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12.03.2012
New article: Feminism without gender? Arguments for gender quotas on corporate boards in Norway
Lack of women in boardrooms and management has been a common feature of corporate and agricultural sectors in Norway. In both sectors, quota reforms have been implemented in order to change this situation. This chapter analyses the reasons given for applying gender quotas.
09.11.2011
New article: Increasing Food and Energy Prices in 2008: What Were the Causes and Who Was to Blame.
In a recent article in International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food (IJSAF), Jostein Brobakk and Reidar Almås has studied the drivers behind the events leading up to the 2008 food crisis.
09.11.2011
New article: Local small-scale food enterprises: ambitions and initiatives for achieving business growth
In the article that has been published in Journal of Depopulation and Rural Development studies do Hilde Bjørkhaug and Gunn Turid Kvam explore reasons for and plans for growth among these producers.
21.10.2011
New article: Women in boardrooms: Catalyst for professionalization of board work?
In the article, published in Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (Journal of Gender Research) Hilde Bjørkhaug explore the relationship between gender quotas and professionalization of boards.
12.10.2011
New project: Cooperation to enhance coastal tourism development
The project Coast Tour will produce new knowledge about different aspects of cooperation in the development of coastal tourism.
06.09.2011
New article: The uplands after neoliberalism? The role of the small farm in rural sustainability
In the article, published in Journal of Rural Studies, Mark Shucksmith and Katrina Rønningen discuss the situation for small farms in Scotland and in Norway.
05.09.2011
New article: Second home owners’ pursuit of interests in the host community
Many second home owners demand rights, benefits, and influence in their host community, and in the article 'Rural residents’ opinions about second home owners’ pursuit of own interests in the host community', Maja Farstad examines how second home owners in pursuit of their interests can gain acceptance among local residents.
02.09.2011
New article: Rurals are positive towards second homes
In the new article 'Conflicts and contestations. Rural populations' perspectives on the second homes phenomenon', published in Journal of Rural Studies, Johan Fredrik Rye discusses the relationships between local rural populations and the visiting second home population in the Norwegian context.
02.09.2011
New article: Second homes and rurality
Recent developments relating to the second homes phenomenon are intertwined with fundamental changes in the character of rurality in Norwegian society, write Johan Fredrik Rye and Nina Gunnerud Berg in their new article 'The second home phenomenon and Norwegian rurality' published in Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography.
12.08.2011
Researchers from CRR at the XXIV ESRS Congress
At the XXIV European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, 16 papers from researchers at the CRR will be presented. In addition, researchers from the centre will lead four of the working groups at the conference.
11.08.2011
New article: The Norwegian coastal employment system
Together with Signe Sønvisen and Jahn Petter Johnsen (Norwegian College of Fishery Science), Jostein Vik has written the article “The Norwegian coastal employment system: What it was and what it is“, published in Maritime Studies (MAST).
08.08.2011
New article: Good Farmers, Good Neighbours?
Lee-Ann Sutherland (James Hutton Institute) and Rob J. F. Burton have a new article in Sociologia Ruralis no. 3 2011. The article is titled "Good Farmers, Good Neighbours? The Role of Cultural Capital in Social Capital Development in a Scottish Farming Community".
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