Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography最新文献

{"title":"Significant increase in negative impacts on vegetation and soils at informal campsites in a Norwegian national park in the period 1988–2020","authors":"Ø. Aas, Sindre Kolstad Valan, M. Evju, O. Vistad","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2061372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2061372","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study surveyed changes in vegetation and soil impacts at informal campsites due to visitors in much-visited areas of Femundsmarka National Park, Norway. Data from 1988 were compared with almost similar data in 2020. In general, the number of informal campsites, areas free of vegetation, and the number of damaged trees in 2020 had increased compared with in 1988. The most dramatic change was the increase in damage to trees, which was almost four times as high in 2020 as in 1988, even in cases where the surveyed area around campsites was smaller (campsite + 5 m radius) in 2020 compared to 1988 (campsite + 10 m). The authors conclude there should be systematic monitoring of recreation ecology combined with targeted management actions aimed at curbing and reducing the impacts of recreation on the conservation value of the national park. They also conclude that a regular monitoring programme is needed to control further development of negative ecological impacts from recreation.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84048082","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}

{"title":"The Rural Enterprise Economy","authors":"B. Sæther","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2049861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2049861","url":null,"abstract":"The book is motivated by considerations concerning the lack of social and economic progress in rural areas across Europe, particularly in Northern Europe. The foreword refers to the influential research by Andres RodríguezPose and his colleagues as an important source of inspiration. The book certainly contributes a rich collection of empirical findings and theoretical reflections on a topic that, arguably, is still under-researched. Part I introduces the book and places it briefly within a larger context of rural development. A distinction between rural enterprise development and rural entrepreneurship is used to organize the book in Parts II and III. Most of the contributors are institutional economists, and some of them who can be characterized as ‘neo-Porterian’ are located in Portugal, Germany, and the Nordic countries. Some of the authors refer to work within economic geography, but debates on, for example, related variety are not included in the discussions. The book is dedicated to providing answers to some unresolved questions concerning rural enterprises in the business and economics literature. The editors ask whether the rural enterprise is a specific firm or company in a rural location. If so, how can it be described, characterized, and understood? The question is raised as to whether rurality is a specific and unavoidable condition that enterprises must deal with, or an intentional lifestyle choice by the entrepreneur who settles because of the amenities in the rural location. The editors clarify the question by asking whether there are enterprises in rural contexts, meaning specifically rural enterprises. These are timely and important questions, which are investigated through a businessand economics-centred approach in 14 chapters, covering a broad range of topics from hidden champions in Germany to firms operating across the Norwegian–Russian border. While a couple of chapters have little to bring to the empirical or theoretical table, other chapters shed light on the major questions of the book. Thus, the edited book is well structured and positioned to contribute substantially to the literature in the field. However, it would have been an even better book if two or three of the chapters had been omitted. The first chapters in Part II are rich theoretically and empirically. The chapter on the hidden strengths of rural enterprises in Germany represents the major theoretical contribution of the book. The author argues that rural locations are viewed as lagging, secondary locations compared with urban locations in much of the research within economics. To compensate for this, the chapter sets out to combine the theory of comparative advantage in mainstream economics with ideas on competitive advantage from evolutionary economics. The author has identified vibrant economic development in locations with sparse labour markets and knowledge infrastructure in Germany. She is specially interested in the valuable, rare, and non-substituta","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84018392","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}

{"title":"Field analysis of industrial development in a peripheral region of Norway","authors":"Roger Normann, Mikaela Vasstrøm, Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2065356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2065356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper explores how industrial development can occur in a peripheral region through the gradual development of strategic coherence between organisations, materiality, and agency. In a longitudinal case study of how the mechatronics industry became a main area for regional development spanning 50 years in the region of Agder in Norway, the authors have followed how national and regional innmovation policies, individual actors, and organisational strategies eventually flow together and influence organisations and firms to collaborate towards new and shared aims. In the paper, the authors perform field theory analysis, with emphasis on the significance of the development of reciprocal relations between institutions, understood as authorities, businesses, and universities, and strategic agency within and between strategic action fields. They question how industrial development in a peripheral region can be understood through a strategic action fields framework. The findings reveal that development of the industry spanned the evolution from small-scale entrepreneurial engineering activities in the 1960s to a regional innovation system and National Centre of Excellence with global knowledge hub ambitions in the 2010s. In conclusion, the analysis shows how mechatronics achieved a central role in regional development through common action between previously decoupled academic and industrial strategic action fields.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87933381","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}

{"title":"Naturgeografi i skulefaget geografi: Kva fortel høyringa til læreplanreforma LK 2020 om synet på naturgeografi blant lærarar?","authors":"Per Jarle Sætre","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2033829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2033829","url":null,"abstract":"Samandrag Den nye læreplanen fagfornyinga (LK 2020) hadde forslag om store endringar for geografifaget i grunnskule og vidaregåande skule. Artikkelen analyserer høyringssvar til reforma frå grunnskular og vidaregåande skular. Formålet med studien er å belyse synet på og forståinga av naturgeografi i skulefaget geografi og i skulefaget samfunnsfag slik det kjem fram frå høyringa frå skular. Analysen viser at det er stor forskjell i synet på skulefaget geografi mellom lærarar i grunnskolen og vidaregåande skule. Lærarar i geografi i vidaregåande skule har sterk identitet til faget og naturgeografi blir sett på som ein sentral del av geografiundervisninga, mens lærarar i samfunnsfaget i grunnskulen i liten grad er opptatt av naturgeografi som emne i samfunnsfagundervisninga.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75987193","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}

