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FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The end or the beginning of conflict? Post-war power sharing in the multi-ethnic polities of Ethiopia and Sudan

The point of departure is that power sharing arrangements alone are by no means a quick fix to the successful accommodation of ethnic diversity. All according to context, similar institutional models may have detrimentally different outcomes in different states and among a state's sub-communities...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Village scale solar systems for development: Transfer of social and technological innovations between India and Kenya

This social science based research project will analyse Indian experiences with implementation and social organisation of village solar PV power plants and their socio-economic impacts. Furthermore, the project will actively transfer experiences from Indi a to Kenya on implementation and social o...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Socioeconomic Consequences of Climate Change in Sub-equatorial Africa

In Africa climate change will lead to a warming which is likely to be larger than the global average. Precipitation will change; most noticeably with drying in the southern and in the northern parts of the continent and increased precipitation over the Et hiopian Plateau. Less attention has been ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

NERA congress in Trondheim 5-7 March 2009

NERA (Nordic Educational Research Association) holds its annual congress in Trondheim 2009, 5-7 March . The convenor is the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management at Dragvoll, Trondheim. NERA started in 1972 and has established itse...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Bio-engineering multi-functional silvopastoral landscapes: A case study in Nicaragua

MF-Landscapes aims at understanding how to bio-engineer livestock production landscapes in Nicaragua, i. e. how to exploit new opportunities and solve problems within the domain of a multifunctional silvopastoral system (SP) that maximizes provisioning of ecosystem services and economically effi...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Cultivated V kotschyana and C tinctorium, can they replace wild ones in products against gastric ulcer in Mali to retain the biodiversity?

Vernonia kotschyana and Cochlospermum tinctorium are of special interest since they are used against gastric ulcer in Mali and they form parts of formulations frequently used against gastric ulcer registered as Improved Traditional Medicines (Gastrocedal) A large proportion of the population of...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Elites in an egalitarian society

Et sentralt spørsmål som prosjektet har søkt ny kunnskap om, er om Norge virkelig er et så «spesialtilfelle» når det gjelder klasser og eliter som populære mediale, så vel som faglig funderte oppfatninger og forestillinger om Norge som et spesielt egalitæ rt samfunn synes å indikere, og hva denne...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Popular Representation in Africa: The politics of expectations

Democratic decentralisation and gender sensitive policies have offered a massive opportunity for political parties in Africa to mobilise support. As for instance, in Malawi in 2000, as many as 860 new political offices were up for elections as a consequen ce of democratic decentralisation. Democr...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Preventing Literacy Failure in Children at Risk: Effects from a preschool intervention on language and literacy

The present post-doc project aims to examine the effect from a preschool oral-language intervention. Undertaking this study is important for several reasons: On an international level, there is a scarcity of research on preschool interventions. This is es pecially true for studies concerning chil...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Socio-economic determinants of cancer: Twin, adoptee and family based evidence from the Cancer Registry of Norway

With increased availability of multi-generation cancer data, most studies to date on family cancer risks have been measuring the incidence of various cancers within families and found higher family risks for breast, prostate, ovarian and uterine cancer. L ess is known about the underlying causes ...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

The temporal dimension of tort law

The project aims at an elaboration and scientific development of the structures and theoretical framework connected to the temporal dimension of tort law. Such a work will be of international interest because every national legal order in western societie s is governed by a so far unexplored temp...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Political Parties and Democracy: Decline or Change?

We study the role of political parties in contemporary democracies. The main research question is whether parties have primarily changed or declined as organizations and whether parties' contributions to democracy are stable or in decline. Our focus is th e behaviour and inter-relationship of par...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Being Jewish and Arab: Nationalism among Mizrahim in a development town in the Galilee.

The research project aims to investigate the meaning and dynamics of contemporary nationalism among Mizrahim (non-European Jews) in a development town in the Galilee in Northern Israel. I am interested in the subjective element of attachment to nations an d ethnic groups by their members, and I i...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Nature and Development of Language and Language Disorders in Children

Prosjektet, The Nature and Development of Language and Language Disorders in Children, er en longitudinell studie av muntlig og skriftlig språkutvikling i typisk og forsinket utvikling i overgangen barnehage-skole (4-9 år). Den består av to komponenter. Del 1 omfatter longitudinelle prosjekter, d...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2016

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Influence of the Matrix on Species Richness in Ugandan Forest Fragments

The power-law species area relation (SAR) has been used to predict that as the size of a habitat fragment decreases, the number of species supported by that fragment will fall. Despite the widespread usage of the SAR in conservation biology, the relation ship is confounded by a number of factors...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Sustainability for the 21st Century: Overcoming Limitations to Creative Adaptation in Addressing the Climate Challenge

The IPCC is accumulating sufficient evidence to the effect that that the current climate challenge poses a global threat to human survival on an unprecedented scale (IPCC 2007). There is a need for a new paradigm of sustainable development which would bot h take on board the latest climate resear...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Kola Birth Registry as a tool for populationbased studies of contaminants and influence on reproductive health and pregnancy outcome

A regional birth registry, compatible to the Norwegian birth registry, was initiated for Murmansk County in January 2006. The registry covers all 18 delivery departments in Murmansk County. The establishment of the birth registry has the potential of impr oving perinatal health and health care se...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Pastoralism in China: Policy and practice

In contemporary China pastoralism as a way of life is under pressure. This project investigates the links between changes in herding practices and changes in the policy framework governing access to important resources such as grazing land and water sourc es. Using multi-sited field research, the...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Legitimacy, identity, hierarchy: Strategic communication in the hospital sector

The project will investigate the development and the consequences of a new communication infrastructure and a new discourse on the role of strategic communication in the hospital sector. The emphasis will be on three issues: 1) the relationship between st rategic communication and the legitimacy ...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Effects of climate change on soil microarthropod diversity and ecological function

The arctic region is currently facing great environmental changes of greenhouse-gas warming, with likely strong consequences for structure of plant and animal communities and ecosystem processes. The rates of the biological processes are mediated by tempe rature, season length, temporal and spati...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Petroleum related FDI, local conditions and poverty reduction - the Macae region of Brazil

The main aim of my study is to determine if petroleum related foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Macaé region of Brazil can be characterized as a "tool for poverty reduction". The theory section discusses FDI, local conditions and poverty reduction. Regarding the effects of FDI on host regio...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Mending the Past: A comparative study of victim reparations in three Latin American countries

The present project proposal aims to explore the treatment of the issue of victim reparations in three Latin American countries - Peru, Guatemala and Chile - by focusing on the conceptual framework of their respective reparation programs, and the implicat ions this will have for the identificatio...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

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

Poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods in small-scale fisheries: The Case of Nicaragua and Tanzania.

In this project we question how poverty can be alleviated through ecosystem-based management of natural resources. Alleviating poverty sometimes requires strategies which are inherently in conflict. As one seeks to reduce poverty, one risks aggrevating it . For instance, in fisheries and coastal ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

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

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

MEDIATIZED STORIES. Mediation perspectives on digital storytelling among youth

This project studies digital storytelling with theories of mediation and mediatization. Focus is on the use of digital storytelling for self-representation, where people apply digital tools to create stories from their own life or immediate environment to share with others. Such storytelling is ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

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

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Incentive contracts in labour market equilibrium

The project examines the relationship between wage contracts in individual firms and the equilibrium in the labour market. We will analyse the interdependence between wage contracts and unemployment, human capital investment, turnover, and entrepreneurshi p. Much of the theoretical analysis will ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Oslo

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