Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2271494
Benjamin Hans Firlus, Roman Martin, Jan Ole Rypestøl
The article contributes to the literature on industrial path development through its focus on asset modification for green path development in the Norwegian outdoor textile industry. The authors dr...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2258145
Kerstin Potthoff, Birgit Kopainsky
The concept of socio-ecological resilience can be used to understand and measure to what degree farming systems are able to handle and adapt to disturbances. The article is based on the application of a framework for resilience assessment in European farming systems to the Norwegian low-intensity ovine and bovine farming systems. The aim is to identify the characteristics of farming systems and important trends in them. Interviews held at county and municipality level, and statistical data revealed that farming systems appeared quite robust, and resource-strong in terms of adhering and adjusting to current and coming environmental and animal welfare regulations, although some coming regulations may put farms under pressure and result in farm exit. Assessing the consequences of development trends envisioned by two scenarios underlines that the provision of goods and services by farming systems may be challenged in the future and that resilience needs to be enhanced. The authors conclude that the current war in Ukraine and its impacts on the food market, as well as the increased electricity prices in Norway, are examples of contextual changes that may challenge agricultural production. In this context, the article can serve as a baseline to reassess the resilience of farming systems.
{"title":"Norwegian low-intensity ovine and bovine farming systems—a resilience perspectivePotthoff, K. & Kopainsky, B. 2023. Norwegian low-intensity ovine and bovine farming systems—a resilience perspective. <i>Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography</i> Vol. 00, 00–00. ISSN 0029-1951.","authors":"Kerstin Potthoff, Birgit Kopainsky","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2023.2258145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2023.2258145","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of socio-ecological resilience can be used to understand and measure to what degree farming systems are able to handle and adapt to disturbances. The article is based on the application of a framework for resilience assessment in European farming systems to the Norwegian low-intensity ovine and bovine farming systems. The aim is to identify the characteristics of farming systems and important trends in them. Interviews held at county and municipality level, and statistical data revealed that farming systems appeared quite robust, and resource-strong in terms of adhering and adjusting to current and coming environmental and animal welfare regulations, although some coming regulations may put farms under pressure and result in farm exit. Assessing the consequences of development trends envisioned by two scenarios underlines that the provision of goods and services by farming systems may be challenged in the future and that resilience needs to be enhanced. The authors conclude that the current war in Ukraine and its impacts on the food market, as well as the increased electricity prices in Norway, are examples of contextual changes that may challenge agricultural production. In this context, the article can serve as a baseline to reassess the resilience of farming systems.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2248997
M. Rosenberg
ABSTRACT Human geography has a history of engaging with place-based-quality products through a variety of concepts such as terroir, geographical indicators (GIs), and fictive places. While the efforts necessary to construct a “taste of place” have been explored, it remains unclear how a “taste of place” is established, and by whom. The article explores how relations between quality, products, and places are produced on the ground. More specifically, it addresses the question of what it takes to reconfigure a “taste of place.” Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2017 concerning a coffee producer in Burundi, the article shows how Burundian coffee was reconfigured from an inferior commodity coffee to a sought-after specialty coffee. The findings show that reconfiguring “a taste of place” requires both material and symbolic quality attributes. By underlining the importance of material quality attributes that are place-dependent, it provides a different angle to the discursive approach to “taste of place” in human geography. The author concludes that creating a “taste of place” requires taming space into a consumable representation of place through discursive and material practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2249480
Mina Di Marino, S. Chavoshi, Torhild Andersen, S. Nenonen
ABSTRACT Since the early 2000s, several developments in technology, as well as in cultural and economic contexts, have dramatically influenced ways of working in the Nordic countries and beyond. However, there is a lack of a clear overview of the increase in New Working Spaces (NWS) (e.g., coworking areas, public libraries and coffee shops equipped as workspaces, and other collaborative hubs). The aim of the article is to explore the possibilities for multilocational work, including the growth of NWS that are gradually appearing in small and medium-sized urban municipalities and in rural municipalities. The authors conducted a literature review, and they studied the phenomenon empirically by providing a comprehensive overview of the NWS spanning all of Norway, with a main focus on the five counties of Vestland, Agder, Innlandet, Nordland, and Viken. In addition to spatial analyses (including concentration, centrality, and types of spaces), semi-structured interviews were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic with the managers of NWS. The sample represented hubs emerging recently opened. The findings revealed that varied opportunities exist for multilocational work, including new forms and places for working, which can contribute to revitalizing several districts. An ongoing need is for policymakers, planners, municipalities, and private investors to address future visions and strategies.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2257210
Svein Olav Krøgli, Linda Aune-Lundberg, Wenche E. Dramstad
The aim of the article is to assess whether agricultural landscapes play a role in the perception of Norway held by tourists and residents. An additional aim is to analyse whether information accompanying images on social media indicate that the photographers have acknowledged the agricultural landscape. The authors used geotagged images uploaded to the image-sharing platform Flickr in their analyses. They selected photos from within the agricultural landscapes, inspected them, and categorized them according to extent and content. Additionally, they analysed the accompanying hashtags. The findings revealed that a large proportion of the photos contained agricultural landscapes, and thus confirmed the importance of the agricultural landscape for visual perception of and access to Norwegian landscapes. In addition, the lack of agricultural-related hashtags strengthened the authors’ suspicions that this might not have been widely recognized by the photographers. Thus, while agricultural landscapes commonly are considered primarily as landscapes of food production, the authors conclude that these landscapes also fulfil other functions and that their contribution to the perception of Norway is important. Additionally, many of the landscape elements seen and analysed in the sample of photos are elements that play a role in providing cultural ecosystem services.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2217817
