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CenSES annual report 2011
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Knowledge and strategy for policy
innovation
In WP4 two PhD candidates, Robert L. Jomisko and
Eirik Swensen, are studying what kind of knowledge
input is made use of and what strategies are pursued
to develop a capacity for policy innovation in the en-
ergy, environment and climate area. These two pro-
jects are particularly focused on the relationship be-
tween scientific knowledge and policy-making. Their
projects are about the learning and use of knowl-
edge in political decision making processes related
to climate and renewable energy.
Inorder to forma picture of these processes they have
interviewed several persons in public committees.
Official Norwegian Reports are sources of knowledge
for decision-making processes. By investigating who
participate in these committees, what kind of work is
conducted and how this knowledge is used, they can
get a better understanding of politics in the making.
The investigation of the dynamics in the committees
will be supplied by relevant document studies.
RA1 consists of four work packages:
- WP1 Comparative analysis of governance and
public policy for energy systems
- WP2 Assessment of national policy instruments
for promoting sustainable energy
- WP3 Transition pathways from an oil and gas
economy to a low-emission economy with a
focus on emerging technologies
- WP4 Innovations and learning in energy policy
Senior researchers in the 2011 team
- Sjur Kasa (TIK, UiO)
- Audun Ruud (SINTEF Energy),
- Hans Torvatn (SINTEF T&S)
- Knut Holtan Sørensen (KULT, NTNU)
- Eva Rosenberg (IFE)
- Erling Holden (HiSF)
- Øystein Moen (IØT, NTNU)
- Marianne Ryghaug (KULT, NTNU)
- Vivian Anette Lagesen (KULT, NTNU)
RA1 Policy Making and Transition Strategies
Research in 2011
We have started to re-analyse and systematise the
partners’ previous work regarding RA1 and to syn-
thesize available results relevant to WP 2 “Assess-
ment of national policy instruments for promoting
sustainable energy”. A popular scientific report that
contains characterization and evalutation of policy
instruments will be written during 2012 and avail-
able for policy making and strategies.
Some of the important historical observations that
has already been outlined as relevant to this report
are:
- The development of the politics of energy
economization (ENØK) from the mid-seventees
and forward. Here, engineering perspectives was
superseded and replaced by economic perspec-
tives. The ENØK policy was also characterised by
a frequent shift between different policy instru-
Jomisko and Swensen are also conducting a study
of knowledge cultures in different ministries. The
objective of these studies is to improve the deci-
sion making base for the future climate and energy
strategies for decision makers within the public and
private sector, on both a user and system level.
Photo: Marianne Ryghaug