Introduktion
Karin Bäckstrand is a Professor in Political Science. She received her doctorate in Political Science at Lund University in 2001. Between 2002 and 2004 she held a postdoctoral position as a Wallenberg Fellow for Environment and Sustainability at the Laboratory for Energy and Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research revolves around four areas: global environmental politics, the role of scientific expertise and risk in environmental decisionmaking, the politics of climate change and the democratic legitimacy of global governance. Karin's work is published in Global Environmental Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Global Environmental Change and Environmental Politics. She teaches courses in Environmental Politics, International Relations and Policy and Governance. Some of her recent publications are the co-edited anthology Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promise of New Modes of Governance(Edward Elgar, 2010) and ”The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Governance", in John Dryzek, Richard Norgard, and David Schlosberg (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Oxford University Press, 2011) and the co-edited special issue "The Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture" and Storage in Global Environmental Change (2011). During 2013 Karin will be a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and Senior Fellow at St Anthony's College.
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Forskning
Non-state Actors in the New Landscape for Climate Cooperation, financed by the Swedish Research Council and Formas, 2012-2014 (collaborative project with Linköping University) Abandoned Leadership. EUs role in global climate negotiations, financed by Formas 2011-2013. Postdoc Jakob Skoovgard (Project leader). Transdemos - Democracy Beyond Nation States. Transnational Actors and Global Governance, financed by the Bank of Sweden 2007-2013 (Project participant) BECC- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate, Strategic Research Program funded by Formas and The Swedish Research Council, 2010-2014 (Deputy coordinator, board member of steering group). CCS - The Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture and Storage, financed by Mistra, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research MISTRA, 2008-2011 (Project leader) International Networks Member of Scientific Steering Committe of the Earth System Governance Project, 2010- Associated Faculty member of the Global Governance Project,a joint research program between eight European research institutions with a particular focus on environment and sustainability issues. Member of the Leverhulme Transnational Climate Governance Network, coordinated by Durham University 2008-2010. Management Committe of European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risk and Opportunities 2008-2012, coordinated by Vrije University Amsterdam. National Assignments and Outreach Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Environmental Economics Unit at the National Institute of Economic Research (Konjunkturinstitutet) 2012- Board member of the Expert Group for Environmental Studies (Expertgruppen för miljöstudier) under the Swedish Finance Ministry 2007-2010. Board member of Adult educational association Folkuniversitetet, 2008- External expert advisor to the Swedish government’s Commission on Sustainable Development (Regeringens kommissionen för hållbar utveckling) 2007-2009, Member of the Lund University Climate Initiative 2007-2012. Publications Bäckstrand, Karin, James Meadowcroft and Michael Oppenheimer (eds.), (2011), The Policy and Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage, Special Issue of Global Environmental Change Vol. 21, No. 2. ISSN 0959-9378. Bäckstrand, Karin, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.)(2010) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promise of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 84844 954-1. Bäckstrand, Karin (2001) What Can Nature Withstand? Science, Politics and Discourses in Transboundary Air Pollution Diplomacy, Lund Political Studies 116, Dissertation, Department of Political Science. ISBN 91-88306-35-6. Peer reviewed journal articles Bäckstrand, Karin and Ole Elgström (2013) "The EUs role in climate change negotiations. From Leader to Leadiator", accepted in Journal of European Public Policy. Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbot, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand et al (2012) ”Towards Effective Earth System Governance: Navigating the Anthropocene”, Science Vol. 335, pp. 1306-1307. Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbot, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, et al. (2012) ”Transforming Governance and Institutions for Global Sustainability. Key Insights from the Earth System Governance Project”, Current Opinion for Sustainability Vol. 4, pp. 1-10. De Coninck, Heleen and Karin Bäckstrand (2011) “An International Relations of Perspective on the Global Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage”, The Policy and Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage, Special Issue of Global Environmental Change Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 368-378. Schlyter, Peter, Karin Bäckstrand and Ingrid Stjernquist (2009) ”Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees? The Environmental Effectiveness of Forest Certification in Sweden”, Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 11, No. 5-6, pp. 375-382. Bäckstrand, Karin (2008) ”Accountability of Networked Climate Governance: The Rise of Transnational Climate Partnerships”, Global Environmental Politics Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 74-104. Bäckstrand, Karin (2006) “Democratising Global Environmental Governance. Stakeholder Democracy after the World Summit on Sustainable Development”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 467-498. Bäckstrand, Karin (2006) ”Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Rethinking Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectiveness”, European Environment Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 290-306. Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2006) “Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change. Contested Discourses of Ecological Modernization, Green Governmentality and Civic Environmentalism”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 51-71. Bäckstrand, Karin (2004) “Scientisation vs. Civic Expertise in Environmental Governance. Ecofeminist, Ecomodernist and Postmodernist Responses”, Environmental Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 695-714. Bäckstrand, Karin (2004) “Science, Uncertainty and Participation”, review essay, Environmental Politics, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 650-656. Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) ”Civic Science for Sustainability. Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers and Citizens in Environmental Governance”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 24-41. Bäckstrand, Karin, Annica Kronsell and Peter Söderholm (1996) “Organizational Challenges to Sustainable Development” Environmental Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 209-230 Öberg, Gunilla and Karin Bäckstrand (1997) “Conceptualization of the Acidification Theory in Swedish Environmental Research’, Environmental Reviews, Vol. 4, pp. 123-132 Bäckstrand, Karin and Gunilla Öberg (1997) “Praktik och ideal i försurningsforskningen-en studie av vetenskapens självförståelse.” VEST--tidskrift för vetenskapsstudier, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 23-39 Book chapters in edited volumes Bäckstrand, Karin, Sabine Campe, Sander Change, Aysem Mert and Marco Schäfferhoff (2012) ”Transnational Public-Private Partnerships” in Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg (eds.) Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered. New Actors, Mechanisms and Interlinkages, MIT Press. Bäckstrand, Karin (2012) ”Are Partnerships for Sustainable Development Democratic and Legitimate?” in Frank Biermann, Sander Chan, Philipp Pattberg, Aysem Merts Edward (eds.) Multistakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Bäckstrand, Karin (2012) ”Democracy and Global Environmental Politics” in Peter Dauvergne (ed.) Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Press. Bäckstrand, Karin (2011) ”The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Climate Governance after Copenhagen’, in John Dryzek, Richard Norgard, and David Schlosberg (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) “The Legitimacy of Global Public-Private Partnerships on Climate and Sustainable Development” in Karin Bäckstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promises of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Bäckstrand, Karin, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (2010) “The Promise of New Modes of Governance” in Bäckstrand, Karin, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promises of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Kronsell, Annica and Karin Bäckstrand (2010) ”Analysing the Legitimacy of New Modes of Governance” in Karin Bäckstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promises of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) “Climate Change and Energy Security in the European Union: From Rhetoric to Practice?”, in Constance Lever-Tracy (ed.) Handbook of Climate Change and Society, London and New York: Routledge. Bäckstrand, Karin. “EU:s uppgång och fall som global klimatedare” [The Rise and Fall of EU as global climate leader] in Rikard Bengtsson (ed.). Ordförandeskapet i EU 2009. ”[The Swedish Presidency of the European Union 2009], Stockholm: SNS Förlag. Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) ”The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Partnerships for Sustainable Development”, in Magdalena Bexell och Ulrika Mörth (eds.) Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance, Palgrave McMillan. Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2007) “Contested Climate: Competing Discourses of Planetary Management, Market Efficiency and Ecological Justice” in Mary Pettenger (ed.) The Social Construction of Climate Change, London: Ashgate. Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Precaution, Scientisation or Deliberation? Prospects for Greening and Democratizing Science” in Marcel Wissenburg and Yoram Levy (eds.) Liberal Environmentalism, London and New York: Routledge Bäckstrand, Karin (2008) ”Klimat-och energisäkerhet i EU. Förenlighet eller målkonflikt?” ”[Climate and Energy Security in the European Union. Synergies or Trade-offs] in Per Cramér, Sverker Gustavsson och Lars Oxelhjelm (eds.) EU och den globala klimatfrågan [EU and Global Climate Politics]. Stockholm: Santereus förlag Bäckstrand, Karin (2006) “Global miljöpolitik”[Global Environmental Politics] in Jakob Gustavsson and Jonas Tallberg (eds.) Internationell politik [International Relations]. Lund: Studentlitteratur. ISBN 91-44-04546-8 Bäckstrand, Karin, Annica Kronsell and Peter Söderholm (2004) “Hållbar utveckling och administrativa utmaningar”, in Annika Nilsson, Marianne Sillén and Per Wickenberg (eds.) Miljö och hållbar utveckling”[Environmental and Sustainable Development], Lund: Studentlitteratur. Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Samspelet mellan vetenskap och politik. Experternas, beslutsfattarnas och medborgarnas roll i miljöpolitiken” ”[Interplay beween science and politics. The role of experts, decisionmakers and citizens in environmental politcs] in Lars Lundgren (ed.) Vägar till kunskap. Några aspekter på humanvetenskaplig miljöforskning och annan miljöforskning”[The Road to Knowledge]. Stockholm: Symposium. Bäckstrand, Karin and Henrik Selin (2000) “Sweden – A Pioneer of Acidification Abatement”, in Aril Underdal and Kenneth Hanf (eds.) International Environmental Agreements and Domestic Policies. The Case of Acid Rain, London: Ashgate. Conference papers and proceedings Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2012) “Rethinking Climate Governance post Copenhagen: Power, Knowledge and Discourses at the Durban Summit”, Paper presented at Planet under Pressure Conference, March 26-29 2012, London. Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) ”The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Climate Governance after Copenhagen at international conference on Democratizing Climate Change, Australian National University (ANU), 15-17 July, Canberra, Australia. Bäckstrand, Karin (2007) ”Accountability of Public-Private Multilateralism: Multi-sectoral Networks in Climate Change”, proceeding of the Amsterdam Conference on Earth System Governance, May 24-27, Amsterdam. Bäckstrand, Karin (2005) “Accountability and Legitimacy of Networked Governance. Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development”, proceeding of the Berlin Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, “International organisations and Global Environmental Governance, Berlin 2-3 December. Bäckstrand, Karin and Annica Kronsell (2005) “Sustainability Governance and Democratic Legitimacy. The Role of Civil Society and Stakeholder Consultations in the UN and EU”, Paper presented at the 3rd General Conference of European Consortium for Political Research, 8-10 September, Budapest. Bäckstrand, Karin (2005) “Multistakeholder Partnerships in the Global Governance for Sustainable Development. Rethinking Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectiveness”. Paper presented at the 7th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Science, June 15-17, Gothenburg. Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2005) “Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change. Contested Discourses of Market Efficiency, Planetary Carbon Control and Civic Participation”, proceeding of the 46th Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, March 1-6, Honolulu, Hawaii. Bäckstrand, Karin and Michael Saward (2004) “Democratizing Global Governance? Stakeholder Democracy at the World Summit on Sustainable Development”, proceeding of Fifth pan-European Conference in International Relations in Hague, and the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association (APSA), September, Chicago. Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Science, Risk and Precaution in Environmental Diplomacy” Paper presented at the 44th International Studies Association Meeting, 16-20 March, Portland. Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “The Precautionary Principle and the Governance of Science”, proceeding of the 2003 Open Meeting of Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change 16-18 October in Montreal Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Deliberative and Accountable Science”, paper presented at American Political Science Association (APSA), August 28-31, Philadelphia. Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Envisioning Sustainability Science”, Presentation at Conference on Education for a Sustainable Future, March 17, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA. Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “Civic Science for Sustainability. Reframing the Role of Scientific Experts, Policymakers and Citizens in Environmental Governance’, proceeding of the Knowledge for Sustainability. Challenges for Social Science, December 6-7, Berlin. Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “The World Summit on Sustainable Development”, Workshop on Earth Summit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2, Cambridge. Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “The Role of Science in Environmental Governance”, paper presented at the Academic Council on the United Nations (ACUNS) Summer workshop on Sustainable Resource Development, 18-30 August, Windhoek and Johannesburg, in conjunction with the 2002 World Summit in Sustainable Development (WSSD). Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “Precaution, Scientisation and Deliberation. Greening Environmental Decision-making”, proceeding of the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Session “End of Environmentalism?”? March 22-27, Turin. Bäckstrand, Karin (2001) “Scientization of Environmental Governance? Perspectives from Ecofeminism, Reflexive Modernization and the Postmodern Cultural Critique”, paper presented at the 1st General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), September 6-8, Canterbury. Bäckstrand, Karin (2001) “Scientization of Air Pollution: Expert Discourses in Environmental Diplomacy”, paper presented at the 1st General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Canterbury, September 6-8, Canterbury. Bäckstrand, Karin (1997) “What Can Nature Withstand? Science, Politics and the Emergence of Critical Loads”, Paper presented at the Nordic Environmental Social Science (NESS) conference, Society, Environment and Sustainability-The Nordic Perspective, August, Oslo. Bäckstrand , Karin (1996) “Trans-science and the Making of Environmental Policy- A Review of the Science-Politics Interface”, paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), April 16-20 in San Diego. Other (popular science, reports) Bäckstrand, Karin (2013) ”Kan klimathotet lösas genom internationella förhandlingar?” Li Bennich Björkman (red) Statsvetenskapens frågor. Stockholm: SNS Förlag. Bäckstrand, Karin (2009) ”EU:s klimat-och energipolitik. En tandlös tiger?” i B. Johansson (eds.) Osäkrat klimat – laddad utmaning. Formas Fokuserar. Stockholm: Formas. Bäckstrand, Karin and Johannes Stripple (2009) Transatlantic Divide in Post-2012 Climate Policy, policy brief written for the Swedish Prime Minister’s Commission on Sustainable Development (Regeringens kommission för hållbar utveckling), January 23, 2009, Stockholm. Bäckstrand, Karin (2007) Kommission för Hållbar utveckling. Hearing om klimatpolitikens grunder. Expert hearing (Government’s Commission for Sustainable Development), September 3, 2007. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, Statsrådsberedningen. Bäckstrand, Karin (1999) “Environmental Security and Transboundary Air Pollution: Lessons for Understanding Climate Risks” in Johannes Stripple, Bo Wiman. & Sophie Chong (eds.) From Climate Risk to Climate Security, Stockholm: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Bäckstrand, Karin (1998) “Vad tål naturen? Vetenskap, rationalitet, könsordning i miljöpolitiken”, Aktuellt om Kvinnoforskning, No. 2 December 1999. Bäckstrand, Karin (1994) “Acidification Policy in Sweden”, Workshop report to project The Domestic Basis of International Environmental Agreements: Modelling National-International Linkages, March, Barcelona.Projects
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Karin Bäckstrand bidrar med kapitlet Kan klimathotet avvärjas genom internationella förhandlingar? i den nyutkomna antologin Statsvetenskapens frågor (Studentlitteratur) Läs mer...
Karin Bäckstrand var fakultetsopponent på Johanna Johansson's doktorsavhandling om legitimiteten i i den svenska skogspolitiken på Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Umeå universitet (8/2) Läs mer...
Karin Bäckstrand har samförfattat kapitlet Transnational Public Private Partnerships, som ingår i den nyligen publicerade antologin Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered (MIT Press) Läs mer...
Karin Bäckstrand har författat kapitlet Are Partnerships for Sustainable Development Democratic and Legitimate?, som ingår i den nyligen publicerade antologin Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy (Edward Elgar) Läs mer...
Karin Bäckstrand har författat kapitlet Democracy and Global Environmental Politics, som ingår i den nyligen publicerade antologin Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Edward Elgar) Läs mer...
Karin Bäckstrand ingår i ett forskarteam som publicerat artikeln Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance som nyligen publicerats i en av världens mest framstående akademiska tidskrifter: Science Läs mer...
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Karin Bäckstrand bidragit till Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society med sitt kapitel Climate Change and Energy Security in the European Union: From Rhetoric to Practice? Läs mer...
Karin Bäckstrand är en av redaktörerna till specialnumret Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture and Storage som publicerats av tidskriften Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions. Läs mer...
