Based on economic and cultural geographical perspectives, we study the interfaces between people’s activities, places, and major social processes such as migration, industrial development, urban growth, and rural change. The research focuses on the importance and consequences of innovation, policy and planning for sustainable change, and how people in different communities shape and experience their everyday lives. We also study sustainable changes in businesses and their value chains. We emphasize how business activities, places and regions are linked through global networks and value chains.
 

Key research themes:

• Transition to sustainable cities, communities and industries
• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Urban, rural and regional changes
• Social inequality, identities and perspectives on place

Projects:

• Making the green shift work for regions - Henrik Brynthe Lund
• NorSkift - Henrik Brynthe Lund
• Fraying ties? - Alexander Dodge
• Childhood poverty and child protective services - Thomas Halvorsen

We are also participating in:

• (SFI) Manufacturing - Asbjørn Karlsen

Recent publications:

• Alexander Dodge, Gavin Bridge: Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2022.
• Asbjørn Karlsen, Henrik B Lund, Markus Steen: The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity. Sage Journals Volume 27, 2022.
• Asbjørn Karlsen: Politikk for en rettferdig grønn omstilling i olje- og gassavhengige regioner. FME NTRANS Report 01, 2022.
• Alexander Dodge: From Resource Peripheries to Emerging Markets: Reconfiguring Positionalities in Global Production Networks. Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy, Economic Geography, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84606-0_4.
• Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn: Policy mixes for just sustainable development in regions specialized in carbon-intensive industries: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions. Taylor and Francis, European Planning Studies, 2021.
• Danny MacKinnon; Asbjørn Karlsen; Stuart Dawley; Markus Steen; Samson Afewerk; Assiya Kenzhegaliyeva: Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind. Regional Studies Association 2020.
• Bach, Hanna; Bergek, Anna; Bjørgum, Øyvind; Hansen, Teis; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya; Steen, Markus: Implementing maritime battery-electric and hydrogen solutions: A technological innovation systems analysis. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2020 ;Volum 87.
• Berg, Nina Gunnerud: Geographies of wellbeing and place attachment: Revisiting urban-rural migrants. Journal of Rural Studies 2020 ;Volum 78. s. 438-446.
• Dodge, Alexander Steven: The ‘Changing Same of Power’: State territoriality and natural gas market liberalization in Thailand. Geoforum 2020 ;Volum 112. s. 31-40.
• Dodge, Alexander Steven: The Singaporean natural gas hub: reassembling global production networks and markets in Asia. Journal of Economic Geography 2020 ;Volum 20. s. 1241-1262.
• Lund, Henrik Brynthe; Steen, Markus: Make at home or abroad? Manufacturing reshoring through a GPN lens: A Norwegian case study. Geoforum 2020 ;Volum 113. s. 154-164.
• Scherzer, Sabrina Stefanie Claudia; Berg, Nina Irene Gunnerud; Lein, Haakon; Setten, Gunhild: The many faces of local community: Exploring lay conceptualizations of the Norwegian lokalsamfunn. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 2020 ;Volum 74.(3) s. 152-164.