Browsing Doctoral theses (LandSam) by Issue Date
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Public green space management arrangements in Norway : perspectives on quality green space
(PhD Thesis;2020:53, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Threats such as urbanisation and climate change are addressed through the use of nature, with an emphasis on creating quality green spaces. Green spaces consist of a dynamic system that needs to be managed to make sure ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...