Doctoral theses (LandSam)
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Adapting to a changing climate amidst multiple livelihood stressors : socially differentiated lived experiences of adaptation processes in southern Kenya
(PhD Thesis;2024:4, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The subject of climate change adaptation has steadily risen on the global agenda in the face of anthropogenic climate change, leading to an increase in adaptation plans, projects, and funding. However, a lot of the attention ... -
Norsk hagekunst mot et moderne samfunn – 1930-50 : intensjoner og idealer i en brytningstid
(PhD Thesis;2024:20, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Det overordnede målet med dette arbeidet er å styrke kunnskapen vår om norsk hagekunst på 1930- og 40-tallet. Kunnskap om hagehistorien er nødvendig for å sikre god forvalting av historiske hageanlegg. Det har lenge vært ... -
Veggrunn og eiendomsforhold : administrasjon og forvaltning av offentlige veger i Norge som utgangspunkt ved avklaring av eierforhold og registrering av grenser
(PhD thesis;2024:1, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The aim of this project is to describe how urban streets and rural roads were handled as public property outside the ordinary value-based property system before 1980 and the effects of this practice, and in this way ease ... -
Sustainable municipal land use governance : thinking it, wishing it, wanting it – but doing it?
(PhD Thesis;2023:81, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The character and direction of human societies’ development has placed us in the midst of a double crisis in nature and climate. Despite the agenda-setting of sustainable development in the late 1980s, drastic physical ... -
Insurgent order-making : militant Islamist rule and kinship-based communities in Somalia's Lower Jubba Province, 2006-2012
(PhD Thesis;2021:54, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This PhD project is about order-making outside the purview of the central state. It aims to increase our understanding of the complex political and social processes of order-making by Islamist insurgents who serve as de ... -
Future sustainability for housing development : an eco-modernist and a degrowth scenario
(PhD Thesis;2021:70, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis is mainly concerned with the environmental and social sustainability of housing development in affluent countries using Oslo and Milan as case studies. It aims to investigate alternative housing futures that ... -
Urban cemeteries as public spaces : a comparison of cases from Scandinavia and Russia
(PhD Thesis;2022:1, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Insights from the field of cemetery research demonstrate that urban cemeteries have a variety of functions, not limited to their primary purpose of providing space for interment of human remains and commemoration of loved ... -
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 ... -
Matrikkelføring av saker utført av jordskifteretten
(PhD thesis;2021:93, Doctoral thesis, 2022)The topic of the thesis is cadastral records of cases conducted by the Land Consolidation courts. Today’s cadastre has a long history. It contains data obtained from the land register, old bills of quantity (measurement ... -
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 ... -
Multispecies neighbourhoods in urban sea areas
(Ph.D. Thesis;2020:38, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The point of departure for this landscape architectural research is a seemingly forgotten and invisible landscape: the urban intertidal. The urban sea areas of the inner Oslofjord in Norway are explored through multisensory ... -
Kreative prosesser i møtet mellom naturbasert reiseliv og stedsutvikling : fellesskapende motiv som bidrag til omstilling i lokalsamfunn
(PhD Thesis;2020:56, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Avhandlingen inngår i forskningsprosjektet BIOTOUR, som handler om å utvikle kunnskap om bærekraftig naturbasert reiseliv i Norge. Hovedproblemstillingen i avhandlingen tar utgangspunkt i et kunnskapsbehov som kan bidra ... -
Quality of care at farm-based day care services for people with dementia : the farm as a setting for promoting health, well-being and quality of life
(PhD Thesis;2020:46, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Background: There is an increasing prevalence of dementia worldwide, with an estimated 35.6 million people living with dementia in 2010. This number is expected to double by 2030 and double again by 2050. The increasing ... -
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 ... -
A global agenda meets local practices : an ethnographic study of the introduction of REDD+ in Zanzibar
(PhD Thesis;2018:64, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis discusses REDD+ as an example of a highly ambitious global environmental policy framework conceived at international levels and implemented at local levels in forest communities across the Global South. The ... -
On the complexity of dealing with introduced plants as cultural heritage : a historical multidisciplinary study of plants introduced to Norway from 1750 to 1900, exemplified with Abies alba Mill. (European silver fir) as a case species
(PhD Thesis;2018:25, Doctoral thesis, 2018)As the independent nation of Norway was at its infancy in 1814, so was also an important change in Norwegian garden culture. Norway was about to experience a significant boom of plant introductions for ornamental use, which ... -
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 ... -
Health-promoting environments for children and adolescents : built environment characteristics as resources for activity participation and well-being
(PhD Thesis;2019:66, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Childhood and adolescence are important stages of life with long-lasting implications for both the health and well-being of individuals and society as a whole. Accordingly, health-promoting efforts aimed at supporting the ... -
Public attitudes toward climate change and climate policies : the role of political values and institutional contexts
(PhD Thesis;2017:42, Doctoral thesis, 2017)For societies to create mitigation policies that achieve sufficient support for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a better understanding of people’s positions on climate change and climate policies is necessary. This thesis ... -
The Norwegian second home phenomenon : a critical perspective
(PhD Thesis;2017:82, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The Norwegians’ construction and use of second homes has been an issue in public planning since the development of its antecedent, the cabin, began to take toll on the beautiful Norwegian landscape in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
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