A. Crowther, S. Petrova, James Evans, K. Scott
ABSTRACT The urgent need to address the current climate crisis has highlighted the need to shift from planning to implementing decarbonisation strategies. Despite the importance of shifting towards the implementation of strategic plans and the increasing ubiquity of place-based approaches to decarbonisation, few studies have considered the dynamic of how place is mobilised and the scales at which narratives are translated into action. The aim of the article is to understand the ways in which place and scale are incorporated into the governance of place-based decarbonisation visions by drawing upon a relational framing. Based on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders and a document review, the article focuses on how place is used to develop and justify two different approaches for supporting localised decarbonisation, Local Area Energy Plans and the Energy Innovation Agency in Greater Manchester, UK, a city region aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by 2038. The findings reveal that achieving localised decarbonisation ambitions is contingent upon the interaction between multiple places and scales, as well as the need for an overarching guiding framework. The authors conclude that Greater Manchester’s decarbonisation ambitions incorporate both absolute and imagined understandings of place, with place being both created and mobilised to achieve decarbonisation ambitions.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2225068
Anne Karam, Shayan Shokrgozar
ABSTRACT Following the “green” growth tradition, the construction of lower carbon energy (renewable energy) infrastructures, such as wind power, has gained prominence in Norway. This has led to indigenous Saami herders confronting pastureland dispossession, some citizens fearing the industrialization of nature, and municipal councils losing formal governance power in favor of national agencies and private-sector project developers—justified by the urgency of the climate crisis. The purpose of the paper is to explore how energy infrastructures aimed at decarbonization have led to social fragmentation and ecological degradation alongside claims of economic revitalization potential in Åfjord. The authors draw upon fieldwork conducted within Saepmie (or Sápmi), the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi, and investigate the Fosen Vind energy project in the Åfjord Municipality. They find that lower carbon energy infrastructures, such as “wind farms,” have been normalized as unavoidable, and damage to habitat and encroachment on Saami livelihoods are positioned as necessary sacrifices for the greater good of fighting the climate crisis. The authors conclude that avoiding the creation of green sacrifice zones in making low-carbon places requires a more transformative vision than the visions offered by techno-solutionism, such as degrowth.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2233967
Siddharth Sareen, Jens Kaae Fisker, Shayan Shokrgozar, T. Sattich
How are low-carbon places made/to be made? This question, which is tightly bound up with the politics and practical challenges of rapidly achieving ambitious climate change mitigation targets, is one that confronts scholars, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Taking this central focus as a common point of departure, the five articles in this special issue ofNorsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography explore the fertility of placing emphasis on a combination of three key terms: making, low carbon, and places. Our editorial introduction provides a conceptual anchoring for each of these terms, reflects on how the phenomena (making as a processual ontological phenomenon, low carbon as a sociotechnical flow phenomenon, and places as a situated stock-cum-flow phenomenon co-produced by infrastructures and practices) entangle and evolve together, and provides an overview of the contributions in this special issue. The editorial concludes with reflections on making low-carbon places for future research. We emphasise the importance of relational analyses of change processes, place-specific approaches to the study of sociotechnical transitions, and the recognition of how low-carbon place-making implicates the intertwined nature of power relations, individual agency, and path dependencies in built environments. In a time when rapid climate change mitigation ambitions have led governments at multiple levels – from the global and national to the urban, neighbourhood, and community – to embrace time-bound targets for carbon neutrality and climate neutrality, the question of how low-carbon places are made/to be made gains salience. This question has long interested human geographers with a broader focus on place-making predominantly at lower spatial scales, but importantly also translocal and nested spatial scales, and increasingly over the past decade (i.e. since the early 2010s) also transition scholars who have mobilised various conceptual lenses on how to enable low-carbon development at multiple levels. It is timely and important to unite this focus across thematic and interdisciplinary scholarship, in light of the many efforts underway to make low-carbon places for sustainability transitions. In the following three subsections, we open up lines of enquiry in extant scholarship on making, low carbon, and places. Thereafter, we briefly consider how these terms and phenomena come together from the vantage points of several competencies as interdisciplinary environmental social scientists within the editorial team in energy transitions, human geography, and political ecology, and we are mindful that the span of individual interests and expertise overlaps several of these fields. This conceptual and scholarly grounding equips us to offer an overview of the five articles in this collection, with a view to highlighting their implications to advance understanding of making low-carbon places. Finally, we conclude this introduction by highlightin
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2023.2206407
Tori Holmes, Carla De Laurentis, Rebecca Windemer
ABSTRACT The making of low-carbon places is crucial for achieving decarbonisation, but where are such places made? In extending and combining existing research and ideas, the authors take electricity networks as their starting point to study what they term three ‘infrastructure junctions’, which are places where various practices and processes, with material, spatial, and temporal features, collide and combine in ways that shape the power geometries of low-carbon place-making. The authors find that the junctions reveal the conflictual and consensual dimensions of low-carbon transitions and how these features shape and are shaped by the ordering and management of networked hardware. Some features are shared, such as an overarching faith in large-scale provision and unabated demand, whereas others are more unique and rooted in specific contextual realities. Such insights support attempts to assess, steer, and accelerate low-carbon place-making as a relational process that is manifest and mediated through infrastructure. The authors conclude that infrastructure junctions offer ripe grounds to examine where, how, when, and for whom low-carbon places are in the making.
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