Samfunnsgeografi og bærekraftig utvikling
Samfunnsgeografi utforsker samspillet mellom mennesker, samfunn og miljø. Vi jobber i både naturmiljø og sosiokulturelle kontekster, i byer og rurale områder. Vår forskning undersøker muligheter og utfordringer for bærekraftig utvikling på tvers av en rekke skalaer, fra det lokale til det globale.
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Gruppen for samfunnsgeografi og bærekraftig utvikling forsker og underviser om en rekke presserende globale utfordringer. Vi jobber i et mangfold av geografiske kontekster, fra det globale sør til regionen der Universitetet i Bergen ligger på Vestlandet. Sentrale forskningstemaer inkluderer: klima og energitransformasjon; politisk økologi; matproduksjon og matsikkerhet; global utvikling og ulikhet; grønn omstilling, sirkulær økonomi og industriell utvikling forvaltning av naturressurser; og by- og regionalplanlegging og stedsutvikling.
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Digital teknologi i pleie og omsorgssektor - et verktøy for fremtidens eldreomsorg?
Coworking som lokal og regional utviklingsstrategi for distriktskommunar
Sirkulære offentlige anskaffelser
Sirkulærøkonomi innen oppdrettsnæringen i Norge
Stedsutvikling og kulturelt mangfald
Matsvinn og matsikkerhet i tunfiskindustrien i Ghana
Etableringen av en tredje boligsektor i Oslo
Plast i produksjonssystem - en studie av fiskeri- og havbruksnæringen i Hordaland
Planprosess og byutvikling i Moss
Byfornyelse i en fransk kontekst
Vindkraft, reindrift og medvirkning i Finnmark
Kjønn og jordbruksproduksjon i Ghana
Endringer i det offentlige rom - Torggata i Oslo
Holdninger til omstilling i oljehovedstaden Stavanger
Offentlige uterom i Bergen sentrum
Publikasjoner
2026
Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Hofstad, Hege; Haarstad, Håvard; Smas, Lukas (2026) Channelling local climate protests: institutional logics for managing discontent in Scandinavian cities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond; Haarstad, Håvard (2026) Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
2025
Scharnigg, Renée Margaritha; Haarstad, Håvard (2025) Geopolitics of renewables: asymmetries, new interdependencies, and cooperation around Portuguese solar energy and green hydrogen strategies (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Haarstad, Håvard (2025) Is energy geography running out of steam? (Leserinnlegg)
Drengenes, Lene Lundøy; Haarstad, Håvard (2025) Digitally Mediated Nature: Assessing the Role of Digital Tools in Employing Nature-Based Solutions to Urban Sustainability (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Annela, Anger-Kraavi,; Claire, Brisbois, Marie; Roberto, Cantoni,; Ioannis, Charalampidis,; Panagiotis, Fragkos,; Haarstad, Håvard (2025) Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition | Nature Energy (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Haarstad, Håvard (2025) Å studere bærekraftig byutvikling (Lærebok)
Brisbois, Marie Claire; Contreras, Gerardo A. Torres; Loe, Morten Ryen; Balest, Jessica; Smith, Adrian; Sareen, Siddharth (2025) Spaces, forms, and levels of engagement: Using the Powercube to explore social inclusion in digital energy and mobility systems (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Sareen, Siddharth; Danbolt, Bjørn Kristian; Aamaas, Borgar; Olsen, Cecilie Sachs; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Holmen, Heidi (2025) AYFs Jubileumsbok - De første ti årene (Annet)
Derempouka, Efthymia; Skjold, Trygve; Haarstad, Håvard; Njå, Ove; Tvinnereim, Endre (2025) Climate worry, higher education, or both? Exploring the motivations behind hydrogen optimism in Norway (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Shokrgozar, Shayan; Sareen, Siddharth (2025) ‘Fine, you made your energy, but how much did we have to pay for this?’ Embracing situated energy ecologies for pluriversal futures (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Sareen, Siddharth; Shokrgozar, Shayan; McCarthy, James; Wolf, Steven Andrew (2025) The dawn of solar photovoltaics: Emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Shokrgozar, Shayan; Naik, Ashish; Shrestha, Subina (2025) “This will destroy Jeev and Jantu”: infrastructures of modernity across water, energy, and land in Jaisalmer, India (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Geschewski, Hanna (2025) ‘By now, it feels more like a rumour’: navigating the suspended presents and the economy of anticipation for Nepal's Second International Airport (Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel)
