• Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements 

  Nicholson, Charles F.; Stephens, Emma C.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Jones, Andrew D.; Parsons, David; Garrett, James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Improvement of food security is a common objective for many agricultural systems analyses, but how food security has been conceptualized and evaluated within agricultural systems has not been systematically evaluated. We ...

• Using participatory system dynamics modeling to address complex conservation problems: Tiger farming as a case study 

  Rieder, Erica; Larson, Lincoln; 't Sas-Rolfes, Michael; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Conservation practitioners routinely work within complex social-ecological systems to address threats facing biodiversity and to promote positive human-wildlife interactions. Inadequate understanding of the direct and ...

• Human-water dynamics and their role for seasonal water scarcity – a case study 

  Lindqvist, Andreas; Fornell, Rickard; Prade, Thomas; Tufvesson, Linda; Khalil, Sammar; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Ensuring sustainable management and an adequate supply of freshwater resources is a growing challenge around the world. Even in historically water abundant regions climate change together with population growth and economic ...

• Anchovy powder enrichment in brown rice-based instant cereal: a process optimization study using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) 

  Akonor, Paa T.; Atter, Amy; Owusu, Margaret; Ampah, Jonathan; Andoh-Odoom, Anthonia; Overå, Ragnhild; Kjellevold, Marian; Pucher, Johannes; Kolding, Jeppe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  There is a need for expanding the utilization of small fish as they constitute an undervalued and important source of protein and micronutrients in many developing countries suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. One ...

• The role of systematic reviews in the system dynamics modelling process 

  Aguiar Rodriguez, Anaely (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Scalar Containment of Energy Justice and Its Democratic Discontents: Solar Power and Energy Poverty Alleviation 

  Nordholm, Amber Joy; Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The threats climate change poses require rapid and wide decarbonization efforts in the energy sector. Historically, large-scale energy operations, often instrumental for a scaled and effective approach to meet decarbonization ...

• 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 ...

• Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions 

  Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Hook, Andrew; Sareen, Siddharth; Geels, Frank W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Smart electricity meters are a central feature of any future smart grid, and therefore represent a rapid and significant household energy transition, growing by our calculations from less than 23.5 million smart meters in ...

• Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics 

  Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Increasing recognition of the irrefutable urgency to address the global climate challenge is driving mitigation efforts to decarbonise. Countries are setting targets, technological innovation is making renewable energy ...

• Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019) 

  Geels, Frank W.; Sareen, Siddharth; Hook, Andrew; Sovacool, Benjamin K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  This paper addresses the implementation of technology-forcing policies in open-ended diffusion processes that involve companies and regulators as well as consumers and civil society actors. Mobilising insights from the ...

• A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe 

  Cervellini, Marco; Vetaas, Ole Reidar; Field, Richard; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Zannini, Pierro; Di Musciano, Michele; Fattorini, Simone; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Rocchini, Duccio; Irl, Severin D.H.; Fischer, Jan-Christopher; Casella, Laura; Angelini, Pirangela; Genovesi, Piero; Nascimbene, Juri; Hoffmann, Samuel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Background Biogeographical units are widely adopted in ecological research and nature conservation management, even though biogeographical regionalisation is still under scientific debate. The European Environment Agency ...

• 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. ...

• Sustainable development goal interactions for a just transition: multi-scalar solar energy rollout in Portugal 

  Sareen, Siddharth; Nordholm, Amber Joy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Solar energy rollout has environmental and socio-economic impacts vital for just low-carbon energy transitions. The modular characteristics of solar photovoltaics enable multi-scalar deployment. How do environmental and ...

• Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus 

  Gallagher, Louise; Kopainsky, Birgit; Bassi, Andrea Marcello; Betancourt, Andrea; Chanmeta, Buth; Puthearath, Chan; Simon, Costanzo; Sarah St. George, Freeman; Chandet, Horm; Sandab, Khim; Malyne, Neang; Naroeun, Rin; Ken, Sereyrotha; Kimchhin, Sok; Chansopheaktra, Sovann; Michele, Thieme; Karina, Watkins; Wyborn, Carina; Bréthaut, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The water-energy-food nexus concept is criticized as not yet fit for deeply integrated and contested governance agendas. One problem is how to achieve equitable risk governance and management where there is low consensus ...

• Globalisering, et humanitær-politisk kompleks og Det internasjonale gjennombruddet 

  Tvedt, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• 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 ...

• On the political feasibility of climate change mitigation pathways: Is it too late to keep warming below 1.5° C? 

  Jewell, Jessica; Cherp, Aleh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Keeping global warming below 1.5°C is technically possible but is it politically feasible? Understanding political feasibility requires answering three questions: (a) “Feasibility of what?,” (b) “Feasibility when and ...

• Når forskning blir politikkens fortsettelse med andre midler: Om historiefagets rasjonale og en talende metafor 

  Tvedt, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Assessing the Potential Replacement of Laurel Forest by a Novel Ecosystem in the Steep Terrain of an Oceanic Island 

  Sharan Devkota, Ram; Field, Richard; Vetaas, Ole Reidar; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Hoffmann, Samuel; Walentowitz, Anna; Jentsch, Anke; Medina, Felix; Weiser, Frank; Chiarukki, Allessandro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Biological invasions are a major global threat to biodiversity and often affect ecosystem services negatively. They are particularly problematic on oceanic islands where there are many narrow-ranged endemic species, and ...

• Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses 

  Fell, Michael; Pagel, Laura; Chen, Chien-fei; Goldberg, Matthew; Herberz, Mario; Huebner, Gesche; Sareen, Siddharth; Hahnel, Ulf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are having unprecedented impacts on people’s lives around the world. In this paper, we argue that those conducting social research in the energy domain ...

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