• 10 years and going strong? Coastal flood risk management in the wake of a major coastal event (the 2010 Xynthia storm, Charente Maritime, France) 

      Rouhaud, Estelle; Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      2020 marked the 10th anniversary of the Xynthia storm that hit Western Europe at the end of February 2010. In France it triggered an unprecedented coastal flooding event, with most human and material damage concentrated ...
    • Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers? 

      Jacob, Merle Leotha; Hellström, Tomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The ambitions to fund excellent researchers and path-breaking research unite a whole family of funding instruments ranging from Centres of Excellence to individual grants. While instruments aimed at funding excellence share ...
    • Applying Principles of Sociotechnical Systems onto Working Environment Research 

      Thomassen, Ole Jacob; Heggen, Kristin; Strand, Roger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The sociotechnical system approach induced a consistent system thinking into the Scandinavian working life research. Workers’ social and psychological needs and technical/systemic conditions were seen as deeply interdependent. ...
    • Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact 

      Bremer, Scott; Glavovic, Bruce; Meisch, Simon; Schneider, Paul; Wardekker, Arjan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention ...
    • Boundary experts: Science and politics in measuring the Sustainable Development Goals 

      Iversen, Thor Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) purport to cleanly separate politics and technical matters, embodied by the political negotiation of goals and targets, and the technical creation of an indicator framework. This ...
    • Brokerage at the science–policy interface: from conceptual framework to practical guidance 

      Gluckman, Peter D.; Bardsley, Anne; Kaiser, Matthias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This article analyses the conceptual framework of brokerage at the science–policy interface as an important boundary function to support trusted and transparent government decision-making. Policymaking involves a broad ...
    • The Challenge of Quantification: An Interdisciplinary Reading 

      Di Fiore, Monica; Kuc-Czarnecka, Marta; Lo Piano, Samuele; Maeso, Arnald Puy; Saltelli, Andrea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The present work looks at what we call “the multiverse of quantification”, where visible and invisible numbers permeate all aspects and venues of life. We review the contributions of different authors who focus on the roles ...
    • Co-producing representations of summer rainfall in Bangladesh 

      Bremer, Scott Ronald; Stiller-Reeve, Mathew Alexander; Mamnun, Nabir; Lazrus, Heather (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Climate adaptation governance increasingly investigates the cultural capacities of communities to cope with climate variability and change. This paper reports on research of the symbolic representations of summer rainfall ...
    • Communication as Transmission and as Ritual: Dewey’s Account of Communication and Carey’s Cultural Approach 

      Midtgarden, Torjus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Communication theorist James W. Carey distinguishes between two different views of communication in the later work of John Dewey. A transmission view takes communication as transmission of messages for the control of ...
    • Complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity: Implications for European Union energy governance 

      Kovacic, Zora; Di Felice, Louisa Jane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Energy security is an ambiguous concept. Growing academic interest has aimed at defining, conceptualising and measuring energy security, often through indicators. Energy policy in the European Union (EU) is not concerned ...
    • Considerations for management strategy evaluation for small pelagic fishes 

      Siple, Margaret; Koehn, Laura; Johnson, Kelli F; Punt, André E.; Canales, T. Mariella; Carpi, Piera; de Moor, Carryn L.; De Oliveira, José A.A.; Gao, Jin; Jacobsen, Nis S.; Lam, Mimi Elizabeth; Licandeo, Roberto; Lindgren, Martin; Ma, Shuyang; Óskarsson, Gudmundur Jóhann; Sanchez-Maroño, Sonia; Smolinski, Szymon; Surma, Szymon; Tian, Yongjun; Tommasi, Desiree; Gutierrez T., Mariano; Trenkel, Verena; Zador, Stephani; Zimmermann, Fabian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is the state-of-the-art approach for testing and comparing management strategies in a way that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty (e.g. monitoring, estimation, and implementation). ...
    • Contingent faculty in ecology and STEM: an uneven landscape of challenges for higher education 

      Fetcher, Ned; Lam, Mimi Elizabeth; Cid, Carmen R; Mourad, Teresa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The number of contingent or non‐tenure‐track faculty at colleges and universities in the United States has been growing over the past several decades; they now constitute nearly 70% of the non‐student academic workforce. ...
    • Contrasting the framing of urban climate resilience 

      Wardekker, Arjan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) resilience has become highly popular in both ...
    • Conversations About Responsible Nanoresearch 

      Kjølberg, Kamilla Anette Lein; Strand, Roger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-03)
      There is currently a strong focus on responsible research in relation to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This study presents a series of conversations with nanoresearchers, with the ‘European Commission ...
    • Current models underestimate future irrigated areas 

      Saltelli, Andrea; Puy, Arnald; Lo Piano, Samuele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Predictions of global irrigated areas are widely used to guide strategies that aim to secure environmental welfare and manage climate change. Here we show that these predictions, which range between 240 and 450 million ...
    • Datafictions: Or how measurements and predictive analytics rule imagined future worlds 

      Rieder, Gernot; Völker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      As the digital revolution continues and our lives become increasingly governed by smart technologies, there is a rising need for reflection and critical debate about where we are, where we are headed, and where we want to ...
    • The decision: Relations to oneself, authority and vulnerability in the field of selective abortion 

      Risøy, Sølvi Marie; Sirnes, Thorvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-11-03)
      This article is about selective abortion. It concentrates on the existential, moral and social conditions that arise when pregnant women, using prenatal diagnosis (PND), are told that there is something seriously wrong ...
    • Descriptive representation of women in international courts 

      Holst, Cathrine; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    • Dewey’s Conceptualization of the Public as Polity Contextualized: The Struggle for Democratic Control over Natural Resources and Technology 

      Midtgarden, Torjus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This article explores John Dewey’s conceptualization of the public as polity in his lecture notes from 1928. Dewey’s conceptualization suggests an account of the democratic legitimacy of public regulation of economic ...
    • A diagnostic tool for supporting policymaking on urban resilience 

      Wardekker, Arjan; Wilk, Bettina; Brown, Valerie; Uittenbroek, Caroline; Mees, Heleen; Driessen, Peter; Wassen, Martin; Molenaar, Arnoud; Walda, Jim; Runhaar, Hens (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Urban resilience has become a popular notion among urban policymakers and scientists, as a way to deal with the many complex issues that cities face. While it has positive connotations and resonates with local urban agendas, ...