Browsing Doctoral theses (HH) by Author "Navrud, Ståle"
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Bioenergy for sustainable development in developing countries
Nakamya, Miria (PhD Thesis;2022:42, Doctoral thesis, 2022)The main objectives of this thesis are to evaluate the policies to promote bioenergy in developing countries and to assess the related impacts within the realms of sustainable development. The growing interest in bioenergy ... -
Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
Kaushal, Kevin Raj (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 ... -
Essays in transport economics : challenges in modeling travel mode choice and user benefits
Flügel, Stefan (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 economic valuation of cultural and natural resources in Vietnam
Tuan, Tran Huu (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 ... -
Freight trip generation and consumer preferences for reducing externalities from last mile deliveries
Caspersen, Elise (PhD Thesis;2021:19, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Freight transport is a key contributor to negative externalities in terms of congestion, noise, emissions of local air pollutants and greenhouse gases, road damage and accident risk. The issue is particularly significant ... -
Health economic evaluations of shoulder pain, colorectal cancer and scoliosis
Joranger, Pål (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. ... -
Mapping farmers’ preferences of cimate change adaptation measures : stated preference and field experiments in Ethiopia
Meressa, Abrha Megos (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, ... -
Methodological issues in meta-analysis, benefit transfer and environmental valuation
Lindhjem, Henrik (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 ... -
Persistent miscoordination : an economics of Amazon fires
Cammelli, Federico (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 ... -
Sustainable use of minerals in the context of a digital and energy transition
Roa, Diana (PhD Thesis;2023:46, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the sustainable use of minerals in the context of a low-carbon and digital transition. Based on original research, this thesis contributes to designing policy interventions, namely market-based instruments ... -
Valuing ecosystem services to inform land use policies in Norway : methodological issues and applications of stated preference methods
Iversen, Endre Kildal (PhD thesis;2022:68, Doctoral thesis, 2022)