Browsing Doctoral theses (HH) by Title
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Health economic evaluations of shoulder pain, colorectal cancer and scoliosis
(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. ... -
Incentivized forest conservation : spatial econometric and experimental evidence
(PhD Thesis;2018:21, Doctoral thesis, 2018)A key element in the implementation of an effective result-based mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is the reference level (RL). Setting RLs requires modeling and predicting ... -
Increased sustainability in the food retail sector through Measurement and Verification of energy conservation measures
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report leaves little doubt that we urgently need to respond to be able to reduce human-induced climate change. The report clearly states that human activities is causing alarming and widespread ... -
Institutions and GMOs : shaping perspectives and organisms
(PhD Thesis;2010:35, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis is written within the contemporary classical institutional economics tradition. The intention has been to provide insight into how different institutions can enable us to avoid harmful effects and generate ... -
Land markets and agricultural household decisions nexus in Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2020:71, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The general trend of agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to tilt towards land scarcity emanating from farm household-level population pressure and increase in urbanisation rates. Understanding the ... -
Land policy reform and land rental markets in Ethiopia : equity, productivity and welfare implications
(PhD Thesis;2010:24, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The land holding system in most developing countries is not purely an economic affair. It is very much intertwined with people’s culture and identity. That is partly why land-related issues usually generate intense emotional ... -
Land rental markets, investment and productivity under customary land tenure systems in Malawi
(PhD Thesis;2009:3, Doctoral thesis, 2009)As customary land tenure remains the predominant model of landholding in rural Africa and land the cornerstone of rural livelihood security, improving land tenure security is often equated with integration of customary ... -
Land tenure in the highlands of Eritrea : economic theory and empirical evidence
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Landholding, forest extraction and poverty in Uganda
(PhD Thesis;2012:53, Doctoral thesis, 2012)Motivated by a large body of literature that suggests land is a key determinant of livelihood strategies for farm households in developing countries, this thesis offers insights on how the mode of land acquisition at the ... -
Management of short-term price uncertainty in the salmon spot market
(PhD Thesis;2016:56, Doctoral thesis, 2016)The spot price of Norwegian farmed Atlantic salmon is highly volatile and hard to predict. The uncertainty over the future spot price obscures revenue projections of salmon farmers and cost expectations of processors, ... -
Mapping farmers’ preferences of cimate change adaptation measures : stated preference and field experiments in Ethiopia
(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, ... -
Market development for a sustainable transition to bioenergy in Uganda
(PhD thesis;2023:15, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Access and use of clean energy persist as a grand societal challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) without obvious solutions. This adversely affects other social-technical systems of society like health, education, climate ... -
Mastering the leader role : how individuals in leader roles increase leader role efficacy and trust in subordinates, (re)construct leader identities, and attempt to craft leader roles that fit
(PhD Thesis;2015:34, Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-28)People have a psychological need to master their environment and the roles they enact (Ashforth, 2001). Individuals who take on leader roles are no exception. However, as the leader role is filled with complex, demanding, ... -
Methodological issues in meta-analysis, benefit transfer and environmental valuation
(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 ... -
Moving towards sustainability : business models and entrepreneurship in the Norwegian wool industry
(PhD thesis;2020:6, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis is part of the research project "KRUS - enhancing local wool value chains in Norway", focusing on the role of Norwegian wool in a move towards more sustainability in fashion and textiles. The thesis contributes ... -
Pathways to development
(PhD Thesis;2014:73, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis consists of four articles and an introduction. It contributes to the debate on development, development aid and poverty reduction, and identifies possible pathways to development. In particular, I study financing ... -
Peasant agriculture and sustainable land use in Ethiopia : economic analyses of constraints and incentives for soil conservation
(Doctor scientiarum theses;1997:25, Doctoral thesis, 1997)In agriculture-based poor economies, degradation of agricultural land poses a serious threat to current and future food production potential. Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in Africa that is heavily dependent on ... -
Peasants and risk : a study of risk, market imperfections and farm household behaviour in Northern Zambia
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Persistent miscoordination : an economics of Amazon fires
(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 ... -
Personality traits, food values and consumer behavior
(PhD Thesis;2021:33, Doctoral thesis, 2021-04)The thesis consists of four papers investigating the effects of personality traits and food values on food-related choices and behavior. The analysis uses data from the Norwegian Monitor Survey (NMS) and an online survey ...