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Rolf Lidskog

Position: Professor School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Email: rolf.lidskog@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 303272

Room: F3276

Research subject

Sociology

Research environments

Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science (CESSS)

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, air pollution control policy, nuclear waste management, hazardous waste management and biodiversity.

Lecturing and Supervision

Rolf Lidskog lecturing expertise is in the areas of environmental sociology, urban sociology and sociology of science. He lectures within areas of environmental regulation, risk communication, crime prevention and multiculturalism.

Lidskog has supervised 16 PhD-students. During 2005–2010 he was responsible for the university’s course in doctoral supervision.

Publication

Lidskog has published eight books, edited nine books and three special issues as well as published more than 100 articles in peer review journals and some 50 chapters in edited books and handbooks.

Collaboration

Rolf Lidskog collaborates with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (Germany) and the Center for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster University (England).

He is currently board member of the Swedish Research Council Formas (2019-24) and has been a board member of the Swedish Forest Agency (2013-16), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2011-13) and Örebro University (2011-12).

Rolf Lidskog is since 2018 vice-president of the research committee Environment and Society at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and member of the Senior Advisory Board for research network Environment and Society at the European Sociological Association (ESA)

Active projects

Completed projects

Research teams

Publications

Articles in journals

Gustafsson, K. M. & Lidskog, R. (2023). Expertise for policy-relevant knowledge: IPBES’s epistemic infrastructure and guidance to make environmental assessment. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 20 (1).
White, J. M. & Lidskog, R. (2023). Pluralism, paralysis, practice: Making environmental knowledge usable. Ecosystems and People, 19 (1).
Asayama, S. , De Pryck, K. , Beck, S. , Cointe, B. , Edwards, P. N. , Guillemot, H. , Gustafsson, K. M. , Hartz, F. & et al. (2023). Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC. Nature Climate Change, 13 (9), 877-880.
Asayama, S. , De Pryck, K. , Beck, S. , Cointe, B. , Edwards, P. N. , Guillemot, H. , Gustafsson, K. M. , Hartz, F. & et al. (2023). Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC. Nature Climate Change, 13 (9), 877-880.
Lidskog, R. , Standring, A. & White, J. M. (2022). Environmental expertise for social transformation: Roles and responsibilities for social science. Environmental Sociology, 8 (3), 255-266.
White, J. M. & Lidskog, R. (2022). Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence. Journal of Risk Research, 25 (4), 488-500.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2022). Lost in transformation: The Paris Agreement, the IPCC and the quest for national transformative change. Frontiers in Climate, 4.
Lidskog, R. & Rabe, L. (2022). Making Climate Risks Governable in Swedish Municipalities: Crisis Preparedness, Technical Measures, and Public Involvement. Climate, 10 (7).
Leonard, L. & Lidskog, R. (2021). Conditions and Constrains for Reflexive Governance of Industrial Risks: The Case of the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa. Sustainability, 13 (10), 1-19.
Hysing, E. & Lidskog, R. (2021). Do Conceptual Innovations Facilitate Transformative Change? The Case of Biodiversity Governance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8.
Standring, A. & Lidskog, R. (2021). (How) Does Diversity Still Matter for the IPCC? Instrumental, Substantive and Co-Productive Logics of Diversity in Global Environmental Assessments. Climate, 9 (6).
Leonard, L. & Lidskog, R. (2021). Industrial scientific expertise and civil society engagement: Reflexive scientisation in the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa. Journal of Risk Research, 24 (9), 1127-1140.
Lidskog, R. , Berg, M. , Gustafsson, K. M. & Löfmarck, E. (2020). Cold Science Meets Hot Weather: Environmental Threats, Emotional Messages and Scientific Storytelling. Media and Communication, 8 (1), 118-128.
Johansson, J. & Lidskog, R. (2020). Constructing and justifying risk and accountability after extreme events: public administration and stakeholders’ responses to a wildfire disaster. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 22 (3), 353-365.