{"title":"The mediating role of cash slack in the related variety and sales growth relationship: Evidence from Norway","authors":"R. Lu, Z. Zong, T. Reve, Qing Song","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2032821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2032821","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of the paper is to uncover how related industrial variety influences firms’ sales growth through firms’ cash slack. The authors applied a causal steps approach and causal mediation analysis to a very large number of observations covering more than three-quarters of Norway’s municipalities. They found that cash slack had a mediation effect in the negative relationship between related variety and sales growth, and that the regression results were robust. They conclude that the results of the study expand both related variety studies by providing a theoretical microlevel foundation, and firm growth theory by showing that cash slack is a concrete mechanism connecting external industrial environment and firm growth.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82342960","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}

{"title":"Institutional work, regional key actors, and green industrial restructuring","authors":"Arnt Fløysand, Svein Gunnar Sjøtun, S. Jakobsen, Rune Njøs, Helge Lea Tvedt, Martin Gjelsvik, J. Aarstad","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2040586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2040586","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Departing from evolutionary economic geography, the objective of the article is to reveal the dynamics of institutional work by regional key actors with a need to achieve green restructuring in regions dependent on the oil and gas industry. The authors combine quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how, why, and when regional stakeholders’ institutional work contributes, or not, to changing institutional logics that enable green industrial restructuring in the regional innovation systems of two adjacent petroleum-dominated regions in Norway. The main finding is that despite shared positive visions in both regions for green industrial restructuring, the processes of institutional work and related institutional logics respectively legitimize a green shift in Hordaland and delegitimize it in Rogaland. Consequently, there is a need to remain mindful of institutional work’s connection to regional and often taken-for-granted institutional logics. In conclusion, the authors argue that the findings challenge the current IW discourse within economic geography, which has tended to explain green regional industrial restructuring as outcomes of intended agency leading to successful outcomes.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75715403","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}

{"title":"Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes: The difficult school route and how it was managed during the emergence of the Swedish folkskolan, 1840–1930","authors":"Annika Strandin Pers, Maja Lagerqvist, A. Björklund","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2032322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2032322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Sweden, common elementary schools (folkskolan) were introduced in the 1840s. As a consequence, children started walking to and from school several days per week. The school route, as both place and practice, impacted society and families; it created new ways and needs in everyday life. From a time-geographic perspective, the article investigates children’s mobility in everyday life in order to understand what walking to school encompassed. Moreover, whereas the common narrative of school routes in the past emphasizes distances and challenges of the journeys it often omits the adult world’s comprehension and involvement. The aim of the article is to increase understandings of the school route as a phenomenon and its meanings in everyday life from a historical perspective. Through qualitative analysis of memoirs and societal discussions, the authors focus on the difficulties (conceptualized as “weights”) that the school routes could entail and how the adult world tried to manage them (conceptualized as “reliefs”). One conclusion is that society and families were aware of, and tried to deal with, those hardships, and a second is that the school route was more than a distance. In this regard, variations in families’ geographical and socioeconomic positions and the physical landscape played crucial roles.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80571143","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}

{"title":"The embedding of universities in innovation ecosystems: The case of marine research at the University of Bergen","authors":"R. E. Taxt, Douglas K. R. Robinson, A. Schoen, Arnt Fløysand","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2022.2041718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2041718","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While historically the core missions of universities have been research and teaching, it has become increasingly recognised that universities have become significant sources of knowledge and capabilities. This third mission is cementing the role of universities as suppliers of qualified labour and generators of knowledge and technologies that promote innovation in a variety of innovation ecosystems. The main goal of the paper is to illustrate an approach that captures the various contributions of universities to their innovation ecosystems. Often territorially bounded, such links provide insights into the characteristics and geography of the various linkage for a university. With the case of the University of Bergen and its role within the marine innovation ecosystem of Western Norway, this ‘ecosystem fingerprint’, can be seen as a useful means to clarify the third mission of universities through the linkages and interdependencies with various actors. The authors demonstrate that a university can act both as a global pipeline provider and take active part in the local buzz, providing this concept with new empirical insight. The authors conclude that the university is highly embedded in both the marine innovation ecosystem and the knowledge ecosystem, but with linkages extended to interconnected business ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81857611","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}

{"title":"Referees 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00125-022-05677-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-022-05677-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73772911","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}

{"title":"Pathways to the trail – landscape, walking and heritage in a Scandinavian border region","authors":"Dan-Magnus Svensson, S. Sörlin, Katarina Saltzman","doi":"10.1080/00291951.2021.1998216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2021.1998216","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Can walking trails be understood not only as routes to history and heritage, but also as heritage in and of themselves? The paper explores the articulation of trails as a distinct landscape and mobility heritage, bridging the nature-culture divide and building on physical and intellectual movements over time. The authors aim to contribute to a better understanding of the geography of trails and trailscapes by analysing the emergence of the Swedish-Norwegian trail Finnskogleden. The trail is situated in the border region spanning the former county of Hedmark in present-day Innlandet County, south-eastern Norway, and Värmland County in mid-western Sweden, a forested area where Finnish-speaking immigrants settled from the 16th century to the early 20th century. Archives, literature, interviews, and field visits were used to analyse the emergence and governance of the trail. The main finding is the importance of continuous articulation work by local and regional stakeholders, through texts, maps, maintenance, and mobility. In conclusion, the Finn forest trailscape and its mobility heritage can be seen as an articulation of territory over time, a multilayered process drawing on various environing technologies, making the trail a transformative part of a trans-border political geography.","PeriodicalId":46764,"journal":{"name":"Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85967873","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}