Espen Moe
About
Research areas: Energy policy, renewable energy, international political economy, the rise and fall of the great powers
Espen Moe (b. 1972) is Professor of political science at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU. He obtained his doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a JSPS Fellow at the Kwansei Gakuin University in Sanda, Japan, and visiting professor at the Institut für soziale Ökologie at the Alpen-Adria Universität in Vienna and Beijing Normal University. He is also part of NTNU Sustainability, where he is the research leader of the research area climate mitigation and adaptation.
His academic work focuses on the underlying dynamics of the political economy, structural economic change and long-term economic growth and development, with a special focus on energy systems, primarily with respect to the prospects for an energy transition away from fossil fuels. He is the author of Governance, Growth and Global Leadership (Ashgate, 2007) and Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), as well as editor of The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and New Challenges and Solutions for Renewable Energy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), both with Paul Midford. He has published in journals such as Energy, Energy Policy and Energy Research & Social Science.
Publications
2018
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Moe, Espen;
Røttereng, Jo-Kristian Stræte.
(2018)
The post-carbon society: Rethinking the international governance of negative emissions.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
2017
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Moe, Espen.
(2017)
Does politics matter? Explaining swings in wind power installations.
AIMS Energy
Academic article
2016
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Moe, Espen.
(2016)
The political economy of sustainable energy transitions.
Global Environmental Politics
Academic literature review
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Moe, Espen.
(2016)
Environmental Issues in Norway.
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2015
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Moe, Espen.
(2015)
Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash
Vested Interests in the Political Economy.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
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Moe, Espen.
(2015)
Political Science in Norway.
Jagiellonian University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2014
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Moe, Espen.
(2014)
Can Japan’s feed-in tariff continue to promote growth in renewable energy?.
East Asia Forum Quarterly
Academic article
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Tiller, Rachel Gjelsvik;
Richards, Russell;
Salgado, Hugo;
Strand, Hillevi;
Moe, Espen;
Ellis, John.
(2014)
Assessing Stakeholder Adaptive Capacity to Salmon Aquaculture in Norway.
Consilience - The Journal of Sustainable Development
Academic article
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Moe, Espen;
Midford, Paul.
(2014)
The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security: Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Moe, Espen.
(2014)
Vested Interests, Energy Policy and Renewables in Japan, China, Norway and Denmark.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Guo, Jiangwen;
Zusman, Eric;
Moe, Espen.
(2014)
Enabling China's Low-Carbon Transition: The 12th Five-Year Plan and the Future Climate Regime.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2012
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Moe, Espen.
(2012)
Vested Interests, Energy Efficiency and Renewables in Japan.
Energy Policy
Academic article
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Moe, Espen.
(2012)
Structural Change, Vested Interests, and Scandinavian Energy Policy-Making : Why Wind Power Struggles in Norway and not in Denmark.
The Open Renewable Energy Journal
Academic article
2010
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Moe, Espen.
(2010)
Energy, industry and politics: Energy, vested interests, and long-term economic growth and development.
Energy
Academic article
2009
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Moe, Espen.
(2009)
Mancur Olson and Structural Economic Change: Vested Interests and the Industrial Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
Review of International Political Economy
Academic article
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Moe, Espen.
(2009)
The Norwegian Energy-Industrial Complex: The Rise of Renewables, or All About Oil?.
Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2008
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Moe, Espen.
(2008)
War as Development - in the North but not the South.
Wiley-Blackwell
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2007
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Moe, Espen.
(2007)
The Economic Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Technological and Industrial Leadership since the Industrial Revolution.
World Political Science Review
Academic article
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Moe, Espen.
(2007)
Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The role of the state in technological progress, 1750-2000.
Ashgate
Ashgate
Academic monograph
Journal publications
-
Moe, Espen;
Røttereng, Jo-Kristian Stræte.
(2018)
The post-carbon society: Rethinking the international governance of negative emissions.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2017)
Does politics matter? Explaining swings in wind power installations.
AIMS Energy
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2016)
The political economy of sustainable energy transitions.
Global Environmental Politics
Academic literature review
-
Moe, Espen.
(2014)
Can Japan’s feed-in tariff continue to promote growth in renewable energy?.
East Asia Forum Quarterly
Academic article
-
Tiller, Rachel Gjelsvik;
Richards, Russell;
Salgado, Hugo;
Strand, Hillevi;
Moe, Espen;
Ellis, John.
(2014)
Assessing Stakeholder Adaptive Capacity to Salmon Aquaculture in Norway.
Consilience - The Journal of Sustainable Development
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2012)
Vested Interests, Energy Efficiency and Renewables in Japan.
Energy Policy
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2012)
Structural Change, Vested Interests, and Scandinavian Energy Policy-Making : Why Wind Power Struggles in Norway and not in Denmark.
The Open Renewable Energy Journal
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2010)
Energy, industry and politics: Energy, vested interests, and long-term economic growth and development.
Energy
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2009)
Mancur Olson and Structural Economic Change: Vested Interests and the Industrial Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
Review of International Political Economy
Academic article
-
Moe, Espen.
(2007)
The Economic Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Technological and Industrial Leadership since the Industrial Revolution.
World Political Science Review
Academic article
Books
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Moe, Espen.
(2015)
Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash
Vested Interests in the Political Economy.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
-
Moe, Espen;
Midford, Paul.
(2014)
The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security: Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Moe, Espen.
(2007)
Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The role of the state in technological progress, 1750-2000.
Ashgate
Ashgate
Academic monograph
Part of book/report
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Moe, Espen.
(2016)
Environmental Issues in Norway.
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Moe, Espen.
(2015)
Political Science in Norway.
Jagiellonian University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Moe, Espen.
(2014)
Vested Interests, Energy Policy and Renewables in Japan, China, Norway and Denmark.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Guo, Jiangwen;
Zusman, Eric;
Moe, Espen.
(2014)
Enabling China's Low-Carbon Transition: The 12th Five-Year Plan and the Future Climate Regime.
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Moe, Espen.
(2009)
The Norwegian Energy-Industrial Complex: The Rise of Renewables, or All About Oil?.
Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Moe, Espen.
(2008)
War as Development - in the North but not the South.
Wiley-Blackwell
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper