Compleeted PhDs from Department og Geography

2026

Tsimafei Kazlou

From plans to operation: feasible growth of emerging low-carbon technologies

Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple

Caring for space amidst land dispossession : Institutional complexity, land access, and real estate led socio-spatial transformation in peri-urban Ghana

2025

Shayan Shokrgozar

From Livestock to Light: Solar Dreams and the Foreclosure of Agropastoral Lifeworlds in Rajasthan

2024

Anne Lien 

Sovereignty through cartography

Press release (in Norwegian): Brukte Norge kartografi som våpen i unionstiden?

Rafael Rosales 

Urban freight – a matter of concern for cities?

Press release (in Norwegian): Urban freight – a matter of concern for cities?

Jesse Schrage

Practicing urban climate governance

Press release (in Norwegian): Klimatiltak i nordiske byer – hvilken rolle har planleggere?

2023

Randi Taxt 

Knowledge, Technology Transfer and the Third Mission of Universities

Press release (in Norwegian): Motivasjon for forskningsinnovasjon

2022

Jakob Grandin 

Sustainability here and now

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvordan gjøre bærekraft relevant for beslutninger her og nå?

Hanna Kvamsås 

The potential for transformative adaptation 

Press release (in Norwegian): Rom for samarbeid og samfunnsendring i lokal klimatilpassing

Daniel Ruben Pinchasik

Freight Transport Decarbonization: How Policy and Logistics Trends Affect Achievement of Climate Objectives 

Press release (in Norwegian): Utslippskutt fra godstransport: Avgjørende, men utfordrende

Stina  Ellevseth Oseland

Planning to transform: Exploring the role of climate and energy action plans in municipal low-carbon transformation

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvilken rolle spiller klimaplaner i lokal omstilling?

2021

Helge Lea Tvedt

Towards a Greener Economy: Entrepreneurs, Clusters and Changing Markets

Press release (in Norwegian): Mot en grønnere økonomi?

Kristin Kjærås

A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo

Press release (in Norwegian): Finnes det alternativer i Oslos kompakte byutvikling?

2020

Svein Gunnar Sjøtun 

‘Engineering’ the green transformation of the maritime industry in Western Norway

Press release (in Norwegian): Drivere for et grønt skifte i maritim næring

Nina Holmelin 

Flexible adaptation in Himalayan small-scale farming : Subsistence production, gender relations, and adaptive capacity under climatic and market uncertainty in Nepal

Press release (in Norwegian): Flere ben å stå på gir bedre tilpasning til klimaendringer

2018

Rune Njøs

The role of multilevel dynamics and agency in regional industry renewal

Press release (in Norwegian): Fornying av regionalt næringsliv: Bedrifter, klynger og regionale innovasjonssystem

Madan Krishna Suwal

Spatial dynamics of species distributions in an anthropogenic landscape in the context of climate change

Press release (in Norwegian): Klimaendring og arealbruk i relasjon til arters geografiske utbredelse i Himalaya

Dilli Prasad Poudel

Changing Forestry Governance in Nepal Himalaya: Interactions of Community Forestry with REDD+ and Traditional Institutions

Press release (in Norwegian): Lokal skogs-forvaltning og REDD+ i Nepal Himalaya

Kuber P. Bhatta

Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant assemblages under changing climate and land-use regimes in central Nepal Himalaya

Press release (in Norwegian): Fjellvegetasjonen i Himalaya forandres på grunn av klima- og arealbruks- endringer

Øystein Stavø Høvig

Entrepreneurship facilitation practices in various contexts: Generic characteristics and contextual particularities

Press release (in Norwegian):

2017

Henrik Løseth Jansen

Late Glacial and Holocene glacier fluctuations and climatic implications in sub-arctic northern Norway

Press release (in Norwegian): Isbreer som røper hemmeligheter om fortidens klima

Tarje Iversen Wanvik

Contested energy spaces – disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North

Press release (in Norwegian): Omstridt oljesand og pragmatiske urfolk

Yograj Gautam

Food System Dynamics and Food Insecurity in Humla, Nepal Himalaya

Press release (in Norwegian): Matsikkerhet i Humla, Nepal 

2016

Kjersti Straume 

Interpretation-based land cover mapping: Possibilities and challenges for rural management

Press release (in Norwegian): Kart og GIS som premiss i arealforvaltninga

Pål Rinkjøb Nielsen 

Holocene storminess and climate change in Lofoten and Vesterålen, northern Norway

Press release (in Norwegian): Fortidas stormar i Lofoten og Vesterålen
 

Dean Kampanje Phiri 

International Water Management in the Zambezi River Basin. A Historical-Geographical Analysis

Press release (in Norwegian): Flernasjonal vannforvaltning i Zambezi-elvebassenget

Austin Ablo 

From local content to local participation? Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry

Press release (in Norwegian): Lokal næringsutvikling i olje- og gassektoren i Ghana

