Publications and media contributions

• Hegsvold, Kirsten (2026). Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance. Environmental Policy and Governance. ISSN 1756-932X. 36(5), p. 1218–1218. doi: 10.1002/eet.70091. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  ABSTRACT Why do formally similar polycentric governance arrangements differ in their governance performance, and how do institutional configurations of enabling conditions account for these differences? [Correction added on 07 July 2026, after first online publication: The preceding sentence has been updated.] This article examines variation in governance performance across three metropolitan regions in Norway operating under the national Urban Growth Agreement (UGA) framework and pursuing the shared objective of zero growth in private car traffic. Drawing on participatory observation of steering group meetings, three rounds of elite interviews, and document analysis, the study analyzes how polycentric governance operates in practice. Building on the Institutional Analysis and Development framework and Carlisle and Gruby's concept of enabling conditions, it argues that variation in governance performance is explained less by whether enabling conditions are present than by how they are configured across decision arenas. The findings identify three governance configurations: one characterized by structured bargaining and distributive tensions, one by stable coordination supported by technical expertise and consensus‐oriented procedures, and one by consensus‐constrained adaptation shaped by territorial balancing. The findings show that institutional configurations of enabling conditions shape adaptive capacity, institutional fit, and redundancy in polycentric urban climate governance systems.

• Korsnes, Marius; Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Loeng, Martin (2026). Bodies in tension: embodied persistence and change in meat-eating. Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. ISSN 1552-8014. p. 22–22. doi: 10.1080/15528014.2026.2740964. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article examines how embodied knowledge contributes to both the reproduction and possible reorientation of meat consumption. Drawing on household interviews and a dietary experiment with consumers in Norway, we analyze three interconnected dimensions of embodied meat-eating: shared cultural understandings of meat as healthy and nutritious; habituated routines of shopping, cooking, and eating; and interpreted bodily experiences of taste, satiety, craving, and discomfort. Together, these dimensions show how meat becomes part of what feels normal, practical, satisfying, and at times necessary in everyday life. They also reveal tensions arising when habituated ways of eating, bodily experiences, and demands associated with health, social expectations, or dietary aspirations do not fully align. Inspired by practice theory, we conceptualize these frictions as “bodies in tension.” Such tensions may reinforce established conduct, be accommodated within familiar routines, or create openings for dietary reorientation. The article contributes to food studies by showing how bio-social bodies shape both the persistence and transformation of meat-eating. More broadly, it demonstrates that dietary transitions depend not only on changing attitudes or intentions but on creating alternative ways of shopping, cooking, tasting, and eating that can become familiar, satisfying, and socially supported.

• Tennøy, Aud & Hagen, Oddrun Helen (2026). How Social Justice Concerns in Strategic Land-Use Planning May Help Explain the Persistence of Urban Sprawl. Land. 15(10), p. 1–23. doi: 10.3390/land15101846. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper examines whether social justice concerns in strategic land-use planning may help explain the persistence of urban sprawl. It explores how such concerns shape political arguments and priorities and thereby influence whether planning outputs support sprawl, even where there is broad agreement on the need for sprawl containment. It further analyses which social justice concerns underpin arguments for both sprawl containment and sprawl, and which groups are recognised in these arguments. The empirical study draws on strategic land-use planning in four municipalities in the Oslo region, Norway, characterised by sustained population growth and a strict and widely supported sprawl containment regime. The data comprise planning documents and 12 interviews with politicians and planning officials. The findings suggest that social justice concerns may partly explain continued pressures for sprawl in the cases studied. Arguments supporting sprawl containment primarily recognised broad societal groups and future generations, whereas arguments supporting sprawl recognised more immediate concerns and specific groups. The paper contributes empirically grounded insights into how social justice operates in land-use planning and shapes political priorities and planning outcomes, thereby offering more nuanced explanations of why urban sprawl persists despite strong containment ambitions.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Matthiasen, Eivind Hjorth & Sareen, Siddharth (2026). Coherent, credible and comprehensive or diffuse and ineffective? The energy poverty policy mix in Norway during geopolitical changes. Energy Policy. ISSN 0301-4215. 220, p. 115615–115615. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115615. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Unlike numerous European Union member states, Norway lacks an explicit definition of energy poverty and targeted alleviation policies. Historically associated with energy abundance thanks to its early capitalisation on hydropower attributes, the country offers a fertile context to investigate the changing impact of Europe's turn towards energy security amid geopolitical turbulence and resultant impacts at household level. We report on the first study to address this directly in Norway by analysing its energy poverty policy mix. The policy mix literature has identified coherence, credibility and comprehensiveness as desirable aspects for effectiveness. Based on a top-down approach through a desk study of relevant policies, and a bottom-up approach using an expert focus group discussion, we identify and explain the implications of Norway's diffuse energy poverty policy mix. Measures address symptoms rather than underlying causes through short-term populist policies and misdirect support in ways that risk increasing inequity while failing to ameliorate energy poverty for vulnerable households. While Norway's broader welfare system offers social protection, the lack of a definition of energy poverty, ambiguous institutional responsibility, and weak coherence of policy measures limit policy mix effectiveness, while failing to furnish a firm base for its credible and comprehensive treatment.

• Nygård, Julie Høie; Nilsen, Elin Anita & Solnørdal, Mette Talseth (2026). “Delivering on Expectations”: The Potential of the Climate Budget to Facilitate Transformative Change. Climate. 14(9). doi: 10.3390/cli14090185. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Climate budgets are increasingly used by municipalities as a framework for monitoring emissions and aligning local actions with broader climate goals. Despite their growing use, their potential to support transformative climate change remains underexplored. This study examines the formal configuration of management controls in climate budgets and discusses their potential to facilitate transformative change. Drawing on the levers of control framework and the concept of dynamic tensions, we conducted a qualitative document study of climate budgets from eight municipalities in Norway. Our findings identify a predominance of controls centred on targets, indicators, and monitoring. By contrast, controls intended to promote dialogue and learning, establish behavioural boundaries, or articulate shared values and purpose were considerably less visible. The climate budgets are therefore well equipped to monitor predefined emission-reduction measures and support accountability, but provide a more limited formal basis for questioning assumptions, reconsidering priorities, and developing new responses. The study shows that performance information may contribute to transformative change when used as an input to dialogue and learning processes. Municipalities should therefore complement emissions monitoring with clear climate-related boundaries, shared purpose, and processes that use performance information to explore alternative responses.

• Amundrud, Anja & Rasmussen, Ingvill (2026). Interpreting tensions in teacher–researcher collaboration. Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice. ISSN 1354-0602. doi: 10.1080/13540602.2026.2713119. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Teacher—researcher collaboration is often promoted to create research-informed schools. Yet, research highlights several challenges that generate tensions shaping how such collaborations unfold in practice. This article examines how teachers reflected on and responded to such tensions in a design-based research project to promote dialogic teaching, using pedagogical resources and digital technology. The analysis draws on interviews with 14 Norwegian lower-secondary teachers. Using activity theory and the concept of experiencing, we investigated tensions related to pedagogical aims, resource use, and expectations of participation. The findings demonstrate how teachers navigated tensions through reflection, pragmatic adjustments, and partial engagement. Participation reflected what felt realistic and valuable in teaching routines. Modest or temporary uses of new resources were seen as meaningful, indicating how teachers adapted project ideas to their practice. Building on the concept of experiencing, we introduce relational experiencing to capture the reciprocal dynamic by which evolving relationships, expectations, and ongoing negotiations in teacher—researcher collaboration shape what teachers take up from, engage with, and sustain regarding the pedagogical resources and ideas introduced by researchers. The article contributes to the nuanced understanding of how teacher—researcher collaboration develops in practice, emphasising the significance of everyday negotiations, situated reflections, and adaptive practices as constructive elements.

• Bauwens, Thomas; Friant, Martin Calisto; Beumer, Koen & Velasco-Herrejón, Paola (2026). Pluriversal technologies: A decolonial typology of knowledge integration for disruptive sustainability. Research Policy. ISSN 0048-7333. 55(4). doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2026.105458. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Amid accelerating socio-ecological crises—climate breakdown, mass extinctions and widening inequalities—there is an urgent need for transformative approaches that address root causes rather than symptoms. Disruptive sustainability seeks such transformations; however, it remains theoretically underdeveloped regarding how radically different knowledge systems can work together across the life-cycle of technologies. Drawing on science and technology studies and decolonial scholarship, we build a decolonial typology of knowledge integration in ‘pluriversal technologies’—technologies co-designed, co-produced and co-owned across epistemic communities. We identify four modes: extractive appropriation, parallel operation, adaptive integration and transformative integration. We demonstrate how each appears along the design, production and ownership dimensions of a technology's life-cycle. This study makes three contributions. First, by demonstrating that a single technology can occupy different integration modes across its life-cycle, it exposes the dimensional unevenness that often derails ostensibly collaborative initiatives. Second, it moves beyond binary treatments of integration to a graded, four-mode framework. Third, it identifies catalytic mechanisms—such as trust building, co-learning, shared governance, recognition and reparation—that enable initiatives to shift between modes. This typology enriches research on disruptive sustainability by clarifying how diverse knowledge systems can collaborate or clash and by mapping routes toward more just, sustainable and effective innovation.

• Sønderskov, Mette & Tortzen, Anne (2026). Ungdomsrådene som aktive samskapere: Muligheter og barrierer hos politikerne. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift. ISSN 0801-1745. 42(1), p. 1–17. doi: 10.18261/nst.42.1.1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne artikkelen undersøker potensialer og barrierer hos lokalpolitikere når det gjelder muligheten for å utvikle ungdomsrådene til å bli en mer innovativ og aktiv medvirkningsform, hvor de unge inngår som aktive samskapere i kommuners møte med komplekse samfunnsutfordringer, såkalte «samfunnsfloker». Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i en teoretisk ramme om demokratisk innovasjon og samskaping, og analyserer politikeres holdninger til ungdomsrådets potensielle rolle. Empirisk materiale er hentet fra S4U-prosjektet (Samskaping gjennom simulering, scenarier, samtaler og spill for og med ungdom), der 12 politikere fra Drammen og Lillestrøm kommune er intervjuet om deres holdninger til og erfaringer med ungdomsmedvirkning. Resultatene viser at det i praksis er tale om at de unges innflytelse er begrenset, og at deres medvirkning ofte er symbolsk snarere enn reell. Politikerne beskriver ungdomsråd som viktige, men peker på utfordringer knyttet til uklare kriterier for hvilke saker som behandles, spørsmål om representativitet, og begrenset mulighet for å påvirke beslutninger. Samtidig anerkjenner noen politikere ungdom som innovative aktører med potensial til å bidra med nye perspektiver. For å realisere dette potensialet, foreslås det en mer direkte dialog og en «tykkere» medvirkningspraksis, der ungdom trekkes inn tidlig i beslutningsprosessene, og der ungdomsrådenes arbeidsbetingelser endres. Artikkelen konkluderer med at en dreining mot samskaping krever både institusjonelle endringer og en endring i politisk kultur, der ungdommenes stemmer verdsettes på en reell måte.

• Volden, Johannes (2026). “Almost but not quite”: embodiment and materiality in encounters with meat substitutes. Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. ISSN 1552-8014. p. 1–26. doi: 10.1080/15528014.2026.2638598. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Plant-based meat substitutes remain contested among consumers. While much effort has gone into investigating attitudes and preferences related to meat alternatives, less is known about how substitute products are understood and put to use in contextually contingent food practices. This paper explores consumers’ experiences experimenting with plant-based meat alternatives in everyday life, drawing on empirical data from a qualitative, exploratory food intervention in Norway. With empirical attention to material and embodied aspects of food practices, the paper demonstrates how substituting meat with substitute products is enabled and constrained through acquiring, appropriating, and appreciating food in everyday life. The paper finds that replacing meat with substitute products was far from straight-forward: consumers’ embodied experiences of seeking out, preparing, eating, and digesting food complicate the use of substitutes, notably also for analog-style products. Although meat substitutes were at times perfectly suited to replace meat, the substitutes often performed in ways not fully aligning with, or measuring up to, their meaty counterparts. The paper’s insights have important implications for how we conceive of meat substitutes in the protein transition and for understanding the acceptance of new foods more broadly.

• Amundrud, Anja & Omland, Maren (2026). Design thinking as an approach to teaching sustainability in higher education: fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and co-creation. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. ISSN 1467-6370. p. 20–20. doi: 10.1108/ijshe-07-2025-0751. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Purpose This study aims to explore how design thinking (DT) can foster interdisciplinary dialogue and co-creation within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This study examined the incorporation of DT into a sustainability-focused course at a Norwegian university, where students collaborated across disciplines and with external stakeholders regarding real-world challenges. Design/methodology/approach The authors drew on a case study of 21 students, two teachers and five stakeholders in an interdisciplinary course. The students collaborated in groups to address real-world sustainability cases using a DT approach. Data collected from the course included participant observations, interviews with students and stakeholders and students’ written feedback. A sociocultural perspective guided the thematic analysis, focusing on interaction through dialogue and co-creation. Findings The DT approach fostered the students’ engagement, supported interdisciplinary dialogue and helped the students navigate uncertainty and complexity. The students reported a sense of ownership and responsibility in their work, and the process encouraged participation and co-creation. Meanwhile, the DT approach required facilitation to sustain dialogue and encourage critical reflection on broader sustainability dimensions. Tensions emerged from divergent expectations, varying group dynamics and unclear stakeholder roles, which occasionally limited the depth of the students’ engagement with cases. Originality/value This study contributes to sustainability education by demonstrating how DT can be used as a pedagogical approach to foster co-creation and support the development of key ESD competencies. It offers practical insights into how interdisciplinary participatory learning environments can prepare students to engage with complex sustainability challenges.

• Eikeland, Per Ove; Christina, Köhler-Tschirschnitz,; Jörg, Radtke, & Stefan, Wurster, (2026). The German Energiewende and the role of the EU: are misfits an Achilles heel of the energy transition in Germany? | Energy, Sustainability and Society | Springer Nature Link. Energy, Sustainability and Society. doi: 10.1186/s13705-025-00556-6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The aim of the energy policy proclaimed by all German federal governments since the Fukushima incident of 2011 is a fundamental transformation of the national energy system towards renewable (excluding nuclear) energies. However, since German energy policy is embedded into a European multilevel governance system, not only national but also European forces shape the German Energiewende. By analysing the complex political and legal interlinkages, this study identifies fits and misfits between national and European policy initiatives in functionally related energy fields. First, it finds broad coherence between the EU and German energy transition objectives. Objectives deviate in one area, the phase-out of nuclear power in Germany which is not paralleled at the EU level. Secondly, it observes more extensive misfits around the preferred policy instruments that have pressured Germany to change. This concerns instruments tied to the support of renewable energy and the operation of electricity networks in support of the transition. Here, the German policy approach saw a misfit with internal energy market regulations in the EU. Whereas European adaptation pressure caused a shift in the German renewable energy support policy, resulting in a slowdown in the expansion of renewable energies, EU pressure to end coal subsidies helped accelerate the phase-out of coal in Germany.

• Szulecki, Kacper (2026). Energy. In Stockemer, Daniel; Sawyer, Stephen & Gagnon, Audrey (Ed.), IPSA Companion to Political Science. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783032069184. p. 1–4. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-06918-4_139-1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Energy is not a political science concept. It originates in physics and describes “a fundamental entity of nature,” best understood as “the capacity for doing work.” Furthermore, as the Encyclopaedia Britannica notes, it “may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other forms,” to which Merriam-Webster dictionary adds that it can be “transferred between parts of a system in the production of physical change within the system.” At the same time, energy is a frequent object of political discussions, due to the fundamental role it plays in modern societies. Energy generates welfare through ceding human physical labor to work done by machines, from home appliances to steelworks; it provides the physical comfort of adequately heated or cooled surroundings; it makes possible the mobility achieved through modern means of transportation. All of these rely on the conversion of energy resources into energy services. Socioeconomic development is correlated with increasingly higher energy consumption (Destek & Sarkodie, 2019). The fundamental and omnipresent nature of energy and its importance for sustaining modern livelihoods are expressed with the often-used metaphor of the “lifeblood of society.” This has political consequences, as access to energy services at a certain level and affordable price is the foundation of social contracts, leading to popular discontent when these are not provided.

• Sævarsdottir, Margret; Hovland, Marit & Smørdal, Ole (2026). Sustainable Food Education: A Case Study of a Collaboration between an NGO and a Lower Secondary School. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The whole-school approach is a strategy that facilitates effective teaching in sustainable development (ESD). The strategy implies that involvement should take place at several levels to promote ESD. This article examines the meeting between teachers, students and an external actor in the school. The study observed how teachers translated an external training scheme, called “FoodGain”, from an NGO to their own teaching practice. In addition, we look at whether the scheme promoted action competence among the students. "FoodGain", is a sustainable food education plan consisting of three workshops for teachers and students. The aim of the scheme was to teach students to prevent food waste by developing better judgment about groceries and awareness of the climate consequences linked to food waste. The education plan was the basis for a three-year collaboration between voluntary organizations and a municipality in Eastern Norway aimed at secondary school students in the 9th grade (14–15 years). The main finding indicates that external actors, in this case a voluntary organisation, must pay more attention to involving teachers when they prepare the teaching plan in addition to accommodating the school's practice. “FoodGain” is to a large extent a normative teaching scheme which to a small extent promoted action competence among the students.

• Volden, Johannes (2025). Making meals and replacing meat with insects: an exploratory food intervention with consumers. Food and Foodways. ISSN 0740-9710. doi: 10.1080/07409710.2026.2606451. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Edible insects are proposed as an “alternative protein” to meat in future food practices but are not commonly consumed in many parts of the world, including Europe. Much attention has been geared toward consumers’ attitudes toward edible insects as a measure for “consumer acceptance”. However, less is known about how insects are actually put to use in places where insect consumption is uncommon, which has implications for insects’ acceptability and capacity to replace meat. This paper explores the meanings and functions edible insects gain in consumers’ meals and food practices in the situated context of everyday life. The paper reports from an exploratory food intervention study from Oslo, Norway, in which 14 participants from 10 households were recruited to experiment with commercially available insect products in their daily lives for two weeks. Participants found using substantial amounts of insects in meals to be challenging, in part due to the insects’ particular material properties. The most successful applications entailed meat substitution to a very limited degree, indicating the importance of carefully considering what role edible insects can play in sustainable future food practices. The paper argues that to achieve dietary transition from meat to alternative proteins such as insects, it is crucial to consider foods’ acceptability in relation to their “substitute-ability”, in other words their capacity to act as meat replacers in the practical context of food consumption.

• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). Negotiating time and energy: How work patterns and social class shape energy flexibility in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 0(0), p. 1–11. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Calls to broaden the scope of energy flexibility have highlighted the need to include sociotemporal rhythms, such as working schedules, to gain a deeper understanding of the temporality of flexibility. Responding to this call, this article studied the energy flexibility practices of 37 interviewees from Oslo, Norway, from different social class backgrounds. The study focused on the occupations and working arrangements (such as hybrid work, shiftwork, and normal working days) of the interviewees, and the ways in which working schedules impact energy flexibility. Through thematic analysis, the article examined three themes—energy flexibility practices and working schedules, technology, and future projectivity—emanating from the interviewees' narratives. The article found that working hours affect the timing, duration, recurrence, and sequencing of energy practices such as heating, cooking and laundry. Furthermore, the experiences of temporally allocating energy practices varied across social classes—the working-class found it more challenging to perform energy flexibility practices due to limited access to automated systems and less flexible work routines, which increased the stress experienced when managing energy use.

• Roithner, Maximilian; Velasco-Herrejón, Paola; Greevenbroek, Koen van; Grochowicz, Aleksander; Vågerö, Oskar & Hvidsten, Tobias Verheugen [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2025). Balancing act: the cost of wind restrictions in Norway’s electricity transition. Environmental Research: Energy. 2(3). doi: 10.1088/2753-3751/adde62. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  To meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement and reduce its dependency on energy imports, the pace, and scale of renewable energy deployment across Europe must increase dramatically over the next decade. Such a steep change in the net-zero transition will inevitably necessitate trade-offs with other societal priorities. Here we investigate a case study focused on the opposition towards onshore wind and the compromises that may need to be made to deliver its plans for deep electrification. Using an electricity system model, we explore the implications of key social and environmental dimensions shaping the future deployment of onshore wind on the costs and design of electricity systems for Norway in 2030. We find that under restrictions that allow for almost no additional onshore wind, demand cannot be met and load has to be shed. Yet, when reducing the restrictions on onshore wind or allowing for in-country transmission expansion, feasible system designs at a small fraction of that cost can be found. To meet the net-zero targets, compromises will need to be made on either wind power deployment, transmission expansion, non-electrification of industry or demand reduction.

• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald; Stokke, Knut Bjørn; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Peters, Sebastian (2025). What legitimises local nature encroachment? comparing planning processes for second homes and wind power in Norway. Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. ISSN 1354-9839. p. 1–20. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2025.2576667. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The topic of land-use pressures from wind power and second homes is crucial due to the significant challenges they pose to land use, biodiversity and wilderness areas. But the local legitimacy each kind of development enjoys, stemming to a large degree from the respective planning processes they go through, can be starkly different. This article investigates legitimacy and planning outcomes by comparing top-down and bottom-up planning processes for wind power and second homes development in a Norwegian municipality. The study employs energy justice theory, focusing on recognition, procedural, and distributive justice, and uses a comparative case study approach to analyse the planning processes and outcomes. The findings reveal that, compared to wind power development, second homes development is perceived as fairer and more beneficial for the local community. Second homes are perceived to provide local income, employment, and have positive economic ripple effects, while wind power projects are considered to mainly benefit national energy needs and owners of the plants. The top-down planning process for wind power leads to increased resistance and perceptions of unfairness, whereas the bottom-up approach for second homes is seen as more inclusive and legitimate. These differences, combined with local benefits of second homes development, helps to explain the widespread opposition to wind power development and the strong support for second homes in many municipalities, even though second homes development has resulted in the greatest loss of wilderness areas in Norway.

• Røe, Per Gunnar (2025). The Social Ambitions and Failures of Architecture in Oslo's New Towns of 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In Phelps, Nicholas A.; Keil, Roger & Maginn, Paul (Ed.), Peripheral Centralities .The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs. Routledge. ISSN 9781003367246. doi: 10.4324/9781003367246-13. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter examines the role of architecture in the making of suburban centralities in Norway’s capital Oslo. It highlights the relationship between architectural design and social life in newly developed environments in suburban contexts. While current policies emphasize urban attractiveness, infrastructure development, and compact city strategies, they often overlook the social implications of architectural change. Drawing on historical examples from Oslo’s satellite towns developed in the mid-twentieth century, the chapter critiques the tendency to attribute social challenges to architectural failings without considering broader socio-economic contexts. It argues that a nuanced and empirically informed understanding of the interplay between architecture and social dynamics is crucial in creating liveable and inclusive communities. Ultimately, the chapter calls for a re-evaluation of planning and design practices to better address the social needs of suburban populations, advocating an integrated perspective that acknowledges both the physical and social dimensions of urban development, as well as the complicated relationships between these.

• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. 130(0), p. 1–21. doi: 10.1177/00380385251365485. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article studies the social stratification of energy practices, using Bourdieu’s model of social space and class. This is done through 37 interviews conducted in 2022–2023 during the energy crisis, in Oslo, Norway. Interviewees were recruited using an occupational-based class scheme. Based on the data, a bottom-up typology shows how aspects of lifestyle organize energy practices, evidenced by classed lifestyles and household demographics. A crude distinction between the upper and lower classes lies in the ability of the former to engage in a wider variety of practices and to highlight the symbolic value of their performances. For the lower classes, energy practices are not performed for distinction, but out of necessity. By revealing these differences, the article argues for the need for social practice theory to more extensively study the social stratification of energy practices.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald & Saglie, Inger-Lise (2025). Arealpåvirkning fra vindkraft og hytteområder: Sammenligning over tid. Tidsskriftet Utmark. p. 1–25. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i arealkonsekvensene av henholdsvis hytte- og vindkraftutbygginger i Norge. Med bakgrunn i samfunnsdebatter om arealpåvirkning av disse to inngrepstypene, går vi igjennom forskjellige aktuelle målemetoder for arealpåvirkning for hytter og vindkraft. Ved bruk av statistikk fra flere kilder diskuterer vi arealkonsekvensene av disse to svært forskjellige typene inngrep. I tillegg til noen spesielle mål for begge inngrepstypene belegger vi og diskuterer hovedkategoriene direkte inngrep (fotavtrykk), plan/hytteområde, og andre former for arealpåvirkning. Vi finner at målt som direkte fysiske inngrep, har hytteutbyggingen hatt et mye større fotavtrykk enn vindkraftutbyggingen. Når vi sammenligner direkte påvirket areal for vindkraftutbygging og hytteutbygging, er det mindre forskjeller. For påvirkning utover disse områdene har vindkraft sannsynligvis større påvirkning på sine omgivelser enn hytteutbygginger. Dette begrunnes særlig i høy synlighet og dominans i terrenget og forskjellige støyprofiler, selv om hytteutbygginger medfører betydelig påvirkning i form av ferdsel utenfor hytteområdet. Det er mer uklart hvilken inngrepstype som har størst påvirkning på uberørt natur i Norge, og det mangler kunnskap om og data for naturpåvirkning, særlig for hytteutbygginger.

• Solli, Hilde (2025). Oslo’s Climate Shift in Urban Planning: From Tradition to Innovation. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy (JCCPE). ISSN 2816-7406. 3(1), p. 179–196. doi: 10.3138/jccpe-2024-0010. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Land-use planning and related regulations are employed as purposeful planning tools in Oslo. Oslo municipality anchors its efforts in four key climate considerations: (a) planning for less transport and more public transport, walking, and cycling, (b) creating climate resilience, (c) preserving carbon in soil and vegetation, and (d) building in a climate- and nature-friendly manner. Among these, transportation has been most prevalent over time. For decades, Oslo’s planning philosophy has prioritized development from the city centre outward, focusing on densification around transport hubs. Weaknesses in how climate has been handled as part of planning have been identified at a national level. The Planning and Building Act and its implementation need to be strengthened. Oslo has led efforts to expand the interpretation and application of the Planning and Building Act, particularly in regulating emissions from construction. At a local level this relates closely with developing a broad approach spanning from green mobility to climate resilience through energy use, materials, and building activities. In the same year that the city council passed Oslo’s new climate strategy, a dialogue-based tool on these themes was implemented as part of the planning process. Today, the municipality is working to legalize this approach. Simultaneously, national experts have raised similar issues, and there is an interplay between levels of governance. Developing competencies in the municipality and internal networks and working with external networks in other parts of public administration and the building sector have been the main success factors in this work.

• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2025). The limitations of the one-stop-shop approach: How local experiences shaped opposition to the Norwegian wind power permitting system. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 123. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104048. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  As European countries seek to increase the share of renewable energy production, local opposition to energy transition processes has escalated in many places. Drawing on energy justice scholarship, this article examines how local experiences shaped opposition to the one-stop-shop approach to wind energy permitting in a Norway. This question is examined thorough an in-depth case study of a wind power licensing process in Sirdal municipality, which seemed like a favourable location for a wind farm. While confirming earlier research showing that the municipalities have an informal veto power in the licensing process, this study illuminates the shortcomings of such a non-statutory approach to municipal influence in the licensing process. In Sirdal, having an informal veto power and the ear of the licensing authority apparently worked well until the licence was granted, but the top-down licensing system and informal consultation practices proved inadequate in securing democratic legitimacy and social acceptance for wind power development over the long-term. The sale of Tonstad wind power plant to foreign investors and these owners’ unwillingness to fulfil the obligations of an economic compensation agreement with the municipality exacerbated the municipality’s feelings of being deceived and left powerless. The study concludes that any assessment of energy justice must not only consider the different tenets of justice but also the temporal dimension and long-term consequences for local communities.

• Tennøy, Aud; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær & Leknes, Einar (2025). Experiences of Using Urban Growth Agreements to Influence Local Land Use Policy and Stop Sprawl. Land. 14(2), p. 1–22. doi: 10.3390/land14020333. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Urban growth agreements are key tools for achieving the goal of zero growth in passenger road traffic volumes in Norwegian metropolitan areas. Agreements are negotiated in multi-level and cross-sectoral processes where local politicians meet strong expectations and incentives to alter their land use policies and stop sprawl. This paper analyses the effectiveness of the policy instrument in influencing local land use policy, whereby key issues were raised in the negotiations concerning land use, local politicians’ reflections on changing their policies and why they were reluctant to stop sprawl. This research was designed as a comparative case study with three negotiation processes as cases. Data were collected through document studies and interviews with 36 professionals and politicians. Key issues in the negotiations over land use regarded principles of authority in land use planning and decision-making and substantial disagreements concerning land use policies. Local politicians saw sprawl as necessary for attaining local objectives. Conflicting framings of the policy issue, namely ‘stopping sprawl to achieve zero traffic growth’ and ‘continuing sprawl to attain local objectives’, explained the policy controversy that made discourse difficult. The resulting agreements did not directly influence local land use policies but might have an effect in the longer term.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Opsahl, Gustav (2025). Analysing policy directions for utility- and small-scale solar installations in Norway. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-025-01669-9. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The demand for low-emission electricity production is surging globally due to increased electrification and industrial developments. While many countries prioritize expanding wind and solar power, Norway faces challenges, including public opposition to wind energy and delayed adoption of solar power. However, the country aims to address its renewable electricity needs by setting ambitious targets, including generating 8 TWh of solar power by 2030. This target encompasses both small-scale rooftop installations and large utility-scale solar power plants, though the share between them is undetermined. This article analyses current trends, potential developments, conflicts, and synergies between small- and large-scale solar projects in Norway. Utilizing the policy mix literature and the anchoring policy perspective, the analysis includes policy-related drivers and barriers while controlling for technical and economic factors. Resting on policy documents and a stakeholder workshop, we find that utility-scale solar faces several significant barriers that will negatively affect development rates. Small-scale solar installations face barriers too, but these are mostly linked to economic aspects, which in principle are easier to address politically and in the shorter term. The article contributes to analysing policy mix developments for utility- and small-scale solar systems, and novelly uses the anchoring policies perspective to give indications about scope for future policy change.

• Szulecki, Kacper (2025). Populism, Energy Transition, and International Politics. In Cadier, David; Chryssogelos, Angelos & Destradi, Sandra (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy. Routledge. ISSN 9781003414797. p. 524–541. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In recent years, populist political forces both in power and in opposition, have engaged with energy politics in various ways. This chapter discusses how populists influence the international politics of energy. The departure point is a reflection on the specific relationship between populist ideology and international energy politics, and especially the ways in which the key dichotomies of populism play out in this political domain. The chapter first defines populism and its core features, then present energy politics as an unusual and unique area of public policy, highlighting both its domestic and international dimension. It further emphasises the problem of energy transitions as examples of rapid social change, and their role as a fuel for populist contestation, before moving to the two illustrative case studies of the USA under Donald Trump, and of Poland under the Law and Justice party government.

• Jaeger-Erben, Melanie; Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten; Hansen, Anders Rhiger; Frąckowiak, Maciej; Guilbert, Alice & nski, Przemysław Pluci´ [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2025). Policies for times of disruptions: How households in Europe dealt with the energy crisis in the winter 2022/2023. Energy Policy. ISSN 0301-4215. 205. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114711. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 had a significant impact on Europe's energy supply, leading to a sharp rise in energy prices that directly affected European households, causing financial strain and disruptions in energy-related practices such as heating and cooking, especially among the economically vulnerable. Households in six European countries – Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Switzerland – were surveyed to examine challenges and adaptation measures, including strategies such as reducing room temperature and energy consumption, and how these varied across political and socio-technical contexts. Using descriptive statistics and factor analysis, this paper shows that perceptions of rising energy prices vary across countries, but that feeling affected by the crisis does not necessarily translate into everyday energy-saving actions. However, a higher perceived impact on daily life correlates with lower confidence in the future, especially among younger participants, low-income groups, and women. The paper highlights the policy opportunities and challenges of crises, which offer opportunities for change and raise awareness around the need for a swifter green energy transition; if mishandled, crises situations and energy transitions more generally could widen inequalities and lead to the rejection of this goal. Three recommendations are put forward: empowering vulnerable groups without exacerbating inequalities, building resilience to future energy crises, and fostering public confidence in the management of disruptions.

• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. 0(0). doi: 10.1177/00016993251357142. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article analyzes how upper-class and working-class individuals in Oslo, Norway, orient themselves toward environmental values through their energy practices. Using a model of eco-habitus, this article identifies five groups that demonstrate distinct ways of discussing and engaging in eco-friendly energy practices. The results show that privileged groups exhibit a form of eco-habitus marked by environmental concern and technological optimism. However, implementing technological changes does not necessarily challenge contemporary standards of consumption due to rebound effects. Less privileged groups, while skeptical of environmental concerns, engage in low-impact energy practices that rely less on material consumption. However, these groups are potentially not readily recognized as sustainable consumers. This indicates that eco-friendly energy practices can reproduce hierarchical structures. Moreover, the analysis illustrates that expressions of environmental concern are affected by material conditions, such as residential constraints (e.g. living in apartments vs. detached houses) and the energy system’s context. Hence, the article argues that studying social practices regarding material conditions is fruitful for understanding the nuances of eco-habitus. This approach offers a more contextually grounded analysis than when eco-habitus is discussed as a material expression of an emergent field of environmentalism, which could gloss over contexts that shape these practices.

• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola; Toledo, Enoc Lopez; López, Juana Arely Romo; Escobar, Tania Karina Antonio; Morales, Elizabeth Carrasco & Ramírez, William Hernández [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2024). A capability approach to analyse well-being impacts of wind energy infrastructure. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. 4(1). doi: 10.1088/2634-4505/ad269c. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege; Solnørdal, Mette Talseth; Vindegg, Mikkel; Tønnesen, Anders; Sandnes, Thea & Grasbekk, Bård Sødal [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Local food systems and community development: a symbiotic relation? A case study of three rural municipalities in Norway. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food (IJSAF). ISSN 0798-1759. 30(1), p. 19–42. doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v30i1.534. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Policy makers and researchers are increasingly emphasising the need for more diversified and localised food systems. This study investigates relations between local food systems and community development, revealing how local food is linked with identity, social relations, and community pride. We also address barriers and enablers for developing such links. We conducted an in-depth case study of local food systems in three Norwegian rural municipalities. Our results show how local food systems are linked to geographical location, and how they strengthen social relations by bringing actors in the food system closer together, fostering mutual responsibilities, pride, and a sense of belonging in local communities. We argue that local food is not only for somewhere, but from here, thus adding meaning and accountability to local food regimes. Local food exchange is motivated by mutual moral obligations and value-driven preferences, enabling reconnection between different actors in the food system. This is a central factor in local food’s contribution to community development and sustainability in food systems. Our findings furthermore demonstrate the importance of non-conventional exchange channels for local food distribution and exchange. Some findings nevertheless also show a need for efforts to make local food more affordable and available for most citizens. Together, the cases studied show that a holistic and context-dependent development of local food systems is necessary to provide pathways for communities to expand the role of local food as part of their community development and in order to enhance sustainability.

• Volden, Johannes (2024). ‘A wing in the throat’: Negotiating edibility in everyday insect consumption. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 157. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104132. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper contributes to the ‘geographies of edibility’ by investigating everyday edibility negotiations around edible insect foods in Norway. Edible insects are positioned as an ‘alternative protein’ for the future with the potential to substitute conventional meat. Though already consumed in many parts of the world, insects are considered a novel food in the Global North, and their edibility remains a point of contention among consumers. Extensive research documents consumers’ attitudes towards, and reported willingness to eat, insects. However, less attention has been paid to how consumers engage with insect foods outside of artificial settings. Addressing this gap, the present paper explores how the edibility of edible insects is negotiated by consumers in everyday life. The paper reports on an exploratory food intervention in which ten households were recruited to experiment with commercially available insect foods for two weeks and record their experience through logging, photography, and reflection. The results demonstrate the crucial role of embodied everyday practices in mediating participants’ experience of dealing with insects, supporting a relational view of edibility. Not only the material properties of foods but also embodied experiences and socialised norms around eating contribute towards constructing insects as (in)appropriate and legitimate food. The paper’s findings have implications for the theorisation of edibility formation, and for our understanding of edible insects’ possible role as a meat replacer in the protein transition.

• Böcker, Lars; Wolday, Fitwi; Tveit, Andreas Kokkvoll & Letnes, Morten (2024). Socio-spatial Variation in the Public Acceptance of Road Tolls in Norwegian Urban Regions. Nordic Journal of Urban Studies. 4(2), p. 1–18. doi: 10.18261/njus.4.2.4. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Road tolls are one of the most effective – but also most contentious – measures in the transition to sustainable urban mobility. This study examines the inter- and intra-urban variations in the public acceptance of urban road tolls and its relationship to toll exposure, public transport competitiveness, and socioeconomic status. The study draws on constituency-level 2019 municipal election support for a single-issue political party against road tolls in the Norwegian urban regions of Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger. Job-accessibility analyses were performed to calculate potential toll exposure and the time-competitiveness of public transport versus the car. Revealed intra-urban variations include higher anti-toll voting in areas with higher potential toll exposure, lower public transport competitiveness, lower education, and higher shares of singles, couples without children, and single parents compared to traditional nuclear families. Inter-regional variations reveal higher anti-toll voting in Bergen compared to Oslo and especially Stavanger, controlling for the above. The paper discusses these findings in light of the transition towards just and inclusive climate-friendly cities.

• Szulecki, Kacper; Maltby, Tomas & Szulecka, Julia (2024). Climate Obstruction in Poland: A Governmental–Industrial Complex. In Brulle, Robert J.; Roberts, J. Timmons & Spencer, Miranda C. (Ed.), Climate Obstruction across Europe. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197762042. p. 186-213–186-213. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197762042.003.0008. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Poland is known for its climate scepticism and denial throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Despite its recent rapid deployment of renewable energy sources, Poland remains Europe’s most coal-dependent economy. Since 2004, consecutive governments have been ‘pulling the brake’ on the European Union’s more ambitious climate policy initiatives and decarbonization targets. There are recent signs of changing societal attitudes, but the country is alone among EU nations in lacking a net zero emissions target or a coal power phase-out date. This situation has been created and perpetuated by a coalition of governmental institutions, agencies, state-owned energy companies, and utilities that constitute a governmental–industrial complex (GIC). While the GIC has moderated its discourse and policies, it continues to promote ‘silver bullet’ technologies such as ‘clean’ coal and new nuclear power plants. Poland’s commitment to a just, gradual energy transition is a climate imposter tactic, part of an overarching strategy of delay.

• Jordhus-Lier, David; Henriksson, Judith Marguerite; Houeland, Camilla; Quirino, Genver & Holland, Ingrid Andrea (2024). Anchoring a just transition: The ambivalent roles of Norwegian trade unions. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 114. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103619. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We examine how trade union actors at various scales of organisation and influence have engaged in the just transition agenda in Norway. The Norwegian model of industrial relations represents a democratic and highly institutionalised system of social dialogue, and allows us to assess the extent to which a just transition agenda is anchored at different levels, from tripartite decision-making to representation in the workplace. By introducing two analytical devices, anchorage and climate target compliance, we encourage just transition scholars to critically examine how trade union strategies, institutional contexts and normative outcomes are related in complex and non-linear ways. As a petroleum-dependent economy with ambitious political targets to reduce greenhouse gas emission, the Norwegian case is illustrative of the potential for trade union actors to proactively engage in climate target compliance through its role in just transition initiatives. Based on qualitative data from complementary research projects, our analysis suggests that the ambitions of key actors remain disconnected from the experienced reality of those who represent unions in bargaining or at a local level. The concept of a just transition still lacks internal anchorage between and across levels and segments of these organisations, as members and their elected representatives generally struggle to detect a clear mandate related to environmental concerns or emission reductions. Despite promising reformulations of policies and agreements at a central level, there is still little indication that Norwegian trade unions play a decisive role in making Norway meet their climate targets.

• Sæther, Bjørnar (2024). Construction minerals as part of an urban circular economy? A multi-scalar study of the city of Oslo and its hinterland. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. ISSN 1752-1378. 17(3), p. 483–494. doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsae030. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Flows of construction minerals in the Oslo region are studied in a multi-scalar perspective. Urban densification and construction of infrastructure result in large volumes of gravel and stone which according to law is waste. Waste is landfilled in the hinterland putting pressure on socio-ecological qualities. Lack of regional planning promoting circularity implies municipalities in the hinterland have to regulate land for landfills. Norway has a competitive advantage in construction minerals and prices on virgin, compared to recycled construction minerals are relatively low. Combined with a planning regime supporting linear resource governance, the consumption of virgin construction minerals and farmland in the hinterland is de facto stimulated. Differences are identified between the Oslo region and some city regions in the core of Europe concerning the level of progress towards a circular economy. A distinction between resource-rich and resource-strapped regions is proposed as part of an explanation of such differences.

• Vindegg, Mikkel & Julsrud, Tom Erik (2024). Digitised demand response in practice: The role of digital housekeeping for smart energy technologies. Energy Efficiency. ISSN 1570-646X. 18(1). doi: 10.1007/s12053-024-10280-3. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The renewable energy transition requires more flexible electricity consumption. This article follows up on Norwegian plans to achieve this through demand response and a piloting of smart home technology targeting indoor heating, which we call Smart Energy Technology (SET). Based on 17 in-depth interviews with participants in a technology pilot project, we map the work required to keep the SET system running, how it impacted electricity-consuming household practices, and analyse why use of the system varied widely among participants. We show that the system in question was too complex for other than exceptionally skilled and motivated users, who engaged in extensive “digital housekeeping”. Other users were navigating a complex Norwegian electricity market using technology they found difficult to operate. This was linked with limited system use, which lowered the energy efficiency contribution of the smart system. Smart systems and their use are highly gendered and have the potential both to challenge and reinforce gendered divisions of labour. More research into the gendered impacts of smart systems in Norway is needed. Simpler and more user-friendly systems are necessary for future pilot projects, more hands-on training for users in such pilots is required, and the daily work required to operate complex smart systems should be recognised more clearly by both smart system developers and policy makers.

• Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard; Gong, Huiwen; Aiken, Gerald; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe & Silvester, Benjamin Ronald [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2024). Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities. Progress in Environmental Geography. doi: 10.1177/27539687241287795. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Energy communities can potentially advance just transitions towards low-carbon systems by devolving energy production and consumption to local scales. During vibrant debates on evolving energy geographies for more than a decade, human geographers have engaged with conceptualization and emergent models of energy communities in generative ways. We argue for a research agenda where these understandings of space, place and scale enhance research on energy communities. Three points hold particular importance and relevance for this agenda: (a) Pluralising understandings of energy communities, (b) Spatializing perspectives on the potential of energy communities to advance just transitions, and (c) Contextually situating technological-energy innovation strategies.

• Harry, Steven; Maltby, Tomas & Szulecki, Kacper (2024). Contesting just transitions: Climate delay and the contradictions of labour environmentalism. Political Geography. ISSN 0962-6298. 112(June). doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103114. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The notion of ‘just transition’ (JT) is an attempt to align climate and energy objectives with the material concerns of industrial workers, frontline communities, and marginalised groups. Despite the potential for fusing social and environmental justice, there is growing concern that the concept is being mobilised in practice as a form of ‘climate delayism’: a problem more ambiguous than open forms of denialism as it draws in multiple and conflictual agents, practices, and discourses. Using an historical materialist framework, attentive to both energy-capital and capital-labour relations, we show how JT is vulnerable to forces and relations of climate delay across both fossil capital and climate capital hegemonic projects. We review this through an engagement with the climate obstructionism literature and the theory of labour environmentalism: the political engagement of trade unionists and workers with environmental issues. As tensions within the labour movement surface amidst the unsettling of the carbon capital hegemony, we assess the degree to which (organised) labour—as an internally differentiated, contradictory movement—is participating in climate breakdown through a ‘praxis of delay’. Trade unions and industrial workers are often implicated in resisting or undermining transitions, but this is related significantly to their structural power relations vis a vis the fossil hegemony. Notably, JT negotiations are themselves structurally embedded within the carbon capital economy. The general preferences of trade unions for social over environmental justice might be prevalent but are neither universal nor inevitable; JT is open and contested political terrain, and labour-environmental struggles remain imperative for building just energy futures.

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve & Sandnes, Thea (2024). Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights: negotiating sustainability in a high-consumption society. Consumption and Society. 3(3), p. 254–275. doi: 10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000008. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households in Norway (N=20) perform and negotiate sustainability in everyday life. With theories of practice as a point of departure, we combine Bente Halkier’s work on social interaction with Sherry B. Ortner’s conceptualisation of agency as power (dominance and resistance) and agency through ‘projects’ to study how sustainability is negotiated in the everyday. Through this framework we explore how consumers perform ‘sustainability projects’ and how these are defined through, constrained by and negotiated against everyday normativity and dominant socio-material arrangements. Our findings demonstrate the compromises, trade-offs and negotiations that participants engage in when balancing their sustainability projects against other social roles, expectations and goals, often carried out within socio-material arrangements that are scripted towards less sustainable options. Hence, they provide detailed insight into the boundedness of consumer agency, being both socially and materially negotiated and contextualised. While often undertaken as mundane actions, the challenges our participants experienced is ultimately part of negotiating consumer society, often experienced as a constant pressure towards more consumption as expansive consumption is embedded in, and embodied and habituated through, a wide range of social practices.

• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola & Bauwens, Thomas (2024). Are energy transitions reproducing inequalities? Power, social stigma and distributive (in)justice in Mexico. Global Environmental Change. ISSN 0959-3780. 87. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102883. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Activists, scholars, and policymakers worldwide have increasingly recognised the intrinsic linkages between energy transitions and justice issues. However, little research exists on how groups affected by renewable energy siting interpret and mobilise justice narratives to legitimise their actions and question development plans. Building on the notion of 'framing' in social movement theory, this study addresses this gap by examininig the discourses adopted by people resisting wind energy developments in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. The study relies on 64 interviews and participant observation. The findings indicate that anti-wind activists used health and environmental concerns instrumentally: as a framing device to avoid social rejection and legitimise other, subtler distributive concerns about the uneven allocation of economic benefits such as tenancy payments. Although this framing was counterproductive and left their concerns unaddressed, activists adopted this strategy because of community norms and practises that stigmatise the explicit discussion of economic inequalities and their fear of challenging existing power structures. This paper therefore highlights the social mechanisms through which energy transitions reproduce economic inequalities. As a policy recommendation, it is critical to consider how inequalities are framed and the underlying reasons for these interpretive schemes to advance socially just net-zero scenarios.

• Mathisen, Siri Gulaker; Zeyringer, Marianne; Haaskjold, Kristina; Löffler, Konstantin; Mata, Érika & Sandvall, Akram [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2024). The REPowerEU policy's impact on the Nordic power system. Energy Strategy Reviews. ISSN 2211-467X. 54. doi: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101454. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Energy system models provide us with scenarios for the future energy system, supporting our understanding of the impact of societal changes and adopted policies. To front-load the EU’Fit for 55’ package for 2030 and targets of replacing imported natural gas with renewable electricity, the Nordic countries could contribute by exporting additional electricity to mainland Europe. This paper describes a comparative study including five energy system models – GENeSYS-MOD, ON-TIMES, IFE-TIMES-Norway, highRES, and IntERACT, exploring two decarbonisation scenarios leading up to 2050. The scenarios involved simulating an additional 30 TWh electricity export requirement from 2030. Key findings include Denmark and Norway emerging as major net exporters, with Denmark covering over 60% of the additional export. The models predict that 76%–82% of the new electricity production will come from wind power, split between onshore and offshore installations, highlighting significant investment requirements. These results underscore the Nordic countries’ capacity to support the EU’s renewable energy targets, with wind power being pivotal. This research offers a broad overview over different modelling tools and their behaviour and provides critical insights for policymakers, stressing the need for coordinated Nordic efforts to maximise the benefits of increased electricity exports while ensuring energy system stability and cost-efficiency.

• Szulecki, Kacper; Neerland, Maria Aspen; Tomter, Håkon; Wæringsaasen, Cecilie Agathe Blomberg; Żuk, Paweł & Żuk, Piotr (2024). Ageism, welfare, and the energy transition: a comparative analysis of the perceptions among the elderly in Poland and Norway. Energy, Sustainability and Society. 14(35). doi: 10.1186/s13705-024-00468-x. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background> One of the potential dimensions on which exclusion and injustice may occur in energy transitionsis age. Age-based patterns of exclusion—ageism—has recently been conceptualized in the context of decar-bonization as energy ageism. This paper offers a comparative empirical analysis of the senior citizens’ outlooktowards an imminent energy transition as well as the impact of energy poverty in two European countries: Norway and Poland. Results: Drawing on interviews and focus groups with Polish and Norwegian seniors, we present the differencesand similarities between the two countries, and the determinants of energy ageism, as well as the concept’s overallapplicability and empirical usefulness. We find that socioeconomic conditions outweigh ageism, that is, the resil-ience of senior citizens in dealing with energy poverty during a transition is conditioned by their material standingand welfare state robustness rather than age based. An important factor is household heating technology, combinedwith economic vulnerability can push some individuals into energy poverty, while others using alternative sourcesof heat can navigate through energy crises unscathed. Conclusions: We note the importance of mainstreaming social inclusion considerations in energy policy and of tar-geted digital competence building which can enhance senior citizen integration in the energy transition. Lowerlevels of digital competences among senior citizens certainly play a role and need to be addressed with educationprograms to increase participation. In both countries, household heating is a major issue and heating sources arestrong predictors of energy poverty and regulatory measures and subsidies should be designed at national, regional,and municipal level to assist vulnerable groups in this area.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Nykamp, Hilde Andrea; Olkkonen, Ville; Rosenberg, Eva & Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Identifying and analysing important model assumptions: Combining techno-economic and political feasibility of deep decarbonisation pathways in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 112. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103496. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Understanding the political feasibility of transition pathways is a key issue in energy transitions. Policy changes are a significant source of uncertainty in energy system optimisation modelling. Energy system models are nevertheless continuously being updated to reflect policy signals as realistically as possible. Using the concept of transition pathways as a starting point, this cross-disciplinary study combines energy system optimization modelling with political feasibility of different transition pathways. This combination generates insights into key political decision points in the ongoing energy transition. Resting on actor support structure and political feasibility of four main pathway categories (electrification, hydrogen, biomass, and energy efficiency), we identify critical model assumptions that are politically significant and impact model outcome. Then, by replacing the critical assumptions with technical limitations we model a scenario that is unrestrained by assumptions about policy, we identify areas where political choices are key to model outcomes. The combination of actor preferences and modelled energy system consequences enables the identification of future key decision points. We find that there is considerable support for electrification as the main pathway to net-zero. The implications of widespread electrification, in terms of energy production and grid capacity, lead us to identify challenging policy decisions with implications for the energy transition.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Bailey, Ian (2024). The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges. Journal of European Public Policy. ISSN 1350-1763. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2412177. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How functional relationships between policies influence policy design and policy change has received relatively limited attention within public policy scholarship despite the importance of policy coordination. This article contributes to addressing this gap by introducing the Anchoring Policies Perspective (APP), a framework for analysing interactions between policies in functional policy hierarchies. The APP examines how formal links between anchoring policies (AP) and functionally subordinate policies (SP) generate anchoring effects, whereby the provisions codified in APs generate alignment pressures that channel the design of SPs towards the norms and goals of the AP. In the article, we examine the analytical contribution of the APP by analysing the distinguishing characteristics of APs, the mechanisms through which APs influence SP introduction and design, and political strategies for managing situations where resistance occurs to the alignment of SPs with their APs. Examples from environmental and energy policy are used to illustrate key features of the AP-SP relationship, following which the APP’s contribution to public policy scholarship is discussed. We conclude by arguing that the APP has the potential to bring important new insights to the analysis of policy change while building connections with established theories of policy change to develop the APP framework further.

