Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Strategic area

Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Old hands giving a sprout to young hands. — Photo: Colourbox

We have several researchers engaged with important questions related to energy, climate and management of resources on land, in the air and in the ocean.

Our research in this field focuses on sustainable production and consumption, political and institutional goals, controversies and obstacles, development of regulation, institutions and governance - and their effect on action.

The green shift - and democracy, security and justice related to it - are sentral focal points in much of our research.

Tema: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Research Groups

Environment, Sustainability and Governance

Projects

The International Politics of Energy Security – Professor Gunnar Fermann
CHASES Konsekvenser av endringer i arealbruk og menneskelig aktivitet på anadrome laksefisk og økosystemtjenestene de gir (2016-2020). Professor Jennifer Leigh Bailey
CLIMSEC Climate Variability and Security Threats (2015-2020). Cooperation with PRIO, PhD Ingrid Vik Bakken and Associate Professor Ole Magnus Theisen
ECHOES - Energy Choices supporting the Energy Union and the Set-Plan (2016-2019). PhD Simen Rostad Sæther
CAVE- Climate Anomalies and Violent Environments (2015-2018). Cooperation with PRIO. PhD Ingrid Vik bakken and Associate ProfessorOle Magnus Theisen
Ocean Certain - Professor Jennifer Leigh Bailey
GoodAnimal: Animal Welfare for Sustainable Futures (2019-2022) - samarbeid med Ruralis - Professor Hilde Bjørkhaug
GreenMove
NTNU Food Forum - Professor Hilde Bjørkhaug

Our researchers are involved NTNUs' Strategic Research Areas for 2017-2023:

Professor Espen Moe is Head of Research for Area C Climate Change in NTNU Sustainability
Professor Jennifer Leigh Bailey is involved in NTNU Oceans

Publications

Here are some relevant publications. Please see the researchers' NTNU-profiles for more.

Moe, E. and J.-K. Røttereng (2018): The post-carbon society: Rethinking the international governance of negative emissions. Energy Research and Social Science.
Otte, Pia, P., Rønningen, K., Moe, E. (2018): Contested wind energy: Discourses on energy impacts and their significance for energy justice in Fosen i Energy impacts and contested futures,(ed.) A. Szolucha, Routledge.
Smidt, Martin; Theisen, Ole Magnus (2018): Climate Change and Conflict: Agriculture, Migration and Institutions. Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture. CABI.
Theisen, Ole Magnus; Gleditsch, Nils Petter (2017): Resources, the environment, and conflict. Routledge Handbook of Security Studies.
Theisen, Ole Magnus. (2017): Climate change and violence: insights from political science. Current Climate Change Reports
Jennifer Leigh Bailey (2016): Adventures in Cross-disciplinary Studies: Grand Strategy and Fisheries Management.l. Marine Policy
H. Buhaug, T. Benjaminsen, E. Sjaastad, O.M. Theisen (2015). Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Research Letter.
Espen Moe (2015): Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash: Vested Interests in the Political Economy. Kindle Edition.
Fermann, Gunnar (2014): What is Strategic about Energy? De-simplifying Energy Security. In Espen Moe and Paul Midford (2014). The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security. Kindle Edition.
Espen Moe and Paul Midford (eds) (2014): The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security. Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe. Kindle Edition.

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