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

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

Moe, Espen. (2017) Does politics matter? Explaining swings in wind power installations. AIMS Energy
Academic article

2016

Moe, Espen. (2016) The political economy of sustainable energy transitions. Global Environmental Politics
Academic literature review
Moe, Espen. (2016) Environmental Issues in Norway. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2015

Moe, Espen. (2015) Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash Vested Interests in the Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
Moe, Espen. (2015) Political Science in Norway. Jagiellonian University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2008

Moe, Espen. (2008) War as Development - in the North but not the South. Wiley-Blackwell
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2007

Moe, Espen. (2007) Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The role of the state in technological progress, 1750-2000. Ashgate Ashgate
Academic monograph
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

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
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. (2014) Can Japan’s feed-in tariff continue to promote growth in renewable energy?. East Asia Forum Quarterly
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. (2012) Vested Interests, Energy Efficiency and Renewables in Japan. Energy Policy
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

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

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

Teaching

Courses

POL3520 - Industrial Ecology Project

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