• Vågerö, Oskar; Bråte, Anders; Wittemann, Alexandra Knudsen; Robinson, Jessica Yarin; Zeyringer, Marianne & Sirotko-Sibirskaya, Natalia (2024). Machine learning of public sentiments towards wind energy in Norway. Wind Energy. ISSN 1095-4244. doi: 10.1002/we.2902. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Across Europe, negative public opinion has and may continue to limit the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure required for the transition to net-zero energy systems. Understanding public sentiment and its spatio-temporal variations is as such important for decision-making and for developing socially accepted energy systems. In this study, we apply a sentiment classification model based on a machine learning framework for natural language processing, NorBERT, on data collected from Twitter between 2006 and 2022 to analyse the case of wind power opposition in Norway. From the 68,828 tweets with geospatial information, we show how discussions about wind power intensified in 2018/2019 together with a trend of more negative tweets up until 2020, both on a regional level and for Norway as a whole. Furthermore, we find weak geographical clustering in our data, indicating that discussions are country wide and not dominated by specific regional events or developments. Twitter data allow for detailed insight into the temporal nature of public sentiments and extending this research to additional case studies of technologies, countries and sources of data (e.g. newspapers, other social media) may prove important to complement traditional survey research and the understanding of public sentiment.

• Oftedal, Elin Merethe; Foss, Lene & Rutherford, Matthew (2024). From propriety to validity in new ventures: A nine-year study of three startup companies. Technovation. ISSN 0166-4972. 131. doi: 10.1016/j.technovation.2023.102949. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  New ventures introducing new technological innovations must, to survive, negotiate legitimacy with stakeholders who provide critical resources (e.g., Zimmerman and Zeitz, 2002). Legitimacy - “a generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are desirable, proper, or appropriate within some socially constructed system of norms, values, beliefs, and definitions” (Suchman, 1995, p. 574, p. 574)—is important for all organizational forms, but particularly challenging for new ventures introducing innovative technologies, because of their inherent liabilities (Stinchcombe, 1965; Aldrich and Fiol, 1994). Being perceived as appropriate represents a critical precondition for resource acquisition, growth, and survival; fortunately, extant research has provided an increased understanding as to how legitimacy is constructed and maintained (e.g., Suddaby et al., 2017). For example, we now understand that creating legitimacy increases new ventures’ chances of survival (Delmar and Shane, 2004), that new ventures can employ various strategies to acquire validity (Tornikoski and Newbert, 2007), and that one or more thresholds of legitimacy likely exist (Fisher et al., 2016; Rutherford et al., 2016).

• Guillen-Royo, Monica; Sandnes, Thea; Westskog, Hege & Brudevoll, Kristiane (2024). Healthier and sustainable food at work and beyond: A study of user and organisational practices in a Norwegian municipal canteen. Journal of Cleaner Production. ISSN 0959-6526. 444. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140789. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper applies a practice-theoretical perspective to the study of user and organisational practices in a municipal canteen engaged in the promotion of healthy and sustainable food in Oslo. The city council defines sustainable and healthy food in terms of less meat, increased consumption of fruit, vegetables, pulses and seasonal food, and reduced food waste. It is estimated that this type of diet, together with cutting food waste, could result in a 20–25 % reduction in emissions from food consumption in Norwegian public institutions (van Oort et al., 2021). Additionally, dietary changes could, if spilled over, have a significant impact on total national emissions, since food is the third-largest emission category in Norwegian households (Steen-Olsen et al., 2016). The single action considered to have the greatest impact is reducing the consumption of meat and dairy. These products make up 80 % of total household food emissions in Norway, and red meat alone accounts for 35 % (van Oort et al., 2021). Reducing the consumption of red and processed meat is also a matter of public health, considering the positive relationship between processed red meat and some forms of cancer

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hoff, Sindre Johan Cottis (2024). Circular additions to linear systems? Exploring Norwegian households' engagement with circularity in everyday life. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 115, p. 1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103641. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The circular economy (CE) has gained a prominent position in the broader literature, discourse, and policy arenas concerned with sustainable production and consumption. With roots in industrial ecology, the goal of CE is to shift away from linear ‘take-make-waste’ systems towards a regenerative system where resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops, achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling. Household consumption plays a central role in a shift towards the CE, but the complexities of consumption in everyday life are often overlooked in CE research. This article employs a practice theoretical lens to analyse the ways in which circularity is integrated into everyday life, for what purposes and with what effects. The data material consists of qualitative interviews with residents, and municipal and voluntary actors in Asker, Norway. We find that circularity was integrated by means of excitement and mastery, practical solutions, or financial savings on particular occasions, but was not necessarily considered a significant contributor to sustainability, nor did it replace linear forms of consumption. Households carved out space for circularity that largely left spatial or temporal rhythms of everyday life, established social norms, relations, or embodied knowledge unchallenged. Rather, circularity was integrated to maintain, rationalize, or simplify existing practices while upholding the throughput of household goods and resources, or pursue goals that had little to do with reduced resource use, representing circular additions to existing linear systems.

• Vågerö, Oskar; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Zeyringer, Marianne (2024). The effects of fair allocation principles on energy system model designs. Environmental Research: Energy. 1(4). doi: 10.1088/2753-3751/ad8e6a. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  What constitutes socially just or unjust energy systems or transitions can be derived from philosophy and theories of justice. Assessments of distributive justice and utilising them in modelling lead to great differences based on which justice principles are applied. From the limited research so far published in the intersection between energy systems modelling and justice, we find that comparisons between the two principles of utilitarianism and egalitarianism dominate in assessments of distributive justice, with the latter most often considered representing a 'just energy system'. The lack of recognition of alternative and equally valid principles of justice, resting on e.g. capabilities, responsibilities and/or opportunities, leads to a narrow understanding of justice that fails to align with the views of different individuals, stakeholders and societies. More importantly, it can lead to the unjust design of future energy systems and energy systems analysis. In this work, we contribute to the growing amount of research on distributive justice in energy systems modelling by assessing the implications of different philosophical views on justice on modelling results. Through a modelling exercise with a power system model for Europe (highRES), we explore different designs of a future (2050) net-zero European electricity system, and its distributional implications based on the application of different justice principles. In addition to the utilitarian and egalitarian approach, we include, among others, principles of 'polluters pay' and 'ability-to-pay', which take historical contributions of greenhouse gas emissions and the socio-economic conditions of a region into account. We find that fair distributions of electricity generating infrastructure look significantly different depending on the justice principles applied. The results may stimulate a greater discussion among researchers and policymakers on the implications of different constructions of justice in modelling, expansion of approaches, and demonstrate the importance of transparency and assumptions when communicating such results.

• Skjærseth, Jon Birger; Eikeland, Per Ove; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Larsen, Mari Lie (2024). Norway's Hydrogen Strategy: Unveiling Green Opportunities and Blue Export Ambitions. In Quitzow, Rainer & Zabanova, Yana (Ed.), The Geopolitics of Hydrogen. Springer. ISSN 9783031595141. p. 213–232. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-59515-8. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Palm, Jenny & Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2024). Flexible electricity consumption policies in Norway and Sweden: Implications for energy justice. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 110. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103466. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Policies for shifting household electricity load are in focus in several countries, aimed at optimizing grid operation and tackling current and expected challenges from consumption patterns, like increased peak loads on the grid. Central here are recent developments in capacity charges, where the use of significant amounts of grid capacity is priced high, compared to the traditional pricing of electricity consumption. These capacity charges tend to be developed at the interface between system needs and incumbent actor influence from the sector on the one side, and arguments for a ‘just’ and consumer-oriented design, like simplicity and actual effect on behaviour, on the other. Comparing the consultation processes concerning policy design in Norway and Sweden, this study investigates if and how these capacity charge policies consider consumer perspectives and needs, and explores the implications for energy justice. The two countries have similar tariff models, but differing consumer considerations have become apparent. In both countries, the policy process has been dominated by sector incumbent actors; the consumer considerations that were included were weak, general, and not grounded in knowledge. Consumer representation has been low. In this study, we note the implications for recognition, procedural, and distributional justice. Our findings indicate the need for further development of balanced policy processes within the energy sector.

• Seven, Jablin & Foss, Lene (2024). Proposed measures to enhance equity: A study of Swedish superintendents’ emerging power. Equity in Education & Society. doi: 10.1177/27526461241256966. Full text in Research Archive
• Hoff, Sindre Cottis; Böcker, Lars & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2024). Post-/pandemic mobility adaptations and wellbeing in Oslo, Norway: A longitudinal mixed-methods approach. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. ISSN 1361-9209. 129(April). doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2024.104147. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study investigates the understudied relationship between post-/pandemic mobility adaptations and wellbeing outcomes, drawing on a longitudinal mixed-method approach combining survey analyses and in-depth citizen interviews conducted between 2019 and 2022 in Oslo, Norway. Qualitative analyses explore the depth and diversity of pandemic mobility adaptations and the implications for hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. Factor and structural equation models confirm statistical evidence for three pandemic coping strategies – working from home, avoiding spaces of infection, and (enjoyment of) the local environment – with respectively neutral, negative and positive impacts on satisfaction with life. The post-pandemic ability to be more mobile and attend diverse activities again is by many perceived as positive, but people struggle to maintain cherished aspects of the slower-paced, localised lifestyles adopted during the pandemic. We discuss the significance of our findings for inclusive pandemic resilience, and reflect on the lessons relevant for addressing another crisis – climate change.

• Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). The new middle classes: Consumption, development and sustainability, Handbook of International Development and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781800883772. Full text in Research Archive
• Sundet, Øyvind; Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway. Consumption and Society. doi: 10.1332/ZGZV3476. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a complex web of factors contributing to meat consumption, reduction and avoidance. This article contributes to a nuanced understanding of the experiences, approaches and challenges faced by meat reducers. The data was collected through in-depth interviews with 26 self-declared meat reducers in Norway. By framing consumption as embedded in social practices, this article highlights how broader cultural, social and material conditions structure eating and hence meat consumption. A central finding is that through processes of socialisation and habituation, performances of eating often conform to the prevailing conventions inscribed in the socio-material environment in which they are embedded. We thus question the popular depictions of individuals as efficient drivers of dietary changes and highlight the many factors involved in reproducing the ‘normalness’ of meat-intense diets, demonstrating how individual intentions, choices and habits are themselves rooted in, and circumscribed by, prevailing conventions, that is, practices.

• Bailey, Ian; Nutkins, Robert & Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). The anchoring effect of climate change acts: a policy streams analysis of Ireland’s climate act reform. Climate Policy. ISSN 1469-3062. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2261886. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The number of political jurisdictions introducing climate change acts (CCAs) has grown in recent years. As framework legislation, CCAs seek to exert anchoring effects on climate policy development by establishing general goals, principles and obligations that subsequent policies to reduce emissions must uphold. Despite expansive research on the negotiation of CCAs, limited analysis exists of factors shaping their anchoring effect or how tensions aligning other climate policies with CCA requirements are managed. This article addresses this by utilizing Kingdon’s multiple streams framework to analyze the negotiation of the Irish Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021, a CCA with contentious provisions for sectoral emissions ceilings. It examines how political agreement was secured on the need for stronger climate action (problem stream), the concept of the Act (policy stream), and individual provisions (political stream). The analysis nevertheless indicates that different interpretations of ‘the problem’ emerged in discussions on the impacts of sector emissions ceilings and carbon taxation. Consensus in the political stream equally proved challenging where representatives used the Act’s provisions to question other parties’ commitments to climate action, just transition and procedural fairness. The article highlights two broader considerations for the anchoring effect of CCAs: the importance of maintaining a consistent focus on climate change to prevent problems with policies to address climate change from dominating CCA debates; and whether to restrict CCAs to general principles that diminish their anchoring effect compared with incorporating detailed obligations that may increase political tensions over the CCA and future policies.

• Wolday, Fitwi & Böcker, Lars (2023). Exploring changes in residential preference during COVID-19: Implications to contemporary urban planning. Environment and planning. B: Urban analytics and city science. ISSN 2399-8083. 50(5), p. 1280–1297. doi: 10.1177/23998083231164398. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has reshuffled our daily routines and activity spaces. The home and its immediate environment have attained a critical role in coping with the confinement both as living, working and recreational space. Drawing on a longitudinal survey from greater Oslo, we analyze shifts in residential preferences amidst COVID-19. Given the pandemic induced movement restrictions, we pay special attention to the mediating role of perceived accessibility on the link between several sociodemographic/locational/housing characteristics on preference shifts. Amidst a drop in perceived accessibility, outdoor assets like gardens or balconies, and motility by car and public transport are amongst the residential and locational amenities that have gained most in people’s considerations for a new dwelling peri-pandemically. Dwelling satisfaction and preferences with regard to neighborhood density, dwelling size, and work-proximity, have remained largely unchanged despite a clear trend towards more teleworking. Our results can be understood as a nod of approval to contemporary compact urban planning. Nonetheless challenges as to bolstering its resilience still linger and more needs to be done to mitigate the inequalities in (perceived) access to in-home, near-home, and mobility assets that we have also observed to have (re)-immerged in the wake of the pandemic.

• Hovelsrud, Grete K. & Westskog, Hege (2023). The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation: a local perspective. In Sirkku, Juhola (Eds.), Handbook of Adaptive Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781800888234. p. 192–206. Full text in Research Archive
• Nenseth, Vibeke & Røe, Per Gunnar (2023). Sustainable suburban mobilities – planning practices and paradoxes. European Planning Studies. ISSN 0965-4313. 32(5), p. 1059–1077. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2023.2249950. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Cities are in transition towards more sustainable mobilities, and many city cores are beyond peak car. However, the suburbs are still largely car based. Although planning principles for compact centres and transit-oriented development have been prevalent since the early nineties, there has been little progress towards more sustainable suburban mobility. This is also the case for the Greater Oslo region. To understand this implementation gap, we have investigated the adoption of the overarching principles of land use and transport planning, as represented in the regional plan for Greater Oslo. In two suburban municipalities, we have focused on key actors in local planning, who are crucial for the implementation of planning principles and strategies to achieve change. We find that the sustainability principles focusing on densification around public transport nodes and in suburban centres are supported. However, essential aspects of social sustainability in the growing suburban towns, have largely been left out. Drawing on the reflexive turn in policies and planning, we argue that this implementation deficit is an unintentional consequence of a too narrow disciplinary spatial planning approach. The implementation of sustainable planning principles requires a broader knowledge base, including the social sciences, in order to take into account peoples’ preferences and practices.

• Eikeland, Per Ove; Taranger, Karianne Krohn; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). A wind of change in Norway: Explaining shifts in municipal stances on wind power by policy feedback and energy justice. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 104. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103231. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja; Christensen, Ingrid; Smørdal, Ole & Ludvigsen, Sten Runar (2023). Exploring the Potential of a Co-Creation Platform for Children and Youth. In Damsa, Crina I.; Borge, Marcela; Koh, Elizabeth & Worsley, Marcelo (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2023. International Society of the Learning Sciences. ISSN 9783030895815. Full text in Research Archive
• Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Heidenreich, Sara Lena Brigitte; Henriksen, Ida Marie; Oliveira, Rita Vasconcellos; Dankel, Dorothy Jane & Lahuerta, Julian Richard [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2023). Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 107. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103334. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Global investment in offshore wind energy is anticipated to surge in the coming decades. While improved technology, reduced costs, and generous policy support are frequently acknowledged as driving factors, many assert that there are fewer societal challenges with offshore renewable installations than with onshore ones. Drawing from a co-creation process with key Norwegian stakeholders and an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanities scholars, this article delves deeper than the prevalent techno-economic discourse. It seeks to: a) identify the societal challenges of fostering a just and legitimate offshore wind industry; b) explore solutions to these challenges; and c) understand the potential role of transdisciplinary action research in driving change. Through this collaboration, industry actors co-formulated an agenda for offshore wind, highlighting varied issues and concerns. This was operationalized into four primary societal challenges: 1) Navigating the public debate; 2) Improving public participation; 3) Minimizing land and sea use and co-existence conflicts, and 4) Understanding pace, political dynamics, and geopolitics. This paper offers an exhaustive discussion on possible strategies to tackle these issues, presenting a critical companion research agenda to the predominantly technology-focused studies on offshore wind within the sustainability transitions literature.

• Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2023). Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. In Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Ed.), Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031110696. Full text in Research Archive
• Osicka, Jan; Szulecki, Kacper & Jenkins, Kirsten E.H. (2023). Energy justice and energy democracy: Separated twins, rival concepts or just buzzwords? Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 104. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103266. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Many new concepts have emerged to better capture socio-technical change in energy systems from a normative perspective. Two of the most visible, popularized, and politically charged are Energy Justice and Energy Democracy, but it is the tension between them that has drawn recent controversy. Instead of arguing for the superiority of one over the other, this paper's aim is to demonstrate their differential contribution and areas of productive overlap using both quantitative and qualitative measures. It presents the results of the systematic review of 495 articles on Energy Democracy and Energy Justice in the Web of Science database, with attention to the geographical focus, scale, technology, and social groups dominant in both literatures. We find that both the concepts and literatures employing them are very closely related, almost like twins. The key difference is the failure of the Energy Democracy literature to engage with questions of energy poverty and distributional (in)justice. For Energy Justice, we find that despite lip service paid to, for example, the Global South, normative research in energy transitions sphere remains highly Western-centric. We highlight, too, that both terms are most often used as buzzwords and that this undermines knowledge building and the radical potential for change which is inherent in the two concepts and their applications.

• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola; Lennon, Breffni & Dunphy, Niall (2023). The Global Face of Energy Poverty. In Velasco-Herrejón, Paola; Lennon, Breffni & Dunphy, Niall (Ed.), Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South. Routledge. ISSN 9781003408536. doi: 10.4324/9781003408536-2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  For the first time in decades, the price pressures and economic upheaval primarily caused by the global energy crisis – sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and post-COVID pandemic supply chain stress – have led to a rise in the number of people without access to energy. The human consequences of energy poverty include a significant deterioration in physical health and mental well-being, along with premature death due to severe winter and summer conditions, unhealthy and/or restricted lifestyles, and social exclusion. There have been efforts to reduce energy poverty in both developing and developed countries over the past few decades. The need for electricity grid expansion has long been articulated in developing and developed contexts since the first half of the 20th century. More recently, global energy markets and their effects on energy availability and prices, as well as pressing environmental concerns, have induced a surge in research on energy deprivation, a condition that previously had little public recognition.

• Dunphy, Niall; Lennon, Breffni & Velasco-Herrejón, Paola (2023). Identifying Energy-Poor Households, Experiences from the Global North. In Velasco-Herrejón, Paola; Lennon, Breffni & Dunphy, Niall (Ed.), Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South. Routledge. ISSN 9781003408536. doi: 10.4324/9781003408536-4. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter discusses findings from an ongoing Horizon 2020 project, EnergyMeasures, relating to identifying and recruiting energy-poor households in seven participating countries (BE, BG, IE, MK, NL, PL, and UK). Understanding the wicked problem of energy poverty is not an easy undertaking and is replete with multiple layers of complexity across numerous intersecting societal and environmental scales. Practitioners tasked with engaging energy-poor households acknowledge the difficulties involved, especially when trying to connect with those hard-to-reach households who may or may not identify as energy poor. While this chapter draws from experiences in Europe, the range and depth of practical knowledges held by the consortium partners allowed us to uncover a range of nuanced and considered approaches one can take on the topic that reflect the historical, cultural, and environmental factors specific to each country. Consequently, we critique these approaches to identifying and measuring energy vulnerability, especially indicators of energy poverty and so-called supporting indicators. As is noted throughout this book, the focus on energy poverty analysis has tended to stay at the macro-, or meso-, levels while understanding contexts at the local level often remain underdeveloped or ignored. In keeping with the overall theme of the book, approaches on how to appropriately identify energy-poor households are drawn from both the literature and experiences of practitioners active ‘in the field’.

• Hansen, Arve (2023). Capitalism, Consumption, and the Transformation of Everyday Life: The Political Economy of Social Practices. In Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Ed.), Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031110696. Full text in Research Archive

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• Westskog, Hege; Vindegg, Mikkel; Sandnes, Thea & Bjørklund, Kjetil (2026). Jorda, skogen, dyra og menneskene: Fortellinger fra småskalaliv. Småskalalandbrukets bidrag til klima- og miljøomstilling. Kolofon Forlag AS. ISBN 9788230029909. 202 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Sareen, Siddharth & Juhola, Sirkku (2026). Societal Transitions to Sustainability: The Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783032073952. 474 p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07395-2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This open access book responds to the need for rapid and transformative societal change towards a sustainable future. The editorial introduction and conclusion bookend 27 case chapters about urban sites of experimentation and contestation, spaces of conviviality and politics, sectoral movements, and cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary transitions. These short case chapters address the prefigurative politics of present transformations based on wide-ranging empirical and conceptual analyses. They span societal transitions in and across sectors such as energy, food, and transport. Three key insights concern the multi-scalar nature of prefiguration, its entanglement with boundary transgression, and the multiple temporalities of prefigurative politics in the present.

• Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2023). Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031110696. 387 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2026). Include, Research Centre for Socially Inclusive Energy Transitions. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Through inclusive processes and close collaboration between research and partners in public, private and voluntary sectors, the objective of Include is to produce critical knowledge on how to achieve a socially inclusive and just energy, climate and environmental transformation. Include has six research partners and 20 user partners in Norway and the UK.

• Winther, Tanja; Røe, Per Gunnar & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2026). FME Include. Full text in Research Archive
• Hegsvold, Kirsten (2026). Byvekstavtaler kan bremse klimaomstillingen i norske byer. Forskersonen.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  KRONIKK: Klimaomstillingen i norske byer skal være både rask, effektiv og rettferdig. Men hva skjer når disse hensynene trekker i forskjellige retninger?

• Hegsvold, Kirsten (2026). Kirsten Hegsvold om byvekstavtaler og interkommunale samarbeidsprosjekter: Hvem former politikken og beslutningene? Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Byvekstavtaler skal samordne areal, transport og klimapolitikk. Men hvem former kunnskapsgrunnlaget og alternativene politikerne får på bordet?

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Winther, Tanja (2026). Energi2050: Hvilken energifremtid kan og bør Norge velge? doi: https:/www.polyteknisk.no/program/energi2050-hvilken-energifremtid-kan-og-bor-norge-velge. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Halvorsen, Bente (2026). Energi­fattigdom – et betydelig problem som er lite belyst. [Journal]. Energi og Klima. doi: https:/www.energiogklima.no/to-grader/ekspertintervju/energifattigdom-et-betydelig-problem-som-er-lite-belyst. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det er energifattigdom i Norge, men vi vet ikke så mye om hvor mange det angår og hvordan problemet best kan møtes. Det vil forskningsprosjektet PowerPoor gjøre noe med.

• Tennøy, Aud (2026). 30 km/t bidrar til bærekraftig byutvikling. Full text in Research Archive
• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2026). Energifattigdom og rettferdig omstilling. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald; Sareen, Siddharth & Skjærseth, Jon Birger (2026). Changing wind and solar licensing processes: implications for local influence and democratic fairness. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Norway aims to develop more wind and solar power plants to reach its climate targets and meet industrial demand. However, new electricity generation projects have been stymied by legitimacy crises and consideration of land-use change and impact on nature. The wind power licensing scheme was reformed in 2022, while the process for utility-scale solar power licensing followed in 2025. Both designs diverge strongly, but both empower host municipalities. Municipalities can thus stop wind and solar power developments. This increased local responsibility has been paired with boosted economic incentives for wind but not for solar power. Using an energy democracy approach, this paper analyses evolution in participation and influence in licensing. It asks what the most important implications of the changes in licensing scheme are, for energy democracy and influence of municipalities on solar and wind power energy projects, we utilise empirical data from ten interviews with developers, politicians, and public officials, analysis of policy and licensing documents and key media articles during 2022-2026. We argue that increased municipality influence on national developments is not a silver bullet for democratic fairness. While local anchoring is crucial, and an initially top-down approach of the licensing process undermined the legitimacy of renewable energy development in Norway, municipalities are rarely equipped to manage these controversial processes effectively and fairly. We conclude that municipal roles in determining renewable development require institutional capacity-building and facilitating planning expertise to manage emerging land use conflicts, mitigate polarised community engagement, and allocate resources justly.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Grønn energi vs. samiske rettigheter – hvem skal vike? doi: https:/www.arendalsuka.no/program/gronn-energi-vs-samiske-rettigheter---hvem-skal-vike. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Datasentre, storskala vindkraft og fornybare energisamfunn – hvordan ble omstillingen rettferdig? doi: https:/www.arendalsuka.no/program/datasentre-storskala-vindkraft-og-fornybare-energisamfunn---hvordan-ble-omstillingen-rettferdig. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Riksrevisjonen refser arealforvaltningen: Vi vet fortsatt ikke hvilken natur vi ødelegger. doi: https:/www.arendalsuka.no/program/riksrevisjonen-refser-arealforvaltningen-vi-vet-fortsatt-ikke-hvilken-natur-vi-odelegger. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Lokal styring, natur og arealer. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Energiomstilling: konflikt mellom kraftbehov, natur og areal. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjørklund, Kjetil; Westskog, Hege; Smørdal, Ole; Selvig, Eivind & Wang, Lars (2026). På vei mot en ny standard? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne gangen presenteres rapporten På vei mot en ny standard? som inngår i Include-satsningen Deltakende omstilling. Vi inviterer også til drøfting av hvordan rapporten kan brukes som grunnlag for et større forskningsprosjekt innenfor Grønn og rettferdig omstilling. Det blir lagt spesielt vekt å drøfte hvilke prosjekter (case) som kan brukes for å kunne få erfaringer og innsikter fra praksis (innovasjonsfronten) samt hvem som kan være aktuelle samarbeidspartnere.

• Amundrud, Anja & Smørdal, Ole (2026). Design for Dialogue Across Contexts. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the Norwegian educational context, increased emphasis on the interdisciplinary themes, democracy and citizenship, sustainable development, and health and well-being has strengthened expectations that schools support students’ engagement with complex societal issues across subjects. This places dialogue, collaboration, and collective meaning-making at the centre of democratic participation. While previous research has shown how dialogue can be deliberately designed for and supported in classrooms, less attention has been paid to what happens when such designs unfold in practice across contexts involving both schools and external actors. This paper reports on a qualitative case study from a collaborative project involving a lower secondary school, a public library, and researchers. The aim was to explore ways of engaging young people more actively in local sustainability-related issues. Through a joint workshop, the partners co-created a teaching design that was implemented over one semester through classroom activities and field-based work at the library. Students were invited to explore the library as a community space and develop proposals for how it could become more relevant to young people. Data consist of video recordings from the design workshop, field observations, and interviews with participants from the school and library. The analysis draws on reflexive thematic analysis and activity theory, conceptualising the teaching design as the object of the activity. The findings show that the design initially generated strong engagement among both students and teachers. Students developed many ideas and, according to teachers, more students participated than in ordinary classroom activities. At the same time, the design was interpreted differently in practice by the participants. As the work progressed, the design was gradually reshaped in relation to school expectations of assessment, progression, and completion. This narrowed the scope of the exploration, reduced students’ sense of ownership, and undermined the original ambition to carry students’ proposals forward in the library. Instead, the design became a basis for reflection on future collaboration. The study empirically demonstrates the central challenges in designing for democratic participation, namely, creating authentic opportunities for dialogue while also sustaining them across phases, contexts, and institutional demands.

• Tønnesen, Anders (2026). Hvordan opprettholde tillit mellom lokalbefolkning og myndigheter når de restriktive tiltakene skal gjennomføres? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2026). Hva kjennetegner kommuner med ulik arealforvaltning? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2026). Velkommen til Include brukerpartnermøte – foreløpige funn fra delprosjektet Grønne Pionerkommuner. Full text in Research Archive
• Vindegg, Mikkel (2026). Hver mann sin høne? Småskalalandbrukets bidrag til matberedskap. doi: https:/cicero.oslo.no/no/arrangementer/robust-samfunn-i-urolige-tider. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper & Szulecka, Julia (2026). Post-Populist Climate Politics: Lessons from Poland’s Liberal Reconstruction. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Right-wing populist political forces are generally perceived to be a threat to ambitious climate action. However, in some countries where populists came to power, liberal electoral victories allowed for reversing the dismantling of institutions and opened the space for more ambitious environmental and climate policy. What are the problems such reconstruction processes face? This article looks at the case of Poland, where, following two terms of populist rule, a liberal coalition took power with an ambitious climate action program. However, two years on, the actual policy output is modest. Cohabitation with a populist-backed president and the internal diversity of the anti-populist coalition governments are very important factors influencing policy outcomes. However, we note that the translation of ambitious electoral manifestos into policy proposals is explained by the way populists are still able to control the agenda and thus constrain liberal governments even when they are in power, which is a broader lesson that can be learned for liberal democracy and climate politics beyond Poland.

• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Om planlegging og planforskning. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Behov for og bruk av kunnskap i arealplanlegging etter pbl. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Hvorfor driver vi fortsatt med byspredning - i stedet for sentral fortetting og transformasjon? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Indførelse af hastighedsgrænse på 30 km/t. Erfaringer fra europeiske bye, Cykliaden Syd. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Hva som kan gjøres i reguleringsplaner for å redusere klimagassutslipp knyttet til nye samferdselsanlegg. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Hva kommunene kan gjøre for å få flere til å velge grønn mobilitet. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Influences of transport infrastructure on land use, travel behaviour, traffic volumes and environment. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Causal relationships between spatial urban structures and travel behaviour. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Are we achieving the goals in urban land use and transportation? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Kvalitativ metode for å analysere indirekte arealeffekter av samferdselstiltak og konsekvenser av dette på trafikkutvikling og arealforbruk. Full text in Research Archive
• Standal, Karina (2026). Arbeidsmøte Miljø, natur, urfolks rettigheter og sosial legitimitet, Energi2050. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2026). Arbeidsmøte Landvind, Energi2050. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2026). Deltakelse i arbeidsgruppe for Klimavennlig transport, Energi2050. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2026). Klimabudsjett som verktøy for omstilling. doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qJASSRTcxs. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Et faglig innlegg om hvordan kommunen, gjennom arbeidet sitt med klimabudsjett, framstår som en endringsaktør for klimaarbeid

• Kanestrøm, Jorunn; Røe, Per Gunnar; Böcker, Lars & Solli, Hilde (2026). Hva skal til for at vi lar bilen stå? - Universitetet i Oslo. doi: https:/www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/universitetsplassen/podkast/episoder/hva-skal-til-for-at-vi-lar-bilen-staa.wav?vrtx=view-as-webpage. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Let’s face it - det er ikke så mye som er rettferdig her i verden, og noen er mer privilegerte enn andre. Slik er det også når det gjelder våre hverdagslige reiser og krav til at vi velger klimavennlige måter å forflytte oss på. Økt satsing på grønne reiser kan bidra til bærekraftige byregioner, men tilgangen til sykkelveier, tog og bane er ulikt fordelt. Noen har god tilgang, mens andre har betydelig dårligere tilbud. Rettferdighet er derfor et viktig stikkord i byutviklingen, når bilen skal erstattes av klimavennlige reisemåter. Men er dette et hensiktsmessig mål?

• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2026). Inequality sidelined? A literature review of household energy practices. Full text in Research Archive
• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola & Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Sosiale konsekvenser av vindkraft i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2026). Klimastrategiseminar Oslo kommune. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper (2026). Catalysts of Environmental Awareness: Ecological Crises and Mobilisation in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. doi: https:/calendar.boell.de/en/event/history-environmental-movements-eastern-and-southeast-europe. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Which ecological crises and environmental disasters played a decisive role in the formation of environmental awareness in Eastern and South-Eastern European countries? Through what mechanisms and practices did these issues stimulate mobilisation at the local level? To what extent did the Chornobyl nuclear disaster function as a turning point and catalyst for the emergence and consolidation of environmental movements? With: Prof. Dr. Amir Duranović, University of Sarajevo. Focus: history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, diplomacy, and environmental history. Dr. phil. Astrid Sahm, Head of International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB gGmbH). Focus: energy and environmental policy, development of political systems and integration policies of post-Soviet states (especially Belarus and Ukraine) Dr. Kacper Szulecki, Research Professor in International Climate Governance at NUPI

• Szulecki, Kacper (2026). Demokratyzacja energetyki w Polsce i Europie. Czy Kowalscy powinni decydować o kształcie systemu energetycznego? doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfNxVrkvak. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Wyzwania sektora energetycznego Starzejąca się infrastruktura i wyczerpywanie paliw kopalnych podważają stabilność energetyczną świata. Transformacja i decentralizacja energii Odnawialne źródła energii jak fotowoltaika i wiatr umożliwiają udział lokalnych społeczności i nowych interesariuszy Kryzys demokracji liberalnej Demokracja energetyczna przesuwa kontrolę z dużych podmiotów na poziom lokalny i zwiększa udział obywateli. Wyzwanie dla modelu technokratycznego Demokracja energetyczna stanowi alternatywę dla rządzenia przez wąską grupę ekspertów bez kontroli społecznej.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2026). Sentrale dilemmaer forklima- og energipolitikken i Norge . Full text in Research Archive
• Sønderskov, Mette & Tortzen, Anne (2026). Hva vil vi egentlig med ungdomsrådene? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Ungdomsrådene får tunge sakspapirer, korte frister og liten mulighet til å påvirke utfallet.