Shokrgozar, Shayan; Sareen, Siddharth (2025) “Mitti se Sona [Gold from Dirt]?”: Solar India and colonial modernity in Agropastoral Rajasthan (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Sareen, Siddharth (2025) Husk! Energisikkerhet og energidemokrati går hånd i hånd (Kronikk)
Sareen, Siddharth; Meelen, Toon; Haarstad, Håvard; Biswas, Saurabh (2025) Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Rahmad, Yodefia; Hedenus, Fredrik; Jewell, Jessica; Vinichenko, Vadim (2025) Spatial heterogeneity in deployment and upscaling of wind power in Swedish municipalities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Pala, Ozge Naz; Cetinkaya, Irem Daloglu; Yazar, Mahir (2025) Urban Flood Exposure and Vulnerability: Insights From Pendik District of Istanbul (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Høegh-Krohn, Solveig Kristine Bortne; Haarstad, Håvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita (2025) Climate Change Is an Intangible News Topic: A Qualitative Analysis of Audience Perceptions (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Schrage, Jesse Benjamin; Shrestha, Subina (2025) What functions for city networks in local climate governance? Conceptualising cross-site interactions as learning, moulding and steering (Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review)
Sharma, Sneha; Ittner, Irit; Khambule, Isaac Bheki; Mingorría, Sara; Geschewski, Hanna (2025) Contested airport lands in the Global South (Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel)
Ittner, Irit; Sharma, Sneha; Khambule, Isaac Bheki; Geschewski, Hanna (2025) Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa (Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie)
Puig, D. (2025). Editorial overview: Social limits to climate change adaptation revisited. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 77(101591).
Puig, D. (2025). Social limits to adaptation in the context of intangible cultural heritage. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 77(101569).
Puig, D., Adger, N. W., Barnett, J., Vanhala, L., & Boyd, E. (2025). Improving the effectiveness of climate change adaptation measures. Climatic Change, 178(1), 1-15.
Puig, D. (2025). Acting on climate change-driven incommensurable loss. Climate and Development, 1–10.
Puig, D. (2025). Det vi holder kjært. Naturen, 149(1), 49-50.
2024
Puig, D. (2024). The Omiwatari religious ritual: an example of climate change-driven loss of intangible cultural heritage. Case Studies in the Environment, 8(1): 2323147.
Håvard Haarstad; Jakob Olof Grandin; Ronya Reitan Solberg (2024) Do cities have tools to meet their climate targets? The limits of soft governance in climate action plans (AcademicArticle)
Grete Rusten (2024) Are all industries now green? (AcademicChapter)
Subina Shrestha; Håvard Haarstad; Rafael Rosales (2024) Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance (AcademicArticle)
Mahir Yazar (2024) Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions (AcademicArticle)
Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple; Ragnhild Overå; Knut Bjarne Hidle (2024) Living together but gates apart: aspirations and place caring practices among residents living outside a gated community in Peri-urban Accra. (AcademicArticle)
Subina Shrestha (2024) Reconciling conflicting sustainability rationalities: a co-creation approach in urban logistics governance (AcademicArticle)
Jose Gilvan de Melo Junior (2024) Framing the Intersectional Representation of the Landless Workers’ Movement on Instagram (AcademicArticle)
Connor Joseph Cavanagh; Adrian Nel (2024) Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance (AcademicArticle)
Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple; Ragnhild Overå; Austin Dziwornu Ablo (2024) Dynamics of land access in Ghana’s real estate sector (AcademicArticle)
Shayan Shokrgozar; Berenice Rachel Esther Girard (2024) "The companies are powerful, people are weak": India's solar energy ambitions and the legitimation of dispossession in Rajasthan (AcademicArticle)