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Nedan visas de kurser där Karin Bäckstrand undervisat, och som finns inlagda i institutionens databas
ht 2011: STVN03 - Policy-making Processes - Actors, Causes and Consequencesht 2010: STVN03 - Policy-making Processes - Actors, Causes and Consequences
vt 2007: 41-60 - Environmental Governance: Globalization, Trade and the Transatlantic Agenda
ht 2006: 41-60 - The Politics of the Environment and Sustainable Development
vt 2006: MVE105 - Miljö - politik och förvaltning
ht 2005: 41-60 - The Politics of the Environment and Sustainable Development
CV och publikationslista
CURRICULUM VITAE
Karin Bäckstrand, Professor,
Department of Political Science, Lund University
PERSONAL
Born: 23 September, 1969
Married, one child born 1995
Office address:
Department of Political Science
Lund University
Box 52
221 00 Lund
SWEDEN
Tel: +46 46 222 47 63
Fax: +46 222 40 06
Cell: +46 70 565 9697
e-mail: karin.backstrand@svet.lu.se
Website: http://www.svet.lu.se?kba
Language skills: Swedish (native), English (fluency), German (basic), Spanish (basic)
CURRENT POSITION
Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University.
DEGREES
•PhD, What Can Nature Withstand? Science, Politics and Discourses in Transboundary Air Pollution Diplomacy, Department of Political Science, Lund University, 2001.
•Bachelor Degree in Political Science, Lund University 1992.
RESEARCH PROFILE
•Global environmental politics
•Transnational climate governance
•The democratic legitimacy of global governance
•The role of scientific expertise in environmental decision making
VISITING SCHOLAR AND POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS
•Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Senior Fellow at St Anthony’s College at Oxford University, 2013.
•Wallenberg Fellow on Environment and Sustainability at Laboratory for Energy and Environment (LFEE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 2002- 2004.
•Visiting Scholarship for Graduate Studies at University of California at Berkeley 1992-1993.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
•Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, November 2012
•Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, January 2008.
•Wallenberg Research Fellow in Environment and Sustainability, MIT and Department of Political Science, 2002-2007.
•Research Fellow (funding by Bank of Sweden, Tercentenary Foundation): 1 July 2001 – 31 July 2002
•Assistant Professor: 16 February 2001 – 30 June 2001
•Doctoral position: 1996 – 2001
•Teacher’s Assistant: 1994 – 1996
RESEARCH PROJECT AND GRANTS
•Senior Researcher: Non-state Actors in the New Landscape for Climate Cooperation 2012-2014, financed by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Science and Spatial Planning (Formas). Coordinator: Prof Björn-Ola Linnér, Linköping University. University, Lund University and University of East Anglia (UEA), SEK 7 million.
•Senior Researcher: Conceptual Innovation and Environmental Policy 2012-2014, funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council in Canada, SEK 900 000). Main applicants: Prof James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Canada and Daniel Fiorino, American University, US.
•Project leader: The Politics, Policy and Regulation of Carbon Capture and Storage, financed by the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA) 2008-2011, 8 million SEK.
•Deputy program coordinator: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC), government’s strategic research area funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2010-2014, 120 million SEK.
•Project leader: Abandoned Leadership. EUs role in global climate negotiations. 2011-2013, funded by Formas, Postdoc: Jakob Skoovgard.
•Senior researcher: Democracy beyond the Nation State. Transnational Actors and Global Governance (TRANSDEMOS), funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2008-2013, 33 million SEK, Coordinator Prof Christer Jönsson, Lund University.
•Coordinator: Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Energy Investments: towards an integrated approach on national and international stage (EPSEI) 2011-2013, proposal n. 269327, funded by FP7 Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange with China.
•Senior researcher and representative in Management Committee of European Science Foundation COST project The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risk and Opportunities 2008-2012. Coordinator Ass. Prof. Philipp Pattberg, Vriije University Amsterdam
•Principal researcher of Leverhulme Transnational Climate Governance Network, coordinated by Durham University. Involves researchers on climate governance in Germany, UK, France, US, Sweden, Switzerland. Coordinator Prof. Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University.
•Project leader: Participation, Deliberation and Sustainability: Governance beyond Rhetoric in the Domain of Climate, Forestry and Food Safety (Greengov), 2006-2009, funded by Formas, 6.8 million SEK.
•Senior researcher. Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies Supporting European Climate Policies (ADAM), funded by EU FP6, 2006-2008, coordinated by Tyndall Centre University of East Anglia, 110 million SEK. Coordinator Prof. Mike Hume, University of East Anglia.
INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
•Scientific Steering Committe of Earth System Governance Project. http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/
•Associated Faculty Member, Global Governance Project, by Vrije University, Amsterdam, 2006-, webpage: http://www.glogov.org/
•Member of Leverhulme Transnational Climate Governance Network 2008-2010.
•Member of Editorial Board, Global Environmental Politics, 2008-2012.
•Panel member of Research Assessment Group, Norklima program on climate change, Research Council of Norway 2009
•External reviewer for Norwegian Research Council 2006.
•Nominated by the Academic Council on the United Nations (ACUNS) to participate in the Summer Workshop on Strategies for Sustainable Resource Development: Policy and Practice, in Windhoek and Johannesburg August 18-30 2002.
•Peer review assignments: European Journal of International Relations, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies, Global Environmental Change, Geoforum, Environmental Science and Policy, International Environmental Agreements, Geo-forum, Environmental Policy and Planning, European Journal of Political Research.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZER
•Co-host of Lund Earth System Governance Conference - Towards a Just and Legitimate Earth System: Addressing Inequalities, April 18-20, 2012, Lund, Sweden.
•Panel chair of session “The New Geopolitics of Climate Change after the Copenhagen Summit”, at the 6th General Conference European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), Reykjavik, Iceland, August 25-27, 2011.
•Co-organizer of the 3rd international workshop on the politics and policy of carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Princeton University 14-15 October 2010 (with Prof. Michael Oppenheimer).
•Organizer of the 2nd international workshop on CCS at Lund University, December 12-13, 2009.
•Co-organizer of 1st international workshop on CCS at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), June 11-12, 2009 (with Dr. Mikael Roman).
