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Faculty of Landscape and Society

Barony Rosendal (Baroniet Rosendal) is a historic estate and manor house situated in Kvinnherad in Hordaland county, Norway.

Teaching history of garden art and landscape architecture through Virtual Reality

The VR-Lab at NMBU produces story-guided VR tours for historical gardens and parks. These virtual tours enable educators, researchers and students to observe and understand the complications of histor…

NMBU's VR-Lab in a new publication on perceived safety in urban parks

New study combines the use of field and Virtual Reality experiments to evaluate safety measures in green space management and perceived safety.

Med VR-brillene på kan du besøke steder og tider som ikke lengre er tilgjengelige for oss.

Virtual Tours library for historically important landscapes

NMBU's Virtual Reality Lab shared their work on the use of VR for creating tours of historically important landscapes at the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools conference 2021

Master study experimentation with groups at the VR-Lab

Virtual reality and public participation in the evaluation of landscape planting design

Marius Ellefsen investigated whether VR technlogy is viable in evaluation of digital landscapes in public participation processes in Norway. This study could help landscape architects evaluate the eff…

Klimaendringer fører til vær. Mye vær. Altfor mye vær.

Expectations of COP26

Two of our researchers are lead authors in the forthcoming UN climate report. A third NMBU researcher helped to quality assure the previous report and a fourth is an expert on international climate ne…

How does upbringing affect your likelihood of developing obesity and cardiovascular disease?

New study shows that the parents, aunts and uncles of overweight young adults have a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Is this the result of nature or nurture?

Low-carbon energy transition. Theme of the Empowered Futures Research School.

NMBU to lead new PhD school on the green shift and energy transition

New research school to strengthen the societal relevance of doctoral education by addressing the social and environmental controversies of transitioning to a low carbon society.

Publications 2023

Latest academic journal articles, books and book chapters from NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society.

PhD course: Extraction Ethnographies

Extraction Ethnographies is the result of a collaboration between the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU and the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture …

2 NMBU professors selected for UN Climate Panel

Noragric's Tor A. Benjaminsen and Siri Eriksen are selected to work on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s next assessment report.