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Lokalbefolkningen rundt Dovrefjell og Sunndalsfjella - Betydningen av fjellområdet og holdninger til forvaltningen
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Gøy på landet? Betydningen av lokale trekk for innvandreres bosetting i rurale kommuner
Get PDFSterk konsentrasjon av innvandrere i lukkede byområder ses som en stor utfordring for integrering i Europa og Norge. Segregering og radikalisering framholdes ofte som mulige konsekvenser av en slik utvikling. I tillegg vil en mer spredt bosetting av innvandrere gi muligheter til å bevare bosetting og å styrke distriktene. Med dette som bakteppe undersøker denne studien hvilke push- og pull-faktorer som påvirker andelen ikke-vestlige innvandrere i rurale norske kommuner. Studien benytter registerdata fra SSB og IMDi, satt sammen til et paneldatasett med observasjoner fra 2004 til 2015. Det ubalanserte datasettet ble analysert ved hjelp av en faste effekter-modell som inkluderte innbyggertall, nettotilflytting, arbeidsmarked, politisk styring, økonomisk situasjon og vedtatt bosatte flyktninger. Resultatene viser at større andel bosatte i tettsteder gir økt andel ikke-vestlige innvandrere, mens høyere innbyggertall henger sammen med lavere andel ikke-vestlige innvandrere. Det ble videre funnet en negativ sammenheng mellom sterkere kommuneøkonomi og andel ikke-vestlige innvandrere, mens kommunens budsjettprioriteringer til grunnskolesektoren og kultur ikke har noen effekt. Kommunens ordfører har ingen tydelig effekt på andel ikke-vestlige innvandrere, bortsett fra Sp-kommuner som opplever lavere andel innvandrere sammenlignet med kommuner med Ap-ordfører.publishedVersio
The importance of gender roles and relations in rural agricultural technology development: a case study on solar fruit drying in Mozambique
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The beat of the mountain: a transdisciplinary rhythmanalysis of temporal landscapes
Get PDFThis article discusses how studying rhythms can help us better understand and manage spatiotemporal tensions in social-ecological landscapes, highlighting the potential of rhythmanalysis as a tool for crossing scientific and methodological borders. The empirical material is from a study of human and non-human users and uses of the highly valued Dovrefjell mountain area in Norway, with particular attention to the much-debated Snøheim Road. We take an in-depth view of Three different, but interrelated, rhythms at Dovrefjell and discuss how intervening through rhythms can be a fruitful way to approach landscape management. By simultaneously ‘listening’ to different rhythms, this approach helps us to understand and reduce spatiotemporal tensions between social, cultural and ecological uses of a landscape. Landscape; rhythmanalysis; interdisciplinarity; wild reindeer; recreation; land management; Dovrefjell; NorwayacceptedVersio
Kompetanse og rådgivning i jordbruket: Kunnskapsoversikt, aktuelle problemstillinger og analytiske perspektiver for studier av bønders kompetanse som samspill mellom bønder, rådgivning og forskning
Get PDFDenne rapporten er utgitt som en del av arbeidet i prosjektet Kompetent Bonde. Vår intensjon har vært å hjelpe både oss selv og andre som er interessert i tema knyttet til kunnskap, kompetanse, innovasjon og rådgivning innenfor jordbrukssektoren. Det er et stort spekter av perspektiver og begreper som kan anvendes i studier og analyser av feltet. Vi peker i denne rapporten på e vi mener er mest aktuelle sett ut fra våre ståsteder. Rapporten er et fellesprodukt med bidrag fra alle forfatterne.acceptedVersio
Stimulating the social and environmental benefits of agriculture and forestry: An EU-based comparative analysis
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Fra familie til nasjonal til global arbeidskraft.
No full textThis paper analyses the profound structural transformations that took place in Norway's horticulture industry between 1999 and 2010. The aggregate industrial outputs from the industry remained stable in this period. However, the number of horticulture farms dropped by 40.5% and the remaining farms became accordingly larger. We analyse how this development was related to changing labour strategies on Norwegian farms during this period, in part affected by labour market deregulation following the EU enlargements in 2004 and 2007. The analysis utilises Agricultural Census data covering the full population of horticulture farms in Norway in 1999 (N=5,105) and all farms in the country in 2010 (N=46,624, of which 3036 now were horticulture farms). Results suggest that the enhanced availability of inexpensive and flexible global labour is strongly associated with a stepwise proletarisation of Norwegian horticulture. Family labour is being systematically replaced by wage labour and domestic workers are being replaced by lowwage migrant workers.Fra familie til nasjonal til global arbeidskraft.publishedVersio
A Climate for Change? Norwegian Farmers’ Attitudes to Climate Change and Climate Policy
Get PDFClimate change is one of the major challenges of our time, and particularly so for agriculture. Agriculture is a significant contributor to climate change and, according to projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will experience alterations in production conditions in the future. The Norwegian government's 2009 White Paper on climate policy for agriculture is based on the point of view that the agricultural sector can and should contribute to Norway fulfilling its climate policy commitments. This requires changes in farm operations and production methods, making the farmer an important agent when it comes to the implementation of climate change mitigation measures. In this article, I study Norwegian farmers' climate change perceptions and priorities, and examine what it would take for them to consider implementing mitigation measures on their own farms. The analysis is based on a survey focusing on climate change from a representative sample of Norwegian farmers in 2011, the only survey of its kind conducted on this group so far. The results show that even if farmers perceive climate change as real and manmade, they do not appear to experience the changes as requiring immediate action. Moreover, farmers seem to view adapting to new environmental policy as a greater challenge than adapting to climate change itself. Farmers also appear to place production-related goals and managing the farm economy higher on the agenda than curbing emissions. Financial incentives, in the form of public support schemes or higher prices for food produced in a more environmentally friendly way, are factors which could increase the likelihood of implementing environmental measures on their own farms. A majority of farmers also believe that sectors other than agriculture should contribute more to cuts in greenhouse gases. Factors that most clearly explain the variation in attitudes to climate change are education levels, political or ideological factors, and the feeling of proximity; that is to say, to what extent one perceives climate change to be something that will affect one's own productivity in the future. In order to fulfill environmental policy commitments in the agricultural sector, farmers' motivation must be strengthened, and the focus should be placed on measures that view productivity goals, farm economies and mitigation measures in a wider context.submittedVersio