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FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Monitoring of CyanoToxins in Southern Africa

Trygt drikkevann er en knapp ressurs i mange land. I det sørlige Afrika er oppblomstringer av cyanobakterier i innsjøer og vannmagasiner med på å skape problemer for drikkevannsforsyningen for mennesker og dyr i lengre perioder av året. Tilstedeværelse av cyanobakterier og deres toksiner er sett ...

Tildelt: kr 7,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2016

Sted: Akershus

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Norwegian Child Welfare in a Comparative Perspective - Knowledge, decision-making & ethnicity in policy and practice

Dette prosjektet gjennomfører komparative analyser som identifiserer og analyserer prinsipper og praksis i tre moderne barnevernssystemer. Fokuset er på fire hovedspørsmål fra ulike innfallsvinkler: Mål 1. Hva er et lands ansvarsområder og hvordan håndterer landet multikulturalisme? 2. Hvor...

Tildelt: kr 7,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2017

Sted: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Improving competition policy

The aim of the project is to build a better knowledge base for the formulation of competition policy. First, we will analyse how existing rules and procedures and the current organization of the enforcement agency may lead to adverse outcomes, and how cur rent methods may be improved. An importan...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2014

Sted: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Quantifying the global socio-economic and policy drivers for Brazils contribution to climate change

Tildelt: kr 7,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2014

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Attentive glimpse as retrieval associate: Components of objects' shape property-shape cue and recognition proficiency

Prosjektet er tredelt: Søkelyset rettes mot hvordan gjenkjenning av Del 1) velkjente figurer, Del 2) plasseringen av velkjente figurer og Del 3) ukjente figurer påvirker oppmerksomheten til mennesker med en praktisk/pedagogisk eller total blindhet. - Er det noe som popper opp, og som derfor kreve...

Tildelt: kr 2,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2015

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUPERFORM - Explaining the EU´s performance in NATO: EU-NATO relations and challenges facing the EU as a security actor (ECRP-2010)

EUPERFORM er et internasjonalt prosjekt med et overordnet mål om å bidra til ny forskningsbasert kunnskap om EUs rolle og innflytelse i internasjonale organisasjoner, og å studere dette gjennom bl.a. begrepet 'performance'. NUPIs bidrag til prosjektet har vært å studere EUs rolle i og samarbeid m...

Tildelt: kr 4,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2014

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Negotiating new political spaces: claims for redistribution and recognition in Chile and Bolivia

The past two decades have seen the emergence and consolidation of several concomitant and contradictory political-economic processes in Latin America, which have changed conditions for collective action and civil society politics. Within these new 'struct ural contexts', political actors can be a...

Tildelt: kr 4,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2013

Sted: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Interaction among human interference, climate and the viability and dynamics of contracted acacia populations in the Eastern Sahara

There are two main factors driving environmental change in arid lands, climate variability and human interference. ACACIA will focus on these factors' effect upon the dynamics and viability of an essential resource, namely tree populations of Acacia torti lis, in a short- and long-term perspectiv...

Tildelt: kr 7,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2013

Sted: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Power-Sharing, Democracy and Civil Conflict

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Tildelt: kr 7,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2014

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The law and economics of relational contracts

Contracts form the web of the economy. The ability of parties to enter into voluntary contractual agreements is essential for economic exchange and prosperity. There are basically two devices that govern contracts: Contract law and norms. Contract law se ts the legal rules of exchanging parties'...

Tildelt: kr 5,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2014

Sted: Rogaland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Moral Spectator: Engagement in Morally Transgressive Characters in the Television Series Dexter, The Sopranos and The Wire

How come we as spectators fail to sympathize with morally transgressive antagonists, but may sympathize with morally transgressive protagonists? This project will combine 1) philosophical study of a) existing empirical research in media psychology and b) writings on the puzzle of imaginative res...

Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Energy, Industry and Politics: Energy-technology as the Driver of (Sustainable) Economic Growth -- Past, Present and Future

A number of books have been written on the extraction and use of different natural resources: Coal, cod, tobacco, salt, etc. Also, there exists a rather technical literature on energy/energy production. But there are few books dealing with the production of energy on a more general level and its...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Reasserting indigenous life-styles in the European North: Ideology and Post-Soviet reality in the case of the Russian Sámi

This project addresses political and economic tensions experienced by tundra-based communities in the Russian Northwest. In particular, it aims to investigate the problematic situation of the Sámi people in the Kola Peninsula in their relations with state institutions, with external investors in...

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Comparing tax policy change in Scandinavia: welfare capitalism reformed?

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Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

The social meaning of children. Reproductive choice, gender and social class

The inability of the western world to reproduce its population is expected to have dramatic consequences for the future; the conception of a "fertility crisis" has entered the public debate of many countries. By contrast, individual women and men may rega rd the possibility to choose to have fewe...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI -Labor supply and the importance of human capital accumulation

I will look at the importance of unvoluntary unemployment in explaining labor supply in a life cycle model with human capital. In particular, I will focus on the estimation of the Frisch elasticity when the probability of becomming unemployed depends on t he level of human capital.

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Link between Diarrhea and Dengue: Fecal contamination and dengue mosquito production in household water containers in Southeast Asia

Vannrelaterte sykdommer er på den globale folkehelseagendaen. Integrasjon av kontrollstrategier for slike sykdommer kan være både hensiktsmessige og kostnadseffektive. Diarésykdommer og dengue feber er store globale helseproblemer. Husholdningenes lagring av vann kan være en felles faktor for beg...

Tildelt: kr 6,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2015

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 9,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: 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 ...

Tildelt: kr 7,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 0,25 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 5,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2016

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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 ...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions?

Med hensyn til om stater bør ratifisere menneskerettighetskonvensjoner, er et sentralt funn at noen av de viktigste innvendingene ikke stå seg ved nærmere granskning. Hva gjelder populære diagnoser om et legitimitetsunderskudd, har vi funnet at flere av de bekymringene som får mest oppmerksomhet ...

Tildelt: kr 5,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2015

Sted: Oslo

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...

Tildelt: kr 4,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: Oslo

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...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Indoor air pollution-A neglected poverty related cause of global ill health -impl. for health and society of promot. clean fuels in China-II

Smoke from solid fuels (biomass and coal) burned in households is among the leading health threats for people in developing countries, and is responsible for more than 1.6 million premature deaths annually - a quarter of which occur in China. Moreover, so lid fuel use for cooking and space heatin...

Tildelt: kr 2,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Local literacies and community spaces - Investigating transitions and transfers in the learning lives of Groruddalen

The overall objective of this project is to increase our knowledge and understanding about key issues of transition between different contexts and levels of learning. Developments within the knowledge society, especially due to technological innovation, h ave intensified interest in the relations...

Tildelt: kr 7,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Vestland

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...

Tildelt: kr 1,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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...

Tildelt: kr 10,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

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