SVA - Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR): Recent submissions
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Eutropia: Integrated Valuation of Lake Eutrophication Abatement Decisions Using a Bayesian Belief Network
(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 ... -
EE Settlement final report 2017–2021
(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 ... -
Who is a refugee? Uncertainty and discretion in asylum decisions.
(International Journal of Refugee Law;Volume 32, Issue 4, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-29)Assessing claims for refugee status is a task often riddled with uncertainties, not least because of the challenge of establishing the credibility of the claims. The uncertainties enable divergent interpretations of both ... -
Bundet energi og klimagassutslipp i nye boligprosjekter. En veileder til beregningsverktøyet EE Settlement
(SINTEF Fag;, Research report, 2021)Denne rapporten er en av hovedleveransene i prosjektet EE Settlement – Embodied Energy, Costs and Traffic in Different Settlement Patterns. Formålet med rapporten er å gi veiledning og anbefalinger som skal hjelpe myndigheter ... -
Bolsonaro og hans evangelikale støttespillere i Brasil. Sekularisme under nytt press?
(Kirke og kultur;01 / 2021 (Volum 126), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-06)Med valget av Jair Messias Bolsonaro som Brasils president i 2018 ble de evangelikale kristne sin politiske makt i landet mer tydelig enn noen gang. For første gang hadde de mest profilerte protestantiske lederne omfavnet ... -
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 ... -
Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge
(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 ... -
The role of goal-setting in urban climate governance
(Earth System Governance;volume 7, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-11)This article argues that goal-setting is an important, albeit understudied, part of urban climate governance scholarship. By using goal-setting theory, the article introduces concepts and perspectives capable of shedding ... -
Does Participatory Planning Promise Too Much? Global Discourses and the Glass Ceiling of Participation in Urban Malawi
(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 ... -
Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo
(Environmental Policy and Governance;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-08)Abstract Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, ... -
Reinventing Homelessness through Enumeration in Norwegian Housing Policies: A Case Study of Governmentality
(Housing, Theory and Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-30)In the course of two decades, “homelessness” was re-defined/re-invented in Norway. Homelessness” had long been seen as a social problem and a moral issue. Then, in 1996, a survey conceptualized it as a housing issue. A ... -
Flere eldre innvandrere i framtidens arbeidsstyrke
(Søkelys på arbeidslivet; Årgang 38, nr. 1-2021, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-04)Antall innvandrere i Norge vil øke framover, men utelukkende i de eldre aldersgruppene. I aldersgruppen 55-66 år vil det bli nesten tre ganger så mange innvandrere de neste 20 årene. Hva vil dette bety for norsk arbeids- ... -
Using future age profiles to improve immigration projections
(Population Studies;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-19)Young adults migrate more than older people. As populations in many countries get older, this may affect out-migration—and thus immigration to other countries. This is not usually accounted for in projections of future ... -
Vold i nære relasjoner som tema i russisk og polsk politikk: De nasjonalkonservative utfordres i kjernesak
(Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning;(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen undersøker striden rundt vold i nære relasjoner i Russland og Polen, to europeiske land som har tatt en markant nasjonalkonservativ vending de siste årene. Artikkelen viser hvordan temaet utgjør ett av ... -
Fertility patterns of migrants from low-fertility countries in Norway
(Demographic Research;Volume 42, article 31, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-13)Background: Most research on migrant fertility focuses on immigrants from high-fertility countries who have moved to countries with lower fertility. Little is known about the fertility of immigrant women from countries ... -
Visualising immigrant fertility profiles of childbearing and their implications for migration research
(Journal of International Migration and Integration;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-14)Different measures of fertility have strengths and limitations when used to describe the fertility of immigrants, and no single measure captures every aspect of this complex phenomenon. This paper introduces a novel visual ... -
Demographic Profile of Syrians in Norway
(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 ... -
Delt lederskap i Oslo kommune
(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 ... -
How Assad changed population growth in Sweden and Norway: Syrian refugees’ impact on Nordic national and municipal demography
(Plos One;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-20)In an increasingly interconnected world, the demographic effects of wars are not confined only to war zones and neighbouring areas; wars and conflicts may also change populations far away. Without the war in Syria under ... -
’Venstrepopulisme’ i Sør-Europa etter finanskrisen
(Vardøger;årgang 38, nr. 20, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)I motsetning til hva mange observatører på venstresiden trodde etter finanskrisen i 2007-08, har det ikke vært noe generelt oppsving for venstresiden. Tvert imot, som flere av artiklene i dette nummeret av Vardøger utdyper, ...