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The Social Sustainable City: How to Involve Children in Designing and Planning for Urban Childhoods?
(Cogitatio Press, 2019-01-24)In many countries, cities are expected to stimulate compact city development by the government, while at the same time develop healthier and more social sustainable cities. In Norway, national policy and planning regulation ... -
Den sprikende kraften i "det grønne skiftet".
(Norsk Mediehistorisk Forening, 2020-12-05)Sammendrag: Begrepet det grønne skiftet har i løpet av de siste årene vært med å prege samfunnsdebatten. Fra det, ifølge Atekst, stod på trykk i en norsk avis for aller første gang høsten 2013 og fram til sommeren 2020, ... -
Mer midlertidighet– innvandringspolitikken etter asylforliket
(Universitetsforlaget, 2020-06-04)Hvilke konsekvenser får det når innvandringspolitikken preges av stadig mer midlertidighet? Dette spørsmålet ble ikke utredet og knapt diskutert i forbindelse med omfattende politiske endringer etter asylforliket. Denne ... -
Foster parents' experiences of using child mental health and welfare services in Norway: Associations with youth, placement, and service characteristics
(Wiley, 2020-07-06)The measurement of user experience has gained international attention as a tool for improving quality of care. Because foster families have a high need for service support, we examined quality of care from the foster ... -
Alternatives in the academe: Swimming with absurd flippers
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-29)This viewpoint reflects on challenges that emerge when we who did not construct academic practices—and whom academic practices were not constructed for—strap on the absurd flippers and prepare to dive into the deep of the ... -
Juxtacity: an Approach to Urban Difference, Divide, Authority, and Citizenship
(Springer, 2020-07-31)Difference is foundational to urban governance and urban life. This article—and the special issue—focuses analytically on the juxtaposition of multiple urban differences, and what happens especially in relation to urban ... -
‘If I Had My House, I’d Feel Free’: Housing and the (Re)Productions of Citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa
(Springer, 2020-07-29)While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on reproductions and contestations of divides within marginal urban spaces. This paper explores the dynamics of juxtaposed ... -
To Enhance Social Equity Through Urban Planning: The Potential for Innovation
(Springer, 2020-07-11)This chapter explores the innovation potential of one of the most challenging and unruly goals of planning. Namely, how planning can support the development of more socially equal communities, and consider innovation needs ... -
THE LOCAL DIMENSION IN WATER RESOURCES GOVERNANCE: THE EXPERIENCE OF INTER-MUNICIPAL CONSORTIA AND COMMITTEES ON RIVER BASINS
(ABES - Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, 2020-09-08)Integrated water resources management is advancing in Brazil as decentralized and participatory governance gains more prominence. However, local actions need to be better understood since several public ... -
Institutional Convergence and Divergence in Norwegian Cultural Policy. Central Government LAM-organization 1999 – 2019
(De Gruyter, 2020)[T]he advent of electronic sources of information and their ever-increasing volume and variety will require a major redefinition and integration of the role of archives, museums, and research libraries. It is my point of ... -
Selling homes: the polysemy of visual marketing
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-05-19)In this article, we will demonstrate how a social semiotic reading of a housing advertisement campaign differs from the audience reception of it. We have talked to the campaign’s producer – the Norwegian housing developer ... -
The Mystification of Digital Technology in Norwegian Policies on Archives, Libraries and Museums: Digitalization as Policy Imperative
(Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020-05-04)In this article, we investigate how digitalization has attained the role of policy imperative in the culture sector, and how the imperative is influencing contemporary policy discourses on archives, libraries and museums ... -
Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?
(Elsevier, 2019-03-01)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself ... -
Climate change adaptation in Norway: learning–knowledge processes and the demand for transformative adaptation
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-08)During the last decade, it has become evident that planet earth will be warming. Hence, there is an increasing focus on how to adapt to a changing climate. The adaptation literature underlines the importance played by local ... -
Introduction: The Russian welfare state in a time of economic stagnation
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2019-09-27)This Special Issue is devoted to Russia’s welfare state during the years of economic stagnation that began in 2013. Twelve experts assess social conditions and reforms in poverty, labor market, pension, housing and education ... -
ABM-utvikling og avvikling: institusjonell konvergens og divergens i kulturpolitikken
(Universitetsforlaget, 2019)The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling – Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum) existed between 2003 and 2010. This article raises the question of why ABM-utvikling was not continued as ... -
Boforhold og boligtilfredshet blant innvandrere i Distrikts-Norge
(Universitetsforlaget, 2019)Artikkelen diskuterer boforhold og boligtilfredshet blant innvandrere i norske distriktskommuner. Basert på registerdata, en spørreundersøkelse blant ulike kategorier innvandrere og norskfødte, samt feltarbeid i tre ... -
Attitudes towards women’s participation in local politics in South Asia
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Survey data from selected geographical areas in India, Nepal and Bhutan show that attitudes towards women’s participation in local politics are overwhelmingly positive. The findings indicate a shift from the deeply embedded ... -
Attitudes Towards Women’s Participation in Local Politics in South Asia
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-07-15)Survey data from selected geographical areas in India, Nepal and Bhutan show that attitudes towards women’s participation in local politics are overwhelmingly positive. The findings indicate a shift from the deeply embedded ... -
Between Collaboration and Subordination: State and Non-state Actors in Russian Anti-drug Policy
(Springer Verlag, 2019)Due to weak state and administrative capacity, the Russian government has involved resource-rich nonstate actors into policy-making since about 2005 and established numerous institutionalized platforms, networks, and forums. ...
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