Browsing Journal articles by Subject "Norway"
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Car sharing and transformations in households travel patterns: Insights from emerging proto-practices in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Over the last decades car sharing has been recognized as a socio-technical innovation that can help to reduce or replace the use of fossil-fueled private cars in urban regions. To understand how car sharing may be used in ... -
Climate change effects on hydrometeorological compound events over southern Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Hydrometeorological compound events cause severe economical, societal and environmental damage, but their investigation is difficult as they occur rarely and are multivariate. Here we use 50 high-resolution climate simulations ... -
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)For decades Norwegian climate policy has largely ignored the agricultural sector and focused on cost-effective emission reductions abroad. Yet in June 2020, Norway decided to ban the cultivation of peatlands to protect ... -
Green transformation is a boundary object: An analysis of conceptualisation of transformation in Norwegian primary industries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The concept of green transformation is burgeoning in the academic literature and policy discourses, yet few empirical studies investigate what the concept actually means to diverse actors, and how it manifests in practices. ... -
How Regional Authorities Act Under Restricted Decentralization: Evidence from the Norwegian Transport Sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The literature on decentralization points out that there is a tendency to limit discretion at the local level by, for example, imposing national standards. It is therefore of interest to understand how sub-national ... -
Improving climate risk preparedness - Railroads in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Climate change affects all sectors of society due to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Extreme weather events are already more frequent and intense, ... -
Klimaklubbkvaler
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Norges internasjonale klimapolitikk har alltid hatt som målsetting å oppnå et mest mulig enhetlig globalt klimaregime. Parisavtalen reflekterer i stedet – og bidrar til å forsterke – et fragmentert klimaregime med et mylder ... -
Many Miles to Paris: A Sectoral Innovation System Analysis of the Transport Sector in Norway and Canada in Light of the Paris Agreement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Transport is associated with high amounts of energy consumed and greenhouse gases emitted. Most transport means operate using fossil fuels, creating the urgent need for a rapid transformation of the sector. In this research, ... -
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)There is little knowledge of how policymakers manage governance networks (“metagovern”) within climate policy and especially at non-executive levels of public management. One strategy to metagovern is through using ... -
“Robots taking over the world… fantastic!” Understanding social representations, familiarity and visions of experiments with autonomous public transportation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Autonomous public transport (APT) represents a potentially important innovation in the transition to a low-carbon transport system. Niche operators around the world are currently starting to experiment with forms of APT ...