Lidskog, R. , Elander, I. & Standring, A. (2020). COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses. Sustainability, 12 (16).
Lidskog, R. (2020). Samhället utmanat? [Society challenged?]: Artificiell intelligens och sociologisk kunskap [Artificial intelligence and sociological knowledge]. Sociologisk forskning, 57 (2), 99-120.
Hulme, M. , Lidskog, R. , White, J. M. & Standring, A. (2020). Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 11 (4).
Lidskog, R. & Standring, A. (2020). The institutional machinery of expertise: Producing facts, figures and futures in COVID-19. Acta Sociologica, 63 (4), 443-446.
Löfmarck, E. & Lidskog, R. (2019). Coping with Fragmentation: On the Role of Techno-Scientific Knowledge within the Sami Community. Society & Natural Resources, 32 (11), 1293-1311.
Berglez, P. & Lidskog, R. (2019). Foreign, domestic, and cultural factors in climate change reporting: Swedish media's coverage of wildfires in three continents. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 13 (3), 381-394.
Gustafsson, K. M. , Berg, M. , Lidskog, R. & Löfmarck, E. (2019). Intersectional boundary work in socializing new experts: The case of IPBES. Ecosystems and People, 15 (1), 181-191.
Lidskog, R. , Johansson, J. & Sjödin, D. (2019). Wildfires, responsibility and trust: public understanding of Sweden’s largest wildfire. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 34 (4), 319-328.
Gustafsson, K. M. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Boundary organizations and environmental governance: Performance, institutional design, and conceptual development. Climate Risk Management, 19, 1-11.
Klapwijk, M. J. , Boberg, J. , Bergh, J. , Bishop, K. , Björkman, C. , Ellison, D. , Felton, A. , Lidskog, R. & et al. (2018). Capturing complexity: Forests, decision-making and climate change mitigation action. Global Environmental Change, 52, 238-247.
Boström, M. , Andersson, E. , Berg, M. , Gustafsson, K. M. , Gustavsson, E. , Hysing, E. , Lidskog, R. , Löfmarck, E. & et al. (2018). Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Review and Approach. Sustainability, 10 (12).
Berg, M. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Deliberative democracy meets democratised science: a deliberative systems approach to global environmental governance. Environmental Politics, 27 (1), 1-20.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2018). Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging: Environmental Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies. Nature and Culture, 13 (3), 309-331.
Lidskog, R. , Bishop, K. , Eklöf, K. , Ring, E. , Åkerblom, S. & Sandström, C. (2018). From Wicked Problem to Governable Entity?: The Effects of Forestry on Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems. Forest Policy and Economics, 90, 90-96.
Lidskog, R. (2018). Invented communities and social vulnerability: The local post-disaster dynamics of extreme environmental events. Sustainability, 10 (12).
Gustafsson, K. M. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Organizing international experts: IPBES’s efforts to gain epistemic authority. Environmental Sociology, 4 (4), 445-456.
Berg, M. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Pathways to deliberative capacity: the role of the IPCC. Climatic Change, 148 (1-2), 11-24.
Hysing, E. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Policy Contestation over the Ecosystem Services Approach in Sweden. Society & Natural Resources, 31 (4), 393-408.
Singleton, B. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Science, red in tooth and claw: Whaling, purity, pollution and institutions in marine mammal scientists' boundary work. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1 (1-2), 165-185.
Jetzkowitz, J. , van Koppen, C. S. A. K. , Lidskog, R. , Ott, K. , Voget-Kleschin, L. & Wong, C. M. L. (2018). The significance of meaning: Why IPBES needs the social sciences and humanities. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research, 31 (S1), 38-60.
Lidskog, R. & Sjödin, D. (2018). Unintended consequences and risk(y) thinking: The shaping of consequences and responsibilities in relation to environmental disasters. Sustainability, 10 (8).
Boström, M. , Lidskog, R. & Uggla, Y. (2017). A reflexive look at reflexivity in environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology, 3 (1), 6-16.
Löfmarck, E. & Lidskog, R. (2017). Bumping against the boundary: IPBES and the knowledge divide. Environmental Science and Policy, 69, 22-28.
