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BI Center for Sustainability and Energy promotes sustainable development through research, teaching and active cooperation with other academic institutions, the business community, governmental bodies and NGOs.

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2021

    • Willingness to Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions

      This study explores the driving factors behind the public’s willingness to pay for crowdfunded climate mitigation projects at the farm level. It identifies four mitigation options from the perspective of farmers: solar panels on the barn roof, biogas from animal manure, drag hoses for improved manure dispersal, and the addition of biochar to soils, and investigates the optimal characteristics of crowdfunding campaigns to finance such mitigation measures.

    • Plausible futures for the Norwegian Offshore Energy Sector: Business as Usual, Harvest or Rebuild?

      We explore three investment scenarios for the Norwegian offshore energy sector from 2020 to 2070

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      1) Business as usual, 2) Increasing cash-flow by harvesting existing petroleum fields and cutting investments (Harvest-and-Exit), or 3) Rebuilding with green offshore energy investments. In a new economic model, developed in the SmartPaths project, a joint research project with Statistics Norway, we compare impacts on key macro- and sector- economic variables such as employment, value creation, oil fund and emissions. The model is downloadable from the link below.

      Interested readers / modelers can download the model from here and run it with their own assumptions from the dashboard tab, named “dbPES" and study the results on the tab “Comparisons”. The model has been developed in EXCEL® 2019 on a Windows 10 machine. Especially for the dashboard we make extensive use of Macros in VBA and we noticed that, for example, VBA for the Mac on using Microsoft 365 has small differences to the version we used for development. As much as possible, we took care of these idiosyncrasies, but we cannot guarantee that we have fixed all of them. Thus, we encourage anyone to experiment with a copy of the model. Finally, set recalculation in EXCEL to automatic.

      To open the model: Choose 'Enable macros' + 'Dont update’. Otherwise the model will not work.

2020

    • Master on Demand! Sammendrag

      Sammendrag av masteroppgave om klimarisiko i banksektoren i programmet Regnskap og Revisjon ved Handelshøyskolen BI, 01.09.2020. Sammendraget er utviklet som del av Master on Demand! initiativet ved BI Senter for samfunnsansvar/ Centre for Sustainability and Energy.

2019

    • Stoknes, P. E.

      Growth in the 21st Century

      Chelsea Green Publishers, (first version manuscript delivered for consideration).

    • Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      How the EU wields regulatory authority in external energy relations: Investigating the blurred line between Regulatory and Market Power

      prepared for a special issue of Journal of European Integration on energy and climate policy, submitted June 2019, under review. [SDG 7, 17].

    • Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      Governing the Global Energy Regime: Why we need both IPE and Global Public Policy

      prepared for a special issue of Policy and Society on IPE, submitted June 2019, under review. [SDG 7, 13, 17].

    • Collste, D., Randers, J., Goluke, U., Stoknes, P. E., Cornell, S., & Rockström, J.

      The Empirical Bases for the Earth3 Model: Technical Notes on the Sustainable Development Goals and Planetary Boundaries

      In progress, https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/ephsf

    • Randers, J., Rockström, J., Stoknes, P. E., Goluke, U., Collste, D., & Cornell, S.

      Achieving the 17 sustainable development goals within 9 planetary boundaries

      In progress, https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/xwevb

    • Sitter, Nick; Bakke, Elisabeth

      Democratic Backsliding in the European Union

      in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019). [SDG 16]

    • Midttun, A., Næss K. M. & Piccini P. B.

      Biofuel Policy and Industrial Transition - A Nordic Perspective

      Energies, July 2019

    • Andersen, Svein S; Sitter, Nick

      The EU’s Strategy towards External Gas Suppliers and their Responses: Norway, Russia, Algeria and LNG

      in J. Godzimirski (ed.) New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt (Palgrave 2019) [SDG 7, 9, 17].

    • Stoknes, P. E.

      How to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals within planetary boundaries by 2050

      Real-World Economics Review, (issue no. 87).

