Browsing Doctoral theses (HH) by Title
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Caste discrimination, land tenure, and natural resource management in Nepal
(PhD Thesis;2011:03, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The dissertation investigates the issues related to land tenancy transactions, land productivity and land related investment with a due focus on caste discrimination in the Nepalese rural society. This study also explores ... -
Climate change and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : four approaches to modeling rural households
(PhD Thesis;2015:7, Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-28)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to increased knowledge of potential impacts of climate change on the welfare of households in developing countries. It focuses on impacts of changing temperature and precipitation ... -
Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
(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 ... -
Climate-smart agriculture in Malawi : uptake and opportunities in the face of climate change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Is agriculture becoming climate-smart? Can recurrent weather events such as droughts explain increased use and adoption of agricultural technologies that are perceived climate-smart? I have merged a four-wave household ... -
Commodity prices and market institutions in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:14, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This PhD Thesis comprises five chapters including an introduction and four separate papers. The overall objective of the thesis is to evaluate the performance of agricultural commodity markets in Ethiopia. Economists have ... -
Conservation agriculture, livelihoods and deforestation in Zambia
(PhD Thesis;2016:102, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Conservation agriculture (CA) practices such as minimum tillage have been promoted for about two decades as a way to conserve soils and increase agricultural productivity and farm incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including ... -
Consumer preferences for animal welfare : what can we learn from restaurant, store and web experiments?
(PhD Thesis;2014:60, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis uses experimental methods to test Norwegian consumers’ preferences for animal welfare. First, it investigates the benefits of using such methods in consumer studies of credence goods in general, and in the case ... -
Consumers and bioenergy : the effects of behavioural factors in households' heating consumption choice in Norway
(PhD Thesis;2013:63, Doctoral thesis, 2013)How energy consumers behave, namely, what type and how much of different energy products and services they consume, direct and indirect affects the environment, as well as personal (and collective) well-being. Understanding ... -
Drivers of deforestation and incentives for REDD+
(PhD Thesis;2022:4, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Tropical deforestation is a global environmental and development problem. Identifying policies that effectively reduce deforestation while improving rural livelihoods is essential to meet our climate and sustainable ... -
The economic implication of animal feed scarcity on farm intensifcation, food production and consumption : empirical evidence from Tigrai, Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2019:64, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This dissertation analyses cattle farming in order to (i) test the hypotheses of Boserup and Malthus in the merits of distinguishing both direct and indirect effects of population pressure on farm intensification, and (ii) ... -
Economics and policies for the electrification of transport
(PhD thesis;2020:41, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis focuses on the economics and polices for the electrification of transport. Over the last few years we have observed a rapid rise in the number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Norway. This growth is the ... -
Efficiency, risk and management of fisheries sector in Bangladesh
(PhD Thesis;2012:62, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This dissertation consists of an introduction and five independent papers on Bangladesh fisheries sector. The first paper investigates how the fishery sector has developed and identifies the potential problems faced by the ... -
Eliciting consumer willingness to pay for food quality attributes : experiments conducted in Tanzania, Norway and the US
(PhD Thesis;2015:4, Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-10)In assessing and measuring consumer preference and willingness to pay for quality attributes, many things matter including context and choice of methods. This thesis focuses on two themes; (1) assessing consumer ... -
Essays in transport economics : challenges in modeling travel mode choice and user benefits
(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 contracts, risk coping and technology adoption in Ethiopia
(PhD Thesis;2010:18, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This dissertation consists of an introduction and four independent papers. The first two papers examine land and livestock rental contractual arrangements. The first paper provides detailed analysis of cost sharing contract ... -
Essays on economic valuation of cultural and natural resources in Vietnam
(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 ... -
Essays on predictive and prescriptive process monitoring
(PhD Thesis;2022:21, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This PhD thesis addresses problems related to proactive methods of decision support in business processes. These methods include predictive process monitoring, which aims to warn about potential problems before they occur, ... -
Essays on salmon commodity markets
(PhD Thesis;2023:72, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis examines key aspects of the salmon industry, including financial effects of climate change, market volatility, price predictions, and the role of news on market prices. The work consists of four research ... -
Essays on the multifunctionality of agruculture and policy options
(Dr.scient.;2008:5, Doctoral thesis, 2008)Jordbruket produserer mer enn bare varer som kan omsettes i markeder. I tillegg produseres en lang rekke goder, onder og tjenester som ikke kan omsettes i markeder. Jordbruket kan på grunn av dette gi bidra til ulike ... -
Essays on the reformed Norwegian electricity retail market
(PhD thesis;2021:66, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The thesis explores efficiency outcomes following the Norwegian electricity market reform introduced in the early 1990s. Specifically, the thesis investigates efficiency outcomes resulting from the incentive regulation of ...