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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Self-image and sustainability

This project is a continuation of the RAMBU project “Sustainable Consumption, Social Relations and Identity”. In the present project, we will pursue further our theoretical analyses on behavioral economics and the environment, based on modifications and further developments of neoclassical consu...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: The management of cultural heritage in marginalised coastal communities

The cultural heritage management works within the political, economic, cultural and social reality of the modern society not the past society. The sum of priorities does not always mirror the diversity throughout time and space. One typical category of la ndscape to be left out is what we call th...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Design, change and management of Sami resicences in Tysfjord

The project´s objects of study are Sami dwellings in the Tysfjord area in Nordland, and the period chosen is from the 1960´s and up to today. For comparison, a small study will be carried out in a village in the eastern Sami area Notozero, by the Lotta R iver on the Kola peninsula in Northern Ru...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: How to make it. Private-public partnerships in mananging sustainable development in mountain regions.

Sustainable development in rural areas is currently a major political focal point. Public – private partnerships for rural development have been established, with the aim of utilizing local nature resources and qualities for commercial purposes, in an eco logically sustainable manner. The main pu...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Harvesting strategies for optimizing size and structure of Norvegian moose popultions: Constraints and optiones

During the last decades Norwegian there has been a large increase in the size of Norwegian moose populations. However, large moose populations also represent a considerable cost. Thus, the central challenge will be to derive management strategies that giv e fluctuations of moose populations aroun...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Cultural landscapes, agricultural activity and Arctic goose populations; a possible combination?

In the present project we use an interdisciplinary approach to study processes in a conflict system linked to the cultural landscapes along the coast of Norway. Due to increasing goose populations in Europe, conflicts between farmers and geese foraging in the agricultural landscapes have intensi...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Cultural heritages and value creation. Estimating economic effects of cultural heritage in the city of Røros

Management of cultural heritages in a manner that generates values are of importance in order to obtain a sustainable development (SD). Cultural heritage can affect the three objectives for SD; environmental, social and economic development. There is a ne ed for more knowledge especially of the e...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Large carnivores and human communities II: Conserving interacting species in the transboundary south-central Scandinavian ecosystem

To meet the escalating demands for scientific knowledge, to help address human-wildlife conflicts, research activity on large carnivores (LCs) and large herbivores (LHs) has been intense in the last decade in Scandinavia. This research has been available to politicans formulating policy. In the c...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Redefining Rural Resources; Local capacity-building in sustainable management of cultural historic environments of mountain summer f

One of the major cultural historic asset that hillside and mountain regions in Norway offer is mountain summer farming (”seter”). Today their owners find themselves in the intersection between several tendencies: agricultural readjustments leading to eit her reduction or discontinuance of mounta...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Down by the riverside: Urban public nature-related attitudes and activities as a knowledge base for river restoration and management

The beneficial, restorative effects of activities and experiences in natural environments are well documented. Since a majority of the population live in urban areas, more attention should be given to the establishment, availability, use, and management o f urban natural areas. Such areas usually...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Innlandet

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Consumers' Contribution to Environmental Protection: The Structure of Environmental Behaviours and Attitudes

The project will investigate the structure of environmental behaviours and their relations with attitudes. Further, it will study how consumers perceive their own 'total environmental behaviour' compared to others' environmental behaviour. We expect to find clusters of environmental behaviours ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Environmental aspects with leisure time consumption: Theoretical developments, empirical analysis and normative discussions

Prosjektet er delt opp i fire faser: Vi vil innledningsvis etablere en teoretisk plattform for studien hvor de neste fasene skal plasseres inn i. Denne vil basere seg på en teoretisk literatutstudie hvor hovedoppmerksomhetn er rettet inn mot forholdet me llom hverdagsliv og fritid under senmoder...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Expertise and consumer-power. A project on the technologies of the politics of nature

The field of food issues has become a site for certain kinds of political "expertiments", that is for the testing out of new forms of political practice and involvement. These include the establishment of consumer panels, market analyses, and the newly es tablished independent Scientific Committe...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Genetic engineering in aquaculture: Sustainability from an ethical, ecological and economic perspective

The most prominent challenge to GE in a sustainable context is how to ensure environmental protection and at the same time achieve economic benefits. Only through integration of different scientific disciplines can this challenge be adequately understood and managed. We intend to combine experime...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Coastal landscape changes at the top of Europe: Threats and opportunities for maintenance, restoration and development (TOPCOAST)

Norwegian coastal landscapes are now subject to change, both physically, due to changes in climate, agricultural policy, industry and housing development but also resulting from transformations in perception, because of new knowledge and transformations o f local ways of life, such as disseminati...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Critical components for sustainable development of National parks (PARKS) - The interactions of social, ecological and economic factor

In recent years, a large number of mountain protected areas and parks have been established in Norway, Nepal and North-America, including what is now the largest continuous protected area in continental Europe. Pressures from the private sector to develo p economic activities in and surrounding ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Innlandet

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Ecological effects of sheep grazing and the economy of sustainable husbandry in alpine habitats

Sheep husbandry is an important part of the rural economy in Norway, with a tradition going some 5000 years back into the Bronze age. However, increases in numbers (2-2.5 million sheep on summer pasture) and a more extensive use of alpine habitats (made a ccessible by roads) during the last centu...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Population dynamics and parasitic constraints upon host behaviour of Gyrodacylus salaris in a recently infected Atlantic salmon popu.

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Reindeer and caribou; tolerance limits to habitat fragmentation and anthropogenic activities

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Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Density dependence in Atlantic salmon - causes and consequences

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Effects of environmental variation on the importance of carotenoids for offspring production in Atlantic salmon

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Use of male salmon parr as broodstock to study their significance for production and population structure

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Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Land use and ecosystem function in Norwegian forest landscapes

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Awarded: NOK 13.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2010

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Zooplankton diversity and successions in the Okavango delta, Botswana. Diversity and ecosystem interactions in land/water ecotones

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Mercury in lake sediments; trends in fluxes, geographical pattern and sources

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Evolutionary and cascading ecological effects of translocation of native species into new ecosystem

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Pollination interactions in ecosystems - impacts on plant reproduction, population dynamics and species composition and diversity

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN. Bærekraftig kystkultur? Et kjønnsperspektiv på områdebruk og naturressursforvaltning

Prosjektet fokuserer på forholdet mellom kjønn og bærekraftige praksiser primært i tre utvalgte kystområder i Sør- og Nord-Norge. Oppmerksomheten vil særlig bli rettet mot: 1. Om endringer i bruk av kystområder og naturressurser har ført til endringer i hva kvinner og menn oppfatter som bære...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND. Wolverines in a Changing World

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Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND. The great outdoor experience - what is it, and why is it important?

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Innlandet