Browsing HVL Open by Journals "Sustainability"
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After the Contagion. Ghost City Centres: Closed “Smart” or Open Greener?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper has three main objectives. It traces the “closed” urban model of city development, critiques it at length, showing how it has led to an unsustainable dead-end, represented in post-Covid-19 “ghost town” status ... -
Alternative Perspectives on Environmental and Sustainability Education: A Study of Curriculum Policies across India, China and Japan
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in the formal sector is evolving rapidly across global contexts. Early Childhood settings are increasingly being seen as fertile grounds for promoting ESE values, attitudes ... -
Applying Blockchain Technology: Evidence from Norwegian Companies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The aim of this study is to develop a theoretical framework for blockchain, operations in particular. Furthermore, we aim to identify the main drivers and barriers of digital innovation and explore the general possibilities ... -
Assessing Spatial Configurations and Transport Energy Usage for Planning Sustainable Communities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Energy usage in cities is intertwined with its spatial configuration—the denser and more compact the city, the more concentrated and efficient the energy usage is to be expected. To achieve sustainable communities, cities ... -
Assessing the Impact of Renewable Energy on Regional Sustainability—A Comparative Study of Sogn og Fjordane (Norway) and Okinawa (Japan)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The drive to expand renewable energies is often in direct conflict with sustainable development goals. Thus, it is important that energy policies account for potential trade-offs. We assess the interlinkages between energy, ... -
Becoming Child and Sustainability — The Kindergarten Teacher as Agency Mobiliser for Sustainability Through Keeping the Concept of the Child in Play
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this article, we seek to theorize the role of the kindergarten teacher as an agency mobiliser for sustainability through keeping the concept of the child in play, ultimately envisioning the child as a knowledgeable and ... -
Benefits and Drawbacks of Coopetition: The Roles of Scope and Durability in Coopetitive Relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The growing importance of cooperative relationships may currently be observed throughout the world. The vast majority of such relationships take the form of coopetition, i.e., the simultaneous existence of cooperation and ... -
Between Privileged and Opperessed? Immigrant Labor Trajectories in Norwegian Long-Term Care.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)An increase in older people coupled with growing life expectancy has created a higher demand for long-term care (LTC) services in the global North. Recruitment of staff with an immigrant background has been a solution to ... -
Beyond the Smart or Resilient City: In Search of Sustainability in the Sojan Thirdspace †
(Journal article, 2023)This paper seeks to explore some of the issues to be welcomed but also warned against in general and’ also specified from an illustrative sample of ‘smart’ projects that caused outcomes that were neither ‘smart’ nor ... -
Bill Hillier’s legacy: Space syntax—a synopsis of basic concepts, measures, and empirical application
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Bill Hillier’s space syntax method and theory enables us to describe the spatial properties of a sustainable city. Empirical testing of the space syntax method over time has confirmed the capacity and innovativeness of ... -
Callous Optimism: On Some Wishful Thinking ‘Blowbacks’ Undermining SDG Spatial Policy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Established students and studies of sustainable urban planning and broader regional varieties of spatial evolution have been seized with ambitions to ‘make the world a better place’. To criticise that ambition would be ... -
Cognitive functioning, physical fitness, and game performance in a sample of adolescent soccer players.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between cognitive functioning, physical fitness, and game performance in a sample of adolescent soccer players. Eighty-five boys from a soccer team in Rincon de la ... -
Comparison between the KPNP and Daedo Protection Scoring Systems through a Technical-Tactical Analysis of Elite Taekwondo Athletes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: In the last two decades, the use of technology has been incorporated into taekwondo, changing the rules of the sport to employ a more objective scoring system. The current electronic Protection Scoring Systems ... -
Dancing as Moments of Belonging: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Dancing as a Relevant Activity for Social and Cultural Sustainability in Early Childhood Education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Individuals’ capacities to contribute to more sustainable living are deeply influenced by their early life experiences. Hence, there is a need to discover which experiences are relevant to young children’s contemporary and ... -
Design and Development of a Fog-Assisted Elephant Corridor over a Railway Track
(Journal article, 2023)Elephants are one of the largest animals on earth and are found in forests, grasslands and savannahs in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa. A country like India, especially the northeastern region, is ... -
Ecocritical engagement with picturebook through literature conversations about Beatrice Alemagne's On a Magical Do-Nothing Day
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article addresses the need for student teachers to experience how to engage ecocritically with children’s literature to be able to support and develop the sustainability competencies of their future students. In order ... -
Effects of COVID-19 Infection Control Measures on the Festival and Event Sector in Poland and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the functioning of the event industry. This article aims to present the impact of infection control measures on the event sector. In addition, the article compares the ... -
Emergence of and learning processes in a civic group resuming prescribed burning in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Coastal Norwegian heathlands have been regularly managed by burning for about 5000 years. This practice, supporting sustainable herbivore production, did, however, seize in the 1950s and was virtually absent ... -
Environmental Restoration in Hydropower Development — Lessons from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Hydropower is expanding globally and is regarded a keymeasure formitigating climate change, but it also results inmajor environmental degradation, both at local scale andmore widely. We can learn lessons about how restoration ... -
Exploring challenges in Space Syntax theory building: The use of positivist and hermeneutic explanatory models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The planning and building of sustainable cities and communities yields operational theories on urban space. The novelty of this paper is that it discusses and explores the challenges for space syntax theory building within ...