Climate Change and Local Governance: The Swedish Example
6pm, Thursday 2nd April, eZone Theatre, First floor Architecture building
Dr Mikael Granberg
Dr Mikael Granberg is an assistant professor in political science at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and the Research School Urban Studies, at Örebro University (Sweden). He is currently a visiting professor at the Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT) hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Granberg is interested in local authorities as actors in a local, national and global governance context facing challenges from globalisation. His recent work focuses on climate change as a challenge for local authorities and the different governance tools that they bring to bear in the process of facing this challenge. Theoretically the focus is on political institutions, their role and capacity to handle the challenge of climate change. The empirical focus is primarily on Sweden but with comparative outlooks in Europe and elsewhere. At GAMUT he is focusing on comparisons between Sweden and Australia (primarily Victoria) within the frame of his research interest as described above.