A-15/23 Landscape Democracy and the Implementation of Renewable Energy Facilities
Writers: Finn Arler, Karl Sperling & Kristian Borch The internationally accepted goal of eliminating climate gas emissions implies substantial investments in renewable energy (RE) facilities. This will inevitably lead to major impacts on landscapes. Landscape concerns linked to RE facilities are already leading to controversies in many local communities. In this article, we focus on…
Read MoreA-14/23 Three Wind Farm Developments, Three Different Planning Difficulties: Cases from Denmark
Forfattere: Kristian Borch, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard & Sophie Nyborg The aim of this paper is to provide a new perspective on the conditions for the multiple dimensions of concerns and to understand why some wind power projects run smoothly, while others lead to unexpected outcomes due to local resistance. The paper considers three Danish wind…
Read MoreA-13/23 Socio-cultural conditions for social acceptance of bioeconomy transitions: the case of Norway
Writers: Maja Farstad, Pia P. Otte & Erika Palmer Under the umbrella of sustainable development, the bioeconomy presents one vision for overcoming complex sustainability challenges, such as climate change, by replacing non-renewable resources with renewable biological resources. But how will the efforts to implement this transition be received by the general public? Among Norwegians, the…
Read MoreA-12/23 Mjølketank med klimastempel – jordbruk, økologisk modernisering og «motvekst»
Writer: Eirik Magnus Fuglestad GHG mitigation policies for Norwegian agriculture are often about what farmers can do on their farms, and stand in the tradition of ecological modernization in which technological innovations play a key role. The current system of production is not challenged. Based on my experience as a farmer, I argue that a…
Read MoreA-25/23 Mjølketank med klimastempel – jordbruk, økologisk modernisering og «motvekst»
Forfatter: Eirik Magnus Fuglestad Klimapolitikken i norsk jordbruk handlar ofte om kva bonden kan gjera på garden sin for å redusera utslepp, og tiltaka som er føreslått, står i ein økologisk moderniseringstradisjon der teknologiar og innovative løysingar innanfor rammene av den eksisterande produksjonen er det som gjeld. Ut ifrå eigne erfaringar som odelsson argumenterer eg for…
Read MoreA-12/23 Effects for global agriculture of country-specific climate policy regimes with a focus on methane
Writers: Klaus Mittenzwei, Jordan Hristov, Ignacio Perez-Dominguez og Peter Witzke While countries have agreed in the Paris-agreement on common rules to report GHG emissions, the design of domestic climate policy regimes remains in the national domain. This may cause different carbon prices for climate gasses across countries, between a country’s emission sectors, and within the…
Read MoreA-11/23 Interrelationships between cows, calves, and humans in cow-calf contact systems—An interview study among Norwegian dairy farmers
Writers: Juni Rosann E. Johanssen, Gunn-Turid Kvam, Brit Logstein and Mette Vaarst In recent years, the common dairy farming practice of early separation of dam and calf has received increased attention. Our aim was to explore how Norwegian dairy farmers with cow-calf contact (CCC) systems apply these systems in practice, and how they experience and…
Read MoreA-10/23 Perceived effects of climate policy on rural areas and agriculture: A rural-urban divide
Writers: Klaus Mittenzwei, Geir Wæhler Gustavsen, Kristine Grimsrud, Henrik Lindhjem og Hilde Bjørkhaug Climate policies may have adverse geographically unequal socio-economic impacts that, if left unaddressed, may hamper their implementation. This paper examines factors explaining rural-urban perceptions of the effects of climate policy on agriculture and rural areas. The paper adds to current knowledge by jointly analysing…
Read MoreA-9/23 The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance
Writer: Renate Marie Butli Hårstad The lack of research in farm animal welfare governance is noticeable given how political science traditionally describes the agricultural field as politicized, i.e., subject to private and public regulations and governance. This paper shows how this issue is making its way into social and political science by using a scoping…
Read MoreA-8/23 Good Animal Welfare in Norwegian Farmers’ context. Can both industrial and natural conventions be achieved in the social license to farm?
Writers: Brit Logstein and Hilde Bjørkhaug This article presents research carried out in Norway, among the population of livestock farmers. It analyses farmers’ understanding of animal welfare, and how their different concerns about animal welfare varies across farmers’ considerations about the role of the agricultural sector in Norwegian society and animal welfare regulations, material conditions at the farm level, farmers’…
Read MoreA-7/23 Ulikhet i høyere utdanning: Betydningen av klassebakgrunn, kjønn og bosted
Writer: Alexander Zahl-Thanem The link between class origin and educational attainment have been extensively studied in numerous countries. Additionally, a growing body of research shows that place is essential for understanding educational inequalities. Rural youth have been identified as a group commonly underrepresented in higher education in several countries. However, evidence on how class origin…
Read MoreA-6/23 Towards gender inclusivity and equality in small-scale fisheries
Writers: Sarah Harper (University of Victoria and Wildlife Conservation Society) and Danika Kleiber (WorldFish and James Cook University) with contributions from Afrina Choudhury (WorldFish and Wageningen University), Alice Joan Ferrer (University of the Philippines Visayas), Amelia Duffy-Tumasz (Temple University), Ashley Fent (Vassar College), Ayodele Oloko (University of Bremen), Carmen Pedroza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México),…
Read MoreA-5/23 Kvifor er det ikkje grunnrente i norsk jordbruk? om korleis verdiane frå jorda forsvann til kapitalen.
Forfatter: Eirik M. Fuglestad Denne artikkelen er ein refleksjon over den økonomiske situasjonen i norsk jordbruk slik den har utvikla seg sidan 1970-talet. Med dei klassiske teoriane om grunnrente som analytisk utgangspunkt går artikkelen gjennom den strukturelle utviklinga av jordbruket i denne perioden. Det peikast på to viktige utviklingstrekk som kan ha medverka til…
Read MoreA-4/23 Overweight children in rural Norway – public health nurses’ possibilities and limitations within national guidelines
Forfattere: Reidun Heggem, Gudveig Gjøsund, Alexander Zahl-Thanem og Anne Margrethe Brigham
Read MoreA-3/23 Ground rent from the Norwegian outfields and social sustainability in centre-periphery relations
Writer: Eirik M. Fuglestad Den norske utmarkshistoria har døme på korleis grunnrente har vore fordelte både som rettar til bruk, og som pengeverdiar. Det mest kjende døme er forvaltninga av fossekrafta slik den kom i stand fram mot 1917. Men også bureisinga som toppa seg på 1930-talet, Fjellova av 1920 og Jordlova av 1928 kan…
Read MoreA-2/23 Rural youth: Quality of life, civil participation, and outlooks for a rural future
I Johansen Pia Heike, Anne Tietjen, Evald Bundgård Iversen, Henrik Lauridsen Lolle and Jens Kaae Fisker (red.): Rural quality of life
Read MoreA-1/23 Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking
Forfattere: Lee-Ann Sutherland, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Boelie Elzen, Alexandros Koutsouris, Catherine Laurent, Egil Petter Stræte og Pierre Labarthe The establishment of effective national agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) became a European policy imperative in the 2010s, lodged in a political ideology which emphasised the importance of innovation to economic growth. We argue that the recent deployment…
Read MoreA-20/22 Crowdfunding of GHG mitigation measures in agriculture: A feasible contribution to the climate challenges? Sociocultural constraints and enablers in Norway
Writers: Maja Farstad og Renate Marie Butli Hårstad Agriculture is one sector under pressure when it comes to mitigation of climate change. To overcome the economic barriers preventing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures from being implemented, this paper explores whether crowdfunding could be a feasible solution to this problem. The paper theoretically and empirically explores…
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