"I'm Nils, a norwegian masterstudent, and I recently spent 4 months doing an internship at PolGov, UGM. It was a great experience serving as a research assistant at PolGov, enabling me to participate in projects on energy transition, carbon capture, and a book-chapter about Bojonegoro's planned welfare fund. Moreover, we went on fieldwork trips to [...]
"Norway is one of the top destinations in the world to study environmental and natural resource management. Phrases describing my happiness after completing a superb one-semester exchange program with CitRe-Edu at NTNU. Experienced how this country became learning material for the student, about how they treat nature in the first place, commodifying the resources with [...]
Transparency enables the public to obtain information about the operations and structures of a given entity, e.g., government bodies or other powerful actors. In the extractive sector, transparency posits the disclosure of understandable, timely, and salient resource-related information, e.g., contract documents and revenue collection, that will increase the public's awareness of the sector's management. Information [...]
This project takes as its starting point that a number of recent geopolitical, socio-technological and environmental developments are reconfiguring the geographies of extraction worldwide. Taking the ongoing transition to sustainable energy in Europe as its starting point, the aim of this PhD project is to contribute to increased understanding of how these ongoing shifts are [...]
The main problem for the politics of energy transition is the selection of adequate material sources. New energy sources must ensure efficiency, minimal emissions, supply stability, inclusiveness of distribution, and affordability of prices. Rare Earth Elements (REE) is a type of mineral that has high magnetic and conductive properties so that it becomes the choice [...]
