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The calm before the storm? The making of a lithium frontier in transitioning Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A nation undergoing accelerating energy transitions with ambitious climate targets discovers lithium. In recent years, Portugal has made headlines inter alia for running on renewable electricity for over a month, setting ... -
Can Automated Smart-Homes increase Energy Efficiency and Grid Flexibility? - A Case Study of Stavanger, Norway investigating barriers and justice implications -
(Master thesis, 2021)Artificial intelligence (AI) advocates deem it essential for the energy transition. Such a complex and penetrative set of technologies that impact everyday lives must be implemented cautiously. This thesis examines barriers ... -
Can large-scale cultural events lead to cultural scepticism? Tracing unintended consequences of Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Large scale cultural events often have idealistic aims of affecting participants and spectators in a positive manner, by widening public’s cultural understandings and horizons. The ‘Open Port’ motto chosen for the ... -
Can we expect corporations to care about climate change?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12)Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and in the recent decade, the attention of this issue has grown exponentially. The focus has to a large degree shifted from debating if human behaviour ... -
Capturing Rationalization Bias and Differential Item Functioning: A Unified Bayesian Scaling Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Information about the ideological positions of different political actors is crucial in answering questions regarding political representation, polarization, and voting behavior. One way to obtain such information is to ... -
Carbon Capture and Storage: the solution to climate change or to the fossil fuels’ survival? Critically framing EU ́s discourses around CCS.
(Master thesis, 2023)In response to global demands for the phase-out of fossil fuels to address the climate crisis, the fossil fuel industry and the apparatus constructed around it have endorsed various strategies. From outright denial, these ... -
Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically invisible) – refleksjoner i lys av Stanley Cavells filmfilosofi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12)Denne artikkelen diskuterer Alejandro González Iñárritus installasjon Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically invisible) fra 2017 i lys av Stanley Cavells ontologiske undersøkelser av filmmediet. Installasjonens ... -
Case-studie om gruppelederens mulighet til å øke motivasjonen hos de ansatte.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-15)I vår masteroppgave har vi valgt å ta for oss Veronika sin arbeidsplass som er Jula Stavanger, men også med innspill fra Jula Sandnes. Med denne problemstillingen “Hvordan fylle gruppeleder rollen på en god og optimal måte ... -
Casestudie om alder og arbeid: hvordan implementere seniorpolitikk og seniortiltak i Sjøfartsdirektoratet?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2009, Master thesis, 2009)Den demografiske endringen i hele den vestlige verden medfører at andelen eldre øker (40-50 år), mens andelen yngre avtar. Denne endringsprosessen får uvegerlige konsekvenser for arbeidslivet, blant annet ved at det er ... -
CBRN beredskap i helseforetakene, nåtid og framtid
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)Oppgavens arbeidshypotese er ” Helsemessig CBRN beredskap er ikke tilstrekkelig ivaretatt, og vil kollapse i en reell hendelse.” Analysene i denne oppgaven har vist at det er en stor risiko for at arbeidet på et forurenset ... -
"The Celts Are Here!": To What Extent Does Celtic Supporter Activism Constitute a New Social Movement?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2021;, Master thesis, 2021-01)There is a dynamic and interesting intersection between football and activism. As the world's most popular sport, football can be a formidable platform for activism. In this master thesis I will explore activism conducted ... -
A Chain of Metrics to Evaluate Material Performances in Circular Economy – Materoaø circularity, Longevity, Retained Emission, Energy, and Child Labour
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-28)Although growth is seen as the main purpose of every economy, its consequences are vast and painful to the deterioration of environment. Circular economy has risen as a green transition of the international economy with ... -
Challenges for safety and security management of network companies due to increased use of ICT in the electric power supply sector
(PhD thesis UiS;264, Doctoral thesis, 2015-10-02)The generation, transmission, and distribution of energy are among the most vital prerequisites for the functioning of modern societies (Antonsen et al., 2010). Today, information and communication technology (ICT) is used ... -
Challenges of Aviation Security regulation in Norway post 9/11
(PhD thesis UiS;270, Doctoral thesis, 2015-11-05)The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA had wide-ranging consequences for security issues in Western societies. Within civil aviation, the attacks became grim evidence that the security system constructed to prevent intentional ... -
Choosing what to protect when attacker resources and asset valuations are uncertain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)The situation has been modelled where the attacker’s resources are unknown to the defender. Protecting assets presupposes that the defender has some information on the attacker’s resource capabilities. An attacker targets ... -
Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this article, we consider how contemporary media use is structured by social class, fol-lowing the theoretical and methodical framework derived from Bourdieu’s book Distinc-tion, published in 1984, with a detailed study ... -
Clean, green and the unseen: The CompeSA framework | Assessing Competing Sustainability Agendas in Carbon Neutrality Policy Pathways
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We base the development and application of the framework in Portugal, a test case strongly engaged with the carbon neutrality agenda, to illustrate important dilemmas over policy mixes and unpack emerging synergies and ... -
Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway's Zero Growth Objective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ... -
Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway’s Zero Growth Objective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ... -
Communicating Climate Change: The Power of Storytelling on Public Engagement A quantitative study on the impact of climate change storytelling on emotional response and support of mitigation policies and the mediating role of narrative transportation
(Master thesis, 2023)There is an existing gap between scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change and public engagement. This climate paradox presents significant obstacles to effective climate change action and public support for ...