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Enhanced local-level willingness and ability to settle refugees: Decentralization and local responses to the refugee crises in Norway
(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 ... -
Planning for Polycentricity. The Development of a Regional Plan for the Oslo Metropolitan Area
(Scandinavian journal of public administration;Vol 22, No 1 (2018), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Polycentricity has become a principle of strategic regional planning in order to concentrate land use and optimise infrastructure. This paper discusses the possibilities and challenges for a polycentric strategy in relation ... -
Brazil - the rise and fall of democratic developmentalism
(The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives;, Chapter; Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-30)The impeachment of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in August 2016 brought to an end a political movement linked to the Workers' Party (Partido dos Traba/hadores, PT) and its leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula, ... -
Health promotion at local level in Norway: The use of public health coordinators and health overviews to promote fair distribution among social groups
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management;7(9), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Abstract Background: Norway is internationally known today for its political and socio-economic prioritization of equity. The 2012 Public Health Act (PHA) aimed to further equity in the domain of health by addressing the ... -
Conditioned receptiveness: Nordic rural elite perceptions of immigrant contributions to local resilience
(0743-0167;Volume 64, November 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-19)Drawing on case studies among rural elites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, this study investigates how rural elites in Nordic rural communities link immigration to rural resilience as expressed in their place narratives. ... -
Rural Municipalities and Change in Local School Structure: Comparing Room of manoeuvre among Rural Municipalities in Latvia and Norway
(Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-12)Rural depopulation, decreasing numbers of children and general centralization combined with high expectations to education, are factors that challenge rural communities and school structures in Latvia and Norway. The ... -
Avtalt selvbosetting blant flyktninger og det norske bosettingsregimet
(Tidsskrift for boligforskning;Årgang 1, nr. 1-2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
Mot økt folkelig innflytelse? Desentralisering og lokaldemokrati i Ukraina
(Nordisk Østforum;Vol 32 (2018), Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-18)The article analyses the results of a nationally representative survey on local democracy conducted in Ukraine in the autumn of 2017, offering insights into attitudes towards local authorities and ongoing decentralization ... -
Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?
(International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose - Two Norwegian municipal networks for climate change adaptation are compared and evaluated, to see how such networks should be initiated and implemented as a means of achieving adaptation measures within ... -
Local leadership in climate change policies
(Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences;Issue No. 53 E/February, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-26)The article studies differences in political leadership in local government in Norway and in Poland and how they might contribute to differences in local climate policy – adaptation as well as mitigation. Based on the ... -
Interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes for environmental management under different socio-natural conditions
(International Journal of Environmental Studies;Volume 75 - Issue 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-08)Interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes as part of environmental management respond to the increasing complexity of socio-natural changes in recent decades. Two similar studies of eutrophication in raw ... -
Ideas and leadership in the crafting of alternative industrial policies: Local content requirements for the Brazilian oil and gas sector
(Comparative politics;April 2019 issue, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Latin America is viewed as a region that has embraced a strategy of “open-economy industrial policy” (OEIP). However, the region’s transition to OEIP has been neither complete nor irreversible. In this article, we argue ... -
Organisere for organiseringens skyld. Kultursamverkansmodellen og organisasjonsreformenes rolle i nordisk kulturpolitikk.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)I denne artikkelen diskuterer vi rollen organisasjonsreformer har i den nordiske kulturpolitikken på bakgrunn av en case studie av Kultursamverkansmodellen, som ble implementert i Sverige i 2011. Gjennom flere tiår har ... -
Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': Bridging socio-spatial divides between the formal and informal city?
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The Role of Information and Knowledge in Achieving Environmentally Sound Farming: A Chinese Case
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The paper analyzes the role of information–knowledge for making farming environmentally friendly, using eutrophication of the main drinking water reservoir of Tianjin, China as a case. The analysis considers information ... -
Planlegging for risikosamfunnet: Hvordan fungerer flomsonekart med klimapåslag som kunnskapsoversettelse?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The article presents a study of how Norwegian mu nicipalities use new flood inundation maps with «climate factor» information in their local plans. Th ese maps show the area with a certain probability of flood ... -
Russian pension reform: Why so little engagement from below?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article analyzes influences on the post-2012 Russian pension reform, focusing on influences “from below.” We identify four main controversial issues related to pension reform: changes in individual accumulative accounts, ... -
Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries
(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 ... -
The Russian pension system under quadruple influence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Russia’s government initiated pension reform in 2013 to resolve a crisis: the prolonged recession had created a huge Pension Fund deficit that required unsustainable subsidies from the state budget. The article analyzes ... -
"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 ...