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    Culturally sensitive boundary work: A framework for linking knowledge to climate action

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    Although it is increasingly recognized that scientific knowledge about climate change needs to be framed and conveyed in ways that resonate with people’s livelihoods to motivate societal change, these insights are often neglected in discussions about science-policy interactions. Drawing on empirical studies from Norwegian renewable primary industries, this paper presents a novel conceptual framework for culturally sensitive boundary work for climate change transformation. Our framework combines boundary work theory with cultural theory and examine the production of and engagement with knowledge in innovation and development processes in agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries from three case studies in Norway. The innovation processes are analyzed across four dimensions: degrees of knowledge integration, degrees of participation, learning and negotiation over boundaries. By combining this with an analysis of the actors’ way of life according to cultural theory, we are able to compare different configurations of boundary work with ways of life. We find that in innovation processes with egalitarian users there is a high level of knowledge integration, learning and participation, while there is a greater need for dedicated boundary workers in processes with individualist users. We argue that the framework can inform the design and implementation of deliberate coproduction of knowledge for transformation among actors that adheres to different ways of life.publishedVersio

    Knowledge Claims and Struggles in Decentralized Large Carnivore Governance: Insights From Norway and Sweden

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    Ensuring sustainable carnivore populations while simultaneously sustaining active and viable pastoral communities often creates conflicts that are difficult to resolve. This article examines how different knowledge systems meet and interact in large carnivore governance in Norway and Sweden. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including observations in meetings, public documents, reports and interviews, in addition to local and national newspaper clippings and internet sites, we study two processes of regional carnivore management (Nordland, Norway and Jämtland, Sweden). We explore how different forms of knowledge have been mobilized, reproduced, transferred and legitimized in policies and regulations in these two processes. Furthermore, we examine the interplay between scientific and experience-based knowledge at different levels and scales in both countries. In Norway, “clear zoning” has been established as a basic management instrument to achieve national “population goals” for carnivores. We show how the locally situated knowledge – in our account represented through the Regional Large Carnivore Committee (RLCC), which includes political parties’ and Sami Parliament representatives – experiences real barriers by being overruled by the national Ministry of Climate and Environment, 2016 in their process of revising the carnivore management plan (CMP). In Sweden where the management of large carnivores is devolved to regional authorities and stakeholder-based Wildlife Management Delegations (WMDs), attempts to regionally solve conflicts are often overthrown by the national environmental protection agency or through court cases initiated by the environmental movement. Hence, compromises that potentially could solve conflicts are undermined. The analysis shows that while carnivore governance in both countries are founded on decentralized management authority at the regional level, local actors struggle for their views, experiences and knowledge to be acknowledged and counted as valid in the management process. While the decentralized management model opens for inclusion of different knowledge systems, this system has yet to acknowledge the challenges of knowledge being dismissed or marginalized across governance levels and scales.publishedVersio

    Utprøving av reinvarslingssystem på E6 over Saltfjellet. Vinteren 2019/2020.

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    oai:nforsk.brage.unit.no:11250/2721442Påkjørsel av tamrein og andre beitedyr er et stadig økende problem på vei og bane i Norden og Europa før øvrig grunnet økende trafikk og større hastighet. I Norge har mer enn 3000 tamrein blitt påkjørt av tog de siste 10 år og dette medfører store dyrelidelser og samfunnsøkonomiske kostnader. Tilsvarende statistikk finnes ikke for påkjørsler på vei, men problematikken er den samme. Formålet med vårt prosjekt var å teste tapsforebyggende effekt og driftssikkerhet av et nytt elektronisk reinvarslingssystem langs vei vinterstid. Varslingssystemet er basert på radiobølgeteknologi (805.15.4 866 MHz). Reinsenderen er på størrelse med en tjuekroning og har en estimert batterikapasitet på 5 år. Senderne ble støpt inn i halsklaver for tamrein og hadde en maksimal rekkevidde på ca. 100 meter. Det ble satt opp 35 mottakere (på en side av vegen) i desember 2019 langs en 3,5 km lang kollisjonsutsatt teststrekning på E6 over Saltfjellet. Disse mottakerne er utstyrt med røde lysdioder som begynner å blinke når reinen nærmer seg. Totalt 181 voksne simler ble instrumentert med halsklaver og radiosendere i begynnelsen av desember 2019. Funksjonaliteten til mottakerne ble kontrollert og loggført til sammen ti ganger gjennom driftsperioden som varte fra 25.11.2019 til 30.04.2020, og aktivitetsloggen til tre mottakere utstyrt med SIM-kort ble lagret. Et tilfeldig utvalg på 39 sendere som ikke var satt på rein ble oppbevart i en fryser og testet for batterikapasitet seks ganger gjennom vinterhalvåret. I tillegg ble avstanden mellom senderne og en mottaker målt i det mottakeren startet blinke....publishedVersio

    Kollektiv kvalitativ analyse [Collective qualitative analysis]

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    Norsk og europeisk forskingspolitikk legg opp til store samarbeidsprosjekt på tvers av land, disiplinar og institusjonar, og dette krev gode metodar for samarbeid i alle delar av forskingsprosessen. Men i metodelitteraturen blir analyse som regel framstilt som ein individuell prosess, og kollektivt analysearbeid ser ut til å vera unntaket heller enn regelen. Føremålet med denne artikkelen er å bidra til metodeutvikling ved å presentera ein framgangsmåte eg har nytta i fleire forskingsprosjekt, og som eg har vald å kalla «kollektiv kvalitativ analyse». Metoden har fire trinn: 1) felles gjennomgang av datamaterialet, 2) temakartlegging, 3) temagruppering og 4) disposisjon og arbeidsplan. Eg nyttar døme frå eigne forskings- og analyseprosessar for å forklara metoden. Kollektiv kvalitativ analyse er startpunktet for analysen, og føremålet er å skapa rom for ein kreativ analytisk prosess kor me kan korrigera og vidareutvikla tolkingar og læra av kvarandre. Målet med artikkelen er å bidra til – og oppfordra andre til å ta del i – utviklinga av kollektive analysemetodar.Originalartikkel [original article in Norwegian

    Gjesteundersøkelse Lofoten 2019

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    Gender and Climate Change Research: Moving Beyond Transformative Adaptation

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    Research on how communities in the Arctic can overcome the challenge of climate change have traditionally employed adaptation frameworks. The ability of these groups to continue thriving in the Arctic is complicated by historical, social, economic, and political complexities - issues thoroughly addressed through the postcolonial feminist concept of transformation. This article critically examines contemporary research on climate and gender, and the extent to which feminist transformative concerns are addressed, thereby challenging systems and promoting power structures that recognize or benefit all segments of society. The article adopts an analytical strategy which combines two parallel instances of critical reflection on climate research, specifically, a systematic literature review of climate and gender studies in the Canadian Arctic, and the results of a round-table workshop of international climate experts and researchers on the state of climate change, adaptation and gender research in the Arctic. The article explores the results of these analyses and distinguishes those strategies that represent a continuation of status-quo power relations and climate adaptation processes from those that account for current economic and socio-political factors.publishedVersio

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