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View article: Experiences of Using Urban Growth Agreements to Influence Local Land Use Policy and Stop Sprawl
Experiences of Using Urban Growth Agreements to Influence Local Land Use Policy and Stop Sprawl Open
Urban growth agreements are key tools for achieving the goal of zero growth in passenger road traffic volumes in Norwegian metropolitan areas. Agreements are negotiated in multi-level and cross-sectoral processes where local politicians me…
View article: The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context Open
The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of mo…
View article: Institutional innovation for more involving urban transformations: Comparing Danish and Dutch experiences
Institutional innovation for more involving urban transformations: Comparing Danish and Dutch experiences Open
Local governments are now facing a need for societal transition to meet the challenges of climate change and lack of social cohesion. Institutional innovation in urban development is needed, especially in terms of more involving processes …
View article: NOU 2020:16: Levekår i byer. Gode lokalsamfunn for alle.
NOU 2020:16: Levekår i byer. Gode lokalsamfunn for alle. Open
Urban issues such as poverty or marginality and disadvantage, unrest, crime, housing, segregation and social cohesion are on the political and academic agenda in Europe and in the US (Andersen, 2002; Atkinson, 2019; Galster, 1990; Gerell &…
View article: Becoming urban: the emergence of an urban policy in rural Norway
Becoming urban: the emergence of an urban policy in rural Norway Open
Norway is one of the countries lacking a coherent national urban policy, even if some traces of a political strategy can be identified behind the fragmented range of initiatives related to cities and metropolitan areas. In spite of white p…
View article: Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo
Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo Open
Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, respectively, this article adopts…
View article: The Social Sustainable City: How to Involve Children in Designing and Planning for Urban Childhoods?
The Social Sustainable City: How to Involve Children in Designing and Planning for Urban Childhoods? Open
In many countries, cities are expected to stimulate compact city development by the government, while at the same time develop healthier and more social sustainable cities. In Norway, national policy and planning regulation aim at stimulat…
View article: Participation according to the law?: The research-based knowledge on citizen participation in Norwegian municipal planning
Participation according to the law?: The research-based knowledge on citizen participation in Norwegian municipal planning Open
Citizen participation is enshrined in the Norwegian Planning and Building Act\n(PBA) 1985 and accentuated by the 2008 revision of the PBA. In this article,\nwe ask if the research on participation in municipal planning is sufficient to\ndr…
View article: Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?
Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works? Open
Purpose The paper aims to compare and evaluate two Norwegian municipal networks for climate change adaptation, to see how such networks should be initiated and implemented as a means of achieving adaptation measures within municipalities. …
View article: Local Leadership in Climate Change Policies
Local Leadership in Climate Change Policies Open
The article studies differences in political leadership in local government in Norway and in Poland and how they might contribute to differences in local climate policy – adaptation as well as mitigation. Based on the literature of differe…
View article: Governing risk society - Institutional conditions for local adaptive capacity to climate change in Norway, Sweden and Germany
Governing risk society - Institutional conditions for local adaptive capacity to climate change in Norway, Sweden and Germany Open
The report present the institutional framework around local climate change adaptation in Norway, Sweden and Germany, and how they have organised the tasks and responsibilities related to the policy field.
View article: Implementing EUs Water Framework Directive in Norway: Can the New River Basin Districts Ensure Environmental Policy Integration?
Implementing EUs Water Framework Directive in Norway: Can the New River Basin Districts Ensure Environmental Policy Integration? Open
This article is an empirical analysis of Norway’s implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. Aiming at achieving good environmental status in all of Europe’s waters by 2015, the Directive is seen as a case of ‘environmental policy…
View article: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive in Norway: Bridging the Gap Between Water Management Networks and Elected Councils?
Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive in Norway: Bridging the Gap Between Water Management Networks and Elected Councils? Open
To handle the challenge of complex cross-sector and multilevel coordination in the implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive, Norway has established multilevel governance networks. Observers have pointed to a risk of s…
View article: Conditions for political leadership in pluricentric Scandinavian regions
Conditions for political leadership in pluricentric Scandinavian regions Open
How does the increasingly pluricentric character of regional governance in Denmark, Sweden and Norway condition the political leadership of politicians elected at regional levels of government? In regional governance, politicians elected…