Development of Strategic Consultancy to Farm Managers: Experience from an Action Research Approach

A Danish action research approach to the development of strategic consultancy to farm managers is presented. The development principles adopted include separate investigations of the content and process of strategic consultancy resulting in the formulation of a development matrix and a procedure for knowledge transformations. The project activities were carried out by a self-organised team group with participants from both consultancy and research organisations. The produced knowledge and strategic tools have been tested in a number of farm cases by local consultants and the implemented evaluation programme indicates that the needs of farmers have been fulfilled and the local consultants have increased their strategic competences. Key words: Action research, strategic consultancy, process and content, development matrix, self-organisation, knowledge transformations, complex learning and consultancy processes.Farm Management,

Organic vegetable proteins and oil in feed for organic rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Fish meal may be partly replaced by a matrix of organic horse bean, pea and rape, and flax seed oil may replace fish oil in diets for organic rainbow trout without compromising growth performance and feed utilization

Evaluering av helseadvarslene på tobakkspakkene

På oppdrag fra Sosial- og helsedirektoratet har SIRUS evaluert endringen i helseadvarsler på sigarettpakkene som ble foretatt høsten 2003. Fra 2004 økte advarselsmerkingens areal til 30 % av pakkens forside og 40 % av pakkens bakside, samtidig med at flere nye tekster ble innført. Evalueringen viste at det var høy oppmerksomhet rundt tiltaket blant voksne røykere i alderen 16-74 år. 91 % av de spurte hadde lagt merke til en økning i advarselstekstens størrelse. På spørsmål om prosessering, var det 25 % som rapporterte at de leste advarselsteksten godt, mens 66 % sa de ikke hadde lest innholdet i særlig grad. Som reaksjon på advarselsmerkingen oppga 36 % at de aktiverte tanker om røykeslutt, mens 28 % erklærte seg enig i at advarslene hadde gjort dem mer bekymret for egen helse. 41 % trodde at andre røykere ikke hadde eller ville legge merke til de nye helseadvarslene. 23 % syntes advarslene opptok for stor plass på tobakkspakkene. En undersøkelse blant ungdom som røykte viste at 73 % betraktet merkingen som troverdig, og 30 % oppga at advarslene reduserte deres lyst på å røyke. Datamaterialet i denne rapporten er hentet fra Sosial- og helsedirektoratets årlige tobakksundersøkelse 4. kvartal 2003 og 2004, utført av Statistisk sentralbyrå. Det er også anvendt data fra en undersøkelse om røyking blant ungdom gjennomført av Opinion på oppdrag fra Sosial- og helsedirektoratet høsten 200

Agricultural Risk Management - Experiences from an Action Research Approach

A new model for risk management in agriculture is described in the paper. The risk model is constructed as a context dependent process, which includes four main phases. The model is aimed at agricultural advisors, who wish to facilitate and disseminate risk management to farmers. It is developed and tested by an action research approach in an attempt to make risk management more applicable on family farms. Our obtained experiences indicate that farmers don't apply probabilistic thinking and other concepts according to formal decision theory.Risk management, consulting, action research, farm families, Risk and Uncertainty,

Commodifying Danish housing commons

Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by the past decades of neoliberal housing politics. In this article we outline the rise of the Danish model of association-based housing on the edge of the market economy (and the state). From this, we demonstrate how homes in private cooperatives through political interventions in the context of a booming real estate market have plunged into the market economy and been transformed into private commodities in all but name, and we investigate how non-profit housing associations frontally and stealthily are attacked through neoliberal reforms. This carries the seeds for socio-spatial polarization and may eventually open the gate for commodification – and thus the dismantling of the little that is left of a socially just housing sector. Yet, while the association-based model was an accessary to the commodification of cooperative housing, it can possibly be an accomplice in sustaining non-profit housing as a housing commons

Cyber Risk Perception in the Maritime Domain: A Systematic Literature Review

This paper aims to present an approach to investigate cyber risk perception with use of recognized psychological models, and to give an overview of state-of-the-art research within the field of cyber risk perception in general and in the context of the maritime domain. The focus will be on determinative dimensions within the psychometric paradigm and cognitive biases, and to give recommendations on further research within these fields. Okoli and Schabram’s eight-step guide to plan, select, extract, and execute a systematic literature review is used as guidance. The search process resulted in 25 relevant articles which describes 24 dimensions of cyber risk perception in different online environments. Research within the area of maritime cyber security is increasing, however, no studies relevant for our literature review were found within the maritime domain. The nine dimensions in the psychometric model, perceived benefit and the optimistic bias is presented and discussed in a maritime context. Cyber risk perception is a complex research-area where both determinative factors and other cognitive processes can be influenced by each other. This can indicate that the dimensions differ across populations and professions, creating grounds for why context-specific studies are important. Further research may benefit from more multidisciplinary, descriptive, and inductive approaches, and contextual studies within maritime cyber risk perception can contribute to develop targeted tools for risk mitigation to enhance safety at sea.publishedVersio