    • Kissane, Bill; Sitter, Nick

      National Identity and Constitutions in Europe

      in H. Lerner and D. Landau (eds) Comparative Constitution-Making (E. Elgar 2019, Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law series) [SDG 16].

    • Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      Regulatory or Market Power Europe? EU Leadership Models for International Energy Governance

      in J. Godzimirski (ed.) New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt (Palgrave 2019) [SDG 7, 13, 16, 17].

    • Midttun, A.& Witoszek N.

      The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model

      New Political Economy 

    • Randers, J.

      Grønn vekst i Norge mot 2050

      Magma: 5/2019 (17-24). Redaksjonelt vurdert.

2018

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      Lønnsomt samfunnsansvar

      Magma 6/2018 (07.11.2017), s. 22

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      Kapitalforvaltning i stiftelser: Styrets oppfatninger av forsvarlig forvaltning

      Magma 6/2018 (25.09.2018), s. 72-81.

    • Randers, J., Rockström, J., Stoknes, P. E., Goluke, U., Collste, D., & Cornell, S.

      Transformation is Feasible—How to Achieve the 17 SDGs within planetary boundaries

      Retrieved from BI. Stockholm Resilience Center website

    • Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas

      Regulatory or Market Power Europe? EU Leadership Models for International Energy Governance

      in J. Godzimirski (ed.) New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt (Palgrave 2018)

    • Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas

      Conceptualizing the Energy Nexus of Global Public Policy and International Political Economy

      in A. Goldthau, M. F. Keating and C. Kuzemko (eds) Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources (E. Elgar 2018)

    • Midttun A.

      Staging Pathways Towards Ecomodernity

      in Alberto Martinelli and Chuanqui He (eds) Global Modernization Review. Science Press Beijing.

    • Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      Conceptualizing the Energy Nexus of Global Public Policy and International Political Economy

      in A. Goldthau, M. F. Keating and C. Kuzemko (eds) Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources (E. Elgar 2018) [SDG 7, 17]

    • Flygansvær, Bente Merete; Dahlstrøm, Robert; Nygaard, Arne

      Exploring the Pursuit of Sustainability in Reverse Supply Chains for Electronics

      Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.189. p. 472-484.

    • Witoszek, N. & Midttun, A.

      Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond

      Routledge (2018)

    • Sitter, Nick; Andresen, Svein S

      The EU’s Strategy towards External Gas Suppliers and their Responses: Norway, Russia, Algeria and LNG

      in J. Godzimirski (ed.) New Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Power to Project, Power to Adapt (Palgrave 2018)

    • Sharifyazdi, M., Navangul, K.A., Gharehgozli, A. and Jahre, M.

      On- and Off-Shore Prepositioning and Delivery Mechanism for Humanitarian Relief Operations

      International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 56, No.18, 6164-6182.

    • Turchin, T.; Witoszek, N.; Thurner, S.; Garcia, D.; Griffin, R.; Hoyer, D.; Midttun, A.; Bennett, J.; Næss, K. N.; Gavrilets, S.

      A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience

      Cliodynamics 9,2

2017

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      Dulting - endring i bærekraftig retning med god endringsledelse

      Magma 7/2017 (07.11.2017), s. 61-69.

    • Sitter, Nick; Batory, Agnes; Krizsan, Andrea; Zentai, Viola

      Backsliding in area of constitutional safeguards and independent institutions, corruption control, and general equality and minorities

      Horizon 2020 TransCrisis Report 6.2, (LSE, 2017) [SDG 5, 10, 16].

    • Andersen, Svein S; Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      An Odd Pro-Market Trio: Germany, the UK and Norway

      in S. S. Andersen, A. Goldthau and Nick Sitter, Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave, 2017) [SDG 7, 8, 9].

    • Midttun, A. & Piccini, P. B.

      Facing the Climate and Digital Challenge: European Energy Industry from Boom to Crisis and Transformation

      Energy Policy

    • Andersen, Svein S; Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      From Low to High Politics? The EU’s Regulatory and Economic Power

      in S. S. Andersen, A. Goldthau and Nick Sitter, Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave, 2017) [SDG 7, 17].

