Synne Movik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Synne Movik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Synne |
| FAMILY NAME | Movik |
| SIGNATURE | MOVIK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0042-6725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transformative environments: Climate change uncertainties, marginality and locally driven transformative change in India and Bangladesh
Climate change uncertainties, particularly at the local level, remain one of the central challenges to the sustainability of societies and ecosystems.Despite advances in climate science, significant uncertainties persist regarding the scale, intensity and impacts of climatic change (Dessai and van der Sluijs, 2007; Mehta et al, 2021b), and how these get compounded with other intersecting crises (Leach et al, 2021).These uncertainties are especial…
Co-production and transformative change: Lessons and challenges
This article takes the case of the TAPESTRY project to look at how transformative change can be co-produced between local communities, researchers, community-based organisations and other actors. We lay out the process, challenges and tensions of doing co-produced research with marginalised people in marginalised environments affected by climate-related uncertainties and other crises. We reflect on the strategies needed to ensure that the voices …
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change: Contestations in uncertain ‘marginal’ environments
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India
In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge practices and legal activism. We start by tracing the emergence of colonial declensionist views of environments in India as ‘productive’ and ‘normal’, which have powerfully shaped visions of environments and socio–environmental relations in contemporary times, marking certain landscapes ‘marginal’ or ‘unproductive’. …
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects: Insights from marginal environments in India and Bangladesh
The paper explores how deliberate transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments with high levels of climatic uncertainty. • Using the lens of transformation as praxis, we highlight pathways and practices that facilitate or impede transformative change. • Using a transdisciplinary approach, the focus is on exploring pathways to transformation drawing on bottom-up approaches. • We attempt to co-produce hybrid knowledge(s) combining…
Dynamics of knowledge creation and use for disaster management in Chokwe district, Mozambique
Purpose Disaster management practices depend on societies' knowledge. As climate change rapidly reshapes knowledge, questions arise about how knowledge for disaster management is produced and (re)shaped in modern world and how effective it is to withstand the ever-growing frequency and magnitude of disasters. This paper discusses the dynamics of knowledge creation and its use for disaster management in Chokwe district, southern Mozambique. Design…
Contested Coastal Commons and Blue Spatial Justice: Enclosures, Rescaling, and Resistance in Northern Norway
The coastal commons are increasingly contested around the world, coming under pressure from competing interests. In particular, the discourses of ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ have become powerful buzzwords, giving rise to concerns about the impacts on communities depending on coastal resources, such as small-scale fishers. In Norway, aquaculture is the second-most important export industry in the country, but there are increasing conflicts wi…
Claiming space: Contested coastal commons in Mumbai
Many of the world’s cities are located on the coast, and coastal ecologies and livelihoods are under increasing pressure from rapid urban transformations and climate change. This necessitates paying attention to how coastal spaces are understood and governed, but the spatial dimensions of urban coastal commons has received comparatively little attention. How are coastal spaces framed, understood, and contested? Drawing on scholarship on socio-spa…
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Asserting authority through mapping: The politics of re-scaling coastal planning in western Norway
Integrated coastal zone planning seeks to balance competing interests, with aquaculture representing an increasing pressure fuelled by a dominant discourse of ‘blue growth’. Recently, more regional-level approaches to planning and mapping in the coastal zone have emerged. Maps, however, are not neutral artefacts, but are infused with particular values and meanings, strengthening some interests rather than others. Drawing on a case study from Hord…
Making maps, making claims: The politics and practices of visualisation in environmental governance
What role does visualisation—such as images and maps—play in environmental and landscape governance? As pointed out by our late colleague Eirin Hongslo, surprisingly little research has been conducted on what ‘work’ images and maps do in these fields. This special issue draws on her insights, and the wider scholarship on critical cartography and political ecology, to explore how images and maps act as technologies of governance through creating a…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
States of power: Energy imaginaries