• Szulecki, Kacper (2026). The Political Afterlife of a Nuclear Catastrophe: A View from Poland. London Ukrainian Review. 3(6). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Chornobyl catastrophe fractured whatever trust remained in Poland's government after five decades of Communist rule, transforming pharmacy queues and playgrounds into spaces of political awakening. Exploring how environmental catastrophe sparked mass civic mobilisation, Szulecki asks whether these lessons can inform struggles for democratic control over nuclear infrastructure in Europe amid war and climate breakdown.

• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Hva kommunene kan gjøre for å få flere til å velge grønn mobilitet. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Kvalitativ metode for å analysere arealeffekter av samferdselstiltak og konsekvenser av dette på trafikkutvikling og arealforbruk. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2026). Hva som kan gjøres i reguleringsplaner for å redusere klimagassutslipp knyttet til samferdselsanlegg. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege & Vindegg, Mikkel (2026). Jorda, skogen, dyra og menneskene: Fortellinger fra småskalaliv. Full text in Research Archive
• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2026). Hadde ingen draum om akademia. No har han fått fast jobb. [Journal]. Khrono. doi: https:/www.khrono.no/hadde-ingen-draum-om-akademia-no-har-han-fatt-fast-jobb/1032777. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det er viktig å setja pris på fleksibiliteten i akademia, seier Eivind Hjort Matthiasen. Han har gått rett frå stipendiatstilling til fast forskarjobb.

• Smørdal, Ole (2025). Hvorfor medvirkning? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Odilia Häussler Melbøe, Bydel Gamle Oslo og Ole Smørdal UiO/Include samtaler om hvorfor vi medvirker og potensialet i medvirkning som en del av klimaomstillingen.

• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Indførelse af hastighedsgænse på 30 km/t: Erfaringer fra europeiske bye. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Fortetting versus gode stader. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Utvidet bruk av fartsgrense 30 km/t for å nå mål om bærekraftig byutvikling: Hva kan vi lære fra europeiske byer? Buskerud FK. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Hvilke effekter har innføring av 30 km/t i store soner og hele byer hatt på faktorer som bidrar til en mer bærekraftig byutvikling i europeiske byer? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Hva er mobilitet? Mobilitet som bidrar til samfunnsmål. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Hva kommunene gjør og kan gjøre for å sikre at ønsket utbygging i og ved sentrum i små og mellomstore byer blir realisert. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Erfaringer fra europeiske byer: Innføring av fartsgrense 30 km/t i store soner og hele byer bidrar til bærekraftig byutvikling. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Videreutvikling av området Oslo S: Refleksjoner rundt mobilitet og tilgjengelighet. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Samordnet areal- og transportplanlegging: Hvorfor, hva, hvordan? Full text in Research Archive
• Skjærseth, Jon Birger (2025). Shifting EU-Norway relations and coordination of climate and energy policies. Full text in Research Archive
• Durney, Florence (2025). UiO Research roundtable. doi: https:/www.globe.uio.no/english/include/research/projects/results/events/conferences/results-symposium. Full text in Research Archive
• Durney, Florence (2025). Sustainability Transformation Discourses at UiO. doi: https:/www.globe.uio.no/english/include/research/projects/results/events/conferences/results-symposium. Full text in Research Archive
• O'Brien, Karen (2025). Transformations to sustainability: ​ Are we talking with or past each other? ​. doi: https:/www.globe.uio.no/english/include/research/projects/results/events/conferences/results-symposium. Full text in Research Archive
• Durney, Florence (2025). Hva mener vi egentlig med bærekraft? Forskergruppen RESULTS tar tempen på forsamlingen. doi: https:/www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/universitetsplassen/domus-bibliotheca/arrangementer/2025/apning-senter-for-global-baerekraft. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2025). Kommuner som endringsaktører i energiomstillingen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Hvordan møter norske kommuner klima-og naturkrisen?

• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola (2025). Bridging Sustainability, Peace and Culture: Analyzing Community Dynamics and Well-being in Norway's Wind Energy Transition. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Paris Agreement identified renewable energy technologies (RETs) as essential to avoiding catastrophic climate change. Since 2010, the global electricity mix has rapidly evolved, with renewables as the fastest-growing source. However, ambitious renewable energy targets have significant social implications, particularly at the local level. To gain a holistic understanding of how these impacts occur, it’s important to understand the well-being implications of these impacts and how they may link to the politics of local approval of RETs. Norway has some of the best wind resources in Europe. Nonetheless, wind energy development has been contested and licensing has been revoked due to opposition from nature conservation groups, recreational activities, Sámi and local communities. This paper operationalises the Capability Approach to explore the challenges and trade-offs in evaluating well-being outcomes from wind energy. Specifically, the paper addresses the difficulties in understanding the voice of people living near wind energy infrastructure in Norway and how their conceptions of well-being can be used to estimate the impacts of wind energy development in two municipalities: one in Finnmark, on Sámi reindeer herders' land, and one in Østfold, near Oslo. This paper will expand on the description grounded approach used for the identification of capabilities from Alkire (2002, 2013), Clark (2003), Ibrahim (2008) and Uyan-Semerci (2007) among others to visualise the relationship between well-being and energy infrastructure projects. The research methodology involved a co-creation process with Sámi, Norwegian and other scholars leading to semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 59 participants in July and August 2024. Data shows that new wind power plans have heightened local polarization, affecting access to and perceptions of public deliberation processes. Findings emphasize the importance of inclusive community engagement that addresses information asymmetries, acknowledges historical land uses, and offers avenues for restorative justice, local employment, and nature protection. This paper contributes to a more compelling body of theory on the social impacts of wind energy by focusing on the recognition of valuable human capabilities, emphasizing locally defined priorities and perspectives. Additionally, it aligns with the conference's aim to explore avenues for creating spaces for deliberative public reasoning, addressing conflicts related to resource scarcity, particularly land. The participation of Indigenous authors is crucial for decolonizing knowledge and enhancing the cultural diversity and relevance of the research. We hope that this methodology will provide valuable insights for the configuration and implementation of future renewable energy projects that prioritize sustainability and social justice.

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2025). Hvorfor er det så vanskelig å være bærekraftig forbruker, og hva betyr det for kommunenes arbeid? Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Lars; Bjørklund, Kjetil; Selvig, Eivind; Smørdal, Ole & Westskog, Hege (2025). Radikalt bærekraftig omstilling – fra retorikk til realitet. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. p. 48–53. Full text in Research Archive
• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola; Viole, Isabelle; Venegas, Guillermo Andrés Valenzuela; Sartori, Sabrina & Zeyringer, Marianne (2025). Astronomy and energy justice in the Atacama Desert. In Mejía-Montero, Adolfo (Eds.), Energy Justice in Latin America. Routledge. ISSN 9781003492573. p. 181–197. Full text in Research Archive
• Gabrielsen, Neha Singh (2025). Samskaping av undervisning for bærekraftig utvikling. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Workshop om bærekraftige initiativer for barn og unge - samarbeid mellom skoler og lokale aktører

• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Debatt om utviding av handelspark i Hønefoss. [TV]. NRK. doi: https:/www.ringblad.no/fortsatte-honefoss-debatten-i-beste-sendetid-varaordforer-og-ordforer-helt-uenige-fikk-forsker-rad/s/5-45-2109335. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Debatt mello ordfører og varaordfører i Ringsaker, samt seniorforsker Aud Tennøy ved TØI, om konsekvenser av utvding av handelspark lanngs motorveien utenfor Hønefoss

• Smørdal, Ole (2025). Case 2: Hvordan arbeide eksperimentelt med praksis? Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole & Amundrud, Anja (2025). Kommunenes og pedagogikkens rolle i bærekraftarbeid. doi: https:/www.uv.uio.no/forskning/grupper/coser/arrangementer/kommunenes-og-pedagogikkens-rolle-berekraftarbeid.html. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjørklund, Kjetil; Westskog, Hege; Smørdal, Ole; Selvig, Eivind & Wang, Lars (2025). Arbeidsverksted - Den nye standarden. Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole; Bjørklund, Kjetil; Wang, Lars; Selvig, Eivind & Westskog, Hege (2025). Inkluderende og dynamiske læringsprosesser som fremmer omstilling. Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole (2025). Exploring ways to connect and expand dialogic spaces to develop local matters of concern. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Transition dilemmas and implications for energy use: examples from North of Norway'. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Paneldebatt - prioritering as strøm og energifattige. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Sol eller skygge i Norge? Stor solkraft og kommunene. Full text in Research Archive
• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). Energy consumption in Norway: When electricity becomes political. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon for Shanghai-delegasjon

• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). Forståelse av forbrukeres omstilling til bærekraftige praksiser: Like forutsetninger eller en ønskedrøm. Full text in Research Archive
• http://www.tv2.no/; Halse, Askill Harkjerr & Tennøy, Aud (2025). Skal bruke 60 milliarder på vei: Garanterer kø. [Internet]. TV2.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Statens vegvesen bygger nye E18 vest for Oslo. Det vil skape mer trafikk og fortsatt kø, slår forskere fast. Statens vegvesen er enig.

• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). Energifattigdom i Norge: Når strømmen blir politikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2025). The unequal burden of energy flexibility: A qualitative study of flexibility from work to home. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2025). Hytta-stemning: En interessekamp ved tregrensa vi. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2025). Grønne pionerkommuner: Hvordan forstå kommuner med bærekraftig areal og energipolitikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2025). Arealer under press – i Norge og i verden. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2025). Offentlige myndigheters nøkkelrolle i omstillingen til bærekraftig arealbruk. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2025). UFF som grep i arealforvaltningen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Hva kommunene gjør og kan gjøre for å sikre at ømnsket utbygging i og ved sentrum i små og mellomstore byer blir realisert. doi: https:/www.toi.no/bybyforum/tidligere-seminarer/hva-kommunene-kan-gjore-for-a-sikre-utbygging-i-og-ved-sentrum. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Utvikling av handel, mv. utenfor sentrum: Noen resultater fra pågående forskning. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2025). Aeralutvikling, byvekstavtaler og nullvekstmålet: Hva tenker politikerne og hvordan kan fagfolk bidra? Full text in Research Archive
• Stokstad, Sigrid; Sæther, Bjørnar & Selvig, Eivind (2025). Fra deponi til gjenvinning? Styringsmuligheter for bedre massehåndtering i Stor-Oslo regionen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon ved lansering av Include-rapport 01/2025 Styringsmuligheter for bedre massehåndtering i Stor-Oslo regionen. Status for massehåndtering i Stor-Oslo regionen og rettslige rammevilkår, Mulighetene for en mer sirkulær masseforvaltning, drivkrefter og barrierer, spørsmål og diskusjon Hvor går veien videre.

• Stokstad, Sigrid (2025). Fra deponi til gjenvinning? Regelverk, roller og myndighet. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon av funn fra Includes prosjekt om massehåndtering i Stor-Oslo regionen med særlig vekt på rettslig rammeverk og hva som er relevant for dem som var publikum, særlig ansatte i Lillestrøm kommune og Akershus fylkeskommune.

• Winther, Tanja (2025). Why social science energy research and what are the signs of effects? Full text in Research Archive
• Jenkins, Kirsten E.H. & Winther, Tanja (2025). The Just Energy Transition: What are “We” Doing and for Whom? Full text in Research Archive
• Abram, Simone Almond (2025). The problem with “social acceptance” – and suggestions for what would be a better approach. Full text in Research Archive
• Sareen, Siddharth (2025). Husk! Energisikkerhet og energidemokrati går hånd i hånd. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2025). Petroleumsmakten dominerer fortsatt norsk klimapolitikk. [Internet]. Dagens perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2025). Desentralisering av energisystemet: drivere, muligheter og utfordringer for norske kommuner. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2025). De tre direktivene som sprengte regjeringen. [Internet]. Energisk podkast, Advokatfirmaet Hjort. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper; Stanley, Ben & Kotnarowski, Michał (2025). Polonia może wybrać nam prezydenta. Zacznijmy dyskutować, czy ma do tego prawo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  W 2020 r. w drugiej turze różnica między Dudą a Trzaskowskim wyniosła 422 385 głosów. Polacy za granicą oddali 415 951 głosów. Nie można więc wykluczyć, że w tegorocznych wyborach głosy emigrantów zadecydują o wyniku wyborów. Do takiej sytuacji rzeczywiście doszło w rumuńskich wybroach prezydenckich w 2009 roku, kiedy Traian Basescu pokonał w drugiej rundzie Mirceę Geoana różnicą ok. 70 000 głosów, a jego przewaga wśród emigrantów wynosiła ponad 80 000 głosów. Gdyby obywatele mieszkający lub przebywający poza krajem nie mogli głosować, prezydentem zostałby Geoana.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Policy prefiguration for future change? How policy anchoring can assist the climate and energy transitions. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove; Skjærseth, Jon Birger & Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). The EU H2-strategy as framework for Arctic developments. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2025). The energy crunch: Drivers and pressures for energy developments in Northern Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Bailey, Ian (2025). The Anchoring policy perspective: explaining policy hierarchies for energy transitions. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Energiskvisen: Drivere og utfordringer for energiutvikling i Nord-Norge. Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Lars; Bjørklund, Kjetil; Selvig, Eivind; Smørdal, Ole & Westskog, Hege (2025). Radikalt bærekraftig omstilling – fra retorikk til realitet. 57(1), p. 48–53. doi: 10.18261/plan.57.1.12. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Norges kraftsektor i endring: omstillinger, politiske utfordringer, drivere, og retninger. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2025). EUs håndtering av energikriser – drivere og utfordringer for koordinert politisk respons. Full text in Research Archive
• Undheim, Eva Aalberg & Eikeland, Per Ove (2025). Landet som snudde kappa mot straumen. [Journal]. Dag og Tid. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). "gode og dårlige klimalover" I Grønn Torsdag, podcast og youtube-kanal for innlandet. [Internet]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmTyjAa2To. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2025). Nudging og forbruksteori. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2025). Samarbeid med partnere i Include - hvorfor og hvordan? Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2025). Nudging og praksisteori. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2025). Fremmere og hemmere for implementering av klimabudsjett i fire norske kommuner. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2025). How can municipalities facilitate the needed social transformation? Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2025). Sufficiency vs the system: Negotiating everyday limits in consumer society. Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole; Tellefsen, Sølvi & Hovde, Jørgen (2025). Fostering Democracy and Sustainability: Library Initiatives in Action – A Case from Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2025). Include som omstillingspartner. Om Include, inngang og resultater. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege & Aasen, Marianne (2025). Omstilling og virkemidler for redusert forbruk. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2025). Pan European Event: Translating Women's Rights to Energy (break-out facilitation and translation). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presenterte PowerPoor prosjektets arbeid, og fasiliterte en diskusjon om kvinner og energifattigdom (på norsk - og oversetting/diskusjon til norsk).

• Anantharaman, Manisha; Greene, Mary; Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2025). Everyday life and societal transformations: Inequality, agency and power in consumer society. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2025). Forbruk og endring: Kvifor er det så vanskeleg å vere berekraftig forbrukar? Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Westskog, Hege (2025). Bærekraftsregnskap i Hurdal kommune. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2025). Overproduksjon og overforbruk: Hvordan formes forbruket vårt? Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2025). Sufficiency and energy demand: Defining limits and priorities through the concept of consumption corridors. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2025). Fremmere og hemmere for klimabudsjettarbeid. Full text in Research Archive
• Böcker, Lars (2024). Avslutningsworkshop INCLUDE - Romlig og sosial distribusjon av elbiler og solceller. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  - Oppsummering av prosjektet’s viktigste funn om omstillingen til elektrisk mobilitet i Oslo regionen - Kort presentasjon av funn om sosial og geografisk distribusjon av solselleopptak i Norge - Interaktiv workshop hvor policy-miksen i omstillingen til elektrisk mobilitet ble diskutert fra et rettferdighetsperspektiv

• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Grønne pionerkommuner: Hvordan forstå kommuner med bærekraftig areal og energip. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Byspredning : Hvem vil det? Hvorfor vil de det? Hvem og hva er det bra for? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Areal - hvem bestemmer? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Natur og arealbruk - lokal eller sentral styring? Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Skjærseth, Jon Birger (2024). EU climate policy coordination meets national fragmentation: The case of Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Dilemmaer i den bærekraftige utviklingen – og mulige løsninger. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Samfunnsgeografi innen forskning på transport, areal - og stedsutvikling. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen. Full text in Research Archive
• Velasco-Herrejón, Paola (2024). Are energy transitions reproducing economic inequalities? Power, social stigma, and distributive (in)justice in Mexico. Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2024). Norwegian perceptions of electricity – and justice aspects of demand-side management. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2024). Hvem har makt i norsk klimapolitikk? Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege; Vindegg, Mikkel; Sandnes, Thea & Bjørklund, Kjetil (2024). Småbønders rolle i den nødvendige bærekraftsomstillingen av samfunnet. Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2024). How can the transformation to a low carbon society become socially inclusive? Glimpses from Include . Full text in Research Archive
• Sareen, Siddharth (2024). På tide å løsne grepet til fossilindustrien i energiomstillingsdebatten. Full text in Research Archive
• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2024). Eco-friendly practices or eco-habitus? Studying energy practices across social classes. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2024). Presentasjon av funn fra feltarbeid i fire klimabudsjettkommuner. Full text in Research Archive
• Molin, Daniel (2024). From Petrol Stations to Charging Networks. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper (2024). Populism and the politics of energy transition. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2024). Hva er omstilling og hvordan kan vi få det til i praksis? Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2024). By og land hand i hand? Omstilling fra et lokalt perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Forsker på energifattigdom: Ber om hjelp til ved og tepper. [Internet]. NRK Østfold. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordhus-Lier, David & Henriksson, Judith Marguerite (2024). Partssamarbeidets rolle i kommunenes klimaomstilling. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  David Jordhus-Lier er samfunnsgeograf og professor ved Universitetet i Oslo. Han er med i Include – Forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling og har sammen med kolleger forsket på fagbevegelsens rolle i det grønne skiftet, både i oljebransjen og i kommunal sektor. I sitt innlegg vil han oppsummere hovedfunnene fra et nylig avsluttet prosjekt om det lokale partssamarbeidet i norske kommuner. Har Hovedavtalens formål om å innlemme klima- og miljøspørsmål i samarbeidet mellom partene blitt omsatt i lokal praksis? Forskningen tyder ikke på det og i innlegget vil han reflektere over hvorfor.

• Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Høy strømpris fører til fattigdom. [Radio]. NRK Nyhetsmorgen . Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Folk fryser hjemme hos seg selv. - Det er en skjult form for fattigdom, sier doktorgradsstipendiat ved FNI Karianne Krohn Taranger til NRK.

• Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Energifattigdom i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2024). Presentation of Include. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Innføring av 30 km/t i europeiske byer: Hvorfor, hvordan, og hvilke resultater har det gitt? Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2024). Politikk for naturkrisen og klimakrisen: Vinn-vinn løsninger eller målkonflikter? Full text in Research Archive
• Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2024). Forståelsen av forbrukeres evne til å omstille seg til bærekraftige praksiser: Like forutsetninger eller en ønskedrøm. Full text in Research Archive
• Aasen, Marianne (2024). Klima og rødt kjøtt: Lar oss påvirke i liten grad. [Internet]. NRK Nyheter. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2024). A new wind power licensing system: Implications for local support and future developments. Full text in Research Archive
• Tortzen, Anne; Solberg, Nina & Smørdal, Ole (2024). Include partnerforum: Ung medvirkning i klimaarbeidet – fra politiske ambisjoner til praksis. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Lillestrøm og Drammen kommuner samarbeider i et av Includes innovasjonsprosjekter (S4U) for å utvikle nye typer involvering og samskaping med ungdom. Prosjektet bygger også kunnskap om hvordan folkevalgte kan innta nye roller i samskaping med borgere, og kunnskap om organisatoriske og ledelsesmessige forutsetninger for at kommunalt ansatte kan jobbe samskapende. I tillegg har Include prosjektet Ung Klimaledelse med Asker kommune, der vi undersøker hvordan medvirkning fra barn og unge kan styrke kommunenes arbeid med omstilling til lavutslippssamfunnet. I dette partnerforumet blir det innledninger ved: • Den danske forskeren Anne Tortzen fra Center for Borgerdialog. Hun legger fram foreløpige funn fra prosjektet og reflekterer over behovet for demokratisk fornyelse og polysentrisk styring i kommunalt klimaarbeid. • Nina Solberg fra Insam AS. Hun gir oss en smakebit på Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet sine erfaringer fra ung medvirkning. Dette er en del av kunnskapsgrunnlaget for S4U. • Ole Smørdal vil kort orientere om et nytt prosjekt i Asker kommune som handler om digitale plattformer for medvirkning (f.eks. Decidim). Han vil også lede møtet, og det blir anledning for diskusjon.

• Aasen, Marianne & Westskog, Hege (2024). Folk om forbruk og omstilling – Resultater fra gruppeintervjuer og spørreundersøkelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Hoff, Sindre Johan Cottis & Böcker, Lars (2024). De nære ting. Full text in Research Archive
• Hoff, Sindre Johan Cottis & Böcker, Lars (2024). De nære ting. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja (2024). Designing Transformative Learning Practices for Sustainable Futures. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2024). Det komplekse forbruket. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Hvorfor økt veikapasitet gir økt biltrafikk og mer kø. Full text in Research Archive
• Bakken, Vebjørn; Winther, Tanja & Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2024). Rettferdig energiomstilling – er det mulig? [podcast]. [Internet]. https://www.uio.no/forskning/satsinger/uio-energi-og-miljo/a. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordhus-Lier, David (2024). Fagbevegelsen og bærekraft. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Gjennom sin forskning på ulike aktører i fagbevegelsen – fra lokale tillitsvalgte til forbundsnivå, fra kommunesektoren til oljebransjen, og med et blikk som også går utover landets grenser – har David Jordhus-Lier og kolleger belyst fagforeningenes rolle i bærekraftsarbeid. I sin innledning tar han utgangspunkt i at det eksisterer et stort gap mellom potensiale organisasjonene og deres tillitsvalgte har til å sette dagsorden, og hva som faktisk gjøres på arbeidsplasser og i partssamarbeidet. Gjennom ulike eksempler fra sin forskning vil han vise hvordan det kreves endringer både i den enkeltes rolleforståelse og gjennom strategiske veivalg om dette potensialet skal oppfylles.

• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Nullvekstmålet: Vi vet hva som virker - hvorfor gjør vi ikke det? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Indirekte arealeffekter av samferdselstiltak: Er viktig – må inkluderes bedre i analyser. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper; Szulecka, Julia & Maltby, Tomas (2024). Obstrukcja klimatyczna w Polsce. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Hva skal til for å nå nullvekstmålet og trafikkreduksjonsmålet i Oslo? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Nullvekst og målkonflikter: Med utgangspunkt i arealdimensjonen i BVA. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Reallocation of road and street space in Oslo: Input to discussions on measures for zero-growth in traffic. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2024). Energifattigdom og respons på forbrukerrådets undersøkelse i leiemarkedet - en rundebordskonferanse. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sammenlignet PowerPoor-prosjektets funn med Forbrukerrådets foreløpige funn og diskuterte mulige politiske virkemidler-

• Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Greene, Mary & Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid (2024). Changing consumption at the nexus of practices: Disruption, connections and everyday practice geographies. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2024). Consumption, social class, and environmentalism: from tensions to transformations. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Mobilitet og trafikk i Drammen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Samordnet areal- og transportplanlegging: Hva fungerer og hva fungerer ikke for å nå nullvekstmålet? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Innføring av 30 km/t i europeiske byer: Hvordan – og hva skjedde? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Hva må vi slutte å bygge om vi skal nå klima- og naturmålene? Full text in Research Archive
• Stokstad, Sigrid (2024). "Dagens håndtering av overskuddsmasser er verken optimal, effektiv eller forvalter ressursene på en god måte." - hva kan oppnås gjennom planlegging? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Areal- og transportutvikling for en bærekraftig og konkurransedyktig region – hva bidrar positivt og hva bidrar negativt? Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Where do the weight of the actor interests lead us? Political pathway feasibility of electrification, hydrogen, bioenergy, or energy savings. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). Hva er en sosialt bærekraftig byutvikling? Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). The imaginative and real political ecology of large-scale urban sustainability projects. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2024). Energy poverty and its effects on the energy transition. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). De sosiale konsekvensene av den kompakte byutviklingen i Akershus. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). Social implications of smart and compact city strategies. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). Includes arbeid med byrommene. Full text in Research Archive
• Vågerö, Oskar (2024). Modelling social aspects of the energy transition. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove & Jevnaker, Torbjørg (2024). Agencies in EU Policy - the role of ACER in implementing electricity market regulation. Full text in Research Archive
• Böcker, Lars; Letnes, Morten & Throndsen, Torstein Storsveen (2024). Blir det rettferdig? Hva har det å si hvor du bor? Full text in Research Archive
• Solli, Hilde (2024). Climate friendly mobility, a possibility for everyone? Full text in Research Archive
• Vågerö, Oskar (2024). Inkluderande modellering av energisystem - Insikter från Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2024). Transition of the Norwegian energy system – research at FNI. Full text in Research Archive
• Vågerö, Oskar (2024). Machine learning for public sentiment - An exploration of wind energy sentiment on Norwegian Twitter. Full text in Research Archive
• Aasen, Marianne (2024). Norske klimaparadokser. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Westskog, Hege (2024). Kunnskap om rettferdig omstiling. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2024). Sirkulærøkonomi og forbruk. Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2024). Er Norges strømpolitikk for de priviligerte? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2024). Arealer under press – i Norge og i verden. Full text in Research Archive
• Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Energifattigdom i Norge - foreløpige inntrykk fra PhD arbeidet. Full text in Research Archive
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine (2024). Hvorfor påvirkes norsk velferd relativt lite av aktiviteten i olje- og gassektoren? Full text in Research Archive
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine (2024). Kostnadseffektiv klimapolitikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Aasen, Marianne & Westskog, Hege (2024). Befolkning og lokalt klimaarbeid. Brukerseminar Include. Full text in Research Archive
• Halse, Askill Harkjerr (2024). Konseptvalgutredninger og samfunnsøkonomiske analyser. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2024). Negotiating sustainability: Agency and power in consumer society. Full text in Research Archive
• Gabrielsen, Neha Singh (2024). Hvordan nettverk for lærere kan fremme undervisning for bærekraftig utvikling i en casekommune. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon av funn fra feltarbeid i Asker kommune. IPED UiO

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2024). Innsikter fra følgeforskning av ombrukssenteret OMigjen i Asker kommune. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2024). Slik unngår vi utslipp i areal- og transportutviklingen. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Greene, Mary & Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid (2024). Changing consumption at the nexus of practices: Disruption, connections and everyday practice geographies. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). Conceptualizing and designing the city floor. Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2024). Interrogateing the compact city. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve; Heidenreich, Sara Lena Brigitte; Næss, Robert; Solbu, Gisle & Heyse, Cornelius (2024). Transitions in tension: Understanding sustainability engagements across socio-economic backgrounds. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve; Heidenreich, Sara Lena Brigitte; Næss, Robert; Solbu, Gisle & Heyse, Cornelius (2024). Transitions in tension: Understanding sustainability engagements across socio-economic backgrounds. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja & Smørdal, Ole (2024). Include - Samskaping. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2024). Includes miljøstrategi. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2024). Tilgang til nett? Styrer kapasiteten Norges industriutvikling? Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja & Rasmussen, Ingvill (2024). Tensions in research-practice partnerships: How can they inform future research? Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole & Amundrud, Anja (2024). Designing bridging objects to connect civic education with local sustainable development. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja & Rasmussen, Ingvill (2024). Democracy, Citizenship, and Sustainable Development through Digital Dialogues. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja & Danielsen, Anne Cathrine Kolsrud (2024). Bruk av spillifisering og XR i tverrfaglig undervisning. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2024). Green Café: Let's talk about consumption! Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Skjærseth, Jon Birger (2024). Skjebnetid for Europas hydrogensatsing. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja & Smørdal, Ole (2024). Pedagogical design in higher education: students’ engagement in authentic research Projects about sustainable development. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja; Smørdal, Ole & Rasmussen, Ingvill (2024). Democracy, citizenship and Sustainable Development through Digital Dialogues. Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole & Amundrud, Anja (2024). Bridging as design: connecting civic education and sustainable development. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundrud, Anja & Smørdal, Ole (2024). Students’ engagement in authentic research projects about sustainable development. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2024). Europeisk håndtering av energikriser – drivere og barrierer for koordinert politisk respons. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2024). Klimabudsjett som verktøy for klimaomstilling i norske kommuner. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2024). Frobruk og berekraftig endring: Vekst, val og fastlåste (u)vanar. Full text in Research Archive
• Standal, Karina (2023). Lokal energiproduksjon – muligheter og rammevilkår. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordhus-Lier, David (2023). The oil workers and us. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2023). Consumer Socialism and Vietnam's New Middle Classes. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2023). Consumption and societal transformation: Capitalist development and everyday practices. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2023). Consumption, sustainability, and health. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve (2023). The stubbornness of meaty routines: Meat consumption and reduction in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald & Bjander, Julie (2023). Climate policy integration the Norwegian way: Content analysis of steering signals and instructions to the government’s directorates. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Hvordan oppnå klimamål og ivareta naturen når vi skal ha mer energiutbygging? Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2023). FORSKNING, FESTIVAL OG BYUTVIKLING I VANNKANTEN. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Full klimaklinsj mellom Stortinget og regjeringa. [Internet]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2023). Why overconsumption must be understood as a societal challenge. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). Sofies grønne skifte: 3. Omstilling for fattig og for rik. [Radio]. Universitetsplassen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sofies grønne skifte: Omstilling for fattig og for rik Hvordan får vi folk gjennom den grønne omstillingen på en god måte? At det ikke blir for smertefullt, og kun for de som har mest? Hvordan skal vi klare å endre oss på en måte som gjør at folk faktisk ønsker å bli med? I tredje episode av podkasten Sofies grønne skifte snakker Sofie Frøysaa med Thor Håkon Jackson Inderberg fra Fridtjof Nansens Institutt og Katinka Holtsmark, postdoktor ved Økonomisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo. Lytt til episoden:

• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Byspredning – hvorfor den fortsetter og hvordan den kan stoppes. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Involvering i planlegging av kollektivtilbudet: Hvem, om hva, når og hvordan? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Kvalitativ metode for å analysere indirekte arealeffekter og trafikk-konsekvenser av samferdselstiltak. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Hva kan og bør vi slutte med for å nå klima- og naturmålene? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Ting stat og kommuner kan og bør slutte med om Norge skal kunne nå klima- og naturmålene innen 2030. Full text in Research Archive
• Stokstad, Sigrid (2023). Sosial rettferdighet i det grønne skiftet. Full text in Research Archive
• Stokstad, Sigrid (2023). Bærekraftig omstillingsledelse - kommunenes mulighetsrom og roller. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2023). Hva vil vi med årskonferasen – begrepet nedvekst i praksis ? Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2023). Kan et klimabudsjett være løsningen på klimakrisa? Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie & Nilsen, Elin Anita (2023). Include Partnerforum Klimabudsjett. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie & Nilsen, Elin Anita (2023). Include Partnerforum Klimabudsjett. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege; Vindegg, Mikkel; Bjørklund, Kjetil & Sandnes, Thea (2023). Hovedprosjekt småskala - inntrykk fra feltarbeid og videre planer. Full text in Research Archive
• Cavicchia, Rebecca; Grut, Kjersti & Røe, Per Gunnar (2023). Gentrification and Area Based Initiatives. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege (2023). Kommunenes rolle i energi, klima og miljøomstilling. Full text in Research Archive
• Halse, Askill Harkjerr (2023). Har vi lykkes med byvekstavtalene? Full text in Research Archive
• Halse, Askill Harkjerr & Christiansen, Petter (2023). Har vi lykkes med byvekstavtalene? Full text in Research Archive
• Skjærseth, Jon Birger; Nielsen, Helle Ørsted & Hansen, Teis (2023). Presentation of book Wind Power Policies in the Nordic Countries: Comparative Patterns. Full text in Research Archive
• Vindegg, Mikkel (2023). Mat for tanken: Moralsk økonomi. Full text in Research Archive
• Smørdal, Ole (2023). Forskernatt - Forskernes eget talkshow. Full text in Research Archive
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2023). Et Ph.d-prosjekt om klimabudsjett: Hvordan omstiller kommuner seg til lavutslippssamfunn? Full text in Research Archive
• Ellis, Ingunn Opheim & Böcker, Lars (2023). Reisevaner under pandemien og den nye normalen. Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2023). Energy and social inequality. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Regjeringa droppa flykrav i det stille. [Internet]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Winther, Tanja (2023). Include. Om senteret og kommunenes rolle i energiomstillingen. Full text in Research Archive
• Stokstad, Sigrid (2023). Massehåndtering og forvaltning. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Klimagassutslipp på stedet hvil. [Radio]. NRK Dagsnytt 18. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Kina skaper press på meir gruvedrift i Noreg. [Internet]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Hvem har makten i klimapolitikken? Full text in Research Archive
• Jordhus-Lier, David (2023). Fagbevegelsen og naturrisiko. Full text in Research Archive
• Vindegg, Mikkel (2023). Smarthusløsninger i privatboliger: I hvilken grad kan de bidra til å balansere framtidens nett? Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2023). Energiomstillingen - hvordan arter den seg for ulike typer mennesker? Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Varsel om 50 solparkar skaper bråk. [Internet]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Efstathiou, Sophia & Volden, Johannes (2023). Transforming Society Podcast: Towards plantification by normalising less meat-intensive diets. [Radio]. Transforming Society. Bristol University Press . Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Rapport: Petroleumsmakten bremser klimapolitikken. [Internet]. Altinget.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Halse, Askill Harkjerr (2023). Har vi lykkes med byvekstavtalene? Full text in Research Archive
• Vindegg, Mikkel (2023). Smartstyring i boliger: Lokale svar på nasjonale energispørsmål? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Hvordan utvikle attraktive og klimavennlige byer? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Kriterier for at utbygging ved jernbanestasjoner skal bidra til klimavennlige, attraktive og levende byer og byregioner. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). ‘Knutepunkter’ – hvilke mål skal de bidra til og hva er viktig for måloppnåelse? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Indusert trafikk. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

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• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Kan vi fortsette akkurat som før? Er det på tide å sette veibyggingen på vent? Full text in Research Archive
• Røe, Per Gunnar (2023). Interrogating the Compact City - Opening Keynote. Full text in Research Archive
• Volden, Johannes (2023). Can edible insects become the new meat? Exploring consumers’ experimentation with insect foods in everyday life. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Uklart hva lovendringer betyr for kommuner og natur. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper (2023). 'Delay as the new denial' II. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  With the decline of open climate denialism – is delay the new denial? We are witnessing a shift in the climate policy debate. Many actors opposed to ambitious climate policy no longer deny the seriousness of the issue, or the cause of it. Instead, they often advocate a delayed ‘just’ energy transition avoiding societal and economic change now, moving it rather to an unspecified future. Such strategies can include advocating a cautious approach dependent on future technological advances that avoid societal and economic change in the present. A broad consensus over pursuing a ‘Just Transition’ to ‘Net Zero’ hides significant contestation, including between those advocating ambitious climate strategy and those opposing it, either outright or through a strategy of delayed policy and delayed policy implementations. This panel welcomes contributions exploring practices of climate obstruction and delayism in different regions and sectors.

• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Besøk og befaring hos Ullensaker kommune. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Referansegruppe for utbygging av Kjeller. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Veibygging og miljø. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). FME Include's work with energy transition, and perspectives for the UNDP. Full text in Research Archive
• Tennøy, Aud (2023). Klimakrise, naturkrise og energikrise: Er det på tide å sette veibyggingen på vent? Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). Land-use change and changing windpower governance: Process, practices and pressure (WINDGOV). Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper; Szulecka, Julia & Maltby, Tomas (2023). Climate Obstruction in Poland: A Climate Imposter Clings to Coal. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Poland is known for its history of climate skepticism and denial throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Despite its recent rapid deployment of renewable energy sources, Poland remains Europe’s most coal-dependent economy. Since the country’s accession to the EU in 2004, consecutive governments in Warsaw have been “pulling the brake” on the EU’s more ambitious climate policy initiatives and decarbonization targets. However, there are signs of changing societal attitudes, especially since 2018. Despite this trend, the country is alone among EU nations in not committing to a net-zero emissions target or a coal power phase-out date. As this chapter will describe, this situation has been created and perpetuated by a dominant coalition of governmental institutions, agencies, state-owned energy companies, and utilities that constitute a “governmental-industrial complex” (GIC). While there has been a shift in discourse and policy emanating from the GIC, it continues to promote “silver bullets” in the form of promising future technologies such as “clean” coal and unrealistic plans for new nuclear power plants. Poland’s stated commitment to a just (and gradual) energy transition is another of these “climate imposter” tactics, which the chapter will show are part of an overarching strategy of delay.

• Skjærseth, Jon Birger (2023). Storm og stille rundt vindkraftutbygging i Norden. [Journal]. forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Skjærseth, Jon Birger (2023). Wind Power Policies in the Nordic Countries - Comparative Patterns. Full text in Research Archive
• Szulecki, Kacper; Harry, Steven & Maltby, Tomas (2023). Contesting just transitions: Climate delay and the contradictions of labour environmentalism. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The notion of ‘just transition’ is an attempt to align abstract climate and energy objectives with the material concerns of industrial workers, frontline communities and marginalised groups. However, despite the potential for fusing social and environmental justice, there is growing concern that the concept is being mobilised as a form of ‘climate delayism’: a more ambiguous problem than open forms of denialism as it draws in multiple and conflictual agents, practices and discourses. We address this matter through the lens of labour environmentalism, the political engagement of trade unionists and workers with environmental issues. As tensions within the labour movement surface amidst the unsettling of the carbon capital hegemony, we assess the degree to which (organised) labour - as an internally differentiated, contradictory movement – is participating in the reproduction of climate breakdown through a ‘praxis of delay’, and, in contrast, the ways in which labour environmentalism can be leveraged for socioecological change

• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Hvem har makt over arealpolitikken? Full text in Research Archive
• Aasen, Marianne & Christensen, Ingrid (2023). Resultater fra fokusgrupper om ny tariff for strømnett: lost in transaction. Full text in Research Archive
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine (2023). Hvilken rolle kan klimaavgifter spille i omstillingen? Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve & Haanæs, Øystein Rygg (2023). Ekspertintervju: Kjøttvaner er vonde å vende. [Journal]. Energi og klima. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald & Opsahl, Gustav (2023). Survey om kommunenes erfaring med vindkraft. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). Wind Power Policies and Diffusion in the Nordic Countries. Comparative Patterns. Full text in Research Archive
• Winther, Tanja (2023). Social justice implications of strategies for sustainable energy consumption . Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). Comparing windpower and solar PV utilities - learning from past mistakes. Full text in Research Archive
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine (2023). Økonomiske virkemidler i klimapolitikken. Full text in Research Archive
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine (2023). Karbonavgiftens rolle i omstillingen. Full text in Research Archive
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine (2023). Klimautslipp må bli mye dyrere. [Journal]. Energi og Klima : Norsk klimastiftelses nettmagasin. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove & Tennbakk, Berit (2023). EU pålegger ikke Norge å bruke inntekter fra utenlandskabler til å bygge nye kabler. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Staten vil forby å byggje i myr. [Internet]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). Energy Systems in Transition:International challenges and Norwegian peculiarities. Full text in Research Archive
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2023). Europeisk håndtering av energikrise – drivere og barrierer for koordinert politisk respons. Full text in Research Archive
• Larsen, Mari Lie & Dupuy, Kendra E (2023). Hvordan og i hvilken grad påvirker nettilgang fremvekst av ny grønn industri i Norge? Full text in Research Archive
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Lokale initiativ for bærekraftig forbruk og kommunens rolle. Full text in Research Archive
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2023). Analysing political feasibility in energy transitions: Norway as a case in point. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Energy transitions are contested and research on the politics of transitions has recently received more attention. Political intervention has historically been a crucial part of all major transitions, both in inducing them as well as in managing the social consequences and pathway directions, thus emphasising the role of policy and politics in energy transitions. Analysing political feasibility therefore is an important aspect of understanding the scope of possible energy transition pathways. This paper reviews theory on political feasibility in energy transitions, develops a pragmatic analytical framework to analyse energy transition political feasibility, and suggests some ways forward for practical analysis guided by the example of Norway. While a high number of factors will influence transition pathway political feasibility, a key assumption here is that interest structures are the main influence factor behind the direction and shape of a transition pathway. The paper takes a starting point in the observation that policymakers will usually adopt or implement policies that align with the interest of important stakeholders. If an energy transition pathway receives significant and tangible support over time, it is likely to see positive feedbacks, where investments in and ownership of established infrastructures, R&D, competence, and political alliances become stronger over time. While future interest coalitions are difficult to predict, contemporary interest coalitions are likely to give some indications of future directions. Based on the imperfect insight that actors in a regime tend to shape policy to their own interests we can assume that future pathway direction generally will align with the main interest structures in the energy sectors. The analytical framework develops two main dimensions for analysing the political feasibility of energy-transition pathways: structural conditions, and dynamic domestic politics. Structural conditions represent far-reaching and slow-changing influences that typically includes economic, political, and sociocultural conditions to affect policy development. Adoption and design of a particular policy or pathway are heavily influenced by the alignment with such structural interests or ‘national characteristics’. Following the structural dimension, the pathway with a better fit with structural interests is more politically feasible. Dynamic domestic politics, on the other hand, represents a shorter-term rational-actor-based perspective, where the influence of stakeholders on policy-decisions is deemed crucial to policy outcomes. Interest groups are central to the adoption of policy, which is unlikely to succeed without the support of a winning coalition. Here, the pathway with the most supporters is more politically feasible. The combination of structural interests that align (or not) with decarbonisation strategies, and dynamic interests providing a more short-term and fluctuating perspective on political feasibility, enable a simple, practical analysis of political feasibility. Resting on a literature review the paper develops the political feasibility framework. Using the case of energy transition in Norway as an illustrative example anchors the framework to empirical observations. As Norway’s main decarbonisation strategy is electrification, with growing challenges of its already fully renewable electricity sector, the case is useful for illuminating the use of the framework for analysing also other national contexts.

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Trashtalk: Nordmenn er best i verden på forbruk, men er det egentlig noe å skryte av? [Radio]. Switch - Menneskelige perspektiver på globale problemer. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2023). Hvordan ta vare på naturen når vi skal nå klimamålene? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2023). Klimapodcast 61: Rettferdig omstilling. Hva er bærekraftig arealbruk? Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2023). Framtidens byer - En speilvegg i ørkenen og flytende byer. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønnesen, Anders (2023). Natur- og klimakrise- hver for seg eller løsning i sammenheng? Full text in Research Archive
• Volden, Johannes (2026). Tomorrow’s food today: An empirical exploration of meat replacement and alternative protein consumption in Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Given the increasing recognition of meat production and consumption’s environmental impacts, calls are made for a transition from conventional animal protein towards more sustainable options – including “alternative proteins” such as plant-based substitutes and edible insects. Despite a growing interest in such foods among geographers, limited attention has been paid to how dietary transitions from meat to alternative proteins play out in the practices of consumers. Directing analytic focus to consumption is necessary because reducing the environmental impact of food requires dietary change, and because the success of alternative proteins in replacing meat ultimately depends on whether and how such foods are adopted by consumers. This thesis explores consumers’ experiences with meat substitution and alternative proteins based on qualitative research from Norway, with plant- and insect-based foods as empirical cases. Rather than focusing on reported attitudes and hypothetical food choices, the thesis investigates how meat alternatives – as “tomorrow’s food” – acquire meaning and function in consumers’ food practices today. The thesis reports on two studies. The main study is an exploratory food intervention in which consumers from 20 households in Oslo were recruited to experiment with plant- or insect-based food products in daily life for two weeks. The intervention is complemented by insights from an interview study with 50 participants from four regions in Norway. The thesis adopts a practice-theoretical approach which directs attention to how food consumption is embedded and embodied in everyday practice. Two main research questions are posed: First, how do consumers experience and engage with alternative protein consumption in the context of everyday life in Norway, and what are the implications for meat substitution? Second, how can empirically studying everyday food consumption contribute to understanding the protein transition and its geographies? The thesis highlights everyday life as a site where transitions from meat towards alternative proteins are negotiated. Results are presented in four articles which in different ways draw attention to the embodied and practical aspects of consuming alternative proteins and replacing meat. By exploring consumers’ encounters with food across moments of consumption – from buying and preparing to eating and digesting food – the articles reveal a series of tensions in adopting alternative proteins in practice. Moreover, consumers’ accounts and experiments shed light on multiple challenges for plant-based alternatives and edible insects to replace meat specifically. Thus, the thesis provides important insights into what kind of foods alternative proteins are, and about their prospect of becoming “the new meat” in the future. The thesis contributes to geographical scholarship on protein transition(s) by fleshing out everyday geographies of alternative protein consumption, and to broader consumption literature by offering a practice-theoretical account of meat replacement in food consumption.

• Sæther, Bjørnar; Stokstad, Sigrid; Selvig, Eivind & Ellingsen, Gine Alida (2025). Fra deponi til gjenvinning? Styringsmuligheter for bedre massehåndtering i Stor-Oslo regionen. Include Forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling. doi: https:/www.globe.uio.no/include/publikasjoner-media/rapporter/rapport-1-25-fra-deponi-til-gjenvinning_ferdig.pdf. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Rapporten beskriver dagens praksiser for massehåndtering i Stor-Oslo-regionen og peker på muligheter for å øke ombruk og gjenvinning. Masser omfatter stein, sand og jord i grunnen, også kalt gravemasser. Store og små utbyggingsprosjekter resulterer i betydelige volumer av overskuddsmasser og etterspør deponikapasitet i byens omland i et hovedsakelig lineært forvaltningsregime for masser.

• Jordhus-Lier, David & Henriksson, Judith Marguerite (2024). Partssamarbeidets rolle i kommunenes klimaomstilling. Senter for utvikling og miljø, Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne rapporten inngår som en del av forskningsprosjektet “Grønt partssamarbeid” i arbeidspakken “Kommunen som endringsaktør” ved Include – forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling. Rapporten er et resultat av et samarbeid mellom forskere ved Universitetet i Oslo, Utdanningsforbundet, NITO, Fagforbundet og KS og undersøker utvalgte kommuners klimaarbeid, særlig knyttet til graden av medvirkning og partssamarbeid i innføringen av klima- og miljøtiltak på kommune- og virksomhetsnivå. Bakgrunnen for notatet er et ønske blant prosjektets samarbeidspartnere om å undersøke og løfte frem eksempler på hvordan klima- og miljøtiltak kan drøftes i det kommunale partssamarbeidet, i samsvar med formålsparagrafen i Hovedavtalen mellom KS og forhandlingssammenslutningene. Partene gjør det her klart at de er enige om at klima- og miljøtiltak som fremmer bærekraftsmålene, inngår som en del av partssamarbeidet.

• Aasen, Marianne; Westskog, Hege & Ytreberg, Nora Svarstad (2024). Folk om forbruk og omstilling Resultater fra gruppeintervjuer og spørreundersøkelse. Include - Forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling, Rapport 3/2024. Full text in Research Archive
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Opsahl, Gustav (2024). Norske kommuners erfaringer med vindkraft: Resultater fra en nasjonal survey. Fridtjof Nansens Institutt. ISSN 9788276137644. Full text in Research Archive
• Standal, Karina; Aasen, Marianne; Christensen, Ingrid; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Julsrud, Tom Erik & Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2023). Forbrukerfleksibilitet: Et kunnskapsgrunnlag for å forstå husholdningers oppfatninger og muligheter. CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I Norge ble en ny modell for beregning av nettleie innført 1. juli 2022. Formålet med den nye nettleien er å motivere husholdninger til å fordele strømforbruket jevnere utover døgnet. På tidspunktet hvor den nye nettleien ble planlagt innført var det liten kunnskap om virkninger av slike virkemidler på forbrukere. Flexeffect-prosjektet startet har undersøkt virkninger virkemidler for fleksibel strømbruk på forskjellige husholdningsgrupper. Resultatene viser at mange av forbrukerne forstår og er enige med formålet for ny nettleie. Samtidig gjør utformingen det vanskelig å forstå og tilpasse seg i hverdagslivet og det er konkurrerende signaler og hensyn de må ta. Videre har mange uttrykt bekymring for at den nye nettleien kan få uheldige og urettferdige fordelingsvirkninger. Våre funn viser også at det er krevende for forbrukere å ta i bruk ny teknologi for å øke forbrukerfleksibiliteten. Selv om forbrukerhensyn er nevnt i den politiske prosessen for å innføre ny nettleie er forbrukerne svakt representert i utformingen og forbrukerhensynene som inngår i konsultasjonene har en tendens til å være generelle. Dimensjoner som systembehov er blitt mer vektlagt enn forbrukerbehov og ikke minst forbrukeres evne til tilpasning.

• Vindegg, Mikkel; Sundet, Øyvind & Winther, Tanja (2023). Strømkunders oppfatninger om ny nettleiemodell: rettferdighet og fleksibilitet. CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Rapporten oppsummerer funn fra kvalitative undersøkelser knyttet til kunders oppfatninger om ny nettleiemodell for strøm i Norge. Samlet viser resultatene at mange av kundene har en viss grad av bekymring for at den nye nettleien kan få uheldige og urettferdige fordelingsvirkninger. Kundene tar hensyn til faktorer (f.eks. husholdningssammensetning) som ligger utenfor nettselskapenes nåværende mandat å inkludere i tariffberegninger. Kundenes uttrykte bekymringer taler for gradvise endringer i nettariffer framover, framfor omfattende endringer som vil kunne gi store utslag som mange vil oppfatte som urimelige.

• Ellis, Ingunn Opheim; Grue, Berit; Böcker, Lars & Throndsen, Torstein Storsveen (2023). Endringer i reisevaner i Oslo og Viken under koronapandemien. En analyse av data fra den nasjonale reisevaneundersøkelsen. Prosam. Full text in Research Archive
• Guillen-Royo, Monica; Westskog, Hege & Sandnes, Thea (2023). Bærekraftige matvalg i en av Oslo kommunes kantiner. INCLUDE. Full text in Research Archive

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