Foto: Jarle Røssland / Visit Svalbard / nordnorge.com
Foto: Jarle Røssland / Visit Svalbard / nordnorge.com

Green transition and transformative action

The research group consists of researchers with a particular interest in green and fair social transformation in light of global processes such as climate change, biodiversity crisis, technological development, and consumption and resource extraction growth. With a starting point in and for the northern regions, the group works to develop further a portfolio where we are concerned with various aspects of sustainability such as nature, natural resources, economic development, and quality of life with a focus on how these are connected in the short and long term. We collaborate with public and private partners in projects where future service production, business development, natural resource utilization, and rights issues are central.
In the Arctic, the development of a more sustainable marine economy, agriculture, mineral energy extraction, and transport is of crucial importance. Changes in the Arctic mirror and drive global changes, and our view of the major global challenges is characterized by our position and localization in the North. We have expertise across a number of disciplines (political science, sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, technology, and ecology) and work to a large extent with interdisciplinary issues.

Our researchers have led and participated in a number of EU projects, where the perspective from the north on both specific and more general challenges in adjustment and transformation has been a key contribution. The research group also has broad and extensive experience with projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, and regional research funds, as well as significant investigative expertise related to assignments from ministries, subordinate agencies, and other public and private actors.
Leader
Research Director / Research Professor
Senior Researcher
Senior Researcher, part-time post
Senior Researcher, part-time post
Senior Researcher
Senior Researcher
Senior Researcher
Senior Researcher
  • Grete Hovelsrud

    Nordland Research Institute's Research Professor Grete K. Hovelsrud has faced extraordinary challenges and unprecedented events during her tenure as president of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA).

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    The research project Shift-Plastics has identified the most important challenges that must be mitigated to reduce plastic waste from the fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

  • Gruve på Svalbard. Foto: Marta Anna Løvberg

    Within a few years, Svalbard went from being a society based on coal production to giving tourism, education and research the main roles. Can the island in the north inspire other communities to phase out carbon-intensive power production?