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Rolf Lidskog

Rolf Lidskog

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
6611
World Ranking
5083
National Ranking
60

Overview

Rolf Lidskog is affiliated with Örebro University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work frequently addresses topics related to sustainability, climate change governance, and the social dimensions of environmental issues.

Their main research concentrations include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering

Lidskog has contributed to various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Modeling and Simulation. Their publications reflect a multidisciplinary approach bridging environmental science with social science perspectives.

Some of the recent papers authored by Lidskog include:

  • COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses (2020) published in Sustainability
  • Environmental Expertise for Social Transformation: Roles and Responsibilities for Social Science (2022) published in Environmental Sociology

Other influential works featuring related topics include:

  • Social Scientific Knowledge in Times of Crisis: What Climate Change Can Learn from Coronavirus (and Vice Versa) (2020) in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Three Institutional Pathways to Envision the Future of the IPCC (2023) in Nature Climate Change
  • Ignorance and the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (2021) in Journal of Risk Research

Lidskog frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Risk Research
  • Sustainability
  • Climate
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change

Notable frequent co-authors of Rolf Lidskog include Adam Standring, James M. White, Göran Sundqvist, Monika Berg, and Karin Gustafsson, indicating collaboration across related disciplines within environmental and social sciences.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development : A Theoretical Review and Approach

    Magnus Boström;Erik Andersson;Monika Berg;Karin M Gustafsson

  • The Swedish forestry model : More of everything?

    Karin Beland Lindahl;Anna Sténs;Camilla Sandström;Johanna Johansson

  • Risk, communication and trust: Towards an emotional understanding of trust

    Emma Engdahl;Rolf Lidskog

  • The Role of Science in Environmental Regimes: The Case of LRTAP

    Rolf Lidskog;Göran Sundqvist

  • Scientised citizens and democratised science. Re‐assessing the expert‐lay divide

    Rolf Lidskog

  • Consuming Cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio declaration

    Brendan James Gleeson;Nicholas Low;Ingemar Elander;Rolf Lidskog

  • When Does Science Matter?: International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies

    Rolf Lidskog;Göran Sundqvist

  • Addressing climate change democratically. Multi-level governance, transnational networks and governmental structures

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

  • Boundary organizations and environmental governance : Performance, institutional design, and conceptual development

    Karin M. Gustafsson;Rolf Lidskog

  • In Science We Trust? On the Relation Between Scientific Knowledge, Risk Consciousness and Public Trust:

    Rolf Lidskog

  • Ecological modernization in practice? : the case of sustainable development in Sweden

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

  • Bumping against the boundary: IPBES and the knowledge divide

    Erik Löfmarck;Rolf Lidskog

  • Samhälle, risk och miljö: sociologiska perspektiv på det moderna samhällets miljöproblem

    Rolf Lidskog;Eva Sandstedt;Göran Sundqvist

  • On the right track? Technology, geology and society in Swedish nuclear waste management

    Rolf Lidskog;Göran Sundqvist

  • The role of music in ethnic identity formation in diaspora : A research review

    Rolf Lidskog

  • A reflexive look at reflexivity in environmental sociology

    Magnus Boström;Rolf Lidskog;Ylva Uggla

  • Transboundary Risk Governance

    Rolf Lidskog;Linda Soneryd;Ylva Uggla

  • The Re-Naturalization of Society? Environmental Challenges for Sociology

    Rolf Lidskog

  • Sociology of Risk

    Rolf Lidskog;Go¨ran Sundqvist

  • Eco-standards, product labelling and green consumerism

    Rolf Lidskog

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Andy Gouldson
Andy Gouldson University of Leeds
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth London School of Economics and Political Science
Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
Christer Björkman
Christer Björkman Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Annika Nordin
Annika Nordin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Peter Oosterveer
Peter Oosterveer Wageningen University & Research
Jan Stenlid
Jan Stenlid Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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