Introduktion

In Spring 2011, I was accepted as a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at Lunds University. My PhD project is funded by the strategic research area called BECC - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service in a Changing Climate, which in turn is funded by the Swedish Research Council. In 2012 I was accepted to the Young Scientist Summer Program at the International Institute for Advance System Analysis. 

In 2010, I earned my MSc. in European Affairs at the same seat of learning. For my masters thesis, I wrote a critical analysis of the EU climate policy leadership titled - “A Concept of Convenience? How the concept of leadership has been used in relation to the EU and climate regime formation”. In addition, to my academic career I have work at: the Danish Ministry for Transport, Better Place (electric vehicle operator), the European Parliament and BRG Consult (market consultant on energy efficiency). I have a wife and three children.

Research focus

My area of research is found within global environmental governance. More specifically it revolves around REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) where I study the role of discourses  in shaping governance structure of REDD+.

 

Forskning

 

My particular area of research revolves around an international forestry mechanism REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) where I study the role of discourses.

Research interests:

- REDD+

- Global environmental governance

- Plural rationality

- Discourse analysis

- International negotiations

- Policies and global governance institutions.

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Forskningsprojekt

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate Mer information om forskningsprojektet

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Medlem i följande tematiska forskningsgrupp(er)

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Förhandlingar Mer information om forskningsgruppen

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Global Political Thought Mer information om forskningsgruppen

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Miljöpolitik Mer information om forskningsgruppen

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Undervisning

ht 2011: MVEN16 - Klimatpolitik, Samhällsstyrning och Kommunikation

ht 2012: MVEN16 - Klimatpolitik, Samhällsstyrning och Kommunikation

vt 2013: STVC55 - Political Science: Environmental Governance.

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Nedan visas de kurser där Tobias Dan Nielsen undervisat, och som finns inlagda i institutionens databas

vt 2013: STVK02 - Environmental Governance

CV och publikationslista

 Employment

• 2011-2015 Lund University, PhD Candidate.
• 2009-2010 Danish Ministry for Transport, Student Assistant.
• 2008-2009 Better Place, Government Relations.
• 2008 European Parliament, Internship.
• 2006-2008 BRG Consult, Senior Market Analyst.

Formal Education

• 2008-2010 Lund University, MSc European Affairs.
• 2003-2006 Oxford Brookes University, BA International Relations with Politics. 

Publications

- Nielsen, Tobias "Governing forests as cost-effective mitigation, carbon sinks or providing livelihood activities: a discursive overview" presented at the Lund conference on Earth System Governance, 18-20 April 2012.

- Nielsen, Tobias "Dominant story-lines on REDD+: a discursive overview" presented on the Joint Nordic Conference, Copenhagen, 24-25 November 2011.

- Nielsen, Tobias "Redder vi regnskoven, redder vi verden" newspaper article in national Danish daily, Politiken, about upcoming REDD+ negotiations at COP 17. Published on 22 October 2011.

- Nielsen, Tobias "The Power of Narratives: Looking at the Complex and Fragmented Governance of REDD+ Through the Lens of Discourse Theory" Paper for the 2011 SENSE PhD Training School on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 26-29 September 2011. 

- Nielsen, Tobias "Fragmentation of a REDD+ Governance: the Explanatory Tools of Discourse Struggle" presented at the International Workshop on The Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences and Responses, German Development Institute, Bonn, 29-30 August 2011.

- Stripple, Johannes and Harriet Bulkeley, Roger Hildingsson, Hannes Stephan, Rickard Andersson, Tobias Nielsen (2011) Governing the Global Climate Polity: Rationality, Practice and Power, Lund University.

- Nielsen, Tobias "A Concept of Convenience? How the concept of leadership has been used in relation to the EU and climate regime formation." Master thesis, Lund University 2010.

Research Grants (SEK)

• 2012 Carl Swartz minnesfond conference travel grant 12 400 
• 2012 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse conference travel grant 12 600
• 2012 FORMAS travel grant to IIASA 46 000
• 2012 COST travel grant (5 000)

Other academic activities 

• 2012 accepted to IIASA’s Young Scientist Summer Program 
• 2012 Chairman for “Forskningsnetværk for klimapolitik”
• 2012 Public lecture on REDD+ at IBIS.
• 2011 Newspaper article in Danish daily - Politiken.