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  1. Expert Advice and Global Environmental Governance: Institutional and Epistemic Challenges for Assessment Bodies

    Article • Sustainability, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  2. Toward a sharing society? A theoretical model of the social conditions for sharing

    Article • Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, June 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  3. Navigating Global Environmental Challenges: Disciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, and the Emergence of Mega-Expertise

    Article • Climate, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  4. From climate facts to climate risks. How the IPCC treats risk and uncertainty

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  5. Science for transformative change: the IPCC, boundary work and the making of useable knowledge

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, October 2024, Frontiers

    Rolf Lidskog

  6. Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC

    Article • Climatic Change, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rolf Lidskog

  7. Planning and Perceptions: Exploring Municipal Officials’ Views on Residents’ Climate Preparedness

    Article • Sustainability, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  8. Environmental expertise

    Article • April 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rolf Lidskog

  9. Reflexive modernization and risk society

    Article • April 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rolf Lidskog

  10. Reflexivity and anti-reflexivity

    Article • April 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rolf Lidskog

  11. Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  12. Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  13. Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders

    Article • Environmental Policy and Governance, November 2023, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  14. Expertise for policy-relevant knowledge. IPBES’s epistemic infrastructure and guidance to make environmental assessments

    Article • Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  15. Pluralism, paralysis, practice: making environmental knowledge usable

    Article • Ecosystems and People, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  16. Influence

    Article • December 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  17. Expertise, lay/local knowledge and the environment

    Article • October 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rolf Lidskog

  18. Making Climate Risks Governable in Swedish Municipalities: Crisis Preparedness, Technical Measures, and Public Involvement

    Article • Climate, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  19. Environmental expertise for social transformation: roles and responsibilities for social science

    Article • Environmental Sociology, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  20. Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  21. (How) Does Diversity Still Matter for the IPCC? Instrumental, Substantive and Co-Productive Logics of Diversity in Global Environmental Assessments

    Article • Climate, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  22. Conditions and Constrains for Reflexive Governance of Industrial Risks: The Case of the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa

    Article • Sustainability, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  23. Do Conceptual Innovations Facilitate Transformative Change? The Case of Biodiversity Governance

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, February 2021, Frontiers

    Rolf Lidskog

  24. The institutional machinery of expertise: Producing facts, figures and futures in COVID-19

    Article • Acta Sociologica, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  25. Industrial scientific expertise and civil society engagement: reflexive scientisation in the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  26. COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses

    Article • Sustainability, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  27. Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, May 2020, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  28. Cold Science Meets Hot Weather: Environmental Threats, Emotional Messages and Scientific Storytelling

    Article • Media and Communication, March 2020, Cogitatio

    Rolf Lidskog

  29. Constructing and justifying risk and accountability after extreme events: public administration and stakeholders’ responses to a wildfire disaster

    Article • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  30. Coping with Fragmentation. On the Role of Techno-Scientific Knowledge within the Sámi Community

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  31. Wildfires, responsibility and trust: public understanding of Sweden's largest wildfire

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  32. Intersectional boundary work in socializing new experts. The case of IPBES

    Article • Ecosystems and People, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog, Monika Berg

  33. Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging

    Article • Nature and Culture, December 2018, Berghahn Journals

    Rolf Lidskog

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

    Article • Sustainability, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  35. Invented Communities and Social Vulnerability: The Local Post-Disaster Dynamics of Extreme Environmental Events

    Article • Sustainability, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  36. Capturing complexity: Forests, decision-making and climate change mitigation action

    Article • Global Environmental Change, September 2018, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  37. Unintended Consequences and Risk(y) Thinking: The Shaping of Consequences and Responsibilities in Relation to Environmental Disasters

    Article • Sustainability, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Rolf Lidskog

  38. From wicked problem to governable entity? The effects of forestry on mercury in aquatic ecosystems

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, May 2018, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  39. Organizing international experts: IPBES’s efforts to gain epistemic authority

    Article • Environmental Sociology, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  40. Pathways to deliberative capacity: the role of the IPCC

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Monika Berg, Rolf Lidskog

  41. Policy Contestation over the Ecosystem Services Approach in Sweden

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

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

    Article • Climate Risk Management, January 2018, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  43. Foreign, Domestic, and Cultural Factors in Climate Change Reporting: Swedish Media’s Coverage of Wildfires in Three Continents

    Article • Environmental Communication, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  44. Deliberative democracy meets democratised science: a deliberative systems approach to global environmental governance

    Article • Environmental Politics, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Monika Berg, Rolf Lidskog

  45. The significance of meaning. Why IPBES needs the social sciences and humanities

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog, Catherine Wong

  46. The Swedish forestry model: More of everything?

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, April 2017, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  47. Bumping against the boundary: IPBES and the knowledge divide

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, March 2017, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  48. Freedom with what? Interpretations of “responsibility” in Swedish forestry practice

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, February 2017, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  49. Stakeholder Engagement in the Making: IPBES Legitimization Politics

    Article • Global Environmental Politics, February 2017, The MIT Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  50. A reflexive look at reflexivity in environmental sociology

    Article • Environmental Sociology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  51. Anthropocene – a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?

