Jon Birger Skjærseth

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International and regional environmental cooperation, national environmental policy and corporate strategies. Main focus on the EU, marine pollution and climate change.

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Academic background

Full professor competence, 2008
Dr. Polit., University of Oslo, 1999 (political science)

Professional experience

Visiting researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006-07).
Research Director the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2003-06).
Programme director - European Policy, at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2000-03).
Member of the Board and Council at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (1995-97).
Part-time employment at the Institute for Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria (1994-96).
Scholarship from the Norwegian Research Council (1994-98).
Senior Executive Officer, Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, Department of Ocean Pollution (1991-92).
Scholarship, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (1990-91).

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BOOKS

The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation - The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan

Per Ove Eikeland and Jon Birger Skjærseth

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 142 p.
Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies: Decision-making, Implementation and Reform

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Per Ove Eikeland, Lars H. Gulbrandsen and Torbjørg Jevnaker

Cheltenham (UK), Edward Elgar, 2016, 265 p.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

The Politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s Strategic Energy Technology Plan

Jon Birger Skjærseth and Per Ove Eikeland

Energy Research & Social Science, published online 05.04.2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102043
Achieving the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement: the role of key actors

Steinar Andresen, Guri Bang, Jon Birger Skjærseth and Arild Underdal

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol 21, No 1, pp. 1-7.
Towards a European Green Deal: The evolution of EU climate and energy policy mixes

Jon Birger Skjærseth

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, published online 18.02.2021. DOI: 10.1007/s10784-021-09529-4
The Paris Agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes: Comparative patterns

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Steinar Andresen, Guri Bang and Gørild Heggelund.

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, published online 18.02.2021, 15 p.
Oil and power industries' responses to EU emissions trading:leaders or laggards?

Jon Birger Skjærseth and Per Ove Eikeland

In R.K.W. Wurzel, D. Liefferink and D. Torney (eds), Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance. Routledge, 2020, pp. 104-125.