Monika Berg
Monika Berg Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: bW9uaWthLmJlcmc7b3J1LnNl
Phone: +46 19 303672
Room: F3277
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About Monika Berg
Monika Berg is associate professor in sociology and has a doctoral degree in political science. She is part of the Environmental Sociology Section at Örebro University.
Research
Monika Berg current research focuses on environmental policy, the interaction between science and policy and the handling of ethical conflicts when governing society towards a sustainable transition. In addition, Berg has recently headed a research project on the organisation of the welfare state and its implications for institutional trust.
Berg received her Ph.D. in Political Science at Örebro University. Her thesis is within the field of policy studies and explores the dynamics of policy formation, with a particular focus on problem formulation and knowledge usage. The empirical focus is on the policy field of local crime prevention and safety policy in Sweden.
Teaching
Monika Berg is responsible for the master courses Theoretical perspectives on sustainable development, and for the advanced course in Sociology.
Research projects
Active projects
- Water challenges in sustainable planning and built environment (WATCH)
- Green public ethics: exploring and elaborating value conflict handling of public administrators
- The logic of measuring, managing and governing ecosystems (EcoLogic)
- Conceptual development of environmental sociology
- The legitimacy of the welfare state - New mechanisms of trust in a hollow state development?
Completed projects
Publications
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Articles, book reviews |
Books |
Chapters in books |
Collections (editor) |
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |
Articles in journals
- Berg, M. & Lidskog, R. (2024). Global environmental assessments and transformative change: the role of epistemic infrastructures and the inclusion of social sciences. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1-18. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. (2024). The valuation of a mine – values, facts and contested notions of sustainability in the prospecting for new mines. Environmental Sociology, 10 (3), 294-307. [BibTeX]
- D'Orazio, P. , Scholtens, B. , de Mariz, F. , González-Ruiz, J. D. , Ullah, S. , Adegbite, O. , Thompson, B. S. , Liu, F. H. M. & et al. (2023). Catalyzing the transformation to sustainable finance. One Earth, 6 (10), 1271-1276. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Olsson, J. (2023). Managing public value conflicts – Institutional strategies and the greening of public pension funds. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 39 (4). [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. (2021). Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation: The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors. Global Environmental Politics, 21 (3), 77-96. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Johansson, T. (2020). Building Institutional Trust Through Service Experiences: Private Versus Public Provision Matter. Journal of public administration research and theory, 30 (2), 290-306. [BibTeX]
- 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. [BibTeX]
- Gustafsson, K. M. & Berg, M. (2020). Early-career scientists in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A moderate or radical path towards a deliberative future?. Environmental Sociology, 6 (3), 242-253. [BibTeX]
- 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. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Dahl, V. (2019). Mechanisms of trust for different modes of welfare service provision. Public Management Review. [BibTeX]
- 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). [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Deliberative democracy meets democratised science: a deliberative systems approach to global environmental governance. Environmental Politics, 27 (1), 1-20. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Lidskog, R. (2018). Pathways to deliberative capacity: the role of the IPCC. Climatic Change, 148 (1-2), 11-24. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & De Majo, V. (2017). Understanding the Global Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 8 (2), 147-167. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Johansson, T. (2016). Trust and safety in the segregated city: contextualizing the relationship between institutional trust, crime-related insecurity and generalized trust. Scandinavian Political Studies, 39 (4), 458-481. [BibTeX]
- Persson, M. (2015). A policy problem that cannot escape its past: constraints on the reformation of safety policy. Critical Policy Studies, 9 (2), 158-176. [BibTeX]
- Persson, M. (2013). The relative importance of institutional trust in countering feelings of unsafety in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. European Spatial Research and Policy, 20 (1), 73-95. [BibTeX]
- 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. [BibTeX]
- Persson, M. (2012). Local sensemaking of policy paradoxes: implementing local crime prevention in Sweden. Public Organization Review, 13 (1), 1-20. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Berg, M. (2023). Review of: Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene. Contemporary Sociology, 52 (4), 317-319. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. (2020). En stark kraft i miljöfrågor: Recension av: Miljöframgångar. Från freonförbud till klimatlag. Kemisk tidskrift (2), 32-33. [BibTeX]
Books
- Olsson, J. , Berg, M. , Hysing, E. , Kristianssen, A. & Petersén, A. (2019). Policy i teori och praktik. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Boström, M. , Berg, M. & Lidskog, R. (2024). Reflexivity and anti-reflexivity. In: Christine Overdevest, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology (pp. 474-480). . Edward Elgar Publishing. [BibTeX]
- 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. [BibTeX]
- Berg, M. & Saikkonen, P. (2019). The eco-social Nordic welfare state – a distant dream or apossible future?. In: Sakari Hänninen, Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä and Paula Saikkonen, The Relational Nordic Welfare State: Between Utopia and Ideology (pp. 162-183). . Edward Elgar Publishing. [BibTeX]
- Persson, M. (2015). Place and unsafety: does place affect feelings of unsafety?. In: Marco Eimermann och Anders Trumberg, Place and identity: A new landscape of social and political change in Sweden (pp. 180-204). Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press Sweden. [BibTeX]
- Persson, M. (2013). A theoretical inquiry of the use of knowledge in the policy process. In: Henrik Lindberg, Knowledge and policy change (pp. 22-41). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [BibTeX]
- Persson, M. (2011). Forskningens roll i trygghetspolitiken. In: Ann-Sofie Hellberg, Martin Karlsson, Hannu Larsson, Erik Lundberg, Monika Persson, Perspektiv på offentlig verksamhet i utveckling: tolv kapitel om demokrati, styrning och effektivitet (pp. 21-31). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
Collections (editor)
- Hellberg, A. (ed.) , Karlsson, M. (ed.) , Larsson, H. (ed.) , Lundberg, E. (ed.) & Persson, M. (ed.) (2011). Perspektiv på offentlig verksamhet i utveckling: tolv kapitel om demokrati, styrning och effektivitet (1ed.). Örebro: Örebro universitet (FOVU:s rapportserie 1). [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Persson, M. (2014). The dynamics of policy formation: making sense of feelings of public unsafety. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro university. [BibTeX]