Lidskog, R. , Löfmarck, E. & Uggla, Y. (2017). Forestry and the environment: Tensions in a transforming modernity. Sociologisk forskning, 54 (4), 283-286.
Löfmarck, E. , Uggla, Y. & Lidskog, R. (2017). Freedom with what?: Interpretations of “responsibility” in Swedish forestry practice. Forest Policy and Economics, 75, 34-40.
Ojala, M. & Lidskog, R. (2017). Mosquitoes as a threat to humans and the community: The role of place identity, social norms, environmental concerns and ecocentric values in public risk perception. Local Environment: the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 22 (2), 172-184.
Esguerra, A. , Beck, S. & Lidskog, R. (2017). Stakeholder engagement in the making: IPBES Legitimization Politics. Global Environmental Politics, 17 (1), 59-76.
Beland Lindahl, K. , Sténs, A. , Sandström, C. , Johansson, J. , Lidskog, R. , Ranius, T. & Roberge, J. (2017). The Swedish forestry model: More of everything?. Forest Policy and Economics, 77, 44-55.
Lidskog, R. & Waterton, C. (2016). Anthropocene: a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?. Environmental Sociology, 2 (4), 395-406.
Uggla, Y. & Lidskog, R. (2016). Climate risks and forest practices: Forest owners' acceptance of advice concerning climate change. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 31 (6), 618-625.
Lidskog, R. & Waterton, C. (2016). Conceptual innovation in environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology, 2 (4), 307-311.
Lidskog, R. & Sjödin, D. (2016). Extreme events and climate change: The post-disasters dynamics of forest fires and forest storms in Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 31 (2), 148-155.
Lidskog, R. & Löfmarck, E. (2016). Fostering a flexible forest: Challenges and strategies in the advisory practice of a deregulated forest management system. Forest Policy and Economics, 62, 177-183.
Eklöf, K. , Lidskog, R. & Bishop, K. (2016). Managing Swedish forestry's impact on mercury in fish: Defining the impact and mitigation measures. Ambio, 45, S163-S174.
Lidskog, R. (2016). Public at Risk—Public as Risk: regulating nature by managing people. Society & Natural Resources, 29 (3), 284-298.
Lidskog, R. & Sjödin, D. (2016). Risk governance through professional expertise: forestry consultants’ handling of uncertainties after a storm disaster. Journal of Risk Research, 19 (10), 1275-1290.
Lidskog, R. (2016). The role of music in ethnic identity formation in diaspora: A research review. International Social Science Journal, 66 (219-220), 23-38.
Lidskog, R. & Löfmarck, E. (2015). Managing uncertainty: forest professionals’ claim and epistemic authority in the face of societal and climate change. Risk Management: An International Journal, 17 (3), 145-164.
Lidskog, R. & Sjödin, D. (2015). Time, knowledge, and risk: Decision making in the aftermath of storm disasters. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 33 (3), 341-359.
Lidskog, R. , Mol, A. P. & Oosterveer, P. (2015). Towards a global environmental sociology?: legacies, trends and future directions. Current Sociology, 63 (3), 339-368.
Lidskog, R. (2015). Var är samhället?: en kritisk granskning av begreppet Antropocen. Sosiologi i dag, 45 (1), 8-30.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2015). When and how does science matter?: international relations meets science and technology studies. Global Environmental Politics, 15 (1), 1-20.
Lövbrand, E. , Beck, S. , Chilvers, J. , Forsyth, T. , Hedrén, J. , Hulme, M. , Lidskog, R. & Vasileiadou, E. (2015). Who speaks for the future of Earth?: how critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change, 32, 211-218.
Lidskog, R. (2014). Representing and regulating nature: boundary organizations, portable representations and the science-policy interface. Environmental Politics, 23 (4), 670-687.
Engdahl, E. & Lidskog, R. (2014). Risk, communication and trust: towards an emotional understanding of trust. Public Understanding of Science, 23 (6), 703-717.
Beck, S. , Esguerra, A. , Borie, M. , Chilvers, J. , Görg, C. , Heubach, K. , Marquard, E. , Nesshöver, C. & et al. (2014). Towards a reflexive turn in the governance of global environmental expertise: The cases of the IPCC and the IPBES. GAIA, 23 (2), 80-87.
Lidskog, R. & Sjödin, D. (2014). Why do forest owners fail to heed warning?: conflicting risk evaluations made by the Swedish forestagency and forest owners. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 29 (3), 275-282.
Gustafsson, K. & Lidskog, R. (2013). Boundary work, hybrid practices and portable representations: an analysis of global and national co-productions of Red Lists. Nature and Culture, 8 (1), 30-52.
