Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (TN-ISØP) by Title
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Can Community Resettlement be Considered a Resilient Move? Insights from a Slow-Onset Disaster in the Colombian Andes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)The degree to which communities can best withstand various forms of external stress, as well as what constitutes community resilience has been a matter of debate in discussions of development, resilience building, ... -
Can the use of road safety measures on national roads in Norway be interpreted as an informal application of the ALARP principle?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The ALARP principle, stating that risks should be reduced to a level “As Low As Reasonably Practicable”, is widely known and discussed in risk management. The principle is flexible, as the interpretation of the key concepts ... -
Can the use of road safety measures on national roads in Norway be interpreted as an informal application of the ALARP principle?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02)The ALARP principle, stating that risks should be reduced to a level “As Low As Reasonably Practicable”, is widely known and discussed in risk management. The principle is flexible, as the interpretation of the key concepts ... -
Cases of real-life policies related to risk: how can they enhance risk analysis and risk science
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Policies on risk constitute a core topic of risk analysis and risk science, and it is common at risk conferences to present real-life cases of such policies, for example related to the handling of climate change and ... -
The cautionary principle in risk management: Foundation and practical use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The precautionary principle is well known among scientists, politicians and the public in general. However, the closely related and broader cautionary principle is not so often referred to. Whereas the precautionary principle ... -
Challenges and opportunities: impacts of COVID-19 on Norwegian seafood exports
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)A rapidly growing literature shows that COVID-19 and the measures to contain the spread of the virus can have significant market impacts for seafood. These can be interruptions of production, or reductions in demand directly ... -
Challenges Associated with Creeping Disasters in Disaster Risk Science and Practice: Considering Disaster Onset Dynamics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01)In this article, we set out to reconcile a general conceptualization of disaster temporalities by drawing on the epitome example of a creeping disaster, namely famine. Our argument is driven by the recognition that slowly ... -
The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The policy literature has generally conceptualised crises as urgent public threats with clearly demarcated ‘focusing events’. Consequently, most studies have identified the main challenges faced by expert agencies involved ... -
Characterising the robustness of coupled power-law networks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Many networks exhibit a power-law configuration, where the number of connections each node has follows a power-law distribution, including the Internet, terrorist cells, species relationships and infrastructure. Given the ... -
A classification system for characterizing the integrity and quality of evidence in risk studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Risk management requires a balance between knowledge and values. Knowledge consists of justified beliefs and evidence, with evidence including data, assumptions, and models. While quality and integrity of evidence are ... -
Climate change and small pelagic fish price volatility
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Price volatility, an indicative measure of price uncertainty, is an important factor influencing fisheries cost, income, food security, and pressure on fish stocks. An increase in price volatility means that prices are ... -
Cod stories: Trade dynamics and duration for Norwegian cod exports
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12)In recent years, trade dynamics have been receiving increased attention, and the general literature indicates that commodities are different. In this paper, the duration of trade relationships for Norwegian export firms ... -
Combined analysis of unique and repetitive events in quantitative risk assessment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-03)For risk assessment to be a relevant tool in the study of any type of system or activity, it needs to be based on a framework that allows for jointly analyzing both unique and repetitive events. Separately, unique events ... -
Communication-related vulnerability to disasters: A heuristic framework
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its communicative drivers have remained understudied. In this article, we put forward a heuristic framework for explaining how ... -
Community resilience – Systems and approaches in remote settlements
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper explores community resilience to climate-related disasters in the Arctic using the example of a tsunami event in the Uummannaq fjord systems. In 2017 the fjord experienced an avalanche-induced tsunami that ... -
Comparative Analysis of Households and Digital Currencies for the US, China and Russia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In a two-period decision model, a central bank chooses a CBDC (central bank digital currency) interest rate and a representative household allocates resources into production, consumption, CBDC holding, and non-CBDC holding. ... -
Comparing Growth Models with Other Investment Methods
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02)This article introduces five growth models as an investment method. These are conventional logistic growth, Gompertz growth, generalized charged capacitor growth, combined logistic and charged capacitor growth, and combined ... -
Comparing Sustainable Product Hashtags: Insights from a Historical Twitter Dataset
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This data article describes the process of data collection and analysis of Twitter conversations about sustainable products. The dataset contains the IDs of tweets tagged with the hashtags #sustainableproducts, #ecoproducts, ... -
Competence constraints for fire and rescue personnel involved in tunnel fire safety as part of the tunnels risk acceptability
(Chapter, 2020)The Commission Directive 2004/54/EC provides minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the trans-European road network and has been implemented in the Norwegian regulatory framework. The Directive states that the tunnel ... -
Competition Between Variable-Supply and Fixed-Supply Currencies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)For one variable–supply currency in isolation, one player’s Cobb–Douglas utility depends on the current supply divided by the initial supply, multiplied by the inverse of the accumulative inflation/deflation. With equal ...