Recent Submissions

  • A Holistic Multi-Criteria Assessment of Solar Energy Utilization on Urban Surfaces 

    Gholami, Hassan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Urban surfaces such as rooftops, facades, and infrastructure offer significant potential for solar energy integration, contributing to energy efficiency and sustainability in cities. This article introduces an advanced ...
  • Rethinking Vulnerability in the Nordic countries: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic 

    Raju, Emmanuel; Morsut, Claudia; Rubin, Olivier; Kovács, Gyöngyi; von Schreeb, Johan; King, Carina; Bach Nielsen, Anne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to rethink our understanding of vulnerability. This conversation has started to emerge in different forums across the Nordics. In this context, the Nordics have seen different ...
  • On the use of the term “real risk” 

    Flage, Roger; Aven, Terje; Glette-Iversen, Ingrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    The term “real risk” and variations of this term are commonly used in everyday speech and writing, and in the scientific literature. There are mainly two types of use: i) in statements about what the real risk related to ...
  • Futureless futures: Reflections on life in doomed places in Nordic countries 

    Hamza, Mo; Staupe, Reidar; Eriksson, Kerstin (Chapter, 2024)
    Across the scholarly and journalistic literature, an increasing sense of future uncertainty and prevailing sense of dread is being narrated. This unsettling sense of futurelessness seems to cut across scales in that globally ...
  • Leadership and orchestration of PED projects: an organizational perspective 

    Pezzotta, Micol; Müller, Anders Riel (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering;237, Chapter, 2025)
    Innovative ways of implementing renewable and distributed energy systems in the urban environment are necessary to reach climate goals. The realization of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) builds upon the willing participation ...
  • Promoting pro-environmental behaviours among urban dwellers - A study of the interdisciplinary Greencoin project 

    Duda, Ewa; Anacka, Helena; Bojanowski, Jakub; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Joudavi, Ayda; Karaczun, Zbigniew; Kowal, Jolanta; Niemczyk, Igor; Nowakowska, Iwona; Obracht-Prondzynska, Hanna; Paneru, Chandra Prakash; Perzyna, Iga; Pieriegud, Jana; Romanowska, Małgorzata; Tarigan, Ari Krisna Mawira; Tosa, Cristian; Uryga, Danuta; Wyciszkiewicz, Aleksandra (Book, 2024)
    In the current era characterised by accelerated urbanisation and intensifying environmental crises, the urgency to promote sustainable living prac tices has reached an unprecedented level. The extensive ramifications of ...
  • The Greencoin project - A guideline for the implementation strategy 

    Anacka, Helena; Bojanowski, Jakub; Czyż, Piotr; Duda, Ewa; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Joudavi, Ayda; Karaczun, Zbigniew; Konieczny, Łukasz; Kowal, Jolanta; Niemczyk, Igor; Nowakowska, Iwona; Obracht-Prondzyńska, Hanna; Paneru, Chandra Prakash; Perzyna, Iga; Pieriegud, Jana; Radziszewski, Kacper; Romanowska, Małgorzata; Tarigan, Ari Krisna Mawira; Tosa, Cristian; Uryga, Danuta; Walnik, Magdalena; Weichbroth, Paweł; Wereszko, Kacper; Wyciszkiewicz, Aleksandra; Zawieska, Jakub (Research report, 2024)
    This guideline presents the Greencoin initiative, a comprehensive Project designed to incentivize and reward environmentally friendly actions. By analysing the various components of Greencoin, the report aims to provide a ...
  • An uncertainty-based risk perspective on risk perception and communication: Opportunities for new empirical-based research 

    Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025-02)
    Risk perception and communication research has to a large extent discussed risk issues on the basis of an understanding of risk as probabilities and expected values. The present article aims at providing some reflections ...
  • The maintenance of carbonscapes: Enacting Net Zero in Stavanger, Norway 

