By Lina H. Ingeborgrud(http://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/lina.ingeborgrud), PhD Candidate at Center for Technology and Society Department of interdiciplinary studies of culture, NTNU
Exploring “Cities of the future” and local transportation systems through environmental knowledge management
Introduction
In BREV (bringing environmental knowledge into action) we study environmental knowledge management in Norwegian municipalities. This means how municipal employees learn and acquire environmental knowledge, how this knowledge is shared and made use of and how it is brought into plans and strategies. First we study a national initiative called “Cities of the future”. The purpose is to examine what kind of input to local environmental knowledge management that may be produced through national policy-making. Second we will take a sector approach to investigate how environmental knowledge management is performed in the transportation sector, which we see as a particularly important and pertinent area of concern with respect to sustainability. We have chosen Bergen and Trondheim and their transportation programs, respectively “Bergensprogrammet” and “Miljøpakken”.
Background and objectives
Our point of departure is that the enactment of environmental knowledge raises a fairly wide-ranging set of problems.
