The Arctic is undergoing rapid changes, both environmentally and politically, and the Arctic states as well as non-Arctic actors are working to establish a presence, secure national interests and natural resources in the High North. Canada is an interesting player in this unpredictable region, with the potential to become an Arctic great power. Canada is the world’s second largest country, over 40% ...

Scholars have often studied social, political and economic factors affecting trust. This article considers the relationship between spatial location and trust in politicians. We hypothesise that the centre‒periphery framework developed by Stein Rokkan has explanatory value for the study of trust in politicians. By using multilevel regression analysis on a large-N survey on a crucial case (Norway), ...

Online self-help groups multiply peoples' possibilities to exchange information and social support. Such possibilities are expected to be of crucial value for the 'new' healthcare user. However, similar to experiences from face-to-face based groups, studies of online self-help groups report high drop-out rates. Knowledge about why this happens is scarce. By means of qualitative interviews and ...

This ethnographic study explores and compares the relationships that locals in Rossfjord, North Norway, have to the oystercatcher and the sea-going Arctic char respectively. Both these animals are highly valued locally, while the valuations at first look very different. The oystercatcher is protected by building bin-cases for its nesting, while the Arctic char is killed and eaten. Discussing these ...

China's increasing participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations reached a milestone in 2013 when Beijing agreed to send a large detachment of personnel, including combat forces for the first time, to support UN peacekeeping operations in Mali after that country fell into civil war. This commitment was also distinct in that unlike other African countries where Beijing has supplied peacekeepers, ...

The article examines China’s Arctic policy features and the meaning of the first published White Paper of 2018 for the future behaviours of the PRC. The author reviews the interests of the PRC in the High North, and the political objectives and means. The article pays special attention to the origins of Chinese policy in the Arctic, including the national strategy, expert discourse and regional ...

Chinese presence in the Nordic Arctic is increasing, but whereas many large-scale initiatives such as mining projects, trade deals or political alliances have yet to materialise, tourism encounters between Chinese visitors and Nordic Arctic communities are already happening. We use tourism as a lens and bring together perspectives and empirical examples from various disciplines, including international ...

In the face of the complexity of the interconnected processes involved in the relationships between cities and climate change this report researches the carbon-neutral city through a Bacchi-inspired governmentality lens, where the focus lies on how the physical structure and the technological choices are shaped and made in and through discursive problem representations. The field of carbon-neutral ...

This thesis investigates the challenges and consequences connected to translating a co-creation process from the urban setting of Tromsø to the rural setting of Hansnes. Co-creation is a tool that has increasingly gained popularity in relation to modern urban planning. It connects issues that exist in planning with the specialised technical knowledge of experts and citizen involvement, allowing for ...

I denne oppgaven ser jeg nærmere på hvordan man bruker coaching i en moderne bedrift. I og med at det moderne samfunnet har kommet med mange nye teknologiske utviklinger og dette legger press på arbeidstakerne har det oppstått mange ekspertsystemer. Disse ekspertsystemene har mange forskjellige oppgaver. Coaching er et av disse ekspertsystemene som skal hjelpe individer til personlig utvikling, ...