Work Packet leader (of WP4) within the four-year research programme (2009-2012), Governing transitions towards Low-Carbon Energy and Transport Systems for 2050. (Programme Coordinators: Lars J. Nilsson & Annica Kronsell), financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, and the Swedish Road Administration.
Project leader and researcher inTowards Improved Interactions in the Two-Way Flow of Risk-Related Chemical Information -- The Cases of Clothing, Toys, and Paint.Three-Year Project funded by Formas (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spacial Planning), beginning in Sept. 2007. Co-researchers: Sverker Molander, professor in Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology; Jesper Sjöström, PhD in chemistry at the unit of Nature, Environment and Society, Malmö University College; Ernst Hollander, Teknologie Dr at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.
Project leader and researcher inBiological and Socio-Cultural Diversity through Standardised, International Uniformity? Developments of Eco-Standards for Medicines, Cotton, and Tourism.Four-Year Project (foass-tjänst) funded by Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council), beginning in Nov. 2006.
Project leader and researcher inGreen Political Consumerism in Light of Knowledge Uncertainty and Diversified Environmental Ideals.Three-year project funded by Vetenskapsrådet, beginning in Jan. 2003 (from Jan. 2005 placed at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University). Co-researcher: Magnus Boström, PhD at SCORE, Stockholm University)
Project leader and researcher inChallenges of Green Consumerism: International Comparisons of Food Labeling, Forest Certification and Green Mutual Funds. Three-year project funded by Formas (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spacial Planning), beginning in Jan. 2003. Co-researchers: Lena Ekelund, docent in economics at SLU, Magnus Boström, PhD at SCORE, Stockholm University; Anna-Lisa Lindén, professor at the Dept. of Sociology, Lund University.
Project leader and researcher inMänniska och vindkraft: Mötet mellan olika aktörer i projekt för vindkraftsetablering (People and Windpower: Collaborations in Windpower Projects) . Three-year project funded by Energimyndigheten (The Swedish Energy Agency), and organised by Naturvårdsverket (as part of the Vindval-programme) beginning in Jan. 2006. Co-researcher: Åsa Waldo, PhD at the Dept. of Sociology, Lund University).
Researcher in the interdisciplinary research programme Greenchem, financed by MISTRA 2005–-2006. Programme director: Rajni Hatti-Kaul at the Department of Biotechnology, Lund University; project leader: Mats Benner at FPI, Lund University. Project title: Technological innovations systems analysis.
Wallenberg Fellow (repatriated researcher) in Environment and Sustainability, (from Jan. 2005 placed at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University): September of 2002—August of 2005.
Leader and researcher in a planned project (with the planning phase funded by Vetenskapsrådet 2003-2004): Taking Risks with Democratic Participation: Frame Analyses of Arguments and Strategies surrounding Participation in Expert-Dense Issues. Co-researchers: Per Olof Hallin, professor at the Dept. of Human and Economic Geography, Lund University; Annica Kronsell, associate professor at the Dept. of Political Science, Lund University.
Postdoctoral Wallenberg Fellow in Environment and Sustainability, Dept. of Political Science, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA., USA, Fall of 2000—Summer of 2002.
“Challenges to Legitimacy in Food Safety Governance? The Case of the European Food Safety Authority.” (Co-written 2009, with Annica Kronsell, who is 2nd author). Accepted for publication in Journal of European Integration.
“Stakeholder participation in the EU governance of GMO in the food chain.” (Forthcoming 2010, co-written with Beatrice Bengtsson, who is 1st author). Ch. 6 in Bäckstrand, K., Khan, J. & Kronsell, A. & Lövbrand, E. (Eds.), The Environmental Politics and the Deliberative Turn: Examining the Promise of New Modes of Governance. London: Edward Elgar.
“Researching transitions in green political food consumption: Looking behind and beyond the organic shelf.” (co-written with Magnus Boström, who is 2nd author). Forthcoming in Spaargaren, G., Loeber, A. & Oosterveer, P. (Eds., forthcoming 2010), Food in a Sustainable World. Transitions in the consumption, retail and production of foodstuffs. London: Routledge.
“The green political consumer of food: A critical analysis of the research and policies.” (Forthcoming in 2009; Co-written with Magnus Boström, who is 1st author). Accepted for publication in the journal Anthropology of Food.
"Participation in green consumer policies: Deliberative Democracy under Wrong conditions?" Journal of Consumer Policy, 2009 32: 43-57
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism (monography, 256 pages, October 2008, co-written with Magnus Boström). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Erfarenheter av vindkraftsetablering: Förankring, acceptans och motstånd. (Research report, 59 pages in Swedish, with English Summary, October 2008, co-author: Åsa Waldo, PhD in sociology at the Dept. of Sociology, Lund University). Stockholm: Naturvårdsverket.
Maten märks: Förutsättningar för konsumentmakt. Co-authors: Magnus Boström, associate professor at the Dept. of Life Sciences, Södertörn University College; Lena Ekelund, associate professor in economics at SLU, Anna-Lisa Lindén, professor at the Dept. of Sociology, Lund University. Research Report in Sociology, 2008:1, Lund University. (134 pages). 2008 (in Swedish)
“Hur översätts och förhandlas komplex kunskap till ett kategoriskt miljömärke?” (co-authored with Magnus Boström, who is the 1st author). Chapter 3 in Claes-Fredrik Helgesson & Fernler, Karin (Eds, to be published in 2006), Kloka regler? Lund, Sweden: Studentlitteratur (In Swedish).