•Organizer of international workshop sponsored by the Global Governance Project and COST project, June 29-30, 2009, Lund.
•Co-organizer of international workshop Climate Governance beyond Rhethorics, Deliberation and Rule-Making Along the Public Private Frontier, May 28, 2008, Lund.
•Co-organizer of international workshop Forest Governance – Accountability, Expertise and Effectiveness, April 24-25, 2008.
•Workshop convener at Nordic Environmental Social Science (NESS) conference in Oslo 2007.
INVITED SPEAKER/KEYNOTE
•Invited keynote speaker to international conference on Rio + 20. Regional Workshop for Europe, organized by the International Council for Science and Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, October 12-14 2011, Helsinki, Finland.
•Invited speaker to roundtable “Is there a Democratic Deficit in Global Governance?” At the 7th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 9-11, 2010, Stockholm. Moderator Prof. Jonas Tallberg.
•Invited keynote speaker: International conference on ‘Democratizing Climate Change’, Australian National University (ANU), 15-17 July 2010, Australia.
•Invited speaker to international workshop on Planetary Boundaries and Governance, organized the Stockholm Resilience Center, March 15-17 2010, Stockholm.
•Invited discussant to Oslo Symposium on democracy, research engagement and sustainable development, May 7-8 2009, Oslo.
•Invited speaker “The politics, policy and regulation of CCS”, 2nd Petrobas International Seminar on Carbon Capture and Storage, Salvador, Brazil, 9-12 September, 2008.
•Invited keynote speaker: Legitimacy of Global Environmental Governance, International Conference on Environmental Democracy, Åbo University, November 2005, Finland.
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
•Main supervisor to Mikael Kylsäter, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Lund University 2011-2015. Swedish forest governance
•Main supervisor to Tobias Dan Nielsen, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Lund University, 2011-2015. Forestry in the Climate Regime
•Main supervisor to Emma Lund, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Lund University, 2007-2011. Private Actors in the Kyoto Protocol’s CDM
•Assistant Supervisor Linn Takeuchi Waldegren, PhD Candidate Energy and Environmental System Studies, Lund University 2007-2012.Carbon credits. Origins, Effectiveness and the Future.
•Assistant Supervisor to Anna Sundell Eklundh, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Lund University, 2009-2013. Water governance in Middle East.
•Assistant Supervisor to Eva Lövbrand, PhD Candidate in environmental studies at Kalmar University 2002-2006. Greening Earth: Science, Politics and Land Use in the Kyoto Negotiations.
FACULTY OPPONENT AND EXTERNAL EVALUATOR
•Faculty opponent, Department of Political Science, Umeå University. Johanna Johansson. Constructing and Contesting the Legitimacy of Private Forest Governance. The Role and Impact of Forest Certification in Sweden, PhD dissertation to be defended February 8, 2013.
•2nd Faculty Opponent, Department of Political Science, Oslo University. Irma Vormedal. States and Markets in Global Environmental Governance. Dynamics and Change in the Regulation of Global Warming, PhD Dissertation defended October 22, 2011.
•2nd Faculty opponent, Department of Sociology, Oslo University: Andreas Tjernshaugen, Fossil interest and environmental institutions. The Politics of CO2 Capture and Storage, PhD dissertation defended January 28, 2010.
•Faculty opponent, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University, Mathias Zannakis. Climate policy as a window of opportunity. Sweden and global climate change, PhD dissertation defended February 12, 2010.
•External evaluator for a senior lecturer position in environmental studies with a focus on social science, Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, Spring 2011.
•External evaluator for a Junior lecturer position in political science with a focus on global environmental governance, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Spring 2011.
EVALUATION COMMITTEES
•Member of evaluation committee for Steven Sarasini’s PhD defense, Research Policy Institute, Lund University, September 23, 2011.
•Member of evaluation committee for Matilda Palm’s PhD-defense, Department of Earth Science, Gothenburg University, November 2009.
•Member of evaluation committee for Åsa Knaggård’s PhD-defense, Department of Political Science, Lund University, December 2009.
•Member of evaluation committee for Simon Matti’ sPhD-defense Social Science Faculty, Luleå Institute of Technology, September 2009.
•Member of evaluation committee for Michael Moon’s PhD-defense, Department of Human Ecology, Lund University, December 2008.
•Member of evaluation committee for Lisa Holmgren’s PhD-defence, Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala, February 2008.
•Member of evaluation committee for Daniel Berlin’s PhD-defence, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University, May 2007.
•Member of evaluation committee for Kerstin Ågren’s PhD-defence, Department of Environment and Energy System Studies (IMES), Lund Institute of Technology, 2006.
•Member of evaluation committee for Johannes Stripple’s Licentiate-defence, Environmental Studies, Kalmar University Spring 2001.
ADMINISTRATION
•Board member of Lund University Center for Climate and Environmental Research, 2010-
•Member of Research Committee at the Department of Political Science, Lund University (Chair: Professor Jens Bartelsen) 2011-
•Member (2011-) and deputy member (2008-2010) of Board of the Department of Political Science, Lund University.
•Board member of cross-faculty Lund University Climate Initiative 2007-
•Member of Research Committee for the Faculty of Social Science at Lund University 2006-2008.
•Member of Lund University cross-faculty working group for sustainable development in research and higher education 2007-2008.
NATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS AND OUTREACH
•Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Environmental Economics Unit at the National Institute of Economic Research (Konjunkturinstitutet) 2012-
•Member of the Scientific Expert Board for the Swedish Nature Protection Society (Naturskyddsföreningen) 2011-
•Board member of Expert Group on Environmental Studies (Expertgruppen för Miljöstudier) 2007-2010, Finance Ministry, Sweden.
