Eva Lövbrand

Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR)
The Tema Institute
Linköping University
601 74 Norrköping
Sweden

Fax: +46 11 363393
eva.lovbrand@liu.se

Eva Lövbrand works as Associate Professor (LiU FoAss) at the Centre of Climate Science and Policy Research since August 2008. Eva defended her doctoral dissertation on the role of science and expertise in the Kyoto negotiations on land use change and forestry at Kalmar University in 2006. Since then she has had a research position at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, and a post-doc fellowship at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at University of Colorado in Boulder, USA.

Eva’s research interests revolve around the role of science and expertise in environmental governance in general, and climate governance in particular. During her post-doc studies she has both explored links between science and deliberative conceptions of democracy, and thought and intervention in global environmental change research. Through the Formas funded Green Govern project, Eva has also examined the legitimacy of new modes of governance in the climate domain. The rise of carbon markets and public-private forms of governance has been in particular focus.

Selected publications

Lövbrand E. (2004) Bridging political expectations and scientific limitations in climate risk management. On the uncertain effects of international carbon sink policies. Climatic Change 67, 449- 460.

Bäckstrand K. and Lövbrand E. (2006) Planting trees to mitigate climate change. Contested discourses of ecological modernsiation, green governmentality and civic environmentalism, Global Environmental Politics 6, 1, 50-75.

Lövbrand E. and Stripple J. (2006) The climate as political space. On the territorialisation of the global carbon cycle. Review of International Studies 32, 217-235.

Lövbrand E. (2006) Greening Earth? Science, Politics and Land Use in the Kyoto Negotiations. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Natural Sciences Dissertation Series No. 35. Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Kalmar, Sweden [ISBN 91-89584-63-5].

Lövbrand E. (2007) Pure science or policy involvement? Ambiguous boundary work for Swedish carbon cycle research. Environmental Science and Policy 10, 39-47.

Bäckstrand K. and Lövbrand E. (2007) Climate governance beyond 2012. Competing discourses of green governmentality, ecological modernization and civic environmentalism. In: Pettenger M. (ed.) The Social Construction of Climate Change. Ashgate Publishers, London (in press).