Svalbard er et lite arktisk øysamfunn som betegnes som et rotasjonssamfunn. Høy turnover av ansatte i Longyearbyens beredskapsorganisasjoner har gjentatte ganger blitt fremhevet som en utfordring for erfarings- og kunnskapsoverføring (DSB, 2016), og for kontinuiteten i arbeidet med samfunnssikkerhet- og beredskap. Etter det fatale snøskredet i 2015 ble etablering av en systematikk som ivaretar ...

On May 17, 2022, Finland sent a membership application for NATO. This was a historic decision that will change the European security environment and relations in the High North. It was also a historically surprising turn of events, given Finland's long-lasting policy of neutrality, and the fact that in the autumn of 2021 only 26 percent of Finns supported the NATO membership. This thesis aims ...

As presented by UNESCO (2021) "the protection of culture is not only a cultural issue; it has become a security imperative". This thesis by following the UNESCO Recommendation, refers to the fields of culture, cultural representations, critical studies through the theory of decolonisation of knowledge. Using concepts of cultural appropriation, cultural appreciation, escapism, and colonial nostalgia ...

The Easter Rising was a pivotal moment in the fight for Irish independence and retains a potent place in Irish Republican mythology. Memory of the Rising has frequently centered the men, particularly those who were executed in its aftermath and so became Republican martyrs. This thesis explores Republican women’s memories of the Rising, through analysis of four memoirs of the period. I identify six ...

The introduction of bulk interception (in Norwegian: “tilrettelagt innhenting”) into the Norwegian intelligence service’s toolbox represents both a continuation of the long-standing security-liberty debate, and a significant development in Norwegian security policy. This development puts Norwegian democracy in a new and difficult situation to navigate, in order to achieve a proper balance of ...

Sámi yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat are the subjects of this thesis, which examines music as a form of activism through an ethnographic lens. The study's primary focus is an anthropological examination of Sámi music performances and oral histories. The Sámi are an indigenous people that live in northern Fennoscandia, which includes Norway, Finland, Sweden, and the Russian Kola Peninsula. The Federal ...

Climate warming generally induces poleward range expansions and equatorward range contractions of species’ environmental niches on a global scale. Here, we examined the direction and magnitude of species biomass centroid geographic shifts in relation to temperature and depth for 83 fish species in 9,522 standardised research trawls from the North Sea (1998–2020) to the Norwegian (2000–2020) and ...

Pollution is one of the main anthropogenic threats to marine ecosystems. Studies analysing the accumulation and transfer of contaminants in planktonic food webs tend to rely on samples collected in discrete water bodies. Here, we assessed the representativeness of measurements at the chlorophyll-a maximum layer during the MERITEHIPPOCAMPE cruise for the entire water column by investigating the ...

Climate sensitivity is the change of the global-mean surface temperature in response to a doubling of the CO2 concentration. It is typically used to describe climate change and to inform decision-making for mitigation and adaptation. Climate sensitivity is often estimated in numerical climate model experiments. A remarkable result from these experiments is that climate sensitivity changes over time. ...

As a result of regulatory decisions, atmospheric deposition of most toxic metals and metalloids (MEs) has decreased in Europe over the past few decades. However, little is known about how this reduction translates into exposure at higher trophic levels in the terrestrial environment where temporal trends may be spatially heterogeneous due to local current or legacy sources of emissions (e.g., industry) ...