : the Amazon Rainforest
Dugstad, Anders (Master thesis, 2018)The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest rainforest. Currently, at least 16 percent of the area has disappeared due to deforestation. Deforestation results in loss of ecosystem services and goods which provide local ... -
Norwegian inequality in two dimensions : air pollution and income
Moss, Audun Hoemsnes (Master thesis, 2019)The burdens of air pollution are not shared equally across the population. These burdens affect our health and our welfare. If we want to understand inequality of welfare in the population, not just inequality of income, ... -
Nytte/kostnadsanalyse (NKA) av å flytte all fremtidig norsk landbasert vindkraft 2020-2040 til havs
Igelkjøn, Thomas (Master thesis, 2020)Hovedformålet med masteroppgaven har vært å undersøke den samfunnsøkonomiske lønnsomheten av offshore vindkraftutbygging i Norge i dag, som alternativ til en fremtidig landbasert utbygging med samme kapasitet. Referansea ... -
Persistent miscoordination : an economics of Amazon fires
Cammelli, Federico (PhD Thesis;2018:16, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis analyzes micro-level causes of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, and the impact of policies and droughts on smallholders’ decisions to use and control fires. Fires in the Brazilian Amazon are an important ...