Blar i Faculty of Landscape and Society (LandSam) på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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Adaptivity and rationality : the Didinga ethno-agrarian mode of adaptation
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Agricultural intensification in a mid-hill watershed of Nepal : socio-economic and environmental implications
(PhD Thesis;2010:39, Doctoral thesis, 2010)Agricultural intensification is unavoidable due to the food requirements of a growing population, market availability and access to agro-products, and limited productive agricultural areas in Nepal. A shift from cultivating ... -
Agricultural investments for development in Tanzania: reconciling actors, strategies and logics?
(PhD Thesis;2017:63, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Agricultural investments carry opportunities and risks for smallholders, rural communities, and the environment. This thesis investigates the potentials and limitations of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in ... -
Agriculture, livelihoods and climate change in Bosnia and Herzegovina : impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Bosnia and Herzegovina is still recovering from the shocks caused by armed conflict during the nineties, while being faced with a long and difficult path of institutional and economic reforms of transition from central to ... -
Agronomic technologies in maize and their adoption and diffusion in semi-arid central Rift Valley Ethiopia : agronomic and economic analyses
(PhD Thesis;2016:12, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)This thesis evaluates the agronomic and economic responses to agricultural technologies in maize, identifies the agronomic technologies reaching farmers, and assesses their adoption and diffusion. The thesis consists of ... -
Animal-assisted intervention as health promotion for elderly persons with dementia
(PhD Thesis;2016:65, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Dementia is an increasing health concern for old people, their families, and their social and health care providers. A range of health care services is needed for persons with dementia, ranging from home-based services, ... -
Assembling drinking water quality and inequality : the case of Kaolack, Senegal
(PhD Thesis;2021:87, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Declining drinking water quality poses urgent and ubiquitous problems for human health and well being. Millions of people are regularly exposed to potentially harmful substances via their drinking water, in ways that are ... -
Bringing the workers' rights back in? : the discourse and politics of fortifying core labour standards through a labour-trade linkage
(PhD Thesis;2011:16, Doctoral thesis, 2011)Throughout the 1990s the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) conducted a campaign to convince states to institute a linkage between the international labour and trade regimes (also dubbed a social ... -
The building-street relationship : investigating the art of compact city building in contemporary Norwegian practice
(PhD thesis;2022:2, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Cities comprise constantly changing elements and patterns of human interventions. Patterns which we experience, evaluate, and continuously develop through an ever, ongoing range of decisions. This thesis asks questions ... -
Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. : functional genomics studies of host-pathogen responses and disease markers
(PhD Thesis;2012:6, Doctoral thesis, 2012)Since the first description of CMS in the mid 1980s, little research has been conducted to approach an understanding of host-pathogen responses in affected Atlantic salmon. The research presented in this thesis aimed to ... -
Changing seascapes : local adaptation processes in Belizean fishing communities
(PhD Thesis;2015:64, Doctoral thesis, 2015)This thesis analyses how contextual social, economic and political conditions interact and influence adaptation to coastal change, through an in-depth focus on two Belizean fishing communities. Belize is considered to be ... -
Communities and conservation in West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania : participation, costs and benefits
(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 ... -
Compact city or sprawl? : the role of urban form in subjective well-being
(PhD Thesis;2018:52, Doctoral thesis, 2018)The novel contribution of this thesis is the new theoretical and empirical knowledge it generates on the relationship between urban form and subjective well-being (SWB). It specifically examines how urban form, in other ... -
A comparative analysis of the processes, costs and impacts of REDD+ : findings from pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania
(PhD Thesis;2019:27, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis is a comparative study that examines how the policy of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was implemented in three pilot sites located in Kilosa and Kondoa districts in Tanzania ... -
Conflicting knowledges, competing worldviews : Norwegian governance of Sámi reindeer husbandry in West Finnmark, Norway
(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 ... -
Contentious forests : from global climate change policies to Bolivian forest communities
(PhD Thesis;2019:69, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This dissertation sets out to critically examine contestations over the governance of forest areas across scales, ranging from global climate change policies and national strategic projects to local forest communities in ... -
Contesting conservation and development : quilombolas struggling for rights and resources in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil
(PhD Thesis;2016:17, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-06)This thesis sets out to explore how quilombolas, Afro-Brazilians descending from slaves, have responded to top-down conservation and development projects, and investigates different impediments to the realisation of ... -
Cooperation and competition in urban redevelopment
(PhD Thesis;2020:26, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis presents new knowledge about cooperation between firms developing industrial, logistical, and similar land into housing and service providers. Such redevelopment is important for sustainable urban growth, but ... -
The defence of territory : contested environmental politics at the El Quimbo hydroelectric dam in Huila, Colombia
(PhD Thesis;2021:37, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This dissertation examines the environmental struggle caused by a large-scale dam project in Huila province, Colombia, and the politics that allowed the controversial hydroelectric power plant “El Quimbo” to start operating ... -
Development in a changing climate : local impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Attappady, Kerala
(PhD Thesis;2015:55, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-05)The thesis analyses the role of one of India’s central social security schemes, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in the context of climate change adaptation. A conceptual exploration ...