Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Haarstad, Håvard"
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Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?
Haarstad, Håvard; Wathne, Marikken Wullf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself ... -
Carbonscapes and beyond - Conceptualizing the instability of oil landscapes
Haarstad, Håvard; Wanvik, Tarje Iversen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Geographers tend to see energy systems as intricately interwoven with society and relatively resistant to change. We argue that there is a danger of exaggerating the permanence and stability of the energy–society relationship. ... -
The Challenges of greening energy: Policy/industry dissonance at the Mongstad refinery, Norway
Haarstad, Håvard; Rusten, Grete (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)The interaction between policy making and industry is a key to understanding the conditions for ‘greening’ contemporary energy systems. This article uses efforts toward greening the Mongstad oil refinery in Norway as a ... -
Changing conditions for political practice: FDI discourse and political spaces for labor in Bolivia
Haarstad, Håvard (Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-18)Various authors have pointed out that the complex processes of globalization arebringing about general shifts in political practices. In particular, these processes areseen to have weakened traditional practices relating ... -
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out
Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Rapid roll-out of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is a key component of decarbonising energy systems. Yet clear risks are involved, including footprints from land use and infrastructure as well as socio-economic inequalities. ... -
Explaining public acceptance of congestion charging: The role of geographical variation in the Bergen case
Tvinnereim, Endre; Haarstad, Håvard; Rødeseike, Annika; Bugnion, Veronique (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Controversial policies introduced to improve public goods - such as the environment, mobility and public health - have shown patterns of initial opposition followed by broad acceptance once the public experiences positive ... -
Legitimacy and accountability in the governance of sustainable energy transitions
Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)How can we enable equitable decarbonisation? There is a wide gap between power to make transformative decisions, on the one hand, and agency on the part of those affected by climate change, on the other. We converge scholarly ... -
A matter of time: Explicating temporality in science and technology studies and Bergen's car-free zone development
Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn; Wågsæther, Katinka; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In their article on ‘sociotechnical matters’, Hess and Sovacool (2020) draw on extant STS scholarship to unpack ‘the black box’ of sociotechnical contributions to social science studies of energy. Notably absent in their ... -
The smart city as mobile policy: Insights on contemporary urbanism
Wathne, Marikken Wullf; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)What can the smart city discourse tell us about contemporary urbanism? This discourse is arguably a key exemplar of the increasingly mobile and networked characteristic of urban policy-making, and can reveal important ... -
Transformation as relational mobilisation: The networked geography of Addis Ababa’s sustainable transport interventions
Grandin, Jakob; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Literatures on sustainability transition and transformation increasingly emphasise the role of spatiality and local agency. This paper argues that relational thinking has much more to offer this debate than presently ... -
Trials, errors and improvements in co-production of climate services
Kolstad, Erik Wilhelm; Sofienlund, Oda Nærland; Kvamsås, Hanna; Stiller-Reeve, Mathew Alexander; Neby, Simon; Paasche, Øyvind; Pontoppidan, Marie Louise Nielsen; Sobolowski, Stefan Pieter; Haarstad, Håvard; Oseland, Stina Ellevseth; Omdahl, Lene; Waage, Snorre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate change yields both challenges and opportunities. In both cases, costly adaptations and transformations are necessary and desirable, and these must be based on realistic and relevant climate information. However, ... -
Urban planning and the smart city: Projects, practices and politics
Karvonen, Andrew; Cook, Matthew; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03)Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities ... -
Where are urban energy transitions governed? Conceptualizing the complex governance arrangements for low-carbon mobility in Europe
Haarstad, Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05)This article addresses the question of where urban low-carbon energy transitions are governed. A challenge is that urban governance is not simply urban, but a complex assemblage of institutions, networks and socio-technical ...