| Project lead ENVS : | Mette Termansen (now IFRO, KU) |
| Staff: | Doan Nainggolan, Nina Baron, Lars Kjerulf Petersen, Marianne Zandersen |
| Financed by : | Norden Top-Level Research Initiative |
| Duration: | 2011 – 2015 |
| Project Partners: | Alto University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Linköping University (LIU), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Umeå university ( UMU), Research in Economic and Business administration (SNF), Chalmers University of Technology, University of Island (UI), Project Zero |
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NORD-STAR is the Centre of Excellence for Strategic Adaptation Research with 9 core partners from the Nordic countries & associate partners working together as an open research Centre providing i.a. a graduate training programme, dialogue and visualization.
NORD-STAR combined three thematic issues (land-use change, energy transition and insurance & finance) with two methodological approaches (scientific visualization and modeling; and policy analysis).
The Institute led Project 2 (jointly with SEI).
One post doc project was funded through the Centre. The overarching aim of the post doc project was to explore potential economic synergies and conflicts between adaptation to the impacts of climate change and mitigation to avoid further future climate change. The project focused on land use management and policy in agricultural landscapes. The post doc project provided insights as to how the aforementioned synergies and conflicts would play out at different spatial scales (catchment, region and country level). For further information, please contact Doan Nainggolan.
The Institute also contributed to Project 3 through a Centre funded PhD student project. The aim of the PhD project was to investigate transitions happening in private households as response to climate change effects and climate change policies and how these transitions are motivated. The focus is on material and technological changes in and around private homes. The project aimed to improve insights into the challenges that private house owners experience when adapting their homes to climate change effects and to investigate the factors behind homeowners’ decision to spend time and money on improving their homes in response to climate change.
Associated NORD-STAR projects carried out at Aarhus University include ØKOKLIM and ØKOFORS.
Publications:
Fyhn, H. & Baron, N. 2017. The Nature of Decision Making in the Practice of Dwelling: A Practice Theoretical Approach to Understanding Maintenance and Retrofitting of Homes in the Context of Climate Change. Society and natural resources 30(5) pages 555-568. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2016.1239149.
Baron, N. & Petersen, L.K. 2015. Understanding Controversies in Urban Climate Change Adaptation. A case study of the role of homeowners in the process of climate change adaptation in Copenhagen. Nordic Journal of Science and Tecnology. Vol 3, No 2; pages 4-13. ISSN 1894-4647. https://doi.org/10.5324/njsts.v3i2.2159.
Nainggolan, D., Termansen, M., Zandersen, M. 2014. Adaptation in Agriculture. Routledge Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation. ed. / Anil Markandya; Ibon Galarraga; Elisa Sainz de Murieta. Routledge. p. 229-260.
Baron, N. & Petersen, L.K. 2014. Climate change or variable weather: rethinking Danish homeowners’ perceptions of floods and climate. Regional Environmental Change. Vol. 15, No 6; pages 1145 to 1155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-014-0701-1