    • Stoknes, P. E.

      Det vi tenker på når vi prøver å ikke tenke på global oppvarming

      (J. S. Nilsen, Trans.). Oslo: Tiden.

    • Sitter, Nick

      Terrorismens Historie: Attentat og Terrorbekjempelse fra Bakunin til IS

      [The History of Terrorism], Dreyer, 2017. (Anmeldt, rapportert og/eller omtalt i kronikk/intervju i Aftenposten, Morgenbladet, NRK URIX, NRK Verdibørsen, Dagbladet, Stavanger Aftenblad, Klassekampen, Bergens Tidene og Vårt Land) [SDG 16]

    • Midttun, Atle; Piccini, Proadpran Boonprasurd

      Facing the climate and digital challenge: European energy industry from boom to crisis and transformation

      Energy Policy 108 (2017): 330-343.

    • Sitter, Nick; Andersen, Svein S; Goldthau, Andreas

      Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism?

      Palgrave Macmillan 2017 (ISBN 978-1-137-59105-0) 274 p.

    • Jahre, M.

      Supply Chain Strategies in Humanitarian Logistics: A Review of how Actors Mitigate Supply Chain Risks

      Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, 82-101.

    • Fæhn, T., & Stoknes, P. E.

      Significant and plausible futures: Global surroundings of Norway’s climate strategies

      (No. Reports 2018/02). Statistics Norway and CREE WP 10/2017.

    • Sitter, Nick; van Hulten, Michiel

      Something for Everyone: Political Fragmentation and Policy Accommodation in the European Parliament

      in S. S. Andersen, A. Goldthau and N. Sitter, Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave, 2017) [SDG 7, 8, 13].

    • Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas

      From Low to High Politics? The EU’s Regulatory and Economic Power

      in S. S. Andersen, A. Goldthau and Nick Sitter, Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave, 2017)

    • Sitter, Nick; van Hulten, Michiel

      Something for Everyone: Political Fragmentation and Policy Accommodation in the European Parliament

      in S. S. Andersen, A. Goldthau and N. Sitter, Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave, 2017)

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      Beyond sponsorship - exploring the impact of cooperation between corporations and NGOs

      International Journal of Coporate Social Responsibillity (2017) 2:6, DOI 10.1186/s40991-017-0017-9

    • Andersen, Svein S; Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      Energy Union: Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism?

      Palgrave, 2017 [SDG 7, 8, 9, 13]

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      Hvem kjenner til de etiske retningslinjene (code of conduct)?

      SIRK nr. 2 2017, s. 14-15.

    • Finon, Dominique; Midttun, Atle

      Reshaping of European Electricity and Gas Industry: Regulation, Markets and Business Strategies

      Amsterdam: Elsevier 2004 (ISBN 0080445500) 398 p.

2016

    • Sjøvaag, M.

      From The Limits to Growth to 2052

      Brauch, Hans Günter; Oswald Spring, Úrsula; Grin, John.

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      Krav til ikke-finansiell rapportering I styrets beretning – hvordan følge opp dette i praksis?

      [Requirements for non-financial reporting in the directors' report - how to follow up this work in practice?] Kapittel i boken "Moderne forretningsjus III" (2016), ed. Harald B Anderssen og Tore Bråthen, s. 85-98

    • Andersen, Svein S; Sitter, Nick

      Projecting the Regulatory State beyond the EU: Gas Markets and Energy Security

      in Peters (ed.) The European Union’s Foreign Policy in a Comparative Perspective, London: Routledge, 2016 [SDG 7, 16].

    • Maxton, G. P., Randers, J., & Suzuki, D. T.

      Reinventing prosperity: Managing economic growth to reduce unemployment, inequality, and climate change: a report to the Club of Rome

      Vancouver, British Columbia ; Berkeley: Greystone Books.

    • Parker, Tom; Sitter, Nick

      The Four Horsemen of Terrorism – It’s not Waves, it’s Strains

      Terrorism and Political Violence, 28:2 (2016), 197-216. [SDG 16].

