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Simon Neby

Position

Professor, affiliate to the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET)

Affiliation

Department of Government

E-mail: simon.neby@uib.no
Phone number: +4755588344
Visitor address: Christies gate 17
5007 Bergen
Postal address: P.O. Box 7802

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway

Simon Neby

Position

Professor, affiliate to the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET)

Affiliation

Department of Government

Research

I generally work with questions related to public organizations, politics and governance in different sectors, typically focusing on institutional change, reforms, accountability, application of knowledge, and questions concerning coordination, capacity and legitimacy. Recurring themes in my research are the challenges that come with handling particularly unruly societal challenges and the tensions that arise where both our understanding of the problem and our alternatives for action are unclear.

Currently I mainly work with questions regarding different aspects of climate policy and climate transformations, across the distinction between mitigation and adaptation. This research interest has three pivotal elements - firstly, how knowledge about the climate and climate change is applied to political and administrative practices; secondly, how the public sector seeks to establish and sustain governance capacity in situations marked by complexity and uncertainty; and, thirdly, how questions of climate risk are handled by public organizations and how our academic understanding of climate risk can be improved and expanded.

Publications

2018