Ida Andersson; Grete Rusten (2024) Green innovative procurement in the municipality sector: A dual case study from Norway (AcademicArticle)
Shayan Shokrgozar; Devyn Helen Avhild Remme; Ryan Stock (2024) “We Have to Convince Them Whatever it Takes:” The Climate Necropolitics of Energy Transitions in India and Zambia (AcademicArticle)
Mailys Louise Marie Rouille; Ragnhild Overå; Amy Atter (2024) When borders close: Social networks, resilience and food security among informal cross-border fish traders on the Ghana-Togo border (AcademicArticle)
Connor Joseph Cavanagh; Peadar Brehony (2024) First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes (AcademicArticle)
Jesse Benjamin Schrage; Håvard Haarstad (2024) How is feasibility in local climate politics constructed? Balancing between appropriateness and consequence in advancing urban low-carbon plans (AcademicArticle)
Siddharth Sareen (2024) Comparative visual ethnographies of the ensconcement of solar photovoltaics in the urban built environment of solar cities Jaipur and Lisbon (AcademicChapter)
Siddharth Sareen (2024) Financially-constrained solar development: A comparative analysis of urban fabrics and scalar expression in Portugal and Rajasthan (AcademicArticle)
Helene Tråsavik; Morten Ryen Loe; Katrina Starr Rose King; Siddharth Sareen (2024) Leisure mobility: Situating emotional geographies of friluftsliv in urban mobility transitions (AcademicArticle)
Lola Nacke; Vadim Vinichenko; Aleh Cherp; Avi Jakhmola; Jessica Jewell (2024) Compensating affected parties necessary for rapid coal phase-out but expensive if extended to major emitters (AcademicArticle)
Oluf Langhelle; Siddharth Sareen; Benjamin Ronald Silvester (2024) From CCS to CCU and CCUS : The pitfalls of utilisation and storage (AcademicChapter)
Håvard Haarstad; Hege Hofstad; Trond Vedeld; Lukas Smas; Einar Braathen; Marianne Millstein (2024) Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities (AcademicArticle)
Berenice Rachel Esther Girard; Siddharth Sareen (2024) Change everything so that (almost) nothing changes? Investigating the territorial distribution of solar energy subsidies in rural India (AcademicArticle)
Tsimafei Kazlou; Aleh Cherp; Jessica Jewell (2024) Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets (AcademicArticle)
Katherine Mahoney; Rita Lopes; Siddharth Sareen; João Pedro Gouveia (2024) Perceptions of competing agendas in carbon neutrality policies in Portugal: Adverse impacts on vulnerable population groups (AcademicArticle)
Anders Riel Müller; Siddharth Sareen (2024) The maintenance of carbonscapes: Enacting Net Zero in Stavanger, Norway (AcademicArticle)
Berenice Rachel Esther Girard; Shayan Shokrgozar; Siddharth Sareen (2024) The meaning of solar energy: Political imaginaries of solar energy in contemporary India (AcademicArticle)
Amy Atter; Hayford Ofori; Paa T. Akonor; Anthonia Andoh-Odoom; Jonathan Ampah; Margaret Owusu; Frank Peget; Ragnhild Overå; Jeppe Kolding; Johannes Pucher; Marian Kjellevold (2024) Enriched local convenience foods with two different small pelagic fish species increases the nutritional value without compromising taste (AcademicArticle)
Siddharth Sareen; Håvard Haarstad; Huiwen Gong; Gerald Aiken; Tomas Moe Skjølsvold; Benjamin Ronald Silvester; Jelena Popovic-Neuber; Mateusz Bartlomiej Stopa; Peter Mathias Lindkvist; Micol Pezzotta; Lea Marie Sasse; Shayan Shokrgozar; Bård Torvetjønn Haugland; Oluf Langhelle; Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg (2024) Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities (AcademicArticle)
2023
Mahir Yazar (2023) Environmental injustices unfold in urban sustainability projects in Istanbul (AcademicChapter)
Jesse Benjamin Schrage (2023) Three tensions in governing energy demand: A social practice perspective on Nordic urban interventions (AcademicArticle)
Håvard Haarstad,Rafael Rosales,Subina Shrestha (2023) Freight logistics and the city (AcademicArticle)
Jose Gilvan de Melo Junior (2023) The rise of LGBT representation in the Landless Workers’ movement in Brazil (AcademicArticle)
Jesse Benjamin Schrage,Håvard Haarstad,Knut Bjarne Hidle (2023) The strategic value of contradictions: exploring the practices of climate planning in Bergen, Norway (AcademicArticle)
Jakob Olof Grandin (2023) Rendering the future governable: Navigating temporality and uncertainty in Oslo's climate transformation (AcademicArticle)
Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås (2023) The politics of urban densification in Oslo (AcademicArticle)
Mahir Yazar,Håvard Haarstad (2023) Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization (AcademicArticle)
Subina Shrestha,Håvard Haarstad (2023) Do EU goals matter? Assessing the localization of sustainable urban logistics governance goals in Norwegian cities (AcademicArticle)
Devyn Helen Avhild Remme,James Jackson (2023) Green mission creep: The unintended consequences of circular economy strategies for electric vehicles (AcademicArticle)
Randi Elisabeth Taxt (2023) Motivations for academic engagement and commercialisation: A case study of actors’ collaboration in third mission activities from three European universities (AcademicArticle)
Anne Karam,Shayan Shokrgozar (2023) “We have been invaded”: Wind energy sacrifice zones in Åfjord Municipality and their implications for Norway (AcademicArticle)
Mahir Yazar,Abigail York (2023) Nature-based solutions through collective actions for spatial justice in urban green commons (AcademicArticle)
Mahir Yazar,Irem Daloglu-Cetinkaya,Ece Baykal-Fide,Håvard Haarstad (2023) Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey (AcademicArticle)
Ingrid Foss Ballo,Kjetil Rommetveit (2023) Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context (AcademicArticle)
Jevgeniy Bluwstein,Connor Joseph Cavanagh,Robert Fletcher (2023) Securing conservation Lebensraum? The geo-, bio-, and ontopolitics of global conservation futures (AcademicArticle)
Mahir Yazar,Ece Baykal Fide,Irem Daloglu Cetinkaya (2023) The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey (AcademicArticle)
Vadim Vinichenko,Marta Vetier,Jessica Jewell,Lola Nacke,Aleh Cherp (2023) Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns (AcademicArticle)
Siddharth Sareen (2023) Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems (AcademicArticle)
Mahir Yazar,Irem Daloglu Cetinkaya,Muzaffer Can Iban,Suleyman Sefa Bilgilioglu (2023) The green divide and heat exposure: urban transformation projects in istanbul (AcademicArticle)
Siddharth Sareen,Jens Kaae Fisker,Shayan Shokrgozar,Thomas Michael Sattich (2023) Making low-carbon places (AcademicLiteratureReview)
Håvard Haarstad,Siddharth Sareen,Tarje Iversen Wanvik (2023) Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway's Zero Growth Objective (AcademicArticle)
Vadim Vinichenko,Jessica Jewell,Johan Jacobsson,Aleh Cherp (2023) Historical diffusion of nuclear, wind and solar power in different national contexts: implications for climate mitigation pathways (AcademicArticle)
Luís Silva,Siddharth Sareen (2023) The calm before the storm? The making of a lithium frontier in transitioning Portugal (AcademicArticle)
Stephen L. Bi,Nico Bauer,Jessica Jewell (2023) Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum (AcademicArticle)
Emmanuel Raju,Chandni Singh,Hanna Geschewski (2023) Temperatures on the rise: adapting to heat extremes in South Asia. Conversation on the Nordic Asia Podcast (AcademicArticle)
Masahiro Suzuki,Jessica Jewell,Aleh Cherp (2023) Have climate policies accelerated energy transitions? Historical evolution of electricity mix in the G7 and the EU compared to net-zero targets (AcademicArticle)
Devyn Remme,Siddharth Sareen,Håvard Haarstad,Kjetil Rommetveit (2023) Electric vehicle paradise? Exploring the value chains of green extractivism (AcademicChapter)
Ingmar Lippert,Siddharth Sareen (2023) Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure (AcademicLiteratureReview)
Siddharth Sareen,Shayan Shokrgozar,Renée Margaritha Scharnigg,Berenice Rachel Esther Girard,Abigail Martin,Steven Andrew Wolf (2023) Accountable solar energy transitions in financially constrained contexts (AcademicChapter)
Siddharth Sareen,Alevgul Sorman,Ryan Stock,Katherine Mahoney,Berenice Rachel Esther Girard (2023) Solidaric solarities: Governance principles for transforming solar power relations (AcademicArticle)
Ole Martin Lægreid,Aleh Cherp,Jessica Jewell (2023) Coal phase-out pledges follow peak coal: evidence from 60 years of growth and decline in coal power capacity worldwide (AcademicArticle)
Øystein Stavø Høvig,Inger Beate Pettersen,Adolph C. Neethling,Brandon Paschal,Randi Elisabeth Taxt (2023) The role of investors in developing academic spin offs: The biotech sector in South Africa (AcademicArticle)
