The high seas provide a variety of ecosystem services that benefit society. There have, however, been few attempts to quantify the human welfare impacts of changes to the delivery of these benefits. We assessed the values of several key ecosystem service benefits derived from protecting ecosystems in the high seas of the Flemish Cap through choice experiments conducted in Canada, Norway, and Scotland. ...

Increasing demand for valuation of ecosystem services has led stated preference methods to be applied to public goods that are increasingly complex and unfamiliar. Traditionally, stated preference surveys were conducted via mail or face-to-face interviews, but over the past two decades internet panels have been used to a larger extent. As we move away from traditional methods of survey administration ...

Oppgavens første spørsmål ”Er vane et entydig begrep, eller står vi ovenfor flere typer av vaner?” er hovedfokus for oppgaven, altså hvorvidt ulike årsaker kan føre til ulike vanetyper, med ulike utfall. Middagen ble valgt for å studere vaner, siden den repeteres daglig og i stabile rammer med en viss grad av variasjon (Khare & Inman, 2006). Problemstillingens andre del, ”i hvilken grad blir ...

Chemical responses of tundra vegetation and tundra soil to environmental changes are likely to differ, with implications for ecosystem functioning, yet they are rarely compared. Here, we aimed at comparing sensitivity and magnitude of short-term carbon and nitrogen responses of three main tundra ecosystem compartments: vascular plants, mosses, and soil, to two environmental perturbations: herbivore ...

The introduced red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) has successfully established in Norwegian waters since its release to the Barents Sea in the 1960’s. It has become an important commercial resource contributing to the local coastal society in the eastern region of Finnmark. The fishery consists of one quota regulated area east of 26° (North Cape) and an open fishery west of 26°E. During the ...

Benthic invertebrate communities play a fundamental role in lake ecosystems, and the understanding of how those benthic communities are structured, particularly in terms of the identity and spatiotemporal distribution of their functional traits, is key to our understanding of how lake ecosystems work. In Takvatn, a subarctic lake in northern Norway, we identified the taxonomic and functional identity ...

Varsling (eller Whistleblowing) blir i mange tilfeller sammenlignet med tysting, sladring og angiveri. Dette har ført til at mange arbeidstakere som har varslet om kritikkverdige forhold i selskapet de jobber i, har møtt stor motstand i form av oppsigelser, suspensjoner, endring av arbeidsoppgaver og lignende. Varslerne Kari Breirem og Per-Yngve Monsen fra henholdsvis Tønne-saken og Siemens-skandalen ...

The purpose of this study was to go beyond an oversimplified representation of the vegan food experience and approach the investigation of such experience, in particular of happiness deriving from food choices, including factors at the macro and micro level. Broadening the concept of foodscape to emphasize the experiential aspect of food, this study explored how the vegan food experience can be ...

Forsvaret er avhengige av sivilt utdannet personell i enkelte kategorier når denne kompetansen ligger utenfor organisasjonen. Sykepleiere er et slikt eksempel hvor de er med på å drifte sykestuer eller fungerer som operativt personell i Hæren og brigaden. Dette er kompetanse som viser seg å være utfordrende å holde i organisasjonen da operative sykepleiere ofte slutter i Forsvaret for å finne jobb ...