•Board member of Forskarkraftstiftelsen Theodor Adelswärds minne, awarding scholarships for PhD and master dissertations in the field of international relations and peace and conflict studies, 2010-
•Panel Member of Research Assessment for Sustainable Development, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) 2007-2010
•External expert advisor to the Swedish government’s Commission on Sustainable Development (Regeringens kommissionen för hållbar utveckling), 2007-2010
•Member of Advisory Group for a project at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs From Stockholm to Johannesburg, part of the preparation for the Swedish Chair of EU 2009-2010
•Board member of Adult educational association Folkuniversitet, 2008-.
AWARDS
In 2001, recipient of Wallenberg Foundation’s five- year fellowship on environment and sustainability for two years postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory for Energy and Environment (LFEE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and three years at an academic institution in Sweden.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs and Edited Books/Special Issues
Bäckstrand, Karin, James Meadowcroft and Michael Oppenheimer (eds.), (2011), The Policy and Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage, Special Issue of Global Environmental Change Vol. 21, No. 2. ISSN 0959-9378.
Bäckstrand, Karin, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.)(2010) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promise of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 84844 954-1.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2001) What Can Nature Withstand? Science, Politics and Discourses in Transboundary Air Pollution Diplomacy, Lund Political Studies 116, Dissertation, Department of Political Science. ISBN 91-88306-35-6.
Peer reviewed journal articles
Bäckstrand, Karin and Ole Elgström (2013) ”The EU’s role in climate change negotiations: From Leader to Leadiator”, accepted in Journal of European Public Policy.
Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbot, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand et al (2012) ”Towards Effective Earth System Governance: Navigating the Anthropocene”, Science Vol. 335, pp 1306-1307.
Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbot, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, et al. (2012) ”Transforming Governance and Institutions for Global Sustainability. Key Insights from the Earth System Governance Project”, Current Opinion for Sustainability Vol. 4, pp. 1-10.
De Coninck, Heleen and Karin Bäckstrand (2011) “An International Relations of Perspective on the Global Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage”, The Policy and Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage, Special Issue of Global Environmental Change Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 368-378.
Schlyter, Peter, Karin Bäckstrand and Ingrid Stjernquist (2009) ”Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees? The Environmental Effectiveness of Forest Certification in Sweden”, Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 11, No. 5-6, pp. 375-382.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2008) ”Accountability of Networked Climate Governance: The Rise of Transnational Climate Partnerships”, Global Environmental Politics Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 74-104.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2006) “Democratising Global Environmental Governance. Stakeholder Democracy after the World Summit on Sustainable Development”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 467-498.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2006) ”Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Rethinking Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectiveness”, European Environment Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 290-306.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2006) “Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change. Contested Discourses of Ecological Modernization, Green Governmentality and Civic Environmentalism”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2004) “Scientisation vs. Civic Expertise in Environmental Governance. Ecofeminist, Ecomodernist and Postmodernist Responses”, Environmental Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 695-714.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2004) “Science, Uncertainty and Participation”, review essay, Environmental Politics, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 650-656.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) ”Civic Science for Sustainability. Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers and Citizens in Environmental Governance”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 24-41.
Bäckstrand, Karin, Annica Kronsell and Peter Söderholm (1996) “Organizational Challenges to Sustainable Development” Environmental Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 209-230
Öberg, Gunilla and Karin Bäckstrand (1997) “Conceptualization of the Acidification Theory in Swedish Environmental Research’, Environmental Reviews, Vol. 4, pp. 123-132
Bäckstrand, Karin and Gunilla Öberg (1997) “Praktik och ideal i försurningsforskningen-en studie av vetenskapens självförståelse.” VEST--tidskrift för vetenskapsstudier, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 23-39
Chapters in edited books
Bäckstrand, Karin, Sabine Campe, Sander Change, Aysem Mert and Marco Schäfferhoff (2012) ”Transnational Public-Private Partnerships” in Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg (eds.) Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered. New Actors, Mechanisms and Interlinkages, MIT Press.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2012) ”Are Partnerships for Sustainable Development Democratic and Legitimate?” in Frank Biermann, Sander Chan, Philipp Pattberg, Aysem Merts Edward (eds.) Multistakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2012) ”Democracy and Global Environmental Politics” in Peter Dauvergne (ed.) Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Press.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2011) ”The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Climate Governance after Copenhagen’, in John Dryzek, Richard Norgard, and David Schlosberg (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) “The Legitimacy of Global Public-Private Partnerships on Climate and Sustainable Development” in Karin Bäckstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promises of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Bäckstrand, Karin, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (2010) “The Promise of New Modes of Governance” in Bäckstrand, Karin, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promises of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Kronsell, Annica and Karin Bäckstrand (2010) ”Analysing the Legitimacy of New Modes of Governance” in Karin Bäckstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand (eds.) Environmental Politics After the Deliberative Turn. Examining the Promises of New Modes of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) “Climate Change and Energy Security in the European Union: From Rhetoric to Practice?”, in Constance Lever-Tracy (ed.) Handbook of Climate Change and Society, London and New York: Routledge.
