• Cities as public agents: A typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation 

      Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond; Agger, Annika; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Tønnesen, Anders; Valencia, Sandra (Earth System Governance;Volume 13, August 2022, 100146, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article develops a typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation. The typology is constructed from a combination of governance theory and empirical observations of co-creational leadership in ...
    • Conditions for political leadership in pluricentric Scandinavian regions 

      Sørensen, Eva; Lidström, Anders; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær (Journal article, 2015)
      How does the increasingly pluricentric character of regional governance in Denmark, Sweden and Norway condition the political leadership of politicians elected at regional levels of government? In regional governance, ...
    • Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Tønnesen, Anders (European Planning Studies;Volume 30, 2022 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-01)
      Metropolitan governance and planning increasingly are understood as essential in managing urban growth and fostering a sustainable and climate-friendly metropolitan development. Lately, a contractual turn can be observed ...
    • Integrative climate leadership in multi-level policy packages for urban mobility - A study of governance systems in two Nordic urban regions 

      Tønnesen, Anders; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Hansen, Karsten Bruun; Valencia, Sandra C. (Transport Policy;Volume 128, November 2022, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper involves a comparative study of policymaking related to urban transport in the Gothenburg and Oslo regions. It sets out to show how strong climate leadership relates to the integration of policy measures and ...
    • Local leadership in climate change policies 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; SWIANIEWICZ, Paweł; Lackowska, Marta (Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences;Issue No. 53 E/February, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-26)
      The article studies differences in political leadership in local government in Norway and in Poland and how they might contribute to differences in local climate policy – adaptation as well as mitigation. Based on the ...
    • Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works? 

      Hauge, Åshild Lappegard; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Flyen, Cecilie (International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose - Two Norwegian municipal networks for climate change adaptation are compared and evaluated, to see how such networks should be initiated and implemented as a means of achieving adaptation measures within ...
    • Participation according to the law? The research-based knowledge on citizen participation in Norwegian municipal planning 

      Ringholm, Toril M; Nyseth, Torill; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær (European Journal of Spatial Development;No. 67, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-15)
      Citizen participation is enshrined in the Norwegian Planning and Building Act (PBA) 1985 and accentuated by the 2008 revision of the PBA. In this article, we ask if the research on participation in municipal planning is ...
    • Planlegging for risikosamfunnet: Hvordan fungerer flomsonekart med klimapåslag som kunnskapsoversettelse? 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The article presents a study of how Norwegian mu nicipalities use new flood inundation maps with «climate factor» information in their local plans. Th ese maps show the area with a certain probability of flood ...
    • Regionreformen: Har utvidet ansvar på kulturmiljøfeltet styrket den regionale samfunnsutviklingsrollen? 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Holm, Arne; Tvedt, Geir (Kart og Plan;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Et formål med regionreformen var at fylkeskommunene skulle få større politisk handlingsrom som samfunnsutvikler. På kulturmiljøfeltet ble det overført betydelige oppgaver i 2020 og 2021. Vi spør om dette nye handlingsrommet ...
    • The Social Sustainable City: How to Involve Children in Designing and Planning for Urban Childhoods? 

      Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær (Urban Planning;Volume 4, Issue 1 (2019): The Transformative Power of Urban Planning through Social Innovation, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-24)
      In many countries, cities are expected to stimulate compact city development by the government, while at the same time develop healthier and more social sustainable cities. In Norway, national policy and planning regulation ...