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Arild Angelsen
Angelsen is Professor at the Department of Economics and Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia.
Angelsen has studied tropical deforestation for almost two decades and is the author of many of the most cited publications in this field. The past few years, he has been involved in REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), and is among other things editor of two books which were presented at the climate summits in 2008 and 2009. Angelsen has also contributed to several policy reports and has been member of expert groups for among others The World Bank and the Norwegian government in relation to launching REDD.
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Arild Angelsen
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Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen is Professor of Development Studies at The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at UMB.
Being a human geographer, he is involved in developing ”political ecology”, a constantly growing field of study and a critical social science approach to studying environmental issues.
Benjaminsen is co-author of a textbook in political ecology, which will be published by Universitetsforlaget this summer. |
Prof. Tor Arve Benjaminsen
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Anne Chapuis
Anne Chapuis, 25, PhD student in Glaciology, Master degree in Earth Sciences (France).
The main goal of my PhD project is to get a better understanding of how glaciers respond to climate change through the study of iceberg calving in Svalbard.
The main interests in my career lie in nature preservation and in the effort to bridge the gap between science and the public. |
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Eva Falleth
Eva Falleth is Candidate of Land Consolidation from the Agricultural University of Norway (NLH, 1987) and holds a Doctorate in engineering on urban expansion in Kathmandu from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1994).
For 15 years, she worked at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), carrying out research projects on urban and regional planning, as well as resource management. Falleth is Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at UMB and is Professor of urban and regional planning.
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Eva Falleth
Photo: Kjersti Sørlie Rimer
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Ingeborg Gjærum
Ingeborg Gjærum is a committed high profile environmentalist. Gjærum is former chairman of Nature and Youth (2008-2009). She currently works as an advisor at Friends of the Earth Norway. |
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Petter Hieronymus Heyerdahl
Petter Hieronymous Heyerdahl is a civil engineer from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1980), specialising in electronics and cybernetics. He has worked at the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, The National Institute of Technology, Samkjoringen and at UMB since 1981. He teaches energy and electronics courses and has tutored around 100 masters students in environmental physics, circulation technology and renewable energy. He has also been involved in establishing civil engineering study programmes in environmental physics and renewable energy at UMB.
Heyerdahl holds a handfull of patents and has founded companies focusing on circulation technology, aqua culture, measurement technology and renewable energy. He is also the man behind several industrial fish farming products and having been through several bankruptcies, he is still an optimist.
Heyerdahl is currently researching energy systems, bioenergy, energy converters, distributed energy and end user efficiency. Heyerdahl is also involved in developing a strong centre for renewable energy at Ås campus with excellent laboratories for research and teaching and to motivate young people to continue choosing scientific subjects beyond comprehensive school. |
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Sigmund Hågvar
Sigmund Hågvar is Professor of Nature and Environmental Protection at UMB. He is concerned about protection of endangered species and habitats and has been strongly active in forestry preservation.
Being a zoologist, he has among other things studied effects of acid rain and climate changes on invertebrates.
He has written or edited several popular science books on environmental protection. He has previously worked at the University of Oslo, The Norwegian Forest Research Institute and the Ministry of the Environment. |
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Petter D. Jenssen
Petter D. Jenssen is Professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at UMB. He is President of the International Ecological Engineering Society and was involved in developing green civil engineering study programmes at UMB.
Together with Petter Heyerdahl, Jenssen has been a driving force for UMB to become a circulation university with zero discharge. He has been a pioneer in developing nature and circulation based cleansing methods and is currently developing three new MSc programmes in Norway, Nepal and Pakistan, focusing on sustainable and decentralised waste water technology.
He is a popular speaker at international conferences in his field and has worked on several projects in India, China, Cuba, Malaysia, Russia, USA and Greenland. |
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Bjørn Lomborg
Lomborg holds a cand.scient.pol. degree in Political Science from Aarhus University and a Ph.d. from Copenhagen University.
Bjorn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together some of the world's top economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, to set priorities for the world.
Time magazine named Lomborg one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2004. In 2008 he was named "one of the 50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian; "one of the top 100 public intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine; and "one of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century" by Esquire. Lomborg is the author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool it" in which he challenged mainstream concerns about the environment and pointed out that we need to focus attention on the most important problems first.
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Bjørn Lomborg er en av verdens mest inflytelsesrike personer. 27. mai deltar han under UMBs vårkonferanse Miljø 2010.
Photo: Emil Jupin
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Per Stålnacke
Per Stålnacke is Senior Researcher and Research Director of water quality and hydrology at The Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Department of Soil, Water and Environment at Ås.
Stålnacke’s field of research spans from integrated water resource management in general to water pollution transport from soil to river mouths in particular. Detection of trends in long time series of environmental monitoring data is one of Stålnacke’s special fields of research. He is also working to achieve better collaboration and interaction between science, policy and management, exemplified in the recently published book ”Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management – An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management” (April, 2010).
In 2009, he was also awarded a prize for best article at an EU conference on sustainable development. Stålnacke has research experience from the Baltic Sea region, India, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Kine Halvorsen Thorén
Kine Halvorsen Thorén is Professor of Landscape Architecture at UMB. She has for many years studied how the current concentration based urban development affects urban nature, green structure and quality of outdoor public areas in the city as a whole and in housing areas close to schools etc.
At present, Thorén is studying how neighbourhoods and urban environments affect physical activity among young people in a public health perspective. Thorén has also carried out numerous research and development projects on method development in landscape architecture and planning, as well as studies and evaluations of how planning measures influence building quality.
Thorén’s research is both interdisciplinary and applied. She has also worked at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), and has carried out research projects for environmental authorities such as the Directorate for Nature Management and the Ministry of the Environment, often resulting in public advice on green structure and concentration challenges.
Thorén is a popular speaker within her field of research and finds it important to participate in the current public urban planning debate.
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Anne-Karine Halvorsen Thorén
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Erik Trømborg
Trømborg is Researcher at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management at UMB and is Candidate of Forestry and PhD of Forest Economics from UMB and Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Erik Trømborg’s fields of research include supply of raw materials, value chains, markets and international bioenergy trade, as well as possible effects of the development of second generation biofuel on the Norwegian forest sector.
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Snorre Valen
Snorre Valen is a Socialist Left Party member of the Storting (the Norwegian Parliament) for Sør-Trøndelag county. He is also leader of the Socialist Left Party of Sør-Trøndelag county.
Valen is the Socialist Left party’s environmental politics spokesman and is member of the Standing Committee on Energy and Environment. |
Snorre Valen
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