• 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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ...
    • Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway’s Zero Growth Objective 

      Haarstad, Håvard; Sareen, Siddharth; Wanvik, Tarje Iversen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ...
    • Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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. ...
    • E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Haarstad, Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ...
    • Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism 

      Remme, Devyn; Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard; Rommetveit, Kjetil (Chapter, 2023)
      Norway has the world-class ambition to make transport more sustainable and climate friendly. Its electric vehicle (EV) rollout is celebrated by and aspirational for other countries, manifesting the imaginary of technological ...
    • 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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)
      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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)
      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 ...
    • Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Smith, Adrian; Gantioler, Sonja; Balest, Jessica; Brisbois, Marie Claire; Tomasi, Silvia; Sovacool, Benjamin; Contreras, Gerardo A. Torres; Haarstad, Håvard; DellaValle, Nives (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether and how these opportunities are realised. Three case studies investigate ...
    • Who benefits from sustainable mobility transitions? Social inclusion, populist resistance and elite capture in Bergen, Norway 

      Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Transitioning to sustainable mobility systems is generally thought to require three approaches: avoid, shift and improve. We examine a combination of these in a city at the forefront of implementing transition policies, ...