Yaw Opoku Agyei-Mensah,Theophilus Annan,Ragnhild Overå,Amy Atter,Anne Hatløy,Peter Andersen,Kojo Odei Obiri,Richard Stephen Ansong,Mangappulige Don Bhagya Janananda,Matilda Steiner-Asiedu,Marian Kjellevold (2023) The processing, preparation, and cooking practices of small fish among poor Ghanaian households: An exploratory qualitative study (AcademicArticle)
Siddharth Sareen,Adrian Smith,Sonja Gantioler,Jessica Balest,Marie Claire Brisbois,Silvia Tomasi,Benjamin Sovacool,Gerardo A. Torres Contreras,Nives Dellavalle,Nives DellaValle,Håvard Haarstad (2023) Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation (AcademicArticle)
Mangappulige Don Bhagya Janananda,Richard Stephen Ansong,Anne Hatløy,Amy Atter,Hans Peter Andersen,Inger Aakre,Theophilus Annan,Frank Peget,Yaw Opoku Agyei-Mensah,Matilda Steiner-Asiedu,Marian Kjellevold (2023) A cross-sectional study on the nutritional status, dietary diversity, and small fish consumption patterns in coastal fishing communities of Ghana (AcademicArticle)
2022
Kelvin Awoonor Williams;Ragnhild Overå (2022) Contextualities of gender in Eritrean immigrant households: Exploring empowerment through integration in Norwegian society (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Devyn Helen Avhild Remme;Håvard Haarstad (2022) From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions (Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review)
Stina Ellevseth Oseland;Håvard Haarstad (2022) Displacing Conflicting Goals in Planning for Sustainability? Insights from Three Norwegian Cities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Rafael Rosales La Torraca;Håvard Haarstad (2022) Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås;Håvard Haarstad (2022) A geography of repoliticisation: Popularising alternative housing models in Oslo (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Jesse Benjamin Schrage;Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås (2022) How do cities challenge patterns of demand? Characterising the local governance of climate change in Nordic cities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Mahir Yazar (2022) Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona, USA (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Hanna Kvamsås (2022) Co-benefits and conflicts in alternative stormwater planning: Blue versus green infrastructure? (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Mahir Yazar;Lukas Hermwille;Håvard Haarstad (2022) Right-wing and populist support for climate mitigation policies: Evidence from Poland and its carbon-intensive Silesia region (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Irem Daloğlu Çetinkaya;Mahir Yazar;Sultan Kılınç;Başak Güven (2022) Urban climate resilience and water insecurity: future scenarios of water supply and demand in Istanbul (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Mahir Yazar;Abigail York;Kelli L. Larson (2022) Adaptation, exposure, and politics: Local extreme heat and global climate change risk perceptions in the phoenix metropolitan region, USA (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Abigail York;Mahir Yazar (2022) Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice (Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review)
Jevgeniy Bluwstein;Connor Joseph Cavanagh (2022) Rescaling the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5 °C Paris agreement target (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Mahir Yazar;Håvard Haarstad;Lene Lundøy Drengenes;Abigail York (2022) Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Mahir Yazar;Abigail York (2022) Disentangling justice as recognition through public support for local climate adaptation policies: Insights from the Southwest US (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Hanna Geschewski;Mine Islar (2022) A political ecology of aviation and development: an analysis of relations of power and justice in the (de)construction of Nepal's Second International Airport (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Tor A Benjaminsen;Connor Joseph Cavanagh (2022) Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in Africa (Vitenskapelig kapittel)
