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Mikaela Vasstrøm

Associate Professor

 
Office:
H2032 ( Universitetsveien 25, Kristiansand )

Mikaela Vasstrøm (b.1977), Associate Professor at the Department of global development and planning, UiA. She holds a PhD (2012) from Copenhagen University, the department of Food and Resource Economics. Her main research interest evolves around just energy transitions and particular challenges and opportunities related to energy democracy and governance, and implications for local and regional development. She has previously worked with public participation and co-creation in conflicts related to environmental planning. Since 2018 she has been the project leader of WINDPLAN funded by the Norwegian Research Council. WINDPLAN (https://windplan.uia.no/) explored onshore wind power development in Norway, Scotland, and Denmark, and analysed (lack of) social acceptance, emerging contestations of energy justice, and local government capability to handle energy planning and deployment. She is UiA partner in the Norwegian Research Council funded Research school: Empowered Futures (https://www.nmbu.no/en/research/projects/empoweredfutures) aimed at educating PhD scholars with research-based competence on energy controversies, equitable policy and development frameworks to achieve just energy transitions. She is co-lead on two work packages in the WINDREG project: WP3) Procedural justice in planning and governance of regional OW transitions and WP4) Co-production of knowledge for energy justice in regional OW transitions.

Scientific publications

  • Kühn, Nadja Sophia Bekkelund; Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2024). A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. ISSN: 1523-908X. doi:10.1080/1523908X.2024.2321186.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen; Lysgård, Hans Kjetil (2024). Energy justifications – Legitimizing Norwegian wind power development in critical moments. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN: 2214-6296. 110doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103442.
  • Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Heidenreich, Sara Lena Brigitte; Henriksen, Ida Marie; Vasconcellos Oliveira, Rita; Dankel, Dorothy Jane; Lahuerta, Julian Richard; Linnerud, Kristin; Moe, Espen; Nygaard, Birgitte; Richter, Isabell Gabriele Maria; Skjærseth, Jon Birger; Suboticki, Ivana; Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2023). Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN: 2214-6296. 107doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.103334.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen; Lysgård, Hans Kjetil (2023). Energi, politikk og geografi i endring. Innføring i samfunnsgeografi. ISBN: 9788245021615. Fagbokforlaget. s 279 - 297.
  • Normann, Roger; Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Johnsen, Hans Christian Garman (2022). Field analysis of industrial development in a peripheral region of Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN: 0029-1951. 76 (2). s 69 - 81. doi:10.1080/00291951.2022.2065356.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen; Paaby, Kirsten (2021). Hvordan skapes rom for «omvendt deltakelse» i bærekraftig lokal samfunnsutvikling – aksjonsforskningens roller og bevegelser. Forskning og forandring. ISSN: 2535-5279. 4 (2). s 106 - 127. doi:10.23865/fof.v4.3311.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Lysgård, Hans Kjetil (2021). What shapes Norwegian wind power policy? Analysing the constructing forces of policymaking and emerging questions of energy justice. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN: 2214-6296. 77doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102089.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Normann, Roger (2019). The role of local government in rural communities: culture-based development strategies. Local Government Studies. ISSN: 0300-3930. 45 (6). s 848 - 868. doi:10.1080/03003930.2019.1590200.
  • Normann, Roger Henning; Johnsen, Hans Christian Garmann; Knudsen, Jon Paschen; Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Johnsen, Ingrid Garmann (2016). Emergence of regional leadership - a Field approach. Regional studies. ISSN: 0034-3404. 51 (2). s 273 - 284. doi:10.1080/00343404.2016.1182146.
  • Aas, Tor Helge; Jentoft, Nina; Vasstrøm, Mikaela (2016). Managing innovation of care services: An exploration of Norwegian municipalities. Cogent Business & Management. ISSN: 2331-1975. 3 (1). doi:10.1080/23311975.2016.1215762.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela (2016). Opening or reproducing understandings. Applied social science research in a regional knowledge system. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8782-7. Routledge. 5. s 93 - 111.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela (2016). Openings and Closures of the Environmental Planning Horizon: Participatory Experiences from Norway. Commons, Sustainability, Democratization Action Research and the Basic Renewal of Society. ISBN: 9781138124776. Routledge. 6.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Lysgård, Hans Kjetil (2015). Planning for Sustainability: Between Risks and Lifeworlds. Higher Education in a Sustainable Society. ISBN: 978-3-319-15918-8. Springer. 10. s 127 - 143.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela (2014). Rediscovering nature as commons in environmental planning: new understandings through dialogue. International Journal of the Commons. ISSN: 1875-0281. 8 (2). s 493 - 512.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Normann, Roger Henning (2014). Role transformations in collaborative r&d-projects as reciprocation between research, Practice and policy. International Journal of Action Research. ISSN: 1861-1303. 10 (2). s 184 - 212. doi:10.1688/IJAR-2014-02-Vasstrom.
  • Normann, Roger Henning; Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2012). Municipalities as Governance Network Actors in Rural Communities. European Planning Studies. ISSN: 0965-4313. 20 (6). s 941 - 960. doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.673565.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2024). Fremtidens energiproduksjon og kommunal planlegging: fra sakskonflikter til helhetlig energi og samfunnsplanlegging.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2023). Hva er utfordringene og mulighetene for utvikling av havvind? Hva kan vi lære av vindkraft på land.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2023). En demokratisk energiomstilling? Utfordringer og muligheter for lokale deltakelsesprosesser i vindkraftutvikling.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2023). Kampen om arealene mellom energi og natur: Hvilken kunnskap teller?.
  • Vasstrøm, Mikaela Lise Modalen (2023). En demokratisk energiomstilling?Utfordringer og muligheter for lokale deltakelsesprosesser i vindkraftutvikling.

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