Trucks driving out of Oslo with stone and excess materials from construction sites account for about 40 percent of the annual CO2 emissions from heavy transport. A new research project has delved into the topic but finds little information and environmental regulation.
Prisons in the USA are testing out the Scandinavian prison model with promising results. However, budget cuts in Scandinavia puts the world-famed model under considerable pressure, according to researcher Synøve Nygaard Andersen.
What makes some Muslim men living in Norway become radicalized and others not? There is no simple answer, according to Uzair Ahmed's Ph.D. dissertation, for which he is awarded the King's Gold Medal. Keywords like exclusion, poor economy, racism, crime, and religion are, however, part of the explanation.
"The boundary between the private and the professional has been blurred since Russia invaded Ukraine", says social geographer and professor Michael Gentile. He has close contact with colleagues in Ukraine and has visited the country six times since the Russian invasion.
