28 research outputs found

    Sikkerhet på hurtigbåter : En oppfølgende intervjuundersøkelse

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    -Denne rapporten oppsummerer en intervjuundersøkelse som ble gjennomført som en oppfølging av en spørreskjemaundersøkelse (Fenstad et al., 2012). Det ble i alt intervjuet 28 blant mannskaper og administrativt ansatte om sikkerhet i hurtigbåtnæringen. Informantene vurderer at sikkerhet har blitt et viktigere tema i hurtigbåtnæringen de senere årene. Det er utarbeidet kvalitets- og sikkerhetsstyringssystemer i tråd med ISM- koden. Bruken av systemene støter imidlertid an mot «sjømannskulturen», som vektlegger erfaringsbaserte arbeidsmåter og hvor «papirarbeid» omtales i negative ordelag. Mannskapene ombord anser at bemanningen om bord er for knapp dersom de oppstår nødsituasjoner. Dette settes i sammenheng med konkurransesituasjonen som rederiene er i, særlig gjennom anbudsregimet. Man ønsker at Sjøfartsdirektoratet benytter seg mer av kompetansen som ligger i næringen. Vi foreslår noen tema for et arbeidsseminar for rederier og Sjøfartsdirektoratet avslutningsvis i rapporten.

    How waste becomes value

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    This chapter explores how industrial waste products achieve value, by investigating innovation processes with the objective of utilizing surplus heat. The potential for reducing primary energy consumption by utilizing surplus heat from industry processes is significant. Essential to this is the need to frame surplus heat as a commodity and assign it a value. Drawing on studies of 14 surplus heat exchanges in Norway, we show how such valuation processes vary across localities. We find three different modes of valuating surplus heat, as either a market commodity, a common good, or a gift between a company and the community. The chapter discusses the benefits and challenges connected to these ways of valuating and organizing the exchange of by-products, and provides recommendations for how government actors and firms can facilitate them from the bottom up. We discuss the possibilities of integrating insights on valuation processes into innovation perspectives on circular economy.illustrato

    Variability and resilience in industrial symbiosis for energy exchange

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    While exchange of surplus energy between companies can be economic beneficial and environmentally friendly, such inter-organizational integration of industrial rhythms imposes dependencies and uncertainties for the companies involved. This paper expands on the structural focus of studies of resilience in industrial symbiosis by addressing the social and organizational aspects of adapting to variability. The study is based on case studies in three industry clusters in Norway where companies engage in collaboration concepts and exchange surplus energy streams such as heat, CO-rich off-gas and CO2. The paper shows how formal and informal aspects of the interorganizational collaborations can add resilience to socio-technical-economic systems for energy exchange that face uncertainties to the flow of operations and the viability of the systems.publishedVersio

    Konstruksjonen av et kollektivt energisystem: En kvalitativ casestudie av energisamarbeidet mellom bedriftene i Kviamarka industriklynge

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    What’s the magic word? What we talk about when we talk about energy efficiency

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    Energy efficiency has become an integrated and common concept both in modern language and public discourse, and central for policies directed to mitigate climate change as well as competitiveness. Yet definitions and effects of energy- efficiency and reduction is still an ongoing debate within academic discourse. This article investigate how industrial energy efficiency is framed and features in media narratives. Media discourses both reflect and shape public opinion and essentially the political sphere, calling for an improved understanding of how energy efficiency features in public discourse. The paper is based on a media analysis of 309 articles featuring “industrial energy efficiency” in a selection of Norwegian newspapers in the period between 2013-2017. We find numerous different framings of energy efficiency in the articles, where the authors draw on various notions of relative and absolute reduction in consumption, indicators and diffuse system and temporal boundaries. Even more common is the tendency to frame energy efficiency generically without explicit or implicit assumptions about reduction in consumption. The analysis show that energy efficiency is rarely an object of contention or controversy and often not even the topic of the articles itself. Rather it figures in arguments within narratives of climate change mitigation and economic stability and growth. The paper outlines the underlying structures of how energy efficiency serves as a legitimizing concept in these narratives, as well as ammunition on both sides of heated controversies regarding development of renewable wind or hydro-parks, transmission lines and oil & gas industry. The combination of a multitude of framings and generically use of the concept essentially allows a black-boxing of the relationship between energy efficiency and reduction. Consequently, the concept of energy efficiency features in the discourse as a magic word, where the prospects of fixing both the climate and the economy makes it suitable to legitimize almost every thinkable argument within narratives of transition.publishedVersio

    What’s the magic word? What we talk about when we talk about energy efficiency

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    Energy efficiency has become an integrated and common concept both in modern language and public discourse, and central for policies directed to mitigate climate change as well as competitiveness. Yet definitions and effects of energy- efficiency and reduction is still an ongoing debate within academic discourse. This article investigate how industrial energy efficiency is framed and features in media narratives. Media discourses both reflect and shape public opinion and essentially the political sphere, calling for an improved understanding of how energy efficiency features in public discourse. The paper is based on a media analysis of 309 articles featuring “industrial energy efficiency” in a selection of Norwegian newspapers in the period between 2013-2017. We find numerous different framings of energy efficiency in the articles, where the authors draw on various notions of relative and absolute reduction in consumption, indicators and diffuse system and temporal boundaries. Even more common is the tendency to frame energy efficiency generically without explicit or implicit assumptions about reduction in consumption. The analysis show that energy efficiency is rarely an object of contention or controversy and often not even the topic of the articles itself. Rather it figures in arguments within narratives of climate change mitigation and economic stability and growth. The paper outlines the underlying structures of how energy efficiency serves as a legitimizing concept in these narratives, as well as ammunition on both sides of heated controversies regarding development of renewable wind or hydro-parks, transmission lines and oil & gas industry. The combination of a multitude of framings and generically use of the concept essentially allows a black-boxing of the relationship between energy efficiency and reduction. Consequently, the concept of energy efficiency features in the discourse as a magic word, where the prospects of fixing both the climate and the economy makes it suitable to legitimize almost every thinkable argument within narratives of transition.publishedVersio

    Sikkerhet på hurtigbåter : En oppfølgende intervjuundersøkelse

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    Denne rapporten oppsummerer en intervjuundersøkelse som ble gjennomført som en oppfølging av en spørreskjemaundersøkelse (Fenstad et al., 2012). Det ble i alt intervjuet 28 blant mannskaper og administrativt ansatte om sikkerhet i hurtigbåtnæringen. Informantene vurderer at sikkerhet har blitt et viktigere tema i hurtigbåtnæringen de senere årene. Det er utarbeidet kvalitets- og sikkerhetsstyringssystemer i tråd med ISM- koden. Bruken av systemene støter imidlertid an mot «sjømannskulturen», som vektlegger erfaringsbaserte arbeidsmåter og hvor «papirarbeid» omtales i negative ordelag. Mannskapene ombord anser at bemanningen om bord er for knapp dersom de oppstår nødsituasjoner. Dette settes i sammenheng med konkurransesituasjonen som rederiene er i, særlig gjennom anbudsregimet. Man ønsker at Sjøfartsdirektoratet benytter seg mer av kompetansen som ligger i næringen. Vi foreslår noen tema for et arbeidsseminar for rederier og Sjøfartsdirektoratet avslutningsvis i rapporten.
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