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    • Delt lederskap i Oslo kommune 

      Klausen, Jan Erling; Myrvold, Trine; Stokstad, Sigrid (Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift;Årgang 36, nr. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-27)
      Med innføringen av parlamentarisk styreform i 1986, fikk Oslo kommune delt politisk topplederskap. Det tradisjonsrike ordførervervet ble beholdt, samtidig som byrådslederen inntok en viktig rolle som operativ politisk ...

    • Demographic Profile of Syrians in Norway 

      Tønnessen, Marianne; Dzamarija, Minja Tea; Drahus, Kristin M. (European Studies of Population; Volume 20, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-15)
      The number and composition of Syrians in Norway changed dramatically from 2011 to 2018. Most notably, the size of the Syrian immigrant population increased from less than 1500 to 27,400 – more than an 18-fold growth. The ...

    • Den sprikende kraften i "det grønne skiftet". 

      Ytterstad, Andreas; Veimo, Marte (Mediehistorisk tidsskrift;Nr. 34, 2020, Årgang 17, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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, ...

    • Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co-creation from Copenhagen and Oslo 

      Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-28)
      This article has a twofold aim. First, inspired by collaborative governance theory, the article develops an analytical framework built around three ideal co-creation strategies utilized by city governments for building ...

    • Developers' price setting behaviour in urban residential redevelopment projects 

      Barlindhaug, Rolf; Nordahl, Berit Irene (Journal of European Real Estate Research;Volume 11, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ...

    • Do Immigrants’ Preferences for Neighbourhood Qualities Contribute to Segregation? The Case of Oslo 

      Søholt, Susanne; Lynnebakke, Brit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Ethnic residential segregation is often explained with the claim that ‘immigrants don’t want to integrate—they prefer to stick together with co-ethnics’. By contrast, mixed neighbourhoods are seen as crucial for achieving ...

    • Do integration requirements undermine egalitarianism? 

      Eggebø, Helga; Hernes, Vilde; Staver, Anne Balke (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      For decades, policy makers have expressed concerns about immigration potentially undermining the welfare state. In this chapter, we examine a new income requirement for obtaining permanent residence. We argue that this ...

    • Does Participatory Planning Promise Too Much? Global Discourses and the Glass Ceiling of Participation in Urban Malawi 

      Refstie, Hilde; Millstein, Marianne (Planning Theory & Practice;Volume 20, 2019 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-29)
      This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from below are translated into community mobilization and participatory planning practices in urban Malawi. It shows how limited national and ...

    • EE Settlement final report 2017–2021 

      Fufa, Selamawit Mamo; Kallaos, James; Engebretsen, Øystein; Landa-Mata, Iratxe; Busswald, Petra; Fjellheim, Kristin; Neugebauer, Georg; Lichtenwöhrer, Peter; Barlindhaug, Rolf; Felberg, Knut (SINTEF Fag;77, Research report, 2021)
      The main objective of EE Settlement project is to provide a tool and guidelines for municipalities, regional and central authorities, as well as for professionals and other actors, for assessing the consequences and impacts ...

    • Encouraged but controlled: governance networks in Russian regions 

      Aasland, Aadne; Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel; Bogdanova, Elena (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-10)
      The article examines the role of civil society in Russian governance networks, focusing on power relations between state and non-state actors. The analysis is based on empirical evidence from concrete governance networks ...

    • Enhanced local-level willingness and ability to settle refugees: Decentralization and local responses to the refugee crises in Norway 

      Søholt, Susanne; Aasland, Aadne (Journal of Urban Affairs;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-11)
      The sudden mass influx of asylum-seekers in Europe in 2015, emplaced major stresses on refugee reception systems and challenged central – local migration policymaking. This article explores how this crisis affected ...

    • Environmental values and attitudes among farmers in China – a case study in the watershed of Yuqiao reservoir of Tianjin Municipality, China 

      Orderud, Geir; Vogt, Rolf David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Failure to curb water pollution in China brings to the fore the issue of environmental values and attitudes among Chinese farmers. Applying the New Ecological Paradigm Scale this study finds that the pro-environmental value ...

    • "Eurasianisme som legitimering av en russisk innflytelsessfære" 

      Holm-Hansen, Jørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      I offisiell russisk tankegang er «det nære utland» ikke noen gråsone, men bør tvert om være tett sammenvevd med Russland. Vladimir Putin blir hyppig sitert på at oppløsningen av Sovjetunionen er vår tids største geopolitiske ...

    • Eutropia: Integrated Valuation of Lake Eutrophication Abatement Decisions Using a Bayesian Belief Network 

      Barton, David N; Andersen, Tom; Bergland, Olvar; Engebretsen, Alexander; Moe, S. Jannicke; Orderud, Geir I; Tominaga, Koji; Romstad, Eirik; Vogt, Rolf D (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-10)
      The term “integrated valuation” is defined and its relevance is discussed in terms of bridging the gap between cost-effectiveness analysis and economic valuation in the implementation of the European Union Water Framework ...

    • Evaluering av Kompetanseløft 2020 Delrapport I, del II 

      Grut, Lisbet; Lippestad, Jan Wilhelm; Nesje, Kjersti; Aamodt, Per O; Olsen, Dorothy Sutherland; Monkerud, Lars Chr.; Zeiner, Hilde Hatleskog (SINTEF Rapport;2019:00317, Research report, 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 ...

    • Everything but the Marriage Certificate: Unmarried Partners in Norwegian Immigration Regulation 

      Staver, Anne Balke; Eggebø, Helga (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Pandemic border closures separated previously transnational couples, including unmarried partners, revealing under-researched forms of transnational family life. From this point of departure, we reexamine Norwegian family ...

    • Explaining and understanding environmental actions in Chinese agriculture: the case of Yuqiao watershed of Tianjin municipality 

      Orderud, Geir; Vogt, Rolf David; Andersen, Tom; Luo, Jing (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Most of China’s surface waters are undergoing anthropogenic eutrophication, mainly due to leaching of phosphorus (P) from both sewage and agriculture. This is causing quality deterioration in their scarce water resources. ...

    • Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge 

      Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond (Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-05)
      This article has a twofold aim inspired by observed gaps in urban climate governance theory and practice. First, it explores city leadership strategies of securing a closer correspondence between climate policy goals and ...

    • Exploring Dimensions of Women's Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Nepal 

      Haug, Marit; Aasland, Aadne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-15)
      The article examines a variety of social exclusion and inclusion indicators grouped by domains that are commonly referred to in the social exclusion literature: economic, social, political and intra-household. Levels of ...

    • Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries 

      Zabko, Oksana; Aasland, Aadne; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Within the broad category of migration industries, we focus on intermediaries between employers in Norway requiring migrant labour, and suppliers of Latvian workers willing to migrate. Mediation of labour power is a regulated ...