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SHIFTPLASTICS International Perspectives Report - Plastic pollution mitigation in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors
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Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations
Full text linkA crucial task to accelerate global decarbonisation is to understand how to enable fast, equitable, low-carbon transformations in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs). In this early literature review we underlined the relevance of the boundary concept of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) and showed that the research and policy usage of SETPs applied to accelerate structural regional sustainability transformations faces three key challenges: (I) integrating theoretical and empirical contributions from diverse social and ecological sciences, together with complexity theory (II) designing open transdisciplinary assessment processes able to represent multiple qualities of systemic change and enable regionally situated transformative capacities, and (III) moving away from one-directional metaphors of social change, or static or homogeneous conceptions of individual agency and single equilibrium in energy transitions; and instead, focus on understanding the conditions and capacities for the emergence of systemic transformations and regenerative processes across multiple levels and forms of agency. We refer to these complex and place-situated processes as learning to enable regional transformative emergence.Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability TransformationspublishedVersio
Omstilling i Statped - Delrapport 3: Virkninger av ny organisasjonsstruktur og forsøk på avgrensninger i tjenestetilbud
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Exploring Transition in Coal- and Carbon-Intensive Regions Through an Interdisciplinary Lens
Full text linkThis chapter introduces an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the transition process and to identify empirical evidence of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) in the case studies on coal and carbon intensive regions (CCIRs) analyzed in the project TIPPING+. The interdisciplinary lens considers different modes of thought, frameworks, and multiple perspectives and interests from diverse stakeholders, a systems’ understanding, and different culture considerations across the CCIRs. Within this interdisciplinary process, we applied various lenses to study the potential for SETPs by combining insights from human geography, social psychology, regional socio-technical systems, and political economy perspectives on the phases of low carbon transitions and on the justice component of the transitions. Subsequently, this chapter gives an overview of how the eight CCIRs case studies in this book have applied various interdisciplinary lenses to investigate the regional transition and the emergence of SETPs.Exploring Transition in Coal- and Carbon-Intensive Regions Through an Interdisciplinary LenspublishedVersio
Småkommunenes utfordringer ved organisering av råd for personer med funksjonsnedsettelse
Full text linkRåd for personer med funksjonsnedsettelse har vært en medvirkningsordning i kommunene i mange år. Fra 2019 har ordningen blitt innlemmet i kommuneloven. Statlige myndigheter har lagt noen føringer og anbefalinger for rådene. Gjennom en spørreundersøkelse til ledere av kommunale råd for personer med funksjonsnedsettelse har vi kartlagt ulike sider ved rådenes oppnevning, organisering og fungering. Et sentralt funn er at små kommuner har store utfordringer knyttet til å innfri forventningene fra statlige myndigheter til hvordan rådene skal fungere. Artikkelen diskuterer hva dette kan bety for representasjon, samt for systemkapasitet og borgereffektivitet. Avslutningsvis diskuterer vi alternative måter som småkommunene kan håndtere utfordringene på.Challenges for small municipalities when organising councils for disabled peoplepublishedVersio
Lofoten Islands Cruise Destination: Balancing Tourism Development and Sustainability Interests
Full text linkTo contribute to the ongoing discussions about sustainable cruise tourism on the Lofoten Islands, we look into the practices associated with cruise-related activities, offering a detailed and nuanced understanding of how cruising is executed, including its opportunities and challenges. Our findings suggest that to improve sustainability of cruise tourism there is a need to leverage local enforceability, collaborate with cruise operators, establish realistic requirements to cruise operators, adjust to local norms and guidelines, and address concerns of local carrying capacity. Additionally, the report puts forth tools and measures for the governance of cruise tourism, including economic incentives, tourist taxes, environmental regulations, local networks, and information dissemination. In conclusion, we underscore the need for stakeholders to take into account the complexity of interconnected practices, and advocate for the establishment of novel local approaches to balance between development and sustainability interests when developing the local tourism industry on the Lofoten Islands.Lofoten Islands Cruise Destination: Balancing Tourism Development and Sustainability InterestspublishedVersio
Kartlegging av utflytting fra Træna - Forkortet rapport om resultater fra undersøkelse om utflyttingsårsaker
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Strategies towards resilience in Nordic coastal communities - Insights from Lurøy and Vega in Northern Norway
Full text linkBased on fieldwork conducted in 2022 in Lurøy and Vega (semi-structured interviews with inhabitants in different settlements and visits of diverse areas in these municipalities), literature and documents analyses, but also statistics compilation, this chapter will first address the structure and the composition of the local communities by focusing on how different groups of people contribute to their resilience and the existing value chains, respectively. The impacts of the development of aquaculture and tourism will then be emphasized, with Vega as characterized by tourism, and Lurøy as an aquaculture municipality. Understanding the ongoing strategies led by key stakeholders is, finally, essential to analyse the evolutions in these communities. This will help to assess to which extent Nordic coastal communities could build up their resilience in the face of future challenges.Strategies towards resilience in Nordic coastal communities - Insights from Lurøy and Vega in Northern NorwaypublishedVersio
