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Professor Björn-Ola Linnér
Associate Senior Fellow
Professor Björn-Ola Linnér
Björn-Ola Linnér is professor in Environmental Change and at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University, Sweden and an associate research fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at Oxford University. His research focuses on the geopolitics of sustainability, transnational governance on climate change and sustainable development goals, societal transformations toward sustainable development, and methods for policy analysis and dialogue.
Linnér is the programme director for Mistra Geopolitics, a major 8-year research programme analyzing dynamics between sustainable development and a changing geopolitical landscape. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, a member of the Research Council of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Swedish scientific council for ecosystem services and biological diversity. He has been a member of the Swedish delegation for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He is Senior Editor for Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Climate Science and editorial board member for Sustainability.
Subject expertise
Climate change, geopolitics, societal transformations, sustainable development
CONTACT Professor Björn-Ola Linnér
Languages
Swedish, English
Education
PhD Environmental Science, Linköping University
Citizenship
Sweden
External publications
- Linnér, B-O., Wibeck, V. Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures. Sustainability Science (2021).
- Linnér, B-O & Wibeck, V. (2020). Conceptualising variations in societal transformations towards sustainability. Environmental Science & Policy. 106: 221-227.
- Jernnäs, M and Linnér, B-O. (2019). A Discursive Cartography of Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Climate Agreement. Global Environmental Change. 55: 73-83.
- Linnér, B.-O. & Wibeck, V. (2019) Sustainability Transformations: Agents and Drivers across Societies. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Bäckstrand, K., Kuyper, J. W., Linnér, B-O. and Lövbrand, E. (2017). Non-state actors in global climate governance: from Copenhagen to Paris and beyond. Environmental Politics. 26, 4: 561-579.
- Nasiritousi, N., Hjerpe, M., & Linnér, B-O. (2016). The roles of non-state actors in climate change governance: understanding agency through governance profiles. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 16(1), 109-126.
- Juhola S, Glaas E, Linnér B-O, Neset T-S. (2016). Redefining maladaptation. Environmental Science & Policy. 55, Part 1:135-40.
- Sovacool, B. and Linnér, B-O. (2016). The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation. Basingstoke UK: Palgrave McMillan.
- Sovacool, B., Linnér, B-O and Goodsite, M. (2015). The political economy of climate adaptation. Nature Climate Change. 5, 7: 616-618.
- Linnér, B.-O. (2003). The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and the postwar population –resource crises. Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press.