    Article • Environmental Sociology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  52. Conceptual innovation in environmental sociology

    Article • Environmental Sociology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  53. Mosquitoes as a threat to humans and the community: the role of place identity, social norms, environmental concern and ecocentric values in public risk perception

    Article • Local Environment, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  54. The role of music in ethnic identity formation in diaspora: a research review

    Article • International Social Science Journal, March 2016, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  55. European Union and Environmental Governance. London: Routledge (Global Institutions Series). 166 pages. ISBN 9780415628822, $33.95, paperback. ISBN 9780415628815, $135.00 hardback. Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, 2015.

    Article • Review of Policy Research, March 2016, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  56. Climate risks and forest practices: forest owners' acceptance of advice concerning climate change

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  57. Managing Swedish forestry’s impact on mercury in fish: Defining the impact and mitigation measures

    Article • AMBIO, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rolf Lidskog

  58. Fostering a flexible forest: Challenges and strategies in the advisory practice of a deregulated forest management system

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, January 2016, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  59. Extreme events and climate change: the post-disaster dynamics of forest fires and forest storms in Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  60. Public at Risk—Public as Risk: Regulating Nature by Managing People

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  61. Managing uncertainty: Forest professionals’ claim and epistemic authority in the face of societal and climate change

    Article • Risk Management, August 2015, Nature

    Rolf Lidskog

  62. Risk governance through professional expertise. Forestry consultants’ handling of uncertainties after a storm disaster

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  63. Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene

    Article • Global Environmental Change, May 2015, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  64. When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies

    Article • Global Environmental Politics, February 2015, The MIT Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  65. Towards a global environmental sociology? Legacies, trends and future directions

    Article • Current Sociology, August 2014, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

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

    Article • GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, May 2014, Oekom Publishers

    Rolf Lidskog

  67. Why do forest owners fail to heed warnings? Conflicting risk evaluations made by the Swedish forest agency and forest owners

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  68. Representing and regulating nature: boundary organisations, portable representations, and the science–policy interface

    Article • Environmental Politics, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  69. Intensive forestry in Sweden: stakeholders' evaluation of benefits and risk

    Article • Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  70. To spray or not to spray: The discursive construction of contested environmental issues in the news media

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, September 2013, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  71. Boundary Work, Hybrid Practices, and Portable Representations: An Analysis of Global and National Coproductions of Red Lists

    Article • Nature and Culture, January 2013, Berghahn Journals

    Rolf Lidskog

  72. Ecological Modernization in Practice? The Case of Sustainable Development in Sweden

    Article • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  73. Sociology of Risk

    Article • November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rolf Lidskog

  74. Risk, communication and trust: Towards an emotional understanding of trust

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  75. Acknowledging Risk, Trusting Expertise, and Coping With Uncertainty: Citizens' Deliberations on Spraying an Insect Population

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  76. Governing the Air: The Dynamics of Science, Policy, and Citizen Interaction by Rolf Lidskog and Goran Sundqvist

    Article • Science and Public Policy, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Rolf Lidskog

  77. Community Safety Policies in Sweden. A Policy Change in Crime Control Strategies?

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog, Monika Berg

  78. Sweden and the Baltic Sea pipeline: Between ecology and economy

    Article • Marine Policy, March 2012, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  79. Sociology of Risk

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rolf Lidskog

  80. Governing the Air

    Article • October 2011, The MIT Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  81. Transboundary Air Pollution Policy in Transition

    Article • October 2011, The MIT Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  82. Science–Policy–Citizen Dynamics in International Environmental Governance

    Article • October 2011, The MIT Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  83. Co-Producing Policy-Relevant Science and Science-Based Policy: The Case of Regulating Ground-Level Ozone

    Article • October 2011, The MIT Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  84. What Lies Beneath the Surface? A Case Study of Citizens' Moral Reasoning with Regard to Biodiversity

