Browsing Doctoral theses (LandSam) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Compact city or sprawl? : the role of urban form in subjective well-being
(PhD Thesis;2018:52, Doctoral thesis, 2018)The novel contribution of this thesis is the new theoretical and empirical knowledge it generates on the relationship between urban form and subjective well-being (SWB). It specifically examines how urban form, in other ... -
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 ... -
Economic incentives in household waste management : just a waste? : a relational approach to agents and structures in household waste sorting
(PhD Thesis;2017:76, Doctoral thesis, 2017)I en verden der naturressursene forbrukes i et stadig raskere tempo og forringelsene av miljøet øker, er det stadig viktigere å fremme og legge til rette for adferd som er miljømessig bærekraftig. Ulike typer politikk er ... -
Forsvarlig saksbehandling av endring av fast eiendom : en undersøkelse og evaluering av norske kommuners praksis i 2015
(PhD Thesis;2018:95, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Forskningstemaet er saksbehandling av søknad om endring av fast eiendom. Dette undersøker jeg ved å besvare forskningsspørsmålet: Oppfyller kommunenes saksbehandling av søknad om endring av fast eiendom evalueringskriterier ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Kan vi snakke om medvirkning? : sivilsamfunnets innflytelse og bidrag i reguleringsprosesser
(PhD Thesis;2018:81, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Avhandlingen handler om utfordringer og potensialer knyttet til involvering av sivilsamfunnet i reguleringsplanprosesser – det mange tenker på som ‘medvirkning’. Normativ planteori har lenge vektlagt at fysisk planlegging ... -
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 ... -
Land use and travel behavior in small cities
(PhD thesis;2018:67, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Research on the relationship between land-use and travel behavior has been at the forefront of finding solutions to the ever-growing challenges of energy demand and urban pollution associated with transportation. However, ... -
Marking space : negotiating room for user efficacy in residential urban spaces
(PhD Thesis;2017:08, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The ability to mark and change - or hold efficacy over - one’s environment is a basic need of everyday dwelling. Because people in cities share outdoor space, their ability to affect their environment is constantly in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Order in chaos : understanding governance in Somalia
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis explores how governance has been established in Somalia, a country that lacks a functioning state and, thus, is considered as an ungoverned space. By combining theoretical frameworks from political sciences, ... -
Plague of bureaucracies : producing and territorializing difference in East Africa, 1888-1940
(PhD Thesis;2017:40, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Mahmood Mamdani (1996a: 8) once provocatively argued that “apartheid, usually considered unique to South Africa, is actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa.” The research objective of this dissertation ...