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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 ... -
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. ... -
Evaluering av Kompetanseløft 2020 Delrapport I, del II
(SINTEF, 2019)Rapporten er del li av første del av følgeevalueringen av regjeringens satsing Kompetanseløft 2020 (K2020}. Forskningsinstituttene SINTEF AS, NIBR og NIFU samarbeider om evalueringen. Rapporten presenterer funn fra ... -
The understanding and role of uncertainty and risk in climate change adaptation: local and central authorities in Norway
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)A common claim is that emerging and future climate change is rendering traditional conceptions of uncertainty and risk obsolete. This is because a changing climate makes it quite a challenge to calculate uncertainties, ... -
Avtalt selvbosetting blant flyktninger og det norske bosettingsregimet
(Universitetsforlaget, 2018-11-28)I de senere årene har norske statlige myndigheter oppfordret kommunene til å ta i bruk «avtalt selvbosetting», en ordning som innebærer at flyktninger finner bolig på egen hånd i det private leiemarkedet i overenstemmelse ... -
Presidencialismo em crise ou parlamentarismo por outros meios? Impeachments presidenciais no Brasil e na América Latina
(Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2018)O objetivo desse artigo é contextualizar o impeachment da presidente brasileira Dilma Rousseff na literatura mais ampla sobre interrupções de mandatos presidenciais na América Latina. Contrariando a tese linziana de ... -
Ideals and realities of restitution: The Colombian land restitution programme
(Oxford University Press, 2018-04-04)Colombian Law 1448 of 2011, known as the Victims’ Law, addresses the issue of internal displacement and land dispossession caused by the armed conflict. The law aims to help internally displaced people (IDPs) to a better ... -
Place Identity with a Historic Landscape – An Interview-Based Case Study of Local Residents’ Relationship with the Austrått Landscape in Norway
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-12-10)This article examines local residents’ identity with historic landscapes through the case study of the Austrått landscape in Norway, where cultural and natural heritage are under pressure from increasing local development. ... -
Participation according to the law? The research-based knowledge on citizen participation in Norwegian municipal planning
(Nordregio, 2018-08-15)Citizen participation is enshrined in the Norwegian Planning and Building Act (PBA) 1985 and accentuated by the 2008 revision of the PBA. In this article, we ask if the research on participation in municipal planning is ... -
Maternal concentrations of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and risk for cerebral palsy (CP) in the child. A case control study
(Elsevier, 2018-07-04)Background Intrauterine conditions may be important in the development of cerebral palsy in the child. The hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), is synthesized in the placenta, and hCG plays an important role in ... -
Developers' price setting behaviour in urban residential redevelopment projects
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether developers’ ask lower prices on homes in redevelopment sites than they do on similar units in smaller developments completed over a shorter time span. It also investigates ...
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