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Manjana Milkoreit
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Manjana Milkoreit is part of the Research Group on Climate and Energy and holds a 20% position at NUPI in the project The pulling power of Paris. She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo.
Her research integrates scholarship on global environmental governance and cognitive theory to study actor motivations, beliefs and agency, institutional design and effectiveness related to climate change. She is interested in challenges at the science-policy-society interface, including the use of scientific knowledge in environmental decision-making, and the role of ideologies in advancing or preventing effective societal responses to climate change.
Milkoreit’s current research focusses on the role of future thinking (imagination) in sustainability transformations and the study of social tipping points.
Education
2013 Ph.D. in Global Governance, University of Waterloo (Canada)
2007 Master in Public Policy (MPP), John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (USA)
Work Experience
2021- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
2016-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University (USA)
2013-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University (USA)
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The pulling power of Paris: Unpacking the role of ‘pledge & review’ in climate governance (PullP)
Will the Paris Agreement deliver on its promise and will the international community be able to avoid dangerous climate change? This project analyses the role of the governance architecture of the Par...
Research group for Climate and energy
Research group for Climate and energy