Marit Sjøvaag

Sjøvaag, Marit (2017)

Sectoral State Traditions – A Tool to Study Convergence of National Ideas in Policymaking

Journal of International Doctoral Research, 6(1), s. 50- 67. - Full text in research archive

Firmo, Hugo & Sjøvaag, Marit (2023)

Naturpositive mudringsmuligheter

Dagsavisen [Kronikk]

Bjerke Soldal, Olav & Sjøvaag, Marit (1)

Innlegg: En mer utrygg verden krever en sirkulær byggenæring

Byggeindustrien [Kronikk]

En mer sirkulær BAE-næring kan være en reell forsikring mot økende forsyningsusikkerhet.

Engebretsen, Erna; Flygansvær, Bente Merete & Sjøvaag, Marit (2024)

Boosting green public procurement through introduction of environmental criteria in supplier selection process in Norway

[Academic lecture]. IMP Conference 2024.

Bjerke Soldal, Olav & Sjøvaag, Marit (2024)

‘On the Road to Circular Aggregates’

[Academic lecture]. IMP Conference 2024.

In this paper we aim to investigate how a group of public agencies and projects sought to develop market agencement through the collaborative governance of market devices for re-framing residual materials in the context of a circular economy for construction aggregates. Our analysis of two cases of market agencement for residual construction aggregates, we identify the introduction, elaboration, and enforcement of new market devices as a key mechanism for re-categorizing residual aggregates as calculable and tradable in the marketplace. This process involved combining and overlaying existing (and historically predominant) market devices for ensuring waste and pollution control, oriented around centralized indicators for allocating ‘pollution allowances’ and limits on ‘contaminated content’, with novel waste re-categorization devices, such as material classification, certification and declaration schemes demonstrating the productive properties and functionality of residual materials. Through prolonged fieldwork, we shadowed key market actors in their endeavour to mobilize commercial and public support for a new market for residual aggregates materials. Our analysis of stakeholder claims and interactions, throughout the two case contexts, unearths the various calculative frames that were introduced to make salient the wastefulness of extant (linear) practices, while simultaneously allowing for (re)evaluating treatment, sorting, and classification activities as valuable and marketable. They achieved this, we argue, through the ‘peripheral vision’ of new calculative devices (Callon & Muniesa, 2005) that downgraded extant practices such as landfilling old, and excavating new, construction aggregates as wasteful and costly, while convincing public authorities of the benefits of facilitating the market exchange of residual aggregates. This, we argue, involves the mutually enforcing processes of regulate-ing and market-ing a set of end-of-waste criteria, which ultimately allowed for the economic and circular organizing of a previously non-economic and un-marketable residual material.

Harrison, Debbie & Sjøvaag, Marit (2023)

Levelling the CO2 business network playing field: The role of international CBAM regulation

[Academic lecture]. IMP Conference 2023.

Flygansvær, Bente Merete & Sjøvaag, Marit (2023)

Boosting green public procurement through introduction of environmental criteria in supplier selection process

[Academic lecture]. Ipsera workshop on Sourcing and Innovation Ecosystems for Circularity.

Reichborn-Kjennerud, Kristin & Sjøvaag, Marit (2019)

Operational goals for social sustainability. A literature review to identify social sustainability indicators for practical use

[Academic lecture]. Workshop.