Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and global temperatures have increased steadily over the past 100 years (IPCC, 2018). Greenhouse gases, such as CO2, and their emissions from soils play an important role in shaping future climate scenarios. Soil microorganisms are responsible for the turnover of soil organic matter and the release of CO2 to the atmosphere (Hartley et al., 2008), thereby ...

The Earth is in constant movement around the Sun – this has created environments with changing light throughout the day and year. Through evolution animals have adapted to this change in light and circadian and circannual rhythms have evolved to enhance fitness and survival. Animals living in the Arctic region have a different relationship to light changes as for several months a year the Sun ...

Fra en ung alder har menn internalisert kjønnsstereotypier av hva det vil si å være en "ekte" mann. Maskulinitetstrussel er frykten en mann opplever når de internaliserte kjønnsstereotypene ikke opprettholdes, de føler at maskuliniteten deres blir truet. I denne studien tar vi sikte på å undersøke om det å fremheve viktigheten av omsorgstrekk for mannlige studenter – men ikke kvinnelige studenter – ...

This thesis studies a case of indigenous and non-indigenous relations in Jämtland, Sweden. The studied area is subject to multiple interests in land-use, and this study focuses on the relation between indigenous Sámi reindeer herding and outdoor tourism. The area has a long history of both mountain tourism and reindeer herding, but in recent years tourism has increased to new levels and the Sámi ...

This thesis explores the concept of sacred in Sápmi, tracing the trails of its existence through the historical past into more contemporary ideologies affecting recent events. This inquiry attempts to describe the essence of Sámi self-consciousness through their unique tradition of interconnectedness, by asking if the concept of sacred has value and place in the struggles of the Sámi of today, to ...

Fremveksten av virtuelt arbeid og bruken av virtuelle teams i organisasjoner, ble intensivert av den nylige globale COVID-19-pandemien, og derved også behovet for å forstå hvordan en leders effektivitet kan bli påvirket i virtuelle arbeids kontekster. Denne studien undersøker den potensielt modererende rollen til transformasjonsledelse på forholdet mellom virtuelle teams og leder effektivitet, gjennom ...

The Barents Sea is a shelf sea in the European Arctic and is influenced by the North Atlantic Current and the Arctic Ocean. The North Atlantic Current is composed of warmer, saline waters compared to the cold, fresher waters from the Arctic Ocean. Over the last century, the Barents Sea mean temperature has increased by 1.5°C above a depth of 60m and by 0.5-0.8°C below 60m. This warming is ...

All over the world, local communities are actively engaging in the management and monitoring of natural resources. The underlying driver of most community-driven efforts goes beyond the direct utilization of natural resources to entail a deeper relation to the place or ecosystem they are managing. Relational values have been suggested as a potential driver of such initiatives, but empirical research ...

We identified a ca. 180 Ma diamondiferous lamproite event in Zambia, establishing a link between ultrapotassic volcanism and the early Jurassic Karoo flood basalt province of sub-Saharan Africa. The cratonic lamproites erupted through the Permo–Triassic Luangwa Rift structure, but MgO-rich ultrapotassic magma formation was unrelated to rifting and triggered by plume–lithosphere interactions during ...

This thesis uses a content analysis approach to provide a summary of what extent the tourism policy is influenced by Indigenous Peoples, with a clear focus on the Sámi, in the Sápmi region, through a description of existing policies created with the involvement of the Sámi Parliaments, and related to the tourism industry. A thesis on indigenous tourism policy created with the direct involvement of ...