“Editorial” (co-authored with Magnus Boström, who is 2nd author). Editorial introduction to be published In The International Journal of Consumer Studies, (Blackwell). Special issue, entitled: ‘Promoting and Debating Political and Ethical Consumerism around the World’, Vol. 30(5), 2006, pp. 401-404.
“Ambiguous Framings of Political Consumerism: Means or end, product - or process orientation?” Article to be published inThe International Journal of Consumer Studies, (Blackwell). Special issue, entitled: ‘Promoting and Debating Political and Ethical Consumerism around the World’, Vol. 30(5), 2006, pp. 427-438.
“State-centered versus nonstate-driven organic food standardization: A comparison of the US and Sweden” (co-authored with Magnus Boström, who is 1st author). In Agriculture and Human values, Volume 23, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 163-180.
“Transparency through Labelling? Layers of Visibility in Environmental Risk Management” (co-authored with Magnus Boström, who is 2nd author). Chapter accepted for publication in C. Garsten & Lindh de Montoya, M. (Eds, to be published in 2006), Transparency in a New Global Order: Unveiling Organizational Visions. London: Edward Elgar Publ.
Political Consumerism:Its Motivations, Power, and Conditions in the Nordic Countries and Elsewhere. Co-Editor of this anthology (with Magnus Boström, Andreas Føllesdal, Michele Micheletti, Mads P. Sørensen), published by TemaNord, Sweden, Spring of 2005. 529 pages, 22 authors from several countries.
“Ambiguous Framings of Political Consumerism: Means or end, product - or process orientation?” Paper published inPolitical Consumerism:Its Motivations, Power, and Conditions in the Nordic Countries and Elsewhere. Co-Editor of this anthology (Magnus Boström, Andreas Føllesdal, Mikael Klintman, Michele Micheletti, Mads P. Sørensen, Eds.), published by TemaNord, Sweden, Spring of 2005, pp. 77-98.)
“Governance and Green Consumer Empowerment: Towards Evaluation.” Paper selected for publication in a paper series based on the Conference of International Sociological Association (ISA-RC24) in Gorizia, Italy, 9-10 September 2004.
“Framings of Science and Ideology: Organic Food Labelling in the US and Sweden.” (co-authored with Magnus Boström, who is 2nd author). In Environmental Politics, Volume 13, Number 3, Sept 2004, pp. 612-634.
"Arguments Surrounding Organic and Genetically Modified Food Labeling: A Few Comparisons." Article published in Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 2002 (4), the September issue.
“The Genetically Modified (GM) Food Labelling Controversy: Ideological and Epistemic Crossovers.” Article published in Social Studies of Science, 2002, 32 (1). 71-91.
“Skogs- och genmatsmärkning – kunskapsöverföring och politisk process.” Co-authored with Magnus Boström. Chapter published in Boström, M. & Sandstedt, E. (eds.) Är vi på rätt väg? – Studier i miljöfrågans lösning. Stockholm: Formas, 2004.
Bioenergi för uppvärmning – hushållens perspektiv. Co-authored with Kjell Mårtensson and Magnus Johansson. Research Report in Sociology, 2003:1, Lund University. (98 pages). 2003
Framing, Debating, and Standardising “Natural food” in two Different Political Contexts: Sweden and the U.S. Report co-authored with Magnus Boström. Score Rapportserie 2003:3, Stockholm University. (46 pages, A4).
”The Formation of Green Identities – Consumers and Providers.” Co-authored with Anna-Lisa Lindén. In Biel A, et al.(eds), Individual and Structural Determinants of Environmental Practice. Ashgate Publications, 2003.
Nature and the social sciences—Examples from the electricity and waste sectors. The spring of 2000, Lund Dissertations in Sociology, 32, (pp. 209).
“Public risk perceptions of nuclear power: The cases of Sweden and Lithuania.” Written together with the Environmental Group, Univ. of Lund and Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.”Networking and Comparative Research in Environmental Sociology.” Funded by Swedish Institute Sept 1998 – June 1999. Published in In A-L. Lindén & L. Rinkevicius (Eds.). Social Processes and the Environment—Lithuania and Sweden. (pp. 121-164). Lund: Dept. of Sociology, Research Report 1999:2 Lund university.
Utility Sectors in Sweden – Swedish National Policy Report. Report written within the DOMUS-project, funded and supported by the European Union (EU) Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development (DGXII). Oct., 1998 (pp. 55)
“Product and Tariff Differentiation.” Chapter in a Report written within the DOMUS-project, funded and supported by the European Union (EU) Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development (DGXII). Feb. 2000.
Between the Private and the Public – Formal Carsharing as Part of a Sustainable Traffic System – an Exploratory Study. Research Report, The Swedish Transportation and Communications Research Board – KFB (Dnr: (1996-0497). KFB Meddelande-serie 1998:2.
From the ”Trivial” to the Global – Deriving Environmental Influence From Motives and Practices in Urban Realms. Thesis for the licentiate degree. The research group Boende och bebyggelse. Department of Sociology, Lund, 1996: pp 122 (Swedish; abstract in English).
”The Social-Psychological Conditions and Obstacles to Environmentally Responsible Agency – a Theoretical Perspective”. In Sociologisk Forskning (Sociological Research), 1995 (2): 82-100 (Swedish; abstract in English).
