Browsing PhD theses (TN-IØRP) by Title
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An analysis of commodity price dynamics with focus on the price of salmon
(PhD thesis UiS; 99, Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-04)This thesis is concerned with studying the short run dynamics of commodity prices. The industry of interest and primary study is Norwegian Aquaculture, with the price of farmed salmon as the main data-set. Even though ... -
An Analysis of Temporal and Spectral Connectedness and Spillover in Commodity Markets
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-05)This thesis is concerned with evaluating the temporal and spectral connectedness and spillover dynamics of commodity prices. The industries of interest are crude oil, agricultural commodities, aquaculture, and Norwegian ... -
Contributions to effective risk management : On the use of safety principles, economic tools and safety climate instruments
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2018-11)For an organization, effective risk management involves supporting informed decision-making for improved allocation of resources, as well as playing an active part in how the organization is governed and, ultimately, ... -
Counterterrorism as Risk Management Strategies
(PhD thesis UiS;178, Doctoral thesis, 2012-11-26)After the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001 (9/11), most Western countries, including Norway, implemented a multiplicity of counterterrorism measures. 9/11 seems to have lowered Western governments' ... -
Dimensioning of Product Support : Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2003-03)The research study examines issues related to dimensioning of product support strategies for advanced industrial products on the basis of a case study conducted in a manufacturing company that produces automated ... -
Econometric Analysis of Innovation, Productivity, Growth and Efficiency: Applications for the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry
(PhD thesis UiS;284, Doctoral thesis, 2016-02-12)Although salmon farming in Norway has a relatively short history, it has developed into an important export industry for the national economy. The industry has experienced large growth in production volume; production ... -
Engineering Safety : With applications to fire safety design of buildings and road tunnels
(PhD thesis UiS;207, Doctoral thesis, 2013-11-26)A continuously changing and increasingly complex society leads to new challenges in safety design. Modern buildings and road tunnels are being packed with new technology that creates new failure modes, multiple ... -
Essays in Aquaculture: Economics and Marketing
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2015-12)The global aquaculture sector is currently experiencing a market revolution. In 2003, the Economist described the evolution of aquaculture during the 1960 and -70ies as a Blue Revolution. Many key scientific breakthroughs ... -
Essays on International Trade of Salmon and Wine
(PhD thesis UiS; 526, Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)This thesis deals with the trade of two products, salmon and wine, exported from and to Norway. The World has benefitted from innovations and productivity growth in the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry, increasing the ... -
Market organization in natural resource industries: Empirical analysis of salmon aquaculture
(PhD thesis UiS;, 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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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 ... -
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 ...