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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 ... -
Who are thrown to the wolves? : conflicting discourses on wolf conservation in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)Wolf reestablishment in Norway has been subject of controversy and the conflicts stemming from it are polarised and hostile. This thesis explores the governance of wolves in Norway, alongside the conflicts which have emerged ... -
Who is in charge of decisions? : a case study of change in Brazilian foreign policy from 2003 to 2014
(Master thesis, 2015-08-06)Brazil has for centuries been identified as a country destined for greatness due to its resources and size. Yet, its politicians and leaders have not made the vision come true. This has left the South American country as ... -
Who owns Haiti? Dilemmas and Ambiguities in Haitian Sovereignty
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis uses a historical lens to examine events related to dependency, colonialism, and sovereignty in order to answer the question “Is the international community responsible for Haiti's “failure” as a state?”. Since ... -
Who should be the main actor in governing REDD+ projects on the ground? : a comparative study of the relationship between NGOs and the local government in the implementation of three REDD+ pilot projects in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2016-08-11)This thesis is grounded in the discussion on how REDD+ should be governed on the ground in Tanzania. The debate has mainly been in relation to two governance structures of REDD+. The first structure is what has been proposed ... -
A whole story perspective : Norwegian youth reflections on Sustainable Development Goal 4.7
(Master thesis, 2022)Wrought with climate instability and social inequalities the future at times appears tenuous, but there is also hope. One aspect of this hope lies in the vision of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...