Lidskog, R. , Sundqvist, G. , Kall, A. , Sandin, P. & Larsson, S. (2013). Intensive forestry in Sweden: stakeholders' evaluation of benefits and risk. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 10 (4), 145-160.
Lidskog, R. & Olausson, U. (2013). To spray or not to spray: the discursive construction of contested environmental issues in the news media. Discourse, Context & Media, 2 (3), 123-130.
Gustafsson, K. & Lidskog, R. (2012). Acknowledging risk, trusting expertise, and coping with uncertainty: citizens' deliberations on spraying an insect population. Society & Natural Resources, 25 (6), 587-601.
Lidskog, R. & Persson, M. (2012). Community safety policies in Sweden: a policy change in crime control strategies?. International Journal of Public Administration, 35 (5), 293-302.
Lidskog, R. & Elander, I. (2012). Ecological modernization in practice?: the case of sustainable development in Sweden. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 14 (4), 411-427.
Lidskog, R. & Elander, I. (2012). Sweden and the Baltic Sea pipeline: between ecology and economy. Marine Policy, 36 (2), 333-338.
Sayuli Fransson, A. , Elander, I. & Lidskog, R. (2011). Framing issues and forming opinions: the Baltic Sea pipeline in the Swedish media. European Spatial Research and Policy, 18 (2), 95-110.
Lidskog, R. & Elander, I. (2011). Le développement durable en Suède: la rhétorique, les politiques et la pratique. Télescope - Revue d'analyse comparée en administration publique, 17 (2), 71-91.
Lidskog, R. , Uggla, Y. & Soneryd, L. (2011). Making transboundary risks governable: reducing complexity, constructing spatial identity, and ascribing capabilities. Ambio, 40 (2), 111-120.
Lidskog, R. (2011). Regulating nature: public understanding and moral reasoning. Nature and Culture, 6 (2), 149-167.
Ojala, M. & Lidskog, R. (2011). What lies beneath the surface?: A case study of citizens' moral reasoning with regard to biodiversity. Environmental Values, 20 (2), 217-237.
Lidskog, R. & Elander, I. (2010). Addressing climate change democratically: Multi-level governance, transnational networks and governmental structures. Sustainable Development, 18 (1), 32-41.
Lidskog, R. (2010). Governing moth and man: political strategies to manage demands for spraying. Études rurales (185), 149-162.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2009). Mellan teknokrati och populism: experter och medborgare i svensk kärnkraftspolitik. Fronesis (29-30), 107-124.
Granberg, M. , Lidskog, R. & Larsson, S. (2008). Dealing with uncertainty: a case study of controlling insect populations in natural ecosystems. Local Environment: the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 13 (7), 641-652.
Lidskog, R. (2008). Scientised citizens and democratised science: Re-assessing the expert-lay divide. Journal of Risk Research, 11 (1-2), 69-86.
Lidskog, R. (2007). Främlingars mötesplats. I&M. Invandrare & minoriteter (2), 5-8.
Lidskog, R. & Elander, I. (2007). Representation, participation or deliberation?: Democratic responses to the environmental challenge. Space & Polity, 11 (1), 75-94.
Gouldson, A. , Lidskog, R. & Wester-Herber, M. (2007). The battle for hearts and minds?: Evolutions in corporate approaches to environmental risk communication. Environment and Planning. C, Government and Policy, 25 (1), 56-72.
Gustafsson, J. & Lidskog, R. (2007). Var är vi hemma?: Bostadens och det offentliga livets förändrade betydelse. I&M. Invandrare & minoriteter, 34 (4-5), 15-18.
Höijer, B. , Lidskog, R. & Uggla, Y. (2006). Facing dilemmas: sense-making and decision-making in late modernity. Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, 38 (3), 350-366.
Höijer, B. , Lidskog, R. & Thornberg, L. (2006). News media and food scares: the case of contaminated salmon. Environmental Sciences, 3 (4), 273-288.
Lidskog, R. , Soneryd, L. & Uggla, Y. (2005). Knowledge, power and control: studying environmental regulation in late modernity. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 7 (2), 89-106.
Lidskog, R. (2005). Siting conflicts: democratic perspectives and political implications. Journal of Risk Research, 8 (3), 187-206.
Lidskog, R. & Uggla, Y. (2004). När det förväntade inträffar: oljekatastrofer och senmodern riskreglering. Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidsskrift (38), 43-65.
Lidskog, R. & Uggla, Y. (2000). Mercury waste management in Sweden: historical perspectives and recent trends. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 43 (4), 561-572.
Lidskog, R. & Soneryd, L. (2000). Transport infrastructure investment and environmental impact assessment in Sweden: public involvement or exclusion?. Environment and planning A, 32 (8), 1465-1479.

