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Vulnerability of livestock farmers in Southern Kalahari : the case of Mier in Rietfontein, South Africa
(Master thesis, 2013-08-05)ABSTRACT Vulnerability is now highlighted globally. Poverty has been identified as a key contributor to vulnerability but asset building increases resilience and adaptive capacity. This study examines the root causes ... -
Vulnerability to climate change and conflict, its impact on livelihoods and the enjoyment of human rights : case study: pastoral communities in Northern Kenya (Turkana, Pokot and Samburu Districts)
(Master thesis, 2014-11-03)The relationship between climate change and conflict is a complex one. Violent conflicts involving pastoralists have become widespread and increasingly severe in the North Rift and North Eastern regions of Kenya. This ... -
Vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods and workers' rights : a case study of construction workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2016-08-11)Construction workers in Dhaka city are mainly migrant workers from rural Bangladesh. They migrate to Dhaka city to overcome the vulnerability context and to secure a sustainable livelihood. However, workers’ vulnerability ... -
Vulnerable Groups in Climate Adaptation in Oslo Municipality
(Master thesis, 2023)Cities are starting to feel the effects of climate change and climate adaptation is becoming increasingly important. It is the most vulnerable in society that are also the most affected by climate change. Concerns about ... -
Vurdering av revegetert steinbrudd i Songa, sett i sammenheng med revegetert steinbrudd i Bitdalen : resultater etter 1 år
(Master thesis, 2022)I Norge har det de siste 50 årene vært en økning av inngrep i fjellet. Vegetasjonen i fjellet er generelt under press og vekstsesongen er kortere her enn i lavlandet, noe som gjør naturen i fjellet spesielt sårbar mot ... -
Waking Up in a World of Crises: Experiences of Protesters in the Hague
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis explores the personal-political dimension of turbulent transformation. More specifically, it addresses the following question: How is the personal-political dimension of turbulent transformation expressed in ... -
Walking on a delicate line between Iran and the United States : India's competing set of interests regarding Iran's nuclear program and sanctions
(Master thesis, 2014-09-26)India and Iran have had a centuries-long history of close relations. However, in the last decade New Delhi has been looking to develop its relations with Tehran for two main reasons. First, India’s high energy demand to ... -
War on terror : Tunisia's counterterrorism strategy
(Master thesis, 2019)About 8 years ago and during the revolution in Tunisia, I witnessed drastic change in the society mainly in relation to religion in public sphere from radicalism to counterradicalism. So, I’ve always wanted to understand ... -
Waste management in Hong Kong : feasibility of applying the Norwegian deposit return system for plastic bottles
(Master thesis, 2019)Materials become “waste” when they are discarded into wrong places. Much plastics waste is recyclable but ends up in landfills or dispersed into the environment. Hong Kong is one of the world’s megacities suffering from ... -
Waste sorting at the household level : a study of motivation and behavior behind sorting of household waste when an external incentive is present
(Master thesis, 2010-12-06)It has been recognized that individuals are representing a source contributing to a great proportion of environmental pollution as private consumption has elevated as a response to increased purchasing power. Today’s ... -
Water in the West : perspectives from an Upper Basin tributary of the Colorado River
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis explores two institutional frameworks utilized in the governance of water in the Southwest of the United States through how they deliver, or fail to deliver, complex equity. These are (1) the legal framework ... -
The way we talk about sexual violence : beyond a gender normative understanding of sexual violence in global politics
(Master thesis, 2021)Conflict-related sexual violence has received increasing attention in global politics the past decades through an increasing body of research on the subject matter as well as efforts to combat the issue through international ... -
Western scientific approaches to trauma and healing in a non-Western context : a case study of the treatment of trauma in Sudan
(Master thesis, 2016-08-12)In the aftermath of the Cold War, the United Nation Security Council searched for an improved approach to peacekeeping. On this request Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary- General at that time, put forward the report ... -
What is the role of reductionism in agricultural technology transfers? The Green Revolution and agricultural gene technology
(Noragric Working Paper;37, Working paper, 2004-12)This paper gives special attention to the questions of how and to what extent agricultural technology introductions particularly in the South have been informed by reductionist ways of thinking. The reductionist approach ... -
What justice? : environmental justice, pollution, and activism by ENGOs in China
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis aims to analyse China’s environmental challenges in relation to environmental policies and environmental justice. The thesis discusses China’s environmental pollution crisis which has been led on by rapid ... -
What to expect from Norway’s Development Finance Institution (Norfund)?
(Master thesis, 2019)The Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund), Norway’s Development Finance Institution (DFI), were established in 1997, to assist in developing sustainable business and industry in developing countries ... -
When aid workers sustain sex workers : a post-conflict study of urban livelihoods in Kigali, Rwanda
(Master thesis, 2012-05-18)As billions of aid dollars has been flourishing from the North to the South the past six decades, many developing countries are still poor and destitute. This thesis argue that by giving cash to the poor, they will know ... -
“When you think like the state” : the political ecology of pastoral modernization in Finnmark, Norway
(Master thesis, 2014-09-17)Reindeer herding in Norway is an indigenous pastoral livelihood exclusive to the Sámi people. The regulation of this source of livelihood by the Norwegian state intensified with the introduction of a new law and policy ... -
Where planning and design meet : transformation of urban tissue under densification policy : the case of Oslo
(PhD Thesis;2020:07, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Over the past few decades, urban planning has been distancing itself from architecture and engineering, becoming increasingly dominated by strategic approaches and goals for sustainability. This shift of focus has created ... -
The ‘White Gold’ between neoextractivism and decolonization : a discourse analysis of the Bolivian lithium project
(Master thesis, 2021)The pressuring need for a sustainable energy transition has increased the global demand for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. The earth’s single largest deposit of lithium is located in Bolivia, and the ...