This research looks at the socioeconomic effects between the procurement and use of an electric vehicle compared to a conventional vehicle under today´s policy measures. In order to get a sufficient comparison between electric and vehicles the cost-benefit analysis was chosen. The cost-benefit analysis was done in three separate scenarios, where each scenario included different variables. This was ...

Denne oppgaven utfører en nytte- kostnadsanalyse av en mulig skogsvei til flerbruk i Lyngen. Flere av økosystemtjenestene i området vil kunne påvirkes av en mulig vei, og disse tjenestene blir forsøkt beskrevet, og tallfestes der det er mulig. På nyttesiden er det rekreasjonsverdi og innsparinger i terrengtransport som er de største prissatte komponentene. Investeringskostnader og vedlikeholdskostnader ...

When the twenty-first century began there had over several decades been developed a dominant political discourse where economic growth was the overarching objective of public policy and with the terms of that discourse reflecting a significantly changed acceptance for the market mechanism as the primary way to achieve that end. Moreover, a significant degree of inequality was not only seen as an ...

In the past decades illegal logging and related forest, activities have increasingly been a global concern, especially in forest products producer countries. This phenomenon has high rates in the Cameroon forest sector caused by poverty, poor Law enforcement, lack of transparency, conflicts, state ownership of majority of forested land, and in addition to these, its high rates of corruption. ...

This master thesis examines the dairy industry in Norway. Since World War 2 the total number of farms and farmers has decreased. Even though the dairy sector is developing and becoming more efficient, the milk production has stagnated and led to an increase in import of dairy products. To maintain the political goals; spread settlement, preserving the cultural landscape and food security, the ...

This thesis investigates the geographical variation of excess mortality and excess decline in employment, during the covid-19 pandemic in Norway. The data were collected from Statistics Norway and The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. The method tells you how much the present value are greater or lesser, compared to previous years. Excess mortality and decline in employment were ...

There are different challenges a small- to medium-sized enterprise when they are gathering capital, especially if they carry a lot of risk. The banks have become more stringent because of the Basel Capital Adequacy Requirements, the investors prefer to invest in safer enterprises. Japan has tried to solve this problem by implementing Hometown Investment Trust funds. Hometown Investment Trust funds ...

Denne oppgaven skal ta opp ulike faktorer for hvordan en frittstående bedrift kan være konkurransedyktig i forhold til kjedene. Ryktet til bedriften vil være en av de viktigste faktorene som bidrar til dette. Samtidig er service og garanti også med på å bygge opp ryktet. Hvordan dette ryktet oppnås, er først og fremst avhengig av bedriftens valg av kvalitet til produktene. Jeg har brukt en hovedmodell ...

Electricity is an important resource for an economy and its demand for the last decade have witness a significant increase. This work has as aim to study the impact of electricity insecurity on the performance of small and medium scale businesses in Cameroon within the period of 1980 to 2018. The study made use of time series data within the period of the study and uses two methodological approaches; ...

This research has been conducted to investigate the demand structure of farmed salmon in EU and US markets between 2002 and 2014, and moreover to find the impact of the financial crisis on the demand for farmed salmon. The analysis includes 155 monthly observations from January 2002 to November 2014 in respect of the quantity and value of farmed fresh and frozen salmon exported from Norway, Chile ...