Articles, book reviews

Books

Mårald, E. , Sandström, C. , Nordin, A. , Rist, L. , Sténs, A. , Beland Lindahl, K. , Carlsson-Kanyama, A. , Johansson, J. & et al. (2017). Forest governance and management across time: Developing a new forest social contract. London & New York: Routledge (The earthscan forest library ).
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2013). Miljøsosiologi (1ed.). Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S.
Lidskog, R. (2013). Sociologi (1ed.). Stockholm: Liber.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2011). Miljösociologi (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Lidskog, R. , Soneryd, L. & Uggla, Y. (2010). Transboundary risk governance (1ed.). London: Earthscan Publications Ltd. (The Earthscan Risk in Soceity Series ).
Lidskog, R. & Deniz, F. (2009). Mångkulturalism: socialt fenomen och politisk utmaning (1ed.). Malmö: Liber.
Lidskog, R. (2006). Staden, våldet och tryggheten: om social ordning i ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Göteborg: Daidalos.
Lidskog, R. , Sandstedt, E. & Sundqvist, G. (1997). Samhälle, risk och miljö: sociologiska perspektiv på det moderna samhällets miljöproblem /. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Chapters in books

Lidskog, R. & Standring, A. (2022). COVID-19 and the environmental crises: Knowledge, social order and transformative change. In: Patrick R. Brown; Jens O. Zinn, Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents (pp. 267-293). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lidskog, R. & Berg, M. (2022). Expertise, lay/local knowledge and the environment. In: Luigi Pellizzoni; Emanuele Leonardi; Viviana Asara, Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics (pp. 257-269). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Lidskog, R. (2022). Moderna miljökatastrofer: Risk, reglering och representation. In: Rolf Lidskog; Erik Löfmarck, En mänsklig natur: Risker, reglering och representationer (pp. 55-72). Örebro: Örebro universitet, sociologiämnet.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2022). Political Context. In: Kari De Pryck; Mike Hulme, A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 209-216). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Lidskog, R. & Löfmarck, E. (2021). Att korsbefrukta kunskap. In: Håkan Tunón; Klas Sandell, Biologisk mångfald, naturnyttor och ekosystemtjänster: Svenska perspektiv på livsviktiga framtidsfrågor (pp. 92-93). Uppsala: SLU - Centrum för biologisk mångfald.
Lidskog, R. & Lockie, S. (2020). Globalizing environmental sociology. In: Katharine Legun, Julie Keller, Michael Bell, Michael Carolan, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology: Volume 1 (pp. 30-46). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Uggla, Y. , Lidskog, R. & Boström, M. (2019). Var går gränsen för det rimliga? Förhandlingar om vardagsliv och miljöansvar. In: Jenny Alsarve; Erik Löfmarck, Samhälle i förhandling: Villkor, processer, konsekvenser (pp. 152-166). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2018). Environmental expertise. In: Magnus Boström & Debra J. Davidson, Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges (pp. 167-186). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lidskog, R. , Pripp, O. & Westvall, M. (2018). Kulturproduktion i föreningar med etnisk anknytning. In: M. Westvall, R. Lidskog & O. Pripp, Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser: Föreningsliv och kulturproduktion i ett föränderligt samhälle (pp. 231-246). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Lidskog, R. , Pripp, O. & Westvall, M. (2018). Musik, organisation och sammanhang. In: Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser: Föreningsliv och kulturproduktion i ett föränderligt samhälle (pp. 15-41). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Lidskog, R. (2018). Risk. In: Ryan, J Michael, Core Concepts in Sociology (pp. 254-256). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Lidskog, R. & Waterton, C. (2018). The Anthropocene: A Narrative in the Making. In: Magnus Boström & Debra J. Davidson, Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges (pp. 25-46). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lidskog, R. (2017). Risk governance. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. . Oxford University Press.
Lidskog, R. (2014). Den farliga staden: Om rädslan för det okända och möjligheten att skapa trygghet segregering. In: Lennartsson, Rebecka, Från skuggsidan: folk och förbrytelser ur Stockholms historia (pp. 11-20). Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag.