Katinka Lund Wågsæther;Devyn Helen Avhild Remme;Håvard Haarstad;Siddharth Sareen (2022) The justice pitfalls of a sustainable transport transition (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Jakob Olof Grandin;Håvard Haarstad (2022) Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Fabio Consalez;Molly Ahern;Peter Andersen;Marian Kjellevold (02.0) The Effect of the Meat Factor in Animal-Source Foods on Micronutrient Absorption: A Scoping Review (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Shayan Shokrgozar (2022) Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Per Gunnar Røe;Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås;Håvard Haarstad (2022) The Spatialities of the Nordic Compact City (Vitenskapelig kapittel)
Håvard Haarstad;Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås;Per Gunnar Røe;Kristian Tveiten (2022) Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Devyn Helen Avhild Remme;Siddharth Sareen;Håvard Haarstad (26.1) Who benefits from sustainable mobility transitions? Social inclusion, populist resistance and elite capture in Bergen, Norway (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Ragnhild Overå;Amy Atter;Samuel Amponsah;Marian Kjellevold (2022) Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Randi Elisabeth Taxt;Inger Beate Pettersen;Øystein Stavø Høvig (2022) The relational dynamics in the extended teams of academic spin-offs: a Norwegian case-study (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Efthymia Derempouka;Trygve Skjold;Ove Njå;Håvard Haarstad (2022) The Role of Safety in the Framing of the Hydrogen Economy by Selected Groups of Stakeholders (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Randi Elisabeth Taxt;Douglas K.R. Robinson;Antoine Schoen;Arnt Fløysand (2022) The embedding of universities in innovation ecosystems: The case of marine research at the University of Bergen (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Devyn Helen Avhild Remme;Amber Joy Nordholm;Katinka Lund Wågsæther (2022) A mixed methods engaged study of divergent imaginaries in Bergen's mobility transition (Vitenskapelig kapittel)
Håvard Haarstad;Siddharth Sareen;Jens Kandt;Lars Martel Antoine Coenen;Matthew Cook (2022) Beyond automobility? Lock-in of past failures in low-carbon urban mobility innovations (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Luis Ramirez Camargo;Gabriel Castro;Katharina Gruber;Jessica Jewell;Michael Klingler;Olga Turkovska;Elisabeth Wetterlund;Johannes Schmidt (2022) Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
2021
Stina Ellevseth Oseland (2021) Lifting the fog of oil? Exploring the framing of ambitious local climate politics in an oil city (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Hanna Kvamsås (2021) Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Tarje Iversen Wanvik;Håvard Haarstad (2021) Populism, Instability, and Rupture in Sustainability Transformations (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Devyn Helen Avhild Remme;Håvard Haarstad (2021) E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen (2021) Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Ina Marie Christiansen;Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås (2021) Kampen om en tredje boligsektor i Oslo: De kommersielle og ikke-kommersielle alternativene (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Håvard Haarstad (2021) Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out (Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review)
Ingrid Foss Ballo;Nora Sørensen Vaage (2021) Public Reasoning in "Post-Truth" Times: Technoscientific Imaginaries of "Smart" Futures (Vitenskapelig kapittel)
Hanna Brauers;Isabell Braunger;Jessica Jewell (2021) Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Devyn Helen Avhild Remme;Katinka Lund Wågsæther;Håvard Haarstad (2021) A matter of time: Explicating temporality in science and technology studies and Bergen's car-free zone development (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Vadim Vinichenko;Aleh Cherp;Jessica Jewell (2021) Historical precedents and feasibility of rapid coal and gas decline required for the 1.5°C target (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Elina Brutschin;Aleh Cherp;Jessica Jewell (2021) Failing the formative phase: The global diffusion of nuclear power is limited by national markets (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Steven A. Wolf (2021) Accountability and sustainability transitions (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Sandeep Pai;Johannes Emmerling;Laurent Drouet;Hisham Zerriffi;Jessica Jewell (2021) Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Frank W. Geels;Siddharth Sareen;Andrew Hook;Benjamin K. Sovacool (2021) Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Kjetil Rommetveit;Ingrid Foss Ballo;Siddharth Sareen (2021) Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Paa T. Akonor;Amy Atter;Margaret Owusu;Jonathan Ampah;Anthonia Andoh-Odoom;Ragnhild Overå;Marian Kjellevold;Johannes Pucher;Jeppe Kolding (2021) Anchovy powder enrichment in brown rice-based instant cereal: a process optimization study using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Amber Joy Nordholm;Siddharth Sareen (2021) Scalar Containment of Energy Justice and Its Democratic Discontents: Solar Power and Energy Poverty Alleviation (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Benjamin K. Sovacool;Andrew Hook;Siddharth Sareen;Frank W. Geels (2021) Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Siddharth Sareen;Amber Joy Nordholm (2021) Sustainable development goal interactions for a just transition: multi-scalar solar energy rollout in Portugal (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Aleh Cherp;Vadim Vinichenko;Jale Tosun;Joel A Gordon;Jessica Jewell (2021) National growth dynamics of wind and solar power compared to the growth required for global climate targets (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Molly B. Ahern;Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted;Marian Kjellevold;Ragnhild Overå;Jogeir Toppe;Michele Doura;Edna Kalaluka;Bendula Wismen;Melisa Vargas;Nicole Franz (02.09.2021) Locally-procured fish is essential in school feeding programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review)
Siddharth Sareen;Kenneth Bo Nielsen;Patrik Oskarsson;Devyn Helen Avhild Remme (2021) The pandemic as a rupture that follows rules: Comparing governance responses in India, USA, Sweden and Norway (Vitenskapelig artikkel)
Doktorgradsavhandlinger
Shokrgozar, Shayan (2025) From Livestock to Light : Solar Dreams and the Foreclosure of Agropastoral Lifeworlds in Rajasthan
Shokrgozar, Shayan (2025) From Livestock to Light: Solar Dreams and the Foreclosure of Agropastoral Lifeworlds in Rajasthan
Rafael Rosales (2024) Urban freight – a matter of concern for cities? Assessing governance for sustainable freight in Norway
Jesse Schrage (2024) Practicing urban climate governance: Organisational work and energy demand reduction in Nordic cities
Jakob Grandin (2022) Sustainability here and now: The governance of urban transformation in Oslo and Addis Ababa
Hanna Kvamsås (2022) The potential for transformative adaptation: Collaborative spaces and collective value development in local climate adaptation
Daniel Ruben Pinchasik (2022) Freight Transport Decarbonization: How Policy and Logistics Trends Affect Achievement of Climate Objectives
Stina Ellevseth Oseland (2022) Planning to transform : Exploring the role of climate and energy action plans in municipal low-carbon transformation
Helge Lea Tvedt (2021) Towards a Greener Economy : Entrepreneurs, Clusters and Changing Markets
Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås (2021) A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
Svein Gunnar Sjøtun (2020) ‘Engineering’ the green transformation of the maritime industry in Western Norway
Nina Holmelin (2020) Flexible adaptation in Himalayan small-scale farming : Subsistence production, gender relations, and adaptive capacity under climatic and market uncertainty in Nepal
Rune Njøs (2018) The role of multilevel dynamics and agency in regional industry renewal
Madan Krishna Suwal (2018) Spatial dynamics of species distributions in an anthropogenic landscape in the context of climate change
Dilli Prasad Poudel (2018) Changing Forestry Governance in Nepal Himalaya. Interactions of Community Forestry with REDD+ and Traditional Institution
Kuber Prasad Bhatta (2018) Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant assemblages under changing climate and land-use regimes in central Nepal Himalaya
Øystein Stavø Høvig (2018) Entrepreneurship facilitation practices in various contexts: Generic characteristics and contextual particularities.
