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Market and policy risk under different renewable electricity support schemes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Worldwide, renewable electricity projects are granted production support to ensure competitiveness. Depending on the design of these support schemes, the cash inflows to investment projects will be more or less exposed to ... -
Troublesome leisure travel: Counterproductive sustainable transport policies
(Chapter, 2015)In this chapter, we present three well-established sustainable transport policies – developing more compact cities, building pro-environment awareness and attitudes, and promoting growth of information and communication ... -
Five criteria for global sustainable development
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)A clear understanding of the global-level sustainable development concept is necessary before applying it to projects at a national, local or firm level. Such lower-level projects may concern managing production and ... -
Sustainable development: Our Common Future revisited
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)No clear definition of sustainable development exists to guide politicians in solving challenges at the global or regional levels. Rather, the concept's use has increasingly reflected socially desirable attributes of ... -
Swedish-Norwegian tradable green certificates: Scheme design flaws and perceived investment barriers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)The EU Commission recommends using market-based support schemes for renewable-electricity projects. One example is the Swedish-Norwegian tradable green certificate scheme. We examine whether design features in the Norwegian ... -
Nasjonale drivkrefter i USAs klimapolitikk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Da Obama overtok som president i 2009, var ett av hovedmålene å styrke amerikansk klimapolitikk. Fem år senere er målet fortsatt ikke blitt realisert. For å forklare denne manglende måloppnåelsen undersøker vi tre forhold: ... -
Sustainable Passenger Transport: Back to Brundtland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)We argue that there is no clear definition of the concept sustainable passenger transport to help guide politicians in solving challenges at the global or regional level. Rather, the use of the concept has to an increasing ... -
Sustainable Mobility
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Troublesome Leisure Travel: The Contradictions of Three Sustainable Transport Policies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)Sustainable passenger transport policies are most often directed towards everyday travel and ignore the large and expanding amount of leisure travel. The paper examines whether policies aimed at reducing energy consumption ... -
Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade
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Impacts of extreme weather events on transport infrastructure in Norway
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Norwegian mayoral awareness of and attitudes towards climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)The willingness of local politicians to implement measures for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to emerging conditions is essential for successful climate change policies. This article reports findings from a ... -
Øyfolkets fortellinger. 2025 - scenarioer fra Smøla, Frøya og Vega
(NINA rapport, Research report, 2011)”Øyfolkets fortellinger” består av 4 scenariofortellinger fra hver av øykommunene Smøla, Frøya og Vega. Scenariofortellingene er basert på resultatene fra scenarioutviklingsseminarer holdt på Smøla 14.-15. mai 2008, Frøya ... -
The regional temperature implications of strong air quality measures
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Science as a "fixed point" Quantification and boundary objects in international climate politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Our understanding of climate change is dominated by quantified scientific knowledge, with science and politics usually seen as operating separately and autonomously from one another. By investigating a particular fact box ... -
Observed and simulated temperature extremes during the recent warming hiatus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The discrepancy between recent observed and simulated trends in global mean surface temperature has provoked a debate about possible causes and implications for future climate change projections. However, little has been ... -
Downscaling probability of long heatwaves based on seasonal mean daily maximum temperatures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)A methodology for estimating and downscaling the probability associated with the duration of heatwaves is presented and applied as a case study for Indian wheat crops. These probability estimates make use of empirical-statistical ... -
Synoptic and meteorological drivers of extreme ozone concentrations over Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The present work assesses the relationship between local and synoptic meteorological conditions and surface ozone concentration over Europe in spring and summer months, during the period 1998–2012 using a new interpolated ... -
Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The Russian heatwave in 2010 killed tens of thousands of people, and was by far the worst event in Europe since at least 1950, according to recent studies and a novel universal heatwave index capturing both the duration ... -
The trouble with negative emissions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)n December 2015, member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, which aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2°C and to pursue ...