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, C. & Wenstøp, F.

      Public support for ethical pension funds in Norway?

      Beta Scandinavian Journal of Business Research 2/2016 vol. 30, pp. 100-118, DOI 10.18261/issn.1504-3134-2016-02-01.

    • Randers, Jørgen; Golüke, Ulrich; Wenstøp, Fred; Wenstøp, Søren

      Self-reinforcing mechanisms in climate system (2013-16) – “It’s getting slowly worse, but without a bang”

      A system dynamics model of the seven potentially self-reinforcing mechanisms in climate system ("The Earth System") created by Jørgen Randers and Ulrich Golüke in collaboration with Fred Wenstøp and Søren Wenstøp.

    • Winger Minde, Stine

      Bedriftsdemokrati i stiftelser - finnes det?

      Bedriftsdemokrati i stiftelser - finnes det? - Herunder om skillet mellom alminnelige og næringsdrivende stiftelser, vil bli trykket i Benestad Anderssen/Bråthen (red.): Moderne forretningsjus III (Bergen 2016) (Stine Winger Minde)

    • Bråthen, Tore

      Styrehonorar i stiftelser

      Styrehonorar i stiftelser, trykket i Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret (NTS) 2016:1 (Tore Bråthen)

    • Andersen, Svein S; Goldthau, Andreas; Sitter, Nick

      The EU Regulatory State, Commission Leadership and External Energy Governance

      in J. Godzimirski (ed.) EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance: Global and Local Challenges and Responses, Palgrave 2016 [SDG 7, 16].

    • Randers, Jørgen; Golüke, Ulrich; Wenstøp, Fred; Wenstøp, Søren

      A user-friendly earth system model of low complexity: the ESCIMO system dynamics model of global warming towards 2100

      Earth System Dynamics, 2016, Volume 7.(4) p. 831-850

    • Midttun, A & Witoszek N.

      Perspectives on Ecomodernity: Energy and Transport in Green Transition

      Routledge (2016)

    • Jahre, M., Kembro, J., Rezvanian, T., Ergun, O., Håpnes, S. J., & Berling P.

      Integrating Supply Chains for Emergencies and Ongoing Operations in UNHCR

      Journal of Operations Management, Vol.45, 57-72.

    • Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline

      From idealism to profitability

      Chapter in book "L'impresa di domani" (2016), pp. 37-40, Caroline D. Ditlev-Simonsen.

    • Randers, J.

      How Fast Will China Grow Towards 2030

      World Economics, 17(2), 63–78.

    • Midttun, Atle; Witoszek, Nina

      Energy and Transport in Green Transition: Perspectives on Ecomodernity

      Routledge 2016 (ISBN 978-1-138-79343-9) 198 p.

    • Sitter, Nick; Andresen, Svein S.

      The EU Regulatory State, Commission Leadership and External Energy Governance

      in J. Godzimirski (ed.) EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance: Global and Local Challenges and Responses, Palgrave 2016

    • Sitter, Nick; Andresen, Svein S.

      Projecting the Regulatory State beyond the EU: Gas Markets and Energy Security

      in Peters (ed.) The European Union’s Foreign Policy in a Comparative Perspective, London: Routledge, 2016

    • Randers, Jørgen; Maxton, Graeme

      Ein prozent ist genug. Mit wenig wachstum soziale ungleichheit, arbeitslosigkeit und klimawandel bekämpfen

      Oekom verlag 2016 (ISBN 9783865818102) 272 p.

    • Noreng, Øystein

      The Oil Industry and Government Strategy in the North Sea

      Routledge 2016 (ISBN 978-1315-62241-5) 268 p.

    • Jahre, M., Pazirandeh, A. & Van Wassenhove, L. N.

      Defining logistics preparedness: a framework and research agenda

      Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Vol. 6, No.3, 372-398.