    Article • Environmental Values, May 2011, White Horse Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  85. Book Review: Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla, Transboundary Risk Governance, London: Earthscan, 2010, 155 pp

    Article • Acta Sociologica, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  86. Making Transboundary Risks Governable: Reducing Complexity, Constructing Spatial Identity, and Ascribing Capabilities

    Article • AMBIO, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rolf Lidskog

  87. Regulating Nature: Public Understanding and Moral Reasoning

    Article • Nature and Culture, January 2011, Berghahn Journals

    Rolf Lidskog

  88. Framing Issues and Forming Opinions: The Baltic Sea Pipeline in the Swedish Media

    Article • European Spatial Research and Policy, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Rolf Lidskog

  89. Transboundary Risk Governance

    Article • December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  90. Book Review: Ortwin Renn Risk Governance. Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World London: Earthscan, 2008, 368 pp

    Article • Acta Sociologica, June 2009, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

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

    Article • Sustainable Development, January 2009, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  92. Dealing with uncertainty: a case study of controlling insect populations in natural ecosystems

    Article • Local Environment, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  93. Scientised citizens and democratised science. Re-assessing the expert-lay divide

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  94. Representation, Participation or Deliberation? Democratic Responses to the Environmental Challenge

    Article • Space and Polity, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  95. The Battle for Hearts and Minds? Evolutions in Corporate Approaches to Environmental Risk Communication

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, February 2007, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  96. News media and food scares: the case of contaminated salmon

    Article • Environmental Sciences, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  97. Facing dilemmas: Sense-making and decision-making in late modernity

    Article • Futures, April 2006, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  98. Consuming Cities

    Article • August 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  99. Knowledge, power and control—studying environmental regulation in late modernity

    Article • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  100. Siting conflicts – democratic perspectives and political implications

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, April 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  101. Theoretical disputes over forest nitrogen fertilization

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  102. From consensus to credibility

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

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

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  104. Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander, and Rolf Lidskog (Eds.), Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global Economy After the Rio Declaration(New York: Routledge, 2000).

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, May 2003, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  105. Towards Sustainable Urban Transportation in the European Union?

    Article • January 2003, Nature

    Rolf Lidskog

  106. Science and policy in air pollution abatement strategies

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, April 2002, Elsevier

    Rolf Lidskog

  107. The Role of Science in Environmental Regimes: The Case of LRTAP

    Article • European Journal of International Relations, March 2002, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  108. The Re-Naturalization of Society? Environmental Challenges for Sociology

    Article • Current Sociology, January 2001, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  109. Consuming cities. The urban environment in the global economy after Rio. Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog (editors), Routledge, London, 2000. �20.99. ISBN 0-415-187699. 336 pp.

    Article • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, January 2001, Wiley

    Rolf Lidskog

  110. Transport Infrastructure Investment and Environmental Impact Assessment in Sweden: Public Involvement or Exclusion?

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, August 2000, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  111. Policy And Practice Mercury Waste Management in Sweden: Historical Perspectives and Recent Trends

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, July 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  112. Scientific Evidence or Lay People’s Experience? On Risk and Trust with Regard to Modern Environmental Threats

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rolf Lidskog

  113. Towards a post‐nuclear society? Recent trends in Swedish nuclear power policy

    Article • Environmental Politics, June 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  114. Social aspects of the siting of facilities for hazardous waste management

    Article • Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, October 1998, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  115. Society, space and environment. Towards a sociological re‐conceptualisation of nature

    Article • Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  116. The Social Shaping of Radwaste Management: The Cases of Sweden and Finland

    Article • Current Sociology, July 1997, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  117. Introduction to this Special Issue on Sociology and the Environment

    Article • Acta Sociologica, January 1996, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  118. Book review

    Article • Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog

  119. The Politics of Radwaste Management in Sweden

    Article • Acta Sociologica, January 1994, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  120. Book Reviews : Ulrich Beck: The Risk Society. Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage, 1992

    Article • Acta Sociologica, October 1993, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  121. Whose Environment? Which Perspective? A Critical Approach to Hazardous Waste Management in Sweden

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, April 1993, SAGE Publications

    Rolf Lidskog

  122. Reinterpreting Locational Conflicts: NIMBY and nuclear waste management in Sweden

    Article • Policy & Politics, October 1992, Policy Press

    Rolf Lidskog

  123. Accountability, Public Involvement and (Ir)reversibility

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rolf Lidskog

  124. Transboundary risk governance

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Rolf Lidskog