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Berit Kristoffersen

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Berit Kristoffersen is an Associate Professor in Political Science the Department of Social Sciences at UiT and Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy (ARC). She leads the research project RENEW (connected to Smart Senja) and UiT sustainability comittee. As a political geographer by training, her research contributions have included work on state space, critical geopolitics, climate change and energy politics. Her work has been published in journal such as Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Arctic Review on Law and Politics.

Her post-doc (finished 2017) focused on resource and tourism practices and PhD (2014) and master (2007) thesis' on the territorial, political and representational geographies of 'opening up' the Norwegian Arctic for oil and gas activities, themes that are still ongoing research subjects. At present her research is also focused on developing theory and methods for interdisciplinary and social sciences approaches to energy transition and supply-side climate policy perspectives.

  • Inger Helene Svartdal, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Why in my backyard (WIMBY): Forging the link to community futures when energy transition projects are met with indifference
    Energy Research & Social Science 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Gavin Bridge, Steinberg Philip E. :
    Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway’s Lofoten/Vesterålen/Senja Archipelago
    Routledge 2022 DOI
  • Philippe Le Billon, Päivi Lujala, Devyani Singh, Berit Kristoffersen, Vance Culbert :
    Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green postpandemic recovery
    Climate Policy 16. Aug 2021 DOI
  • Steinberg Philip E., Berit Kristoffersen, Kristen L. Shake :
    Edges and flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice
    Duke University Press 2020
  • Philip E. Steinberg, Berit Kristoffersen, Kristen L. Shake :
    EDGES AND FLOWS: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics of Sea Ice
    Duke University Press 2020
  • Philippe Le Billon, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and energy transition
    Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2019 FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Philip E. Steinberg, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean Sustaining the sea or sustaining the state?
    Routledge 2019 DOI
  • Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen, Kirsti Stuvøy :
    Saving the Arctic: Green Peace or oil riot?
    Routledge 2019 SAMMENDRAG / DOI
  • Brigt Dale, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Post-Petroleum Security in a Changing Arctic: Narratives and Trajectories Towards Viable Futures
    Arctic Review on Law and Politics 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Philip E. Steinberg, Berit Kristoffersen :
    "The ice edge is lost….nature moved it": mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North
    Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2017 FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Oluf Langhelle :
    Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies
    Palgrave Macmillan 2017 DOI
  • Britt Kramvig, Berit Kristoffersen, Anniken Førde :
    Responsible cohabitation in Arctic Waters. The Promise of a Spectacle touristic whale
    Palgrave Macmillan 2016 DOI
  • Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Ida Marie Henriksen, Berit Kristoffersen, Johannes Fjell Hojem, Iva Stoychova :
    Making the smart grid through pilot projects. Insights, lessons and ways forward
    2021 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Den mektige olje-alliansen som folk knapt har hørt om
    28. Nov 2021 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Inger Helene Svartdal :
    Øysamfunnet Senja satser på fornybar energi
    05. May 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Gisle Andersen, Brigt Dale, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Polarinstituttet er blitt instruert tidligere
    Dagens næringsliv 14. Jan 2020
  • Bjarte Hoff, Matteo Chiesa, Yngve Birkelund, Berit Kristoffersen :
    A renewable arctic: Green energy transitions
    2019
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Anniken Førde :
    Lofoten Place Perspectives
    2019
  • Gisle Andersen, Brigt Dale, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Kunnskapsbaserte beslutningsverktøy? Syntese av samfunnsvitenskapelig forskning på marine forvaltningsplaner (2005–2019)
    NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2019 FULLTEKST
  • Gisle Andersen, Brigt Dale, Berit Kristoffersen :
    A Knowledge-Based Tool For Decision-Making? A synthesis of social science research on Norwegian Marine Management Plans (2005-2019). Report nr. 31-2019.
    NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2019
  • Brigt Dale, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Lofoten, ontological security and Post-petroleum futures.
    2018
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and geo-political economies of energy transitions
    2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Klimaforskere: – Lofotfisket kan bli trua
    07. Aug 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Halvparten av utenlandske turister er negative til turistskatt
    24. Sep 2018 DATA
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Lofot-kommunene får 300.000 kroner til å forske på seg selv
    26. Feb 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Bård Lappegård Lahn :
    Challenging status quo through supply-side initiatives in Norway: Way out or far out?
    2018
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Før turistene kommer
    Nordlys 26. Mar 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Phillip Steinberg :
    Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: Sustaining the Sea or, sustaining the State?
    2018
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Paul Wassmann :
    Barentshavet mellom kunnskap og politikk
    Ottar 2018
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    70 prosent i nord er imot oljeboring i Lofoten og Vesterålen
    01. Feb 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Ni av ti turister vil tilbake til Lofoten
    02. Jan 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Paul Wassmann, Marit Reigstad, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Alt flyter: Store verdier står på spill
    2017
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Barentshavet 2.0: Fra Shtokman til Goliat?
    Nordlys 27. Nov 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Striden om Arktis iskant
    08. Nov 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    - Polarfronten har forsvunnet
    26. Jan 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    How much research can you do in three days?
    12. Oct 2017
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    - Oljeinteressene ligger an til å vinne
    09. May 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Iskantdramaet
    01. Jul 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Bård Lahn, Guri Bang :
    Forskningspanel vil besvare spørsmål som sterkt berører lofotnæringen
    06. Aug 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Brigt Dale, Gisle Andersen :
    Imagining a post-petroleum society: Scenarios and changing materialities of oil in Norway.
    2017
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Mener Lofoten kan bli mer kresne på turistene
    10. Nov 2016 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Britt Kramvig :
    Arktisk safari
    26. Feb 2016 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Britt Kramvig :
    En verdifull følgesvenn
    21. Mar 2016 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Phillip Steinberg :
    Freezing Space: Mapping sea ice as geo-political category
    2016
  • Anniken Førde, Britt Kramvig, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Ansvarlig reiseliv som motor i nord?
    Nordlys 16. Mar 2016 FULLTEKST / DATA
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Anniken Førde, Britt Kramvig, Brigt Dale, Grete K. Hovelsrud , Michael Bravo :
    Post-petroleum Dialogues
    2016
  • Brigt Dale, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Imagining a Postpetroleum Arctic.
    Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots 2016 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Anniken Førde :
    Post-petroleum Dialogues; imaginaries and strategies
    2016
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    The Workable Arctic of Ice and Oil
    2016
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Har spurt tusen turister om Lofot-opplevelser: Ni av ti synes ikke Lofoten har for mange turistbesøk om sommeren
    23. Oct 2016 FULLTEKST

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    Berit Kristoffersen is an Associate Professor in Political Science the Department of Social Sciences at UiT and Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy (ARC). She leads the research project RENEW (connected to Smart Senja) and UiT sustainability comittee. As a political geographer by training, her research contributions have included work on state space, critical geopolitics, climate change and energy politics. Her work has been published in journal such as Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Arctic Review on Law and Politics.

    Her post-doc (finished 2017) focused on resource and tourism practices and PhD (2014) and master (2007) thesis' on the territorial, political and representational geographies of 'opening up' the Norwegian Arctic for oil and gas activities, themes that are still ongoing research subjects. At present her research is also focused on developing theory and methods for interdisciplinary and social sciences approaches to energy transition and supply-side climate policy perspectives.


    Member of research group

    Narrating the Postcolonial North: Travel, Writing, Performance   Norsk innhold Changing Arctic   English content ARC   English content

    Member of project

    Green hydrogen for communities Smart Senja/RENEW