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Samskapingsparadokset: Mindre byer, klimastyring og bærekraftig byutvikling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-01)Artikkelen analyserer hvordan tre mindre byer i Oslo regionen navigerer som aktører i klima- og bærekraftig byutvikling og hvilken rolle samskaping spiller for styring og strategiske beslutninger. Det pekes på et ... -
Saving Newborn Babies – The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway over More Than 40 Years
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The aim of this study was to examine the effect that the introduction of new medical interventions at birth has had on mortality among newborn babies in Norway during the period 1967–2011. During this period, there has ... -
Self-Reported Social Status among Rural Residents: A Case in the Outskirts of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region
(Social Sciences in China;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)China has in recent decades undergone profound changes and continues to do so – changes that are transforming the social fabric, motivating studies on how self-reported social status is changing in different parts of China. ... -
Selling homes: the polysemy of visual marketing
(Social Semiotics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
Semi-autonomy: Contemporary challenges for indigenous peoples in Brazil.
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Short- and long-term delegation: what are the effects on politicians’ sense of control?
(Public Management Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-06)The ability of elected representatives to ensure that output is in line with political priorities is a core element of representative democracy. The article explores how delegation affects politicians’ sense of control ... -
Should I stay or should I go: The role of Colombian free urban housing projects in IDP return to the countryside
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Over six million people have been displaced in Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict, mainly from rural to urban areas. In 2012, the Colombian government launched a large-scale social housing program to alleviate the housing ... -
Signs of Progress: Local Democracy Developments in Ukrainian Cities
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-29)Decentralisation reforms presuppose the transfer of powers from central to local authorities. From being a highly centralised state, since 2015 Ukraine has taken some important steps towards reforms of local government ... -
The smart city as mobile policy: Insights on contemporary urbanism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)What can the smart city discourse tell us about contemporary urbanism? This discourse is arguably a key exemplar of the increasingly mobile and networked characteristic of urban policy-making, and can reveal important ... -
The Social Sustainable City: How to Involve Children in Designing and Planning for Urban Childhoods?
(Urban Planning;Volume 4, Issue 1 (2019): The Transformative Power of Urban Planning through Social Innovation, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
The State as a Marketizer vs. the Marketization of the State: Two Organizational Models of Public Sector Corporatization
(Public Organization Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Governments engage in corporatization by creating corporate entities or reorganizing existing ones. These corporatization activities refect an interplay between political agency and environmental pressures, including ... -
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Transnational family living refers to the situation of maintaining relationships across national borders. It is dependent on a certain degree of flexibility from the state. As part of the crisis response to the COVID-19 ... -
Strekk i laget for den ‘nordiske modellenʼ? Arbeidsintegrering, universalismeprinsippet og trepartssamarbeid i Danmark og Norge under flyktningkrisen
(Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift;Årgang 37, nr. 3-2021, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-17)‘Den nordiske modellenʼ er unik i internasjonal sammenheng med sin omfattende, institusjonaliserte og universelle velferdspolitikk, men den står overfor utfordringer, særlig i møte med økt innvandring. Møter de nordiske ... -
Ten questions concerning positive energy districts
(Building and Environment;Volume 216, 15 May 2022, 109017, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04-01)Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) constitute an emerging energy transition paradigm, with an ambitious timeline for rapid upscaling to match the urgency of climate mitigation and adaptation. Increasingly networked and ... -
To Enhance Social Equity Through Urban Planning: The Potential for Innovation
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
Tourism development and border asymmetries: An exploratory analysis of market-driven cross-border shopping tourism
(Tourism Planning & Development;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-06)This paper explores whether shopping tourism in the context of cross-border regions may trigger more viable, and long-term, tourism despite persistent border asymmetries (e.g., price and tax differences) which are typically ... -
Trans-disciplinarily required in understanding, predicting and dealing with water eutrophication
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Eutrophication remains a challenge for water quality, and leaching of phosphorus (P) from agriculture remains usually the determining factor as point source emissions of sewage are mainly under control. The Morsa watershed, ... -
The understanding and role of uncertainty and risk in climate change adaptation: local and central authorities in Norway
(International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology;25(7), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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, ... -
Ungdom og straff på 2000-tallet - nye praksiser, kjente dilemmaer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Spørsmålet om hvordan vi skal møte ungdom som begår kriminalitet, har blitt diskutert gjennom historien. Siden tusenårsskiftet har myndighetene igjen rettet spesiell oppmerksomhet mot barn og straff. Det er innført nye ... -
"Until People Start Dying in Droves, No Actions Will Be Taken": Perception and Experience of HIV-Preventive Measures among People Who Inject Drugs in North-Western Russia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background The HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Russia continues to spread. This exploratory study examines how HIV-prevention measures are perceived and experienced by PWID in the northwestern region ...