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Eva Lövbrand is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden and conducts research focused primarily within the social sciences and environmental science fields. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change as well as sociology and political science.

The main topics addressed in Lövbrand's research include sustainability and climate change governance, climate change and geoengineering, and climate change policy and economics. Additional themes explored are climate change communication and perception, policy transfer and learning, global energy and sustainability research, and geographies of human-animal interactions.

Frequent publication venues for Lövbrand's work include:

  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Earth System Governance
  • Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • Oxford Open Climate Change

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Eva Lövbrand are:

  • 'Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?' (2021), published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • 'The Anthropocene and the geo-political imagination: Re-writing Earth as political space' (2020), published in Earth System Governance
  • 'A manifesto for shadow places: Re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change' (2020), published in Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • 'Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime' (2022), published in Global Environmental Politics
  • 'The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens?' (2023), published in Global Environmental Politics

Collaborations feature several frequent coauthors, among them:

  • Veronica Brodén Gyberg
  • Clifton Evers
  • Jens Marquardt
  • Isak Stoddard
  • Kevin Anderson

Lövbrand's research outputs collectively contribute to understanding the governance structures and political dimensions of climate change. The work often intersects with policy analysis, the role of nonstate actors, and the socio-political framing of environmental issues.

Best Publications

  • Structuring sustainability science

    Anne Jerneck;Lennart Olsson;Barry Ness;Stefan Anderberg

  • Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change: Contested Discourses of Ecological Modernization, Green Governmentality and Civic Environmentalism

    Karin Bäckstrand;Eva Lövbrand

  • Who speaks for the future of Earth?: how critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene

    Eva Lövbrand;Silke Beck;Jason Chilvers;Tim Forsyth

  • Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

    Isak Stoddard;Kevin Anderson;Kevin Anderson;Stuart Capstick;Wim Carton

  • Non-state actors in global climate governance: from Copenhagen to Paris and beyond

    Karin Bäckstrand;Jonathan W. Kuyper;Björn-Ola Linnér;Eva Lövbrand

  • Earth System governmentality: Reflections on science in the Anthropocene

    Eva Lövbrand;Johannes Stripple;Bo L. B. Wiman

  • Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the IPBES.

    Silke Beck;Maud Borie;Jason Chilvers;Alejandro Esguerra

  • Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy: Examining the Promise of New Modes of Governance

    Karin Bäckstrand;Jamil Khan;Annica Kronsell;Eva Lövbrand

  • Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy

    Karin Bäckstrand;Jamil Kahn;Annica Kronsell;Eva Lövbrand

  • Climate governance beyond 2012. Competing discourses of green governmentality, ecological modernization and civic environmentalism

    Eva Lövbrand;Karin Bäckstrand

  • In pursuit of carbon accountability: the politics of REDD+ measuring, reporting and verification systems

    Aarti Gupta;Eva Lövbrand;Esther Turnhout;Marjanneke J Vijge

  • The Road to Paris: Contending Climate Governance Discourses in the Post-Copenhagen Era

    Karin Bäckstrand;Eva Lövbrand

  • Co-producing European climate science and policy: a cautionary note on the making of useful knowledge

    Eva Lövbrand

  • Making climate change governable: Accounting for Carbon as Sinks, Credits and Personal Budgets

    Eva Lövbrand;Johannes Stripple

  • A Democracy Paradox in Studies of Science and Technology

    Eva Lövbrand;Roger Pielke Jr;Silke Beck

  • The Promise of New Modes of Environmental Governance

    Karin Bäckstrand;Jamil Khan;Annica Kronsell;Eva Lovbrand

  • Closing the Legitimacy Gap in Global Environmental Governance?: Lessons from the Emerging CDM Market

    Eva Lövbrand;Teresia Rindefjäll;Joakim Nordqvist

  • The climate as political space: on the territorialisation of the global carbon cycle

    Eva Lövbrand;Johannes Stripple

  • Pure science or policy involvement? Ambiguous boundary-work for Swedish carbon cycle science

    Eva Lövbrand

  • Science-Policy Interface: Beyond Assessments

    Mike Hulme;Martin Mahony;Silke Beck;Christoph Görg

  • The Anthropocene and the Geo-political Imagination : Re-writing Earth as Political Space

    Eva Lövbrand;Malin Mobjörk;Rickard Söder

  • Making climate governance global: how UN climate summitry comes to matter in a complex climate regime

    Eva Lövbrand;Mattias Hjerpe;Björn-Ola Linnér

  • Research Handbook on Climate Governance

    Karin Bäckstrand;Eva Lövbrand

  • Anthropocene Encounters : New Directions in Green Political Thinking

    Frank Biermann;Eva Lövbrand

  • Environmental politics and deliberative democracy. : Examining the promise of new modes of environmental governance

    Eva Lövbrand;Karin Bäckstrand;Jamil Khan;Annica Kronsell

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin Bäckstrand
Karin Bäckstrand Stockholm University
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog Örebro University
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
Jeroen P. van der Sluijs
Jeroen P. van der Sluijs University of Bergen
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth London School of Economics and Political Science

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