Lidskog, R. & Uggla, F. (2014). Rent + snyggt = tryggt?: Om synen på graffiti i Stockholm. In: Lennartsson, Rebecka, Från skuggsidan: folk och förbrytelser ur Stockholms historia (pp. 130-139). Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag.
Lidskog, R. (2014). Transboundary risk governance: co-constructing environmental issues and political solution. In: Stewart Lockie, David Sonnenfeld, Dana Fisher, International handbook of social and environmental change (pp. 231-240). London: Routledge.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2013). The sociology of risk. In: Sabine Roeser,Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson, Essentials of risk theory (pp. 75-105). Dordrecht: Springer.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2012). The sociology of risk. In: Sabine Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson, Handbook of risk theory: epistemology, decision theory, ethics, and social implications of risk (pp. 1001-1028). . Springer Netherlands.
Lidskog, R. & Pleijel, H. (2011). Co-producing policy-relevant science and science-based policy: the case of regulating ground-level ozone. In: Rolf Lidskog, Göran Sundqvist, Governing the air: the dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction (pp. 223-250). Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2011). Science-policy-citizen dynamics in international environmental governance. In: Rolf Lidskog, Göran Sundqvist, Governing the air: the dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction (pp. 323-360). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2011). Transboundary air pollution policy in transition. In: Rolf Lidskog, Göran Sundqvist, Governing the air: the dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction (pp. 1-35). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Lidskog, R. & Uggla, Y. (2009). Lokalt klimatarbete: kommunen som lärande organisation. In: Ylva Uggla, Ingemar Elander, Global uppvärmning och lokal politik (pp. 63-81). Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press.
Soneryd, L. & Lidskog, R. (2008). Accountability, public involvement and (ir)reversibility. In: Magnus Boström; Christina Garsten, Organizing transnational accountability (pp. 194-209). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2008). The role of science in environmental regimes: the case of LRTAP. In: Peter M. Haas, International environmental governance (pp. 211-345). Aldershot: Ashgate.
Ekström, M. & Lidskog, R. (2007). Handlingspositioner, medier och klimatförändring: om ansvarsutkrävandets villkor. In: Mikael Carleheden, Rolf Lidskog, Christine Roman, Social interaktion: förutsättningar och former (pp. 266-290). Malmö: Liber.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2007). Regulating European air: the co-production of science and policy. In: Håkan Pleijel, Transboundary air pollution: scientific understanding and environmental policy in Europe (pp. 177-201). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Carleheden, M. , Lidskog, R. & Roman, C. (2006). Inledning. In: Mikael Carleheden, Rolf Lindskog, Christine Roman, Social interaktion: förutsättningar och former (pp. 11-16). Malmö: Liber.
Lidskog, R. & Soneryd, L. (2006). Organiserandet av samråd om slutförvar av använt kärnbränsle. In: Samhällsforskning 2006: betydelsen för människorna, hembygden och regionen av ett slutförvar för använt kärnbränsle (pp. 88-102). Stockholm: Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB.
Lidskog, R. & Elander, I. (2006). Representation, deltagande eller samtal?: Demokratiteoretiska svar på dagens miljöproblem. In: Mats Ekström et al., Om demokratins villkor: Volym 1 (pp. 245-276). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Lidskog, R. & Sundqvist, G. (2006). The role of science in environmental regimes: the case of LRTAP. In: Friedrich Kratochwil, Edward D. Mansfield, International organization and global governance: a reader (pp. 269-287). New York: Pearson/Longman.
Lidskog, R. & Soneryd, L. (2002). Miljökatastrofer och ansvar: Fallet Hallandsås. In: Johan Hedrén, Naturen som brytpunkt: om miljöfrågans mystifieringar, konflikter och motsägelser (pp. 188-219). Eslöv: B. Östlings bokförlag Symposion.
Lidskog, R. , Johansson, B. & Lekare, K. (2001). Våldet och tryggheten i staden. In: Den motsägelsefulla staden: vardagsliv och urbana regimer (pp. 53-82). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Elander, I. & Lidskog, R. (2000). The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives. In: Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander, Rolf Lidskog, Consuming cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration (pp. 30-53). London: Routledge.

