Research projects at SUM
The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) carried out a number of research projects, many of them prestigious international projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, the European Research Council, NORAD and others.
- Aideffect
- An inquiry into the epistemology and Ontology of Salmon Farming
- Arne N?ss Project
- Assessing and Supporting NIPI Intervention (ASNI)
- BARENERGI - Appliances: shifting for renewable, refurbishment, purchase and use
- REDD in Bolivia (BOREDD)
- Business-peace agenda in practice
- Creative responses to sustainability (CERES 21)
- China’s belt and road initiative and the future of International Development
- Cholera research laboratory and the glocalization of public health research in Bangladesh: A transnational history
- Communicative circuitry of the green dhift (COGS)
- Concrete dreams, electric aspirations: Tanzania, Norway, and the Pangani Falls and Lower Kihansi hydropower projects
- Constructing African development? Exploring Chinese infrastructure projects in Mozambique
- Consumer socialism: Development, consumption and sustainability in emerging Asia
- Consumption and development in Vietnam’s capitalist transition
- Coping with power cuts (CREE)
- CSR in the sustainable development goal era
- Death of animated meat
- Do customer information programs influence energy consumption?
- Development ethics and human rights as the basis for global poverty reduction
- Dialogue project in Colombia
- Economic, environmental, and political strategies of Central American economic groups
- Effect of migration and remittances on land use change (MIRLU)
- Environmental governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (ENGOV)
- Energy savings – from regulation to realisation (ESPARR)
- Ethics, rights and poverty: Global theory and national practice
- Exploring factors that enhance and restrict women’s empowerment through electrification (EFEWEE)
- From hackathons to health clinics: East African digital innovation toward universal health coverage
- From values to action: supporting Norwegians to act on their pro-environmental values through participatory workshops
- Health as foreign policy
- Health systems strengthening within vaccination programmes (HEALVAC)
- Local perceptions of heritage, development and identities in post-war Croatia
- Human experiences with renewable energy and colonial politics
- Human rights and extreme poverty
- Impact of solar electrification on women in India
- India's footprint in Africa: South-South cooperation and the politics of gifts and reciprocity (INDAF)
- Institutional cooperation between the University of Oslo and the University of Dar es Salaam (PITRO)
- Land use and sustainable development in developing countries (LUPIS)
- Livelihoods in developing countries – LEVE
- Local knowledge and management of Arctic charr
- Locative technologies and the human sense of place: A history of spatial literacy, 1800–2020
- Multi-functional landscapes
- Mineral extraction and indigenous livelihoods
- MultiChina
- Multi-disciplinary approach to explaining differential immunization coverage (SUM MEDIC)
- Negotiating girl power: Empowering women and girls to build sustainable livelihoods
- Neo-pragmatism and human-animal relations
- Network for Asian studies (1996–2024)
- NGOs and the transfer of global maternal health policies – NGOMA
- NORDCLAD-Net
- Northern light emitting diode initiative
- Origins of antitotalitarianism
- Oslo centre for research on environmentally-friendly energy (CREE)
- Overview of key Norwegian contributions to peacebuilding in Guatemala (1996–2015)
- PESILA-REDD
- Politics of disaster governance in Bangladesh
- Pollitical economy of the new authoritarianism: Studying the Venezuelan economic transition from below
- Popular culture: A comparative study of Venezuela and Mexico
- Power from the people? Driving forces and hindrances
- Progress or neglect: Maternal health at the margins
- Public-private cooperation for pandemic preparedness (PANPREP)
- REDD in comparative Perspective: Local and National Governance Issues
- Renewing the Nordic Model (REN)
- Reproductive healthcare costs in West Africa
- Seeds of adaptation in the face of climate change
- Shaping popular politics in India's West Bengal
- Shaping the agenda of Norwegian development policy in the 21st Century
- Solar transitions
- Strengthening capacity for democratic and economic governance in Malawi
- Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM: An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins (STRIVER)
- Sustainable consumption and wellbeing in Peru
- Sustainable energy system for the provision of rural electrification services (PITRO III)
- System of criteria for evaluation of the sustainability of development of Latvia
- The political economy of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- The political economy of the new authoritarianism
- New actors in the governance of epidemic response
- The politics of global public-private nutrition partnerships
- The rural transformations behind the renewable energy-extraction