Benjamin Aubrey Robson

Quantification and Change Assessment of Debris-Covered Glaciers using Remote Sensing

Press release (in Norwegian): Breendringer i Himalaya
 

Lila Nath Sharma

The disturbance-diversity relationship: integrating biodiversity conservation and resource management in anthropogenic landscapes

Press release (in Norwegian): Bevaring av biologisk mangfold i befolkede landskap

2015

Festus Boamah

Biofuels and land politics: Connecting the disconnects in the debate about livelihood impacts of jatropha biofuel land deals in Ghana

Press release (in Norwegian): Biodrivstoffinvesteringar og jordpolitikk i Ghana

Siren Therese Sælemyr

Contested Resources: Landscapes of matter, mind and practice in the North Peruvian Andes

Press release (in Norwegian): Omstridte naturressurser i Andesfjellene

2013

Erlend Eidsvik

Spaces of Scandinavian Encounters in Colonial South Africa: Reconfiguring Colonial Discourses

Press release (in Norwegian): Skandinaviske koloniaktørar i Sør-Afrika

Odd Ståle Eide 

Pedagogisk entreprenørskap som virkemiddel for lokal og regional utvikling: Eksempler fra skoler og mindre kystsamfunn i Finnmark

Press release (in Norwegian): Pedagogisk entreprenørskap og lokal og regional utvikling

Heidi Bjønnes Larsen 

Returning to the Spanish salted fish market: an institutional approach to a seafood value chain

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvordan gjenerobre det spanske saltfiskmarkedet?

2012

Gro Marit Grimsrud

Rural migrasjon i Norge. Import av teori, metodologiske tilnærminger og kjønnede flyttemønstre

Press release (in Norwegian): Den rurale idyllens betydning for flytting til distriktene

Tone Marie Ektvedt 

Analysis of the tropical dry forests and responses to human impact and precipitation events, northern Peru

Press release (in Norwegian): Er det bøndenes skyld at skogen forsvinner i Peru?

2011

Keshav Paudel

Elucidating the impacts of grazing management, climatic variability and climate change on rangelands in trans Himalayan Nepal

Press release (in Norwegian): Dynamikker i Himalayas beiteområder: Klimaendringer eller beiting?

2010

Andrei Florin Marin

Chasing the rains: Mongolian pastoralists’ vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in ’the age of the market

Press release (in Norwegian): Jakten på regnet: mongolske gjeteres klimatilpasning

2009

Håvard Haarstad 

Changing conditions for political practice: FDI discourse and political spaces for labor in Bolivia

Press release (in Norwegian): Liberalisering endrer sivilsamfunnets politiske handlingsrom

Anders Bryn

Vegetation mapping and landscape changes. GIS-modelling and analysis of vegetation transitions, forest limits and expected future forest expansion

Press release (in Norwegian): Ny skog de siste 50 åra skyldes i hovedsak gjengroing – ikke varmere klima

2008

Elisabeth Meze-Hausken

Climate and Society - A complex and conditional relationship

Press release (in Norwegian): Klima - mer enn tall og fakta

2007

Sebastian Eiter

Rethinking landscape diversity – integrating natural and cultural qualities, and users’ and experts’ practices into protection and management. Examples from the Stølsheimen mountains, Western Norway.

Press release (in Norwegian): Landskap er mangfold

2006

Anne-Grete Bøe

Late Weichselian ice-sheet dynamics and Holocene river floods inferred from depositional chronologies of glaciofluvial and fluvial sediments in east-central southern Norway

Press release (in Norwegian): Avsmeltingen mot slutten av siste istid og flomhistorien de siste 10 000 år i sentrale Sør-Norge

2004   

Jostein Bakke

Late Weichselian and Holocene glacier fluctuations along a south-north coastal transect in Norway - climatic and methodological implications

Press release (in Norwegian): Bre- og klimavariasjoner frå Folgefonna til Lyngen

Knut Hidle

Migrasjon og stedsmyte. Sted, migrasjonserfaringer og romlige forståelser i Kristiansand

Press release (in Norwegian): Internasjonal migrasjon og møtet med nytt sted

2003 

Winfred Georg Ellingsen

The appropriation of Place-Ethnic Territories in Kathmandu, Nepal 

Press release (in Norwegian): Etniske territorier

2026

Anaely Aguiar Rodriguez

From diagrams to simulation : An investigation into understanding and addressing adolescent obesity in Europe

2025

Santiago Movilla Blanco

Analysis of Malaria Transmission and the Impact of Vector Control Strategies : A System Dynamics Approach

2024

Georg Pallaske

An integrated assessment framework for sustainable development: System Dynamics and its capacity for methodological integration

2023

Lars Kristian Trellevik 

Exploring Deep-Sea Minerals

Press release (in Norwegian): Dyphavsmineraler: modellbasert navigasjon i usikkert farvann

Brook Wilkerson 

Systems approaches to sustainability

Press release (in Norwegian): Systems approaches to sustainability

2022

Eduard Romanenko 

U.S. Low-Carbon Futures with Carbon Capture and Storage

Press release (in Norwegian): Lav-utslipp krever støtte til for karbonfangst og -lagring

Aima Khan 

Essays in Corporate Finance

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvordan maksimere markedsverdien?

