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FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Satellite-derived estimates of marine primary productivity in the North Atlantic

At the heart of biological pump, which plays an important role in the removal of carbon into the ocean interior, is primary productivity. There are still many unknowns about the relationships between marine primary producers and their surrounding physical environment. This project is planned to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Bénin

Urban and peri-urban (UPU) horticulture provides an increasingly important source of income in many African countries. A major factor driving the importance of UPU gardening is an increasing marketing opportunity for a growing population of unemployed and unskilled youths in the cities. However,...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Akershus

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Maternal mortality and morbidity in Malawi and the Gambia

This project is an expansion and continuation of an already ongoing program in maternal health research in Africa. One focus is the Gambia, a poor, muslim West African country with high maternal mortality, but relatively low HIV prevalence, and Malawi, a similarly poor country in Southern/Centr...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Project IBISCA Investigating the biodiversity of soil and canopy arthropods

Project summary Arthropods of tropical forests constitute the dominant component of biodiversity on Earth and are essential for structuring terrestrial ecosystems. This project represents the first attempt to compare arthropod species richness in the soil and understorey vs. canopy habitats of a...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Zebrafish as a model for effect studies of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in aquatic ecosystems

Xenobiotic release and accumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment of ED and their transfer to humans, wildlife, fish and farmed animals is a big problem. This project addresses the dynamics of this process and the possible co nsequences for environmental health and o...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Modelling and Mapping of Potential Vegetation Regeneration Areas in the Sinkat District the Red Sea Hills Area, Eastern Sudan

In arid regions, the regeneration of vegetation is determined by both natural and human factors, which in turn are co-related. The spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture as determined by climate variability and physical characteristics of the c atchment is the major natural factor. The...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

State formation and the politics of regime survival

The key issue to be addressed in the project is the following: What are the conditions of state formation in the contemporary world? To address this issue, we will study the experiences with state building in selected states in Asia and Africa. We will st udy six countries. The countries are: Sou...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Historical relationships between climate factors and life history of High Arctic freshwater fish; predicting consequences of climate change

Lakes in the High Arctic are characterized by low water temperature, long-term ice cover, low levels of nutrients and low biodiversity. Thus, minor climatic changes may be of great importance to Arctic freshwater fish by influencing gonad development and individual growth rate - two life history ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Reforming Water Rights in South Africa: Exploring the Process of Formalisation

Increasing pressures on water resources world-wide have led to a number of countries reforming their water policies in order to mitigate what is perceived as an acute environmental problem. Lack of water poses a potential threat to poor people's livelihoo ds, and also represents an obstacle to so...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Fishery-induced changes in vital components of a large pike (Esox lucius) population

To reduce the impact of human activities on ecosystems is a major challenge of the next decades. Worldwide, overfishing depletes numerous fish stocks, threatening fisheries economy, biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. However, developing susta inable fishery policies necessitates a th...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Coast State Intervention Against Vessels Representing a Danger of Oil Pollution - with special emphasis on the Barents Sea.

The purpose of the project is to examine what measures a coastal state can carry out against a foreign vessel that represents a danger of oil pollution. As a point of departure, ships are only subject to flag state jurisdiction. However, modern transport exposes coastal states environment to such...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Extensive reductions of reindeer lichen heaths - repeated freeze-thaw cycles and ground-icing as potential key factors

Climate scenarios predict that high latitudes will experience a substantial increase in winter temperatures during the next decades. It has been suggested that repeated freeze-thaw cycles and the formation of ground-ice, which are induced by winter warmin g, will have profound effects on vegetati...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Integration of climate and air quality policies

Currently there is no international institutional framework that integrates both air quality and climate policies. This project will explore both the scientific basis and political feasibility of this type of cooperation. By looking at the United States, China, and the EU in particular, we explor...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Beyond the knowledge-action gap: Research as an intervention into Sri Lanka's post-crisis reconstruction

The study seeks to develop knowledge that contributes to poverty reduction and recovery of post-war/post-tsunami Sri Lanka and asks: * What knowledge is produced by humanitarian and development practitioners in a context of crisis? * What constitutes rele vant research knowledge in the given situ...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Responsibility for Sovereign Debt: Theory and Empirical Investigations

Debt crises are recurrent and costly features of the world economy. When crises occur, the question of legitimacy arises: Should the current government of a debtor country be held responsible for the obligations incurred by its predecessors? The trend tow ards democracy in developing countries ha...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Evaluation of various models for monitoring and risk assessment of POPs in the Arctic. Polar bear used as a model