Bäckstrand, Karin. “EU:s uppgång och fall som global klimatedare” [The Rise and Fall of EU as global climate leader] in Rikard Bengtsson (ed.). Ordförandeskapet i EU 2009. ”[The Swedish Presidency of the European Union 2009], Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) ”The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Partnerships for Sustainable Development”, in Magdalena Bexell och Ulrika Mörth (eds.) Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance, Palgrave McMillan.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2007) “Contested Climate: Competing Discourses of Planetary Management, Market Efficiency and Ecological Justice” in Mary Pettenger (ed.) The Social Construction of Climate Change, London: Ashgate.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Precaution, Scientisation or Deliberation? Prospects for Greening and Democratizing Science” in Marcel Wissenburg and Yoram Levy (eds.) Liberal Environmentalism, London and New York: Routledge
Bäckstrand, Karin (2008) ”Klimat-och energisäkerhet i EU. Förenlighet eller målkonflikt?” ”[Climate and Energy Security in the European Union. Synergies or Trade-offs] in Per Cramér, Sverker Gustavsson och Lars Oxelhjelm (eds.) EU och den globala klimatfrågan [EU and Global Climate Politics]. Stockholm: Santereus förlag
Bäckstrand, Karin (2006) “Global miljöpolitik”[Global Environmental Politics] in Jakob Gustavsson and Jonas Tallberg (eds.) Internationell politik [International Relations]. Lund: Studentlitteratur. ISBN 91-44-04546-8
Bäckstrand, Karin, Annica Kronsell and Peter Söderholm (2004) “Hållbar utveckling och administrativa utmaningar”, in Annika Nilsson, Marianne Sillén and Per Wickenberg (eds.) Miljö och hållbar utveckling”[Environmental and Sustainable Development], Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Samspelet mellan vetenskap oh politik. Experternas, beslutsfattarnas och medborgarnas roll i miljöpolitiken” ”[Interplay beween science and politics. The role of experts, decisionmakers and citizens in environmental politcs] in Lars Lundgren (ed.) Vägar till kunskap. Några aspekter på humanvetenskaplig miljöforskning och annan miljöforskning”[The Road to Knowledge]. Stockholm: Symposium.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Henrik Selin (2000) “Sweden – A Pioneer of Acidification Abatement”, in Aril Underdal and Kenneth Hanf (eds.) International Environmental Agreements and Domestic Policies. The Case of Acid Rain, London: Ashgate.
Conference papers and proceedings
Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2012) “Rethinking Climate Governance post Copenhagen: Power, Knowledge and Discourses at the Durban Summit”, Paper presented at Planet under Pressure Conference, March 26-29 2012, London.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2010) ”The Democratic Legitimacy of Global Climate Governance after Copenhagen at international conference on Democratizing Climate Change, Australian National University (ANU), 15-17 July, Canberra, Australia.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2007) ”Accountability of Public-Private Multilateralism: Multi-sectoral Networks in Climate Change”, proceeding of the Amsterdam Conference on Earth System Governance, May 24-27, Amsterdam.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2005) “Accountability and Legitimacy of Networked Governance. Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development”, proceeding of the Berlin Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, “International organisations and Global Environmental Governance, Berlin 2-3 December.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Annica Kronsell (2005) “Sustainability Governance and Democratic Legitimacy. The Role of Civil Society and Stakeholder Consultations in the UN and EU”, Paper presented at the 3rd General Conference of European Consortium for Political Research, 8-10 September, Budapest.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2005) “Multistakeholder Partnerships in the Global Governance for Sustainable Development. Rethinking Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectiveness”. Paper presented at the 7th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Science, June 15-17, Gothenburg.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand (2005) “Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change. Contested Discourses of Market Efficiency, Planetary Carbon Control and Civic Participation”, proceeding of the 46th Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, March 1-6, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Michael Saward (2004) “Democratizing Global Governance? Stakeholder Democracy at the World Summit on Sustainable Development”, proceeding of Fifth pan-European Conference in International Relations in Hague, and the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association (APSA), September, Chicago.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Science, Risk and Precaution in Environmental Diplomacy” Paper presented at the 44th International Studies Association Meeting, 16-20 March, Portland.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “The Precautionary Principle and the Governance of Science”, proceeding of the 2003 Open Meeting of Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change 16-18 October in Montreal
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Deliberative and Accountable Science”, paper presented at American Political Science Association (APSA), August 28-31, Philadelphia.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) “Envisioning Sustainability Science”, Presentation at Conference on Education for a Sustainable Future, March 17, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “Civic Science for Sustainability. Reframing the Role of Scientific Experts, Policymakers and Citizens in Environmental Governance’, proceeding of the Knowledge for Sustainability. Challenges for Social Science, December 6-7, Berlin.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “The World Summit on Sustainable Development”, Workshop on Earth Summit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2, Cambridge.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “The Role of Science in Environmental Governance”, paper presented at the Academic Council on the United Nations (ACUNS) Summer workshop on Sustainable Resource Development, 18-30 August, Windhoek and Johannesburg, in conjunction with the 2002 World Summit in Sustainable Development (WSSD).
Bäckstrand, Karin (2002) “Precaution, Scientisation and Deliberation. Greening Environmental Decision-making”, proceeding of the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Session “End of Environmentalism?”? March 22-27, Turin.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2001) “Scientization of Environmental Governance? Perspectives from Ecofeminism, Reflexive Modernization and the Postmodern Cultural Critique”, paper presented at the 1st General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), September 6-8, Canterbury.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2001) “Scientization of Air Pollution: Expert Discourses in Environmental Diplomacy”, paper presented at the 1st General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Canterbury, September 6-8, Canterbury.
Bäckstrand, Karin (1997) “What Can Nature Withstand? Science, Politics and the Emergence of Critical Loads”, Paper presented at the Nordic Environmental Social Science (NESS) conference, Society, Environment and Sustainability-The Nordic Perspective, August, Oslo.
Bäckstrand , Karin (1996) “Trans-science and the Making of Environmental Policy- A Review of the Science-Politics Interface”, paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), April 16-20 in San Diego.
