• Beyond automobility? Lock-in of past failures in low-carbon urban mobility innovations 

      Haarstad, Håvard; Sareen, Siddharth; Kandt, Jens; Coenen, Lars Martel Antoine; Cook, Matthew (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Automobility, including the infrastructures, technologies and institutions that created high dependence on private car use, has led to significant environmental and climate problems and notably high carbon emissions. Now ...
    • Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway’s Zero Growth Objective 

      Haarstad, Håvard; Sareen, Siddharth; Wanvik, Tarje Iversen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ...
    • Competing climate spectacles in the amplified public space 

      Johnson, Eleanor; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The climate change debate is finding new expressions through political protests and demonstrations, during which a plurality of climate narratives emerges. While protests such as Extinction Rebellion have had a strong ...
    • 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. ...
    • Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey 

      Yazar, Mahir; Daloglu-Cetinkaya, Irem; Baykal-Fide, Ece; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Although climate policy diffusion is widely studied, we know comparatively little about how these global policies and the norms that surround them are used by various political actors seeking to advance their own agendas. ...
    • Displacing Conflicting Goals in Planning for Sustainability? Insights from Three Norwegian Cities 

      Oseland, Stina Ellevseth; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Sustainable transformation is hampered by conflicting goals. Here we examine how goal conflicts are handled in planning practice, focusing on processes around municipal climate and sustainability governance. We investigate ...
    • Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research 

      Haarstad, Håvard; Kjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen; Røe, Per Gunnar; Tveiten, Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The compact city has become part of the policy orthodoxy in dealing with climate change and other sustainability challenges, and scholars from a diverse set of disciplines have informed this policy through empirical research. ...
    • E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. Micro-mobility roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and ...
    • 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 ...
    • Freight logistics and the city 

      Haarstad, Håvard; Rosales, Rafael; Shrestha, Subina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      In this paper we argue that urban studies should consider freight logistics as an integral part of ongoing urban transformations. The movement of goods is increasingly shaping cities, and the implications for sustainability, ...
    • From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions 

      Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-16)
      Nature-based solutions (NBS) are becoming a widely recognized approach to urban sustainability. Most of the literature and policy handbooks on the topic emphasize the importance of participation in some form but interpretations ...
    • A geography of repoliticisation: Popularising alternative housing models in Oslo 

      Kjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The question of the political has gained renewed relevance in recent years. New movements are challenging what has been called ‘the post-political consensus’ and have facilitated the repoliticisation of a wide range of ...
    • Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities 

      Rosales, Rafael; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Achieving more sustainable urban freight transport is a key challenge for cities, especially with the rise of diverse urban delivery services. However, the governance of urban freight transport and urban logistics has ...
    • Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities 

      Haarstad, Håvard; Drengenes, Lene Lundøy; York, Abigail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives and collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing ...
    • Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities 

      Yazar, Mahir; Haarstad, Håvard; Drengenes, Lene Lundøy; York, Abigail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-30)
      Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives and collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing ...
    • 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 ...
    • Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Grandin, Jakob Olof; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      As renewable energy sources increasingly outcompete fossil fuels on cost and efficiency, novel questions arise around how, when, and where renewables can displace fossil energy. We need to understand fossil fuel displacement ...
    • Populism, Instability, and Rupture in Sustainability Transformations 

      Wanvik, Tarje Iversen; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The recent surge in populist politics in Europe and North America has challenged many of the policies aimed at advancing sustainable shifts. In this article we argue that this surge necessitates a rethinking of transition ...
    • Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization 

      Yazar, Mahir; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      What rhetorical strategies are populist far-right parties using to delay regional decarbonization? This paper focuses on three populist far-right parties—the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), Alternative for ...