Collections (editor)

Lidskog, R. (ed.) & Löfmarck, E. (ed.) (2022). En mänsklig natur: Risker, reglering och representationer. Örebro: Örebro universitet, sociologiämnet.
Westvall, M. (ed.) , Lidskog, R. (ed.) & Pripp, O. (ed.) (2018). Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser: Föreningsliv och kulturproduktion i ett föränderligt samhälle. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Lidskog, R. (ed.) & Waterton, C. (ed.) (2016). Environmental Sociology: Special issue: Conceptual Innovation in Environmental Sociology (Vol 2, No 4ed.).. Taylor & Francis (Environmental Sociology 2016:4).
Lidskog, R. (ed.) & Sundqvist, G. (ed.) (2011). Governing the air: the dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press (Politics, science, and the environment ).
Carleheden, M. (ed.) , Lidskog, R. (ed.) & Roman, C. (ed.) (2007). Social interaktion: förutsättningar och former (1ed.). Malmö: Liber.
Low, N. (ed.) , Gleeson, B. (ed.) , Elander, I. (ed.) & Lidskog, R. (ed.) (2000). Consuming cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration (1ed.). London: Routledge.
Lidskog, R. (ed.) , Nohrstedt, S. A. (ed.) & Warg, L. (ed.) (2000). Risker, kommunikation och medier: en forskarantologi. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Lidskog, R. (ed.) (1998). Kommunen och kärnavfallet: svensk kärnavfallspolitik på 1990-talet. Stockholm: Carlsson.

Conference papers

Doctoral theses, monographs

Lidskog, R. (1994). Radioactive and hazardous waste management in Sweden: movements, politics and science. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

Manuscripts

Gouldson, A. , Lidskog, R. & Wester-Herber, M. The battle for hearts and minds? : Evolutions in organizational approaches to environmental risk communication.
Benyamine, M. , Lidskog, R. & Sandén, P. Forest nitrogen fertilisation.
Benyamine, M. , Lidskog, R. & Sandén, P. Why forest nitrogen fertilization is debated.

Reports

Díaz Reviriego, I. , Beck, S. , Darbi, M. , Hauck, J. , Hudson, C. , Janz, C. , Klenk, N. , Lidskog, R. & et al. (2018). Five years of IPBES : Reflecting the achievements and challenges and identifying needs for its review towards a 2^nd work programme. . Leipzig, Germany: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).
Ojala, M. & Lidskog, R. (2013). Mygg och människor vid sjön Björken: upplevelser av myggsituationen och attityder till bekämpningsåtgärder. Gävle: Länsstyrelsen Gävleborg.
Soneryd, L. & Lidskog, R. (2006). Allmänhet, expertis och deliberation: samråd om slutförvar av kärnavfall. Stockholm: Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB rapport R-06-118).
Uggla, Y. & Lidskog, R. (2006). Att planera för en osäker framtid: kommuners arbete inför hotet om ett förändrat klimat. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Centrum för urbana och regionala studiers skriftserie 60).
Grennfelt, P. , Lidskog, R. , Lindau, L. , Maas, R. , Raes, F. , Sundqvist, G. & Arnell, J. (2006). Towards robust European air pollution policies: constrains and prospects for a wider dialogue between scientists, experts, decision-makers and citizens : a workshop report. Stockholm: IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL Report B1671).
Lidskog, R. , Sundqvist, G. & Uggla, Y. (2005). Risk, expertis och demokrati: allmänhetens inflytande i samhällets riskhantering. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet (STS Research Reports 10).
Andersson, A. & Lidskog, R. (2002). The management of radioactive waste: a description of ten countries. Stockholm: Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB (Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB rapportserie ).