2021

Daniel Kliem 

System Dynamics in Transition Management

Press release (in Norwegian): Støtte eksperter med utvikling av simuleringsmodeller

2020

Billy Schoenberg 

Loops that Matter

Press release (in Norwegian): Loops that Matter

Aklilu Tadesse 

Designing online interactive learning environments to support learning in and about complex dynamic systems

Press release (in Norwegian): Modell-basert læringsstøtte i studiet av komplekse systemer

2019

Saleh Alaliyat

Agent-based modelling for environmental management. Case study: virus dynamics affecting Norwegian fish farming in fjords

Press release (in Norwegian): Agentbasert modell for forvaltning av fiskeoppdrett

Stian Blackstad Hackett 

Feedback effects of natural capital in the integrated assessment of global warming

Press release (in Norwegian): Bedre analysemodeller for naturkapital kan gi bedre klimapolitikk

2018

Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon 

Public Policy Planning to Enhance the Resilience of Socio-Ecological Systems to Climate Change: Operationalising Resilience Concepts from a Dynamic Perspective

Press release (in Norwegian): Do you bend or do you break?

Yin Jien Lee 

An Integrated Theory for the Accumulation of Mentally Ill Offenders and the Effect of Realignment in California

Press release (in Norwegian): Masse-frislipp av fanger – et stort eksperimentet i kriminalhistorien

David Lara Arango 

Essays on dynamic non-cooperative games based on simulations and experiments

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvordan kan systemdynamikk og eksperimentell økonomi forbedre spillteori?

2017

Andreas Gerber

The Dynamics of Food Availability in sub-Saharan Africa - An Endogenous Perspective on Food Production Systems

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvordan øke mattilgjengeligheten i Afrika sør for Sahara?

Johannes L. Hartwig

Intellectual property rights, economic growth, and the business cycle: A dynamic macroeconomic impact assessment study

Press release (in Norwegian): Målkonflikter mellom patentretten, vekst og konjunktur

2012

Sebastian Derwisch

System Dynamics Models for Assessing the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation Systems - The case of improved Maize Seed Varieties in Sub-Saharan Africa

Press release (in Norwegian): Immaterielle rettigheters påvirkning på innovasjon,

2011

Maria Saldarriaga

Using a water tank analogy to transform students’ intuitive knowledge of dynamic systems

Press release (in Norwegian): Undervisning for å korrigere intuitiv forståelse av dynamikk

2010

Ying Qian 

Mitigating Information security risks during the Transition to Integrated Operations: Models & Data

Press release (in Norwegian): Strategier for sikring av operasjonsledelse under overføring fra sjø til land

Jaziar Radianti 

The Vulnerability Black Markets: Maps, Model, Data

Press release (in Norwegian): Svart marked for datasårbarhet

2009

Matteo Pedercini

Modeling Resource-Based Growth for Development Policy Analysis

Press release (in Norwegian): Utvikling fra et ressursbasert perspektiv

Andrea Marcello Bassi 

An Integrated Approach to Support Energy Policy Formulation and Evaluation

Press release (in Norwegian): Utforming av helhetlig energipolitikk

John Pastor Ansah

Public Indebtedness and Fiscal Policy Restructuring for Socio-Economic Development

Press release (in Norwegian): Offentlig gjeld og utvikling i Ghana

2008

Muhammad Azeen Qureshi

Financial Policy Structuring for National Development Planning

Press release (in Norwegian): Utviklingsarbeid må være menneskesentrert

Sameh Gharib 

Synthesizing System Dynamics and Geographic Information Systems in a new method to Model and Simulate Environmental Systems

Press release (in Norwegian): Simuleringsmodeller i GIS for ressurs- og miljøstudier

2007

David Wheat

The Feedback Method: A System Dynamics Approach to Teaching Macroeconomics

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvordan undervise makroøkonomi?

Johannes Wiik 

Dynamics of Incident Response Effectiveness – A System Dynamics Approach

Press release (in Norwegian): Virkningsfull håndtering av IT-sikkerhetshendelser

2006

Marcelo Milrad

Designing Interactive Learning Environments to Support Learners’ Understanding in Complex Domains

Press release (in Norwegian):IKT, komplekse problem og læring

Santiago Arango

Essays on commodity cycles based on expanded Cobweb experiments of electricity markets

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvorfor svinger råvareprisene?

2004   

Agata Sawicka 

Dynamics of Security Compliance: Case of IT-based Work Environments

Press release (in Norwegian): Hvorfor følges ikke sikkerhetsrutiner?