    Müller, Anders Riel; Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    As a stable, democratic petrostate, Janus-faced Norway balances fossil fuel incumbency (profitable oil and gas exports) with leadership in green transitions (domestic hydropower supply and transport electrification) and ...
  • Unraveling the Global Landscape of Bitcoin Research: Insights from Bibliometric Analysis 

    Wang, Guizhou; Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Bitcoin has been gaining increasing attention in academia and industry. This article investigates Bitcoin’s research status and evolution via bibliometrics using a dataset of 3,873 publications between 2012 and 2022 from ...
  • Fifty Years of Operations Research in Defense 

    Hausken, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    The OR (Operations Research) in defense literature is reviewed. Various OR methodologies are outlined, e.g. decision theory, game theory, mergers of differential equations and game theory, and adversarial risk analysis. ...
  • A risk science perspective on the COVID-19 risk handling 

    Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-04)
    This paper provides some reflections on the risk handling of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide: What went wrong, and what worked well? On many issues – for example the origin of the coronavirus, societal lockdowns, and the ...
  • Developing a new framework for techno-economic hydrogen energy risk management through probabilistic R.Graph 

    Seiti, Hamidreza; Ghasemi Pirbalouti, Reza; Elkamel, Ali; Selvik, Jon Tømmerås; Makui, Ahmad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-04)
    In the quest for sustainable energy, hydrogen stands out as a green energy vector. However, its adoption is hindered by safety, environmental, and efficiency challenges due to the risks of hydrogen leakage. Traditional ...
  • Translations of climate change consequences at the local level: Climate change adaptation in Bergen and Stavanger municipalities in Norway 

    Morsut, Claudia; Engen, Ole Andreas Hegland; Neby, Simon; Angell, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-10)
    This paper uncovers a local-level approach to the likely adverse effects of climate change through climate change policies, measures and practices concerning climate change adaptation. The study is sustained by the literature ...
  • Beyond the storm season: The polyrhythms of coastal hazardscapes on the Kūaotunu Peninsula 

    Staupe, Reidar; van Zandvoort, Kerstie; Bremer, Scott Ronald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-12)
    In this paper, we develop an account of engaged practice of coastal conservation groups with seasonalities on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, focusing particularly on the polyrhythmicity of change in its coastal ...
  • Spillover effects from agglomeration in seafood exports 

    Asche, Frank; Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Øglend, Atle; Santika, Nita; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Agglomeration externality is a feature that has received limited attention in food production supply chains. Using highly disaggregated trade data, this paper investigates the presence of regional agglomeration effects in ...
  • Two assessors for the ordinary examination ought to result in stricter requirements for justifying appeals 

    Abrahamsen, Eirik Bjorheim; Moen, Vegard; Selvik, Jon Tømmerås (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-06)
    All students at Norwegian universities and colleges have the right to complain about ordinary grading decisions. When an appeal is made, two new examiners are appointed, at least one of whom should be external. The handling ...
  • Unprocurable essentialities: Situational and relational knowledge in publicly procured security services 

    Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Haavik, Torgeir Kolstø; Almklov, Petter Grytten; Gauteplass, Asle Årthun; Jore, Sissel Haugdal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-10)
    In most cases, the procurement of services depends on a description of a service as a set of specified entities. Detailed specification and reporting provide transparency and accountability in service production and give ...
  • Searching for “The New Oil”: Preemptive Hope and Post-Petroleum Futures in Norway's Oil Capital 

    Müller, Anders Riel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    This article explores the role of imaginaries of preemptive hope in second-tier cities and regions within the global petroleumscape that face an uncertain future in a post-petroleum world order. It highlights the importance ...
  • Noise pollution from Arctic expedition cruise vessels: understanding causes, consequences and governance options 

    Mannherz, Fabienne; Knol-Kauffman, Maaike; Rafaly, Vonintsoa; Ahonen, Heidi; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-10)
    Significant increase in shipping in the Arctic has caught international and national attention. The rising presence of touristic expedition cruise vessels might describe a special case for noise as a marine pollutant while ...

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