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    Evaluering av VO-linjen

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    Shaping sustainable tourism: local insights for Svalbard’s future

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    While tourism is frequently heralded as a key agent of opportunity and change in the Arctic, transformative change in the polar regions comes with a great deal of uncertainty. The strongly hierarchical Svalbard policy context allows limited action space for expanding tourism or developing new products. Still, Tourism is strictly regulated, and it is debatable whether the local residents have any real say in the shaping of development paths. Nevertheless, understanding local attitudes is always a component in building relationships between public institutions and local stakeholders. Albeit a constraining policy context, knowledge about stakeholder attitudes can provide valuable information about the consequences of alternative policy strategies and interventions that are likely to build or degrade trust in institutions with power. We surveyed the residents of Longyearbyen (N = 238) through an ad-hoc sample to examine attitudes toward effects of tourism, interaction with tourists, and to what extent local attitudes align with or depart from a plausible local interpretation of how key sustainable development goals (SDG) could inform and direct sustainable development of tourism in Svalbard. Current tourism practices face challenges related to several SDGs targeting work conditions, climate change and environmental management. Svalbard, Arctic sustainability, polar tourism, Arctic policypublishedVersio

    Bolyst: Økt samarbeid for attraktivitet og bolyst i Salten-regionen

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    Dette notatet er skrevet som en oppsummering av forprosjektet Økt samarbeid for attraktivitet og bolyst i Salten-regionen. Målet med forprosjektet har vært å utvikle problemstillinger som kan danne grunnlag for en søknad om et større forskningsprosjekt, som kan utvikle kunnskap som er nyttig for Salten-kommunene og deres arbeid med stedsattraktivitet og bolyst. Dette notatet er således ingen konklusjon, men snarere en felles kunnskapsplattform for å utvikle en fremtidig søknad.Bolyst: Økt samarbeid for attraktivitet og bolyst i Salten-regionenpublishedVersionpublishedVersio

    Kartlegging av oppfølgingstjenesten - Ni bydeler i Oslo

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    Tillitsreformen i staten - Kontinuitet eller nyskaping?

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    Fra ide til handling. Snublesteiner på veien mot det samskapte samfunn

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    I artikkelen retter vi oppmerksomheten mot samskapingsutfordringer i en kommunal kontekst. Datamaterialet stammer fra praksis og prosesser i et læringsnettverk som ble etablert mellom kommune, næringsliv og frivillig sektor i en mellomstor norsk by. Formålet med læringsnettverket var å utvikle en modell for samskaping som kunne bidra til bedre folkehelse. Vi fant at samskaping på tvers av sektorer krever både strukturell fleksibilitet (tilpasningsdyktig organisasjonsstruktur), materiell fleksibilitet (mulighet til å hente inn eller allokere tid og ressurser) og immateriell fleksibilitet (kulturell og relasjonell tøyelighet). Et viktig hinder for alle fleksibilitetsformer er at ressursknapphet fremtvinger prioritering av kjernevirksomhet, noe som her blant annet skyldtes gjeldende lovverk. Samskapingsbegrepet fremsto også som «ullent» for partene og ble dermed en ytterligere barriere i dette samskapingsprosjektet.Fra ide til handling. Snublesteiner på veien mot det samskapte samfunnpublishedVersio

    Tipping Away from Coal?: Exploring Narratives and Tipping Dynamics in the Phaseout of Coal on Svalbard

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    This chapter explores societal tipping points in energy transitions in the Arctic through the case of the phasing out of coal mining on Svalbard. The economy of the region, which has high geopolitical importance in the Arctic, was founded based on extractivism. More than a century ago, coal mining not only consolidated as Svalbard’s main industrial activity, but also crystalized in the region’s identity and in Norway’s strategy for sustaining its presence on the archipelago. International agreements and debates concerning green transitions, in combination with fluctuating coal prices and ageing infrastructure, have provoked the emergence of various narratives concerning the future of the archipelago. These narratives entail both low-carbon alternatives for the local economy, and alternative energy sources to power human life on Svalbard. This chapter examines these narratives, focusing on the interplay between demographic and socio-economic developments of the past 20 years. Several kinds of societal tipping points can be observed, from politico-economic to demographic and socio-cultural tipping points. The question remains, however, whether the Svalbard case also exemplifies tipping points in the biophysical dimensions of social-ecological systems. This will in large part depend on the ability to find viable energy alternatives that harmonize with regional geopolitical security.Tipping Away from Coal?: Exploring Narratives and Tipping Dynamics in the Phaseout of Coal on SvalbardpublishedVersio

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