Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog Position: Professor School/office: School of Social Sciences and Media StudiesEmail: cm9sZi5saWRza29nO29ydS5zZQ==
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About Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog is a sociologist with expertise in environmental sociology, environmental regulation, risk communication and sociology of science.
Research
Rolf Lidskog’s research interests include environmental policy and politics at the international and national levels, especially the role of expertise in environmental governance. A central issue in this research is how actors perceive, evaluate and manage risks, where there are conflicting views on what is the most suitable way to manage them. To answer this question, he has studied a variety of environmental areas: climate change, biodiversity loss, air pollution policy, nuclear waste management and hazardous waste management.
Lecturing and Supervision
Rolf Lidskog lecturing expertise is in the areas of general sociology, environmental sociology, urban sociology and sociology of science. He lectures within areas of environmental and society, environmental regulation and risk communication and research ethics.
Lidskog has supervised 16 PhD-students. During 2005–2010 he was responsible for the university’s course in doctoral supervision.
Publication
Lidskog has published nine books, edited nine books and three special issues as well as published more than 120 articles in peer review journals and some 50 chapters in edited books and handbooks.
Collaboration
Rolf Lidskog is a member of the Swedish National Committee for Global Environmental Change at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2025-). He has been a board member of the Swedish Research Council Formas (2019-24), the Swedish Forest Agency (2013-16), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2011-13) and Örebro University (2011-12).
He was 2018-2023 vice-president of the research committee Environment and Society at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and is a member of the Senior Advisory Board for research network Environment and Society at the European Sociological Association (ESA)
Research projects
Active projects
- Making science actionable. Towards a transformative expertise on climate change, biodiversity loss and chemical pollution
- Conceptual development of environmental sociology
- The roles of social science expertise for transformative change
Completed projects
- Research project - Configuring and governing public space. Urban order, social life and crime prevention
- Making knowledge usable. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary challenges for international environmental expertise
- Coping with uncertainty: regulation, decision making and learning in natural resource management
- European Air Pollution Policy
- Expertise, democracy and environmental regulation. A comparative study
- The shaping of environmental expertise. Institutionalized expertise, boundary organizations and global environmental matters
- Collaborative production and social ontology - A study of mobilisations for economic democracy in the UK
- Knowledge, participation and measures. Local capacity-building for adapting to a changed climate
- Environmental expertise: conditions and challenges
- Processionary Moth Governance: when, why and how should society intervene in natural biological systems?
- Risk regulation in the late modernity
- Risk governance, legitimacy and social learning in the handling of the forest fire in Västmanland
- Beyond compliance? Policy learning and institutional capacity building for combating climate change
- Do citizens matter? The policy-science-citizen dynamics in governing transboundary environmental problems. The case of climate change, biodiversity loss and air pollution
- Science role in international environmental governance. Climate change, biodiversity and air pollution