Browsing Brage INN by Subject "climate change"
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Agrobiodiversity and climate adaptation: insights for risk management in small-scale farming
(Ph.d-avhandlinger i anvendt økologi og bioteknologi; 1, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Agriculture is a dynamic activity that sustains food and other goods for global human population. Aiming to ensure global food security, the sector has evolved dramatically, especially over the last century with the ... -
Associations between Mental Health, Lifestyle Factors and Worries about Climate Change in Norwegian Adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Climate change is a serious global health threat that has an impact on young people’s lives and may influence their mental health. Since the global climate strike movement, many adolescents have expressed worries about ... -
Behavioral modifications by a large-northern herbivore to mitigate warming conditions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Temperatures in arctic-boreal regions are increasing rapidly and pose significant challenges to moose (Alces alces), a heat-sensitive large-bodied mammal. Moose act as ecosystem engineers, by regulating forest ... -
Bhaskar’s philosophy as third generation systems theory, with implications for ethics and earth system stability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Bhaskar’s philosophy supports society via a process of homeostasis to resist socioecological system disintegration by developing its values and ethics in response to endogenous and exogenous change. To the contrary, ... -
Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aim: Species distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and answering an assortment of questions related to ... -
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on ... -
Did concern about COVID-19 drain from a ‘finite pool of worry’ for climate change? Results from longitudinal panel data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)According to the ‘finite pool of worry’ hypothesis, one may expect that introducing a novel concern (e.g., about a pandemic) may reduce concern about an existing issue (e.g., about climate change). Drawing upon representative ... -
Ecological correlates of a tick-borne disease, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, in moose in southern Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)As the distribution and abundance of ticks increase, so do the risks of tick-borne diseases. Anaplasma phagocytophilum, transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, is a widespread tick-borne infection causing tick-borne fever (TBF) ... -
Expected climate change consequences and their role in explaining individual risk judgments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examines what individuals expect will be the most important impacts of climate change on their respective countries, and how these expectations relate to individual riskjudgments. Open-ended responses from ... -
Exploring relationships between climate change beliefs and energy preferences: A network analysis of the European Social Survey
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Understanding public attitudes to climate change and energy preferences is key to a successful transformation to a low-carbon society. While many studies have examined relationships between specific variables, little is ... -
Exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5 °C global warming is linked to perceived threat and increased concern about climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates the influence of exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5°C global warming on climate change attitudes. Among a nationally representative sample of the Norwegian public, we found that exposure ... -
Impact and Adaptation to Climate Change in Nepalese Agriculture : A case study of Jumla, Mustang and Chitwan districts
(Master thesis, 2018)Climate change refers to the variation of earth's global or regional climate over a long period due to natural variability or because of human induced activities. Agriculture is the backbone of the Nepalese economy and ... -
Impact of climate change on agricultural production in Chitwan district, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2022)Forskningen bak denne masteravhandlingen ble gjennomført i Chitwan-distriktet i Nepal og hadde som mål å undersøke effekten av klimaendringer på landbruket der. Klimaendringer har påvirket landbruket over hele verden. ... -
Individual and local flooding experiences are differentially associated with subjective attribution and climate change concern
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While several studies show an association between flooding experience and climate change engagement, a few show no evidence of such a link. Here, we explore the potential that this inconsistency relates to the measurement ... -
Mapping perceptions of energy transition pathways: Ascribed motives and effectiveness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study examines how people perceive possible pathways of a societal transition towards less carbon intensive means of energy production and use. Data were collected with questionnaires among samples of university ... -
Multitrophic biodiversity patterns and environmental descriptors of sub-Arctic lakes in northern Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)1. Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes in northern Europe are increasingly threatened by climate change, which can affect their biodiversity directly by shifting thermal and hydrological regimes, and indirectly by altering landscape ... -
Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this ... -
Political orientation moderates the relationship between climate change beliefs and worry about climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Public perceptions are well established as a key factor in support for climate change mitigation policies, and they tend to vary both within and between countries. Based on data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (N ... -
Remembering and Communicating Climate Change Narratives – The Influence of World Views on Selective Recollection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We examine how people remember stories about climate change and how they communicate these stories to others. Drawing on theories of reconstructive memory and cultural theory, we assume that recollection is systematically ... -
The resilience paradox: Flooding experience, coping and climate change mitigation intentions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Climate change is projected to increase the frequency, intensity and unpredictability of extreme weather events across the globe and these events are likely to have significant mental health implications. The mental health ...