Tarje Iversen Wanvik (2017) Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North
Yograj Gautam (2017) Food System Dynamics and Food Insecurity in Humla, Nepal Himalaya
Dean Kampanje Phiri (2016) International Water Management in the Zambezi River Basin: A Historical-Geographical Analysis
Austin Ablo (2016) From local content to local participation? Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
Festus Boamah (2015) Biofuels and land politics: Connecting the disconnects in the debate about livelihood impacts ofjatropha biofuel land deals in Ghana
Erlend Eidsvik (2013) Spaces of Scandinavian Encounters in Colonial South Africa. Reconfiguring Colonial Discourses
Odd Ståle Eide (2013) Pedagogisk entreprenørskap som virkemiddel for lokal og regional utvikling: Eksempler fra skoler og mindre kystsamfunn i Finnmark
Heidi Bjønnes Larsen (2013) Returning to the Spanish salted fish market: an institutional approach to a seafood value chain
Gro Marit Grimsrud (2012) Rural migrasjon i Norge. Import av teori, metodologiske tilnærminger og kjønnede flyttemønstre
Håvard Haarstad (2009) Changing conditions for political practice: FDI discourse and political spaces for labor in Bolivia
Elisabeth Meze-Hausken (2008) Climate and society. A complex and conditional relationship
Knut Hidle (2004) Migrasjon og stedsmyte Sted, migrasjonserfaringer og romlige forståelser i Kristiansand
Winfried Ellingsen (2003) The appropriation of place : ethnic territories in Kathmandu, Nepal
Masteroppgaver
Norum, Åse Heber (2025) Fisk til fisk eller fisk til folk? Et globalt perspektiv på bruk av marine ressurser i norsk laksefôrproduksjon
Grankel, Cecilie Fjøsne (2025) The REDD+ Agreement between Norway and Indonesia: Past Challenges and Future Possibilities
Brattespe, Margrete (2025) Forvalting av Hardangervidda: Ei stadsensitiv tilnærming med utgangspunkt i Ullensvang
Viddal, Helene Nesheim (2025) The global second-hand clothing trade network and solid waste maangement in Ghana.
Myrvang, Yvonne Alida (2025) Samarbeid og spenninger i komplekse planleggingssituasjoner. En casestudie av Mindebyen i Bergen
Myhr, Oskar (2025) The Digital Frontier in Skien: Conflicting Narratives and the Scalar Politics of the Google Data Center
Murshad, Md Mehidi (2025) Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Shrimp Farming: A Case Study From Shyamnagar Region, Bangladesh
Kjersti Sollund (2021) En forbruksbasert tilnærming til klimaomstilling
Personer
Gruppeleder
Connor Joseph Cavanagh Professor
Gruppemedlemmer
Peter Andersen Førsteamanuensis
Jose Gilvan de Melo Jr Ph.d.-kandidat
Ingrid Foss Ballo Ph.d.-kandidat
Knut Bjarne Hidle Professor
Håvard Haarstad Professor
Tsimafei Kazlou Ph.d.-kandidat
Ragnhild Overå Professor
Daniel Puig Postdoktor
Devyn Helen Avhild Remme Ph.d.-kandidat
Grete Rusten Professor
Per Gunnar Utbø Sakseid Ph.d.-kandidat
Fridah Siyanga-Tembo Ph.d.-kandidat
Kjersti Sollund Stipendiat
Odd Inge Steen Førsteamanuensis
Mahir Yazar Postdoktor
Edwige Yekple Ph.d.-kandidat