Centre for Development and the Environment
Senter for utvikling og miljø | |
Abbreviation | SUM |
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Formation | 1984/1990 |
Type | Research institute |
Location | |
Parent organization | University of Oslo |
Website |
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The Centre for Development and the Environment (Norwegian: Senter for utvikling og miljø, SUM) is a research institute which is part of the University of Oslo. Its focus areas are international development and environmental studies.
History
The Centre for Development and the Environment was established in 1990, following the work with the report Our Common Future (the Brundtland Report), presented by the Brundtland Commission chaired by Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, and the increased focus on the environment and sustainable development.
In 2000, the Program for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society (ProSus), formerly called the Project for an Alternative Future (established 1984), was merged into the Centre for Development and the Environment. ProSus was established on the initiative of 17 organisations and was funded by parliament over the Norwegian state budget; it was part of the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities from the early 1990s and became part of the University of Oslo in 1996.[1] ProSus was discontinued as a separate programme in 2006.[2]
Structure
The centre is placed directly under the University Board of the University of Oslo. Its Board comprises representatives from the relevant faculties of the university, that is the faculties of Social Sciences, Arts, Natural Sciences, and Law. In addition, the Board has two members not connected to the university. The current director is Kristi Anne Stølen.
It is funded by the University as well as organizations such as the Research Council of Norway, NUFU (the Norwegian Universities' Committee for Development Research and Education), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Environment, NORAD and the World Bank.
More than 50 people are affiliated with the Centre for Development and the Environment. The centre hosts the Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment, which includes the Arne Næss Chair, which is awarded each year to "one or several scholars of international standing who have made a significant contribution to the study of global justice and the environment."[3]
Notable researchers
Notable researchers currently or formerly affiliated with the centre include:
- Kristin Asdal
- Margunn Bjørnholt
- Ottar Brox
- Harald Bøckman
- J. Peter Burgess
- Kjetil Fretheim
- Jan Fuglestvedt
- Nina Margrethe Gornitzka
- Beatrice Halsaa
- Ketil Fred Hansen
- Dag Hareide
- Bente Herstad
- Fritz Christian Holte
- William M. Lafferty
- Oluf Langhelle
- James Lovelock
- Desmond McNeill
- Arne Næss
- Kit-Fai Næss
- Erik S. Reinert
- Else Skjønsberg
- Nils Christian Stenseth
- Kristi Anne Stølen
- Nina Witoszek
References
External links
- Official Centre for Development and the Environment website—(in Norwegian)
Coordinates: 59°56′51.6″N 10°43′53.5″E / 59.947667°N 10.731528°E