Major Research Projects (Later than 1990; Most titles translated from Norwegian) (Function as ”project leader” mostly also implies part-tasks as operative researcher)
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| I Strategic research institute programs
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| 2002- 2004
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(Program leader) "Conditions for Implementation of hydrogen-energy in transport systems”, a research strategic institute program under Norway Research Council
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| 2001-2004
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(Project leader) ”Socioeconomic effects of climate change”, participation in a research strategic institute program at CICERO (Centre for climate research), under Norway Research Council (Area: Environment and development). Project leader for the part carried out at Western Norway Research Institute
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| 1999-2002
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(Program leader) ”Local Agenda 21 and local sustainable planning”, a research strategic institute program under Norway Research Council (Area: Culture and society). Encompasses separate parts on ”local climate- and energy- planning” and on ”analytical tools for translation from global to local in environmental planning”
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| 1994-1997
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(Program leader) ”The Greening of Rural Industries in a context of Industrial Ecology”. A research strategic institute program for the Ministry of Local Administration (Kommunaldepartementet)
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| II EU/International/Nordic research projects
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| 2004-2007
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(Researcher /Project leader) "HyWays - Development and Evaluation of a Harmonised "European Hydrogen Energy Roadmap". An EU/FP6 Integrated Project (33 partners). Project leader for the Norwegian contributions to the project
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| 2004
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(Project leader) ”Policies and Principles for Sustainable Transport in Europe”. For the EU Interreg IIIB programme NTN-project, Nordic Transport- political Network, phase II
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| 2002-2003
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(Researcher) "RENEWA - Renewable Energy from Waste through gasification or incineration for heat, power or fuel production. A stakeholder group network project". For the EU ALTENER program. Cooperation with Swedish, British and German Partners
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| 2001-2003
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(Researcher) "The Energy Efficiency Improvement Simulator ORKUSPAR". For the EU SAVE-program. Cooperation with Icelandic and Swedish partners
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| 1999-2001
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(Project leader) ”Market penetration of motor-alcohols in the Nordic countries through stakeholder group networks”. For the EU ALTENER program. Cooperation with one Swedish and one Finnish research institute
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| 1998-2000
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(Researcher) ”Sustainable and Effective Transport in the Nordic countries”, a project within Nordic Transport-political Network for the EU Interreg IIC. Cooperation with the University of Aalborg in Denmark
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| 1998-2000
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(Project leader) ”Energy saving in freight transport of natural resource products from the Nordic countries”. For the EU SAVE program. Cooperation with one Swedish and one Finnish research institute
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| 1996-1998
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(Project leader) ”Biodiesel in heavy duty vehicles in Norway”. For the EU ALTENER program. Cooperation with an Austrian research institute
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| 1994-1997
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(Researcher) ”The large Nordic Infrastructure Projects in Transport – regional and environmental impacts”. For NordREFO/ NordREGIO, the Nordic Institute for Regional Policy Research
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| 1989-1992
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(Project leader) ”The Ecological Basis of Regional Policies”. For NordREFO/ NordREGIO. Cooperation with Danish, Swedish and Finnish Researchers
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| III National projects: Transport, energy and the environment
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| 2003-2004
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(Project leader) “Energy and Environmental Analysis of the Oslo passenger transport system”. For the Oslo Public Transportation Company (Oslo Sporveier)
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| 2002-2003
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(Project leader) “ Energy and Environmental Data for Alternative Energy Carriers in Transport. Comparative Well – to – Wheel Analysis of hydrogen energy and other alternative energy carriers in transport”. For the Norwegian Public Pollution Authority (SFT)
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| 2002-2003
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(Project leader) "Changes in local municipality structures - consequences for transport and mobility". For the KS-research, the research fund of the Norway. Organisation of Local Municipalities
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| 2001-2002
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(Project leader) ”Transport in food production systems”. For the research program ”Sustainable production and consumption” under the Research Council of Norway (Area: Environment and development)
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| 1996-2001
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(Project leader) ”Transport scenarios for Greater Oslo 1996-2016 and principles for Environmental Management and Reporting in Public transport”. For the Oslo Public Transportation Company (Oslo Sporveier)
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| 1995-1998
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(Project leader) ”Mobility and car-dependence in rural areas- the sustainable mobility requirements”. For the research program on rural development under Norway Research Council (Area: Bioproduction and breeding)
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| 1995-1997
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(Project leader) ”Environmentally Adapted Tourism – actions and measures”. For the MILFOR-program under Norway Research Council (Area: Environment and development)
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| 1995-1996
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(Project leader) ”The transport and environmental impacts of tourism”. For the Norwegian Ministry of Commerce
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| 1991-1993
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(Project leader) ”Public Transport – consequences for energy, environment and land-use”. For research program on public transport, the Research Council of Norway (current Area: Culture and society)
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National projects: Sustainable urban planning. Local energy- and climate-planning
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| 2001-2005
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(Project leader) ”Local climate- and energy- planning”. For the research program ”SAMSTEMT” – Social Science Studies of Energy, Environment and Technology, under the Research Council of Norway (Area: Environment and development). The project includes a PhD fellowship starting in 2002 and is carried out in cooperation with Institute of Social Sciences at NTNU, Norwegian Technical and Natural Science University in Trondheim
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| 1997-2001
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(Project leader) ”Sustainable housing and land-use planning”. For the research program ”Sustainable consumption and production”, the Research Council of Norway (Area: Environment and development). Cooperation with the research institute NIBR, Oslo. Included a Ph.D. fellowship at Western Norway Research Institute (accomplished in January 2002)
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| 1988-1992
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(Researcher /Project leader) ”NAMIT – "Environmentally friendly development and planning of towns and cities in Norway”. Research program for the Research Council of Norway (Area: Culture and society). Project leader for one part of the project
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National projects: Sustainable development politics and principles. Analytical tools in environmental planning
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| 2002-2004
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(Project leader) ”Governance in the Field of Biotechnology and Operationalising the Precautionary Principle”. In cooperation with Prof. Matthias Kaiser at NENT. For the Research Council of Norway's programme: ”Ethics, Society and Biotechnology” (Area: Culture and society)
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| 2000-2001
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(Project leader) ”Environmental Management Systems in Local Municipalities”. For the KS-research, the research fund of the Norway Organisation of Local Municipalities
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| 1998-2000
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(Project leader) ”Assessment of analytical tools for the translation from global to local in environmental municipal planning and policy”. For the Norwegian Ministry of Environment
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| 1995-1997
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(Project leader) ”Directional Analyses for Sustainable Development in Local Municipal Planning and Policy”. For KS-research, Norway Organisation of Local Municipalities
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| 1992-1996
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(Project leader) ”The Norwegian Eco-Municipality Program”, a research and development program in 9 rural municipalities. For the Ministry of Environment and KS-research. Encompassed among other separate projects on ”environmental management systems” and ”local environmental planning”
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| 1992-1995
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(Project leader) ”The Environment and Rural Communities – local and global environmental challenges as conditions for rural development”. For research program on rural development, the Research Council of Norway (current Area: Bioproduction and bre)
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