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Berit Kristoffersen

Associate professor

Job description

Berit Kristoffersen is an associate professor at UiT – the Arctic University of Norway, working at the interdisciplinary Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy (ARC) and the Department of Social Sciences. Her main research focuses on the politics of energy and energy transition, state space, critical geopolitics and ocean governance. Her work has been published in journals such as Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Energy Research and Social Sciences.

  • Bjørn Moen Ballo, Berit Kristoffersen, Roman Sidortsov :
    Running out of excuses? Norwegian political and policy discourses justifying oil and gas development in the Arctic
    Spanish Yearbook of International Law 08. February 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
  • Magnus Elias Eilertsen, Berit Kristoffersen :
    Grønn omstilling uten fasit. Hva kan oljehistorien i Lofoten lære oss om energiomstilling av lokalsamfunn?
    Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 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. August 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. November 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. January 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. August 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Halvparten av utenlandske turister er negative til turistskatt
    24. September 2018 DATA
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Lofot-kommunene får 300.000 kroner til å forske på seg selv
    26. February 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. March 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. February 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Ni av ti turister vil tilbake til Lofoten
    02. January 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. November 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Striden om Arktis iskant
    08. November 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    - Polarfronten har forsvunnet
    26. January 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    How much research can you do in three days?
    12. October 2017
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    - Oljeinteressene ligger an til å vinne
    09. May 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen :
    Iskantdramaet
    01. July 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Bård Lahn, Guri Bang :
    Forskningspanel vil besvare spørsmål som sterkt berører lofotnæringen
    06. August 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. November 2016 FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Britt Kramvig :
    Arktisk safari
    26. February 2016 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Berit Kristoffersen, Britt Kramvig :
    En verdifull følgesvenn
    21. March 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. March 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

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