The main aim of the project is to establish various models as valuable tools for monitoring and risk assessment of POPs in the Arctic. We aim at identifying significant explanatory variables for exposure, bioaccumulation, biotransformation, and effects o f POPs to be included in national and int...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

What culture? Whose rights? Which identity? The ethnography of self-determination in non-unitary African states: Ethiopia and Tanzania

The project aims to enhance our understanding of the paradox of righs, i.e. the ways in which the implementation of certain human rights may undermine other rights. The principal objective of the project is to analyse discourses related to rights to cult ure and identity, as expressed through cl...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Demography of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa): impact of seed harvest and hunting on recruitment and population dynamics

The Brazil nut tree provides one of the most socio-economically important non-timber tropical forest products – the Brazil nut. These nuts are the only internationally traded seed crop collected exclusively from natural forests. Despite the economic impor tance of this species virtually nothing i...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Reconstructing traditional authority- for whom? Political parties, state administration and traditional authorities in Angola and Mozambique

The overarching objective is to contribute to the understanding of the party system and democratisation process in countries dominated by a hegemonic party-state. The two case countries – Angola and Mozambique - share many similarities in political histor y and post-colonial regime trajectories, ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Regionalization, the private sector and governance for sustainable development in Latin America

As a parallel strategy to multilateral negotiations on trade and development issues, the United States is currently pursuing bi-lateral and regional strategies. In Latin America, the goal of the US is a hemispheric Free Trade Area (FTAA), but so far only two agreements with a more limited scope h...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Stability or change? Understanding sub Andean forest ecosystems - fragile environments facing disturbance

Fragile environments facing disturbance in the semi-arid regions of northern Peru will be analysed by use of aerial photo interpretation, vegetation mapping, GIS, direct gradient analysis (ordination), dendrochronology, analysis of key species densities a nd analysis of land use. Long term and re...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Variation in Time Allocation Among Reindeer Herders in West Finnmark, Norway

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) husbandry is believed to be the cornerstone of the Saami culture in northern Fennoscandia. The proposed project will focus on variations in time allocation among Saami reindeer herders in West Finnmark, Norway. This p roject will explore how herders deal with...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Social implications of rural electrification in Zanzibar, Tanzania (field work)

The project is a necessary step for fulfilling the aims of my doctoral dissertation. The proposed fieldwork will enable me to extend the analysis of how electricity has changed social life in a village since its coming in the early 1990s. Updated informat ion and comparisons with my findings duri...

Awarded: NOK 32,800

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Credit for the Poor: Empirical Studies from South Africa

Credit is central to modern theories of economic development. Credit, along with savings, allows households to cope better with income that fluctuates over time. This is particularly important in rual areas, because of the insecurity and irregularity of a gricultural income. On a bigger scale, ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Avian life histories in a changing environment: a comparative study using time series and manipulation experiments

Global change is expected to result in changes in the mean, and increases in the variance, of meteorological and other environmental phenomena. In order to understand how natural populations will respond to such changes, it is crucial to first understand the responses of these species to naturall...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Rebuilding Somalia through Islam and trading in Dubai. Muslim women's strategies and identities in the diaspora.

As a consequence of the ongoing civil war in Somalia, there seems to be an increasing number of women travelling to the Gulf. Through trading in places like Dubai they provide for their relatives at home, and many seem to have taken the place of men as th e breadwinners of the family. Studies of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.96 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Sexual variation in heritability of body size in The Pied Flycatcher - an experimental approach.

There is increasing evidence that recent climatic warming affects various aspects of ecological communities. Most studies to date have used cross-sectional data in order to relate variation in temperature to population trends and various life history trai ts. However such correlative studies can ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

New Social Movements and Substantial Democratiation in South Africa. (Utenlandsstipend)

Prosjektets formål er å analysere framveksten av nye sosiale bevegelser i Sør-Afrika. Det legges spesielt vekt på utvalgte bevegelsers kapasitet til å mobilisere sivilsamfunnet og å fremme sine interesser overfor staten og dermed bidra til en prosess med reell deltagelse for marginaliserte gruppe...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Aiding Palestinians. The Changing Role of United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) 1949-2000.

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Patterns and mechanisms for population substructuring in deep-sea fishes

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Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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