    • Sitter, Nick; Batory, Agnes; Krizsan, Andrea; Zentai, Viola

      Mapping Backsliding in the European Union

      Horizon 2020 TransCrisis Policy Brief 6.1, (LSE, 2016) [SDG 5, 10, 16].

2015

    • Sitter, Nick; Andresen, Svein S.

      Managing Heterogeneity in the EU: Using Gas Market Liberalisation to Explore the Changing Mechanisms of Intergovernmental Governance

      Journal of European Integration, 37:3 (2015), 319-334. 

    • Randers, Jørgen

      Quantitative backbone for Shanghai’s 2050 plan (2015) – “Towards the global civilisation city”

      Contribution by JR to Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, based on the structure of the 2052 book, used in Shanghai's development from 1980 till 2050.

    • Stoknes, P. E.

      What we think about when we try not to think about global warming: Toward a new psychology of climate action

      White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. Også i norsk revidert versjon (2017).

    • Sitter, Nick

      What does EU Energy Policy Mean for the Climate?

      in Kjell A. Eliassen and Per Espen Stoknes (eds), Science-Based Activism: Festschrift for Jørgen Randers, Gyldendal Akademiske, 2015

    • Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas

      Soft Power with a Hard Edge: EU Policy Tools and Energy Security

      Review of International Political Economy, 22:5 (2015), 941-965.

    • Midttun, Atle; Coulter, Paddy; Gadzekpo, Audrey; Wang, Jin

      Comparing media framings of climate change in developed, rapid growth and developing countries: Findings from Norway, China and Ghana

      Energy and Environment 2015 ;Volume 26.(8) p. 1271-1292

    • Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas

      A Liberal Actor in A Realist World: The EU Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy

      Oxford University Press, 2015.

2014

    • Noreng, Øystein

      Oil and gas in the capitals: The crimea crisis, Russian gas and Norway

      World oil 2014 ;Volume 235.(4) p. 25

    • Sitter, Nick; Goldthau, Andreas

      A Liberal Actor in a Realist World? The Commission and the External Dimension of the Single Market for Energy

      Journal of European Public Policy, 21:10 (2014), 1452-1472.

    • Midttun, Atle; Toporowska, Elzbieta

      Sequencing Lead Markets for Photovoltaics

      Chapter in Im Hürdenlauf zur Energiewende: Von Transformationen, Reformen und Innovationen. Springer 2014 ISBN 978-3-658-06787-8. p. 165-186

2013

    • Lereim, Jon

      Kvalitetsledelse i prosjekter: en erfaringsbasert tilnærming

      Akademika: Oslo 2013 ISBN9788232100859

2011

    • Thue, Lars; Sekne, Ivar

      De temmet vannet. Statkrafts tekniske kulturhistorie.

      Universitetsforlaget 2011 (ISBN 9788215018775) 280 p.

    • Randers, Jørgen

      Meny 5 - en vedtakbar klima- og energiplan for Norge til 2020

      Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse 2011 ;Volume 14.(2) p. 21-34

    • Noreng, Øystein

      Brazil and Norway—Offshore Petroleum Experiences and Lessons

      Journal of Energy and Development 2011 ;Volume 35.(1) p. 79-99

    • Noreng, Øystein

      Norway and Russia - From Cold War to Warm Peace

      Oil, Gas and Energy Law 2011 (6) p. 1-24

2010

2009

    • Lereim, Jon

      Prosjekt: Strategi, organisering, ledelse og gjennomføring

      Universitetsforlaget: Oslo 2009 ISBN9788215014241

2007

    • Gundersen, Mari Hegg; Koefoed, Anne Louise; Midttun, Atle

      Greening of European Electricity Industry: The Challenges of Policy Integration Across Cognitive and Administrative Specialisation

      Published in Green Power Markets: Support Schemes, Case Studies and Perspectives, Lutz Mez (ed). Multi-Science Publishing 2007

2005

    • Karlsen, Jan; Lereim, Jon

      Management of Project Contingency and Allowance

      Published in Cost Engineering 2005 Vol 47(9), pp. 24-29.