Other (popular science books, reports)
Bäckstrand, Karin (2012) ”Kan klimathotet lösas genom internationella förhandlingar?” Li Bennich Björkman (red) Statsvetenskapens frågor. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2009) ”EU:s klimat-och energipolitik. En tandlös tiger?” i B. Johansson (eds.) Osäkrat klimat – laddad utmaning. Formas Fokuserar. Stockholm: Formas.
Bäckstrand, Karin and Johannes Stripple (2009) Transatlantic Divide in Post-2012 Climate Policy, policy brief written for the Swedish Prime Minister’s Commission on Sustainable Development (Regeringens kommission för hållbar utveckling), January 23, 2009, Stockholm.
Bäckstrand, Karin (2007) Kommission för Hållbar utveckling. Hearing om klimatpolitikens grunder. Expert hearing (Government’s Commission for Sustainable Development), September 3, 2007. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, Statsrådsberedningen.
Bäckstrand, Karin (1999) “Environmental Security and Transboundary Air Pollution: Lessons for Understanding Climate Risks” in Johannes Stripple, Bo Wiman. & Sophie Chong (eds.) From Climate Risk to Climate Security, Stockholm: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Bäckstrand, Karin (1998) “Vad tål naturen? Vetenskap, rationalitet, könsordning i miljöpolitiken”, Aktuellt om Kvinnoforskning, No. 2 December 1999.
Bäckstrand, Karin (1994) “Acidification Policy in Sweden”, Workshop report to project The Domestic Basis of International Environmental Agreements: Modelling National-International Linkages, March, Barcelona.
Manuscripts under review
Bäckstrand, Karin and Eva Lövbrand. ”Rethinking Climate Governance post-Copenhagen. Power, Knowledge and Discourses at the Durban summit”, under review bya political science journal.
Bäckstrand, Karin. ”Democracy” in Carl Death (ed.) Critical Environmental Politics. London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2013.
TEACHING
•PhD courses: Political Science course for PhD students at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Focus: Environmental Politics, 2011.
•PhD course: The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Summer School for PhD Students in Environmental Politics, June 2006, Keele University, UK. Lecturer.
•PhD Course: ‘Nature, Culture and Science: Environmental Politics in relationship to other disciplines’ for PhD Students in Environmental Science, Lund University. Lecturer and examinator, 2012.
•Masters course: ‘Policy Processes – Actors, Causes and Consequences’ at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Course manager 2010-2011
•Masters course: ‘Environmental Governance; mandatory course on the Lund University International Master Program in Environmental Studies. Course manager 2001-2002, 2004-2005. Course manager.
•Masters course: ‘Climate Politics: Governance and Communication’; mandatory course on the Master Program on Applied Climate Strategy, Faculty of Science, Lund University. Lecturer 2010-2011.
•Magister course: ‘Environment and Politics’, mandatory course on a magister program on Environment, Culture and Development, Department of Human Ecology, Lund University, Course manager, 2005.
•Advanced undergraduate course: ‘Politics of Environment and Sustainable Development’, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Course manager 2005-2006.
•Advanced undergraduate course: ‘Global Environmental Politics’, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Course manager 2001.
•Advanced undergraduate course: ‘Environmental Governance: Globalization, Trade and the Transatlantic Agenda’, University of California and Lund University Joint Summer School Program ‘Europe and America: A Dialogue on Critical World Issues, Department of Political Science, Lund University (advanced undergraduate, in English) Course manager, 2006-2007.
•Advanced undergraduate course: ‘Environmental Politics: From the Local to the Global’ (invited guest lecture), Department of Political Science Gothenburg University, 2001-2002.
•Advanced undergraduate course: ‘Environment in an international perspective’, Department of Energy and Environmental System Studies (IMES), Lund Institute of Technology, 1998-1999.
•Core curriculum course: ‘Gender, Nature, Science, Multi-disciplinary teaching team (cultural studies, biology, political science), Center for Gender Studies, Lund University, Joint course management, 1997-1999.
•Undergraduate B-level course: ‘Environmental Politics and Administration’, mandatory course on Bachelor program in Environmental Science and Health, Department of Ecology, Lund University, Joint course management, 2005-2006.
•Undergraduate B-level course: ‘International Natural Resource Management’ (invited guest lecture), Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, lecturer 2002-2007.
•Undergraduate A-level course: ‘International Relations, Department of Political Science Lund University, periodically from 1994-2001, ‘International Relations’, Malmö Högskola, 2001, ‘Politics and Administration’, Department of Political Science, Lund University, 2001-2002, ‘Climate as Science and Politics’ (invited guest lecture), Department of Energy and Environmental System Studies (IMES), Lund Institute of Technology, 1998-1999, ‘Environmental Management, Department of Energy and Environmental System Studies, Lund Institute of Technology, 1997-1998, ‘Environmental Law’ (invited guest lecturer), Department of Commercial Law, Lund University, 1998-1999, ‘International Environmental Politics’ (invited guest lecture),World Maritime University, Malmö, 2001, Kretsloppsprogrammet (invited guest lecture), Teknik och Samhälle, Malmö Högskola, 2001.
TEACHING AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
•Certified course for supervision of PhD students, 2 days, January 2006.
•Advanced course for Learning for Higher Education: 2 weeks fulltime, fall 2005.
•Basic course for Learning in Higher Education: 2 weeks fulltime, spring 1997.
•Problem-based Learning – a start package: 3 days, fall 1996.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
•International Studies Association (Environmental Studies Section)
•European Consortium for Political Research (Green Politics Section)
(Updated December 20, 2012)