A5046377814- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Green IT and Sustainability
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
2024-2025
University of Stavanger
2020-2024
University of Bergen
2017-2024
Universitat de València
2022
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
2018
Institute of Economic Growth
2016
Energy poverty, a condition whereby people cannot secure adequate home energy services, is gaining prominence in public discourse and on political policy agendas. As its measurement operationalised, metrical developments are being socially shaped. A European Union mandate for biennial reporting poverty presents an opportunity to institutionalise new metrics thus privilege certain measurements as standards. While combining indicators at multiple scales desirable measure multi-dimensional...
This viewpoint argues for an explicit focus on digitalization as a key driver of transformative environmental change and innovation in the next decade. We hold that is more than landscape concern. Our piece suggests three elements critical approach to digitalization: examine its ubiquitous unfolding, study it real socio-material phenomenon 'on ground', analyse how enables new forms coordination across sectors. conclude EIST scholars must engage critically with proliferation most or all...
Smart electricity meters are a central feature of any future smart grid, and therefore represent rapid significant household energy transition, growing by our calculations from less than 23.5 million in 2010 to an estimated 729.1 2019, decadal growth rate 3013%. What the varying economic, governance, climate sustainability aspects associated with diffusion for electricity? lessons can be learned ongoing rollouts around world? Based on original dataset twice as comprehensive current state...
Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) constitute an emerging energy transition paradigm, with ambitious timeline for rapid upscaling to match the urgency of climate mitigation and adaptation. Increasingly networked coordinated actors aim realise 100 PEDs across Europe by 2025. This resonates mission orientation turn European Green New Deal, inspire enable target-driven innovation. Yet it raises questions that have long perplexed scholars practitioners in transitions: how can diffusion be achieved...
With Green Deals and a competitive techno-economic basis for low-carbon energy transitions, infrastructural change is intensifying. This matched by rapid growth in scholarship on sociotechnical transitions justice, combined the phrase 'just transitions'. Yet how can an abstract concern with normative concept like justice be brought to bear socio-technical complexities of specific changes infrastructure? important timely question consider practical sense, since policy landscape increasingly...
This paper addresses the implementation of technology-forcing policies in open-ended diffusion processes that involve companies and regulators as well consumers civil society actors. Mobilising insights from societal embedding technology framework policy steering theories, we investigate two dilemmas relate to an overarching tension between flexibility (to enable technological learning stakeholder engagement) coordinated push focus actors drive deployment): a) early or late formulation...
Activity generated around smart energy transitions risks undermining a basic spatial planning principle: create better places for inhabitants. The possibilities unleashed by digitalisation have enigmatic force. Stepping back from this techno-centrism, article asks: where are the people in these visions? How can sector become people-centric and inclusive? It employs multi-scalar approach to examine social inclusion case studies of two transitions: electricity Lisbon, mobility Bergen. This...
Energy infrastructures co-evolve with and are enacted acted upon by not only technical but also regulatory institutional factors, as well sociocultural contexts. As solar energy plants require access to land the electric grid, recent uptick in infrastructure features interplay local specificities. This article thus examines uptake of Portugal at both national scales. The purpose is contribute a timely debate on critical renewabilities provide valuable insights for future rollout photovoltaic...
Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and public space interventions. We theorise the emergence a micro-mobility market, drawing on innovation studies, micro-politics scholarship commoning mobility literature, critically discuss relationship between regulation in this emerging market. examine e-scooter Bergen, Norway, using...
Automobility, including the infrastructures, technologies and institutions that created high dependence on private car use, has led to significant environmental climate problems notably carbon emissions. Now cities are attempting move beyond this failed regime by experimenting with a range of different mobility innovations. In paper, we examine whether emergent policy-led experiments innovation processes in low-carbon learning from past, or they reproducing key elements past policy failures....
Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and administrative economic hubs that concentrate human financial resources needs. They host high mitigation potential acute adaptation vulnerabilities. Scholarship flags conventional urban planning approaches to limit warming 1.5°C inadequate. Yet sustainability transitions literature features few examples functioning alternative governance paradigms. This paper assesses one...
Transitioning to sustainable mobility systems is generally thought require three approaches: avoid, shift and improve. We examine a combination of these in city at the forefront implementing transition policies, focusing on how approaches interact impact social inclusion. The Norwegian Bergen has pursued ambitious targets reduce car use promote walking, cycling public transportation (avoid shift). National subsidies have achieved more electric vehicles per capita than any other country...
While sustainability statements crowd national and urban visions, unjust implementation of lower-carbon energy infrastructures for climate mitigation manifests in contexts marginal rurality. We focus on solar infrastructure rollout Rajasthan Western India to argue a response centred the practices of, effects development on, politically inhabitants. To that end, we consider what environmental governance arrangements under transition reveal about recursive relationship between socio-material...
Solar energy has become the world's cheapest and fastest scaling electricity source. Multiple societal sectors are electrifying, scale pace of change give some hope near-future rapid climate mitigation through solar rollouts despite bleak record to date. Critiques utility-scale development foreground injustices like displacing marginalised groups perpetuating resource inequity. Governance scholars argue for stringent regulations towards just transitions, community research shows that...
Solar energy takes many varied forms in and beyond the urban infrastructure. Compared to large-scale plants, small-scale solar have received little attention, yet arguably hold more hope for just transitions by serving local needs close demand while distributing benefits locally. These mark contingent outcomes of struggles against rigid bureaucracies infrastructure, thus constitute interface between distributed generation electricity distribution end-use, which are traditionally...
Climate change is increasingly governed through local configurations that are characterised by voluntary action, weak institutions and uncoordinated efforts. The impermanent iterative nature of such initiatives makes it difficult to determine their enduring potentially transformative impact. This review systematises how the sustainability transitions field has approached temporary initiatives. It finds broad agreement on difficulty sustaining transitions, but little analytical engagement...