Drawing on qualitative methods, primarily interviews and text analysis, I study environmental and climate policy and development cooperation.
One strand of my research concerns just transitions in places that depend on fossil-intensive industries and infrastructure. Together with colleagues, I have examined how municipalities, companies and local communities imagine fossil-free futures, the roles assigned to different actors and places in the transition, and which interests are enabled or marginalized.
Another strand focuses on climate and development cooperation. I study how climate issues are integrated into development policy and practice, and the tensions that arise between climate adaptation, security, poverty reduction and other policy objectives. I also examine the politics of knowledge within development cooperation: whose knowledge is recognized and how relations between research policy, foreign policy and development policy interact.
Across these research areas, I examine how climate and development interventions shape knowledge, authority and responsibility, and create different opportunities and constraints for actors and places.
