Browsing PhD theses (TN-ISØP) by Title
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Learning within the fire and rescue services – addressing fire and rescue personnel’s competence in tunnel fire safety
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Tunnels are a key element of the Norwegian road transport infrastructure. The road tunnel system consists of more than 1200 tunnels with a large variety of safety designs and standards. While many of the Norwegian tunnels ... -
Market organization in natural resource industries: Empirical analysis of salmon aquaculture
(PhD thesis UiS;514, Doctoral thesis, 2020-05)This thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of the intricacies of market organization in a renewable natural resource industry: The Norwegian salmon industry. Natural resource industries are of special interest ... -
Pedestrian Access to Public Transport
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Procured reliability? Effects of competitive tendering processes on critical service reliability.
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This PhD thesis focuses on how the competitive tendering of publicly procured critical services affects the reliability of these services. Maintaining the supply of critical services, i.e., services that are essential for ... -
Rational beliefs - inconsistent practices : Civil Military Coordination in North-Afghanistan
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2014)What was the idea? Coordination is a vital element of crisis management (Turner, 1978; Minear et al., 1992; Schneider, 1995; Rasmussen, 1997; Strand, 2003; Boin et al., 2005; Kruke and Olsen, 2005; Keen, 2008). The ... -
Residential conditions and Quality of Life among locals and immigrants in two Norwegian neighbourhoods
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-11)The housing circumstances and neighbourhood aspects (residential conditions) under which an individual lives can influence his/her Quality of Life. Residential conditions are considered a significant indicator of Quality ... -
Risk management in Norwegian avalanche rescue operations. Managing uncertainty, complexity, overcommitment and the long-term monitoring of accident risk
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2019-12)Introduction: Avalanche incidents commonly take place in adverse environmental conditions, and the expected survival time of avalanche victims is short. These situations require an immediate rescue response, which may pose ... -
Risk management in the oil and gas industry : integration of human, organisational and technical factors
(PhD thesis UiS;142, Doctoral thesis, 2011-11)The overall objective of this thesis is to provide knowledge and tools for the major hazard risk assessment for offshore installations (and onshore plants) based on an improved understanding of the influence of organisational, ... -
Safety climate and safety culture in health care and the petroleum industry : psychometric quality, longitudinal change, and structural models
(PhD thesis UiS, Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-28)This thesis presents four empirical studies of safety climate and one study of a safety culture programme. Four aims were defined to guide the conducted work: 1) assess safety climate in health care and petroleum and ... -
Structuring neighborhood space : An investigation into the production of neighborhood space as planned, practiced and lived in post-industrial Norway
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2013-06-19)Daily life has subsumed a multiplicity of city environs and appropriated urban space as the stage for everyday life while global forces have reciprocally subsumed the city as an economic space for the investment of ... -
When counterterrorism enters the curriculum: Exploring risks and practices of the securitisation of education
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-05)It is commonly assumed that the civic and moral virtues of democratic education can be a powerful and effective antidote to extremism and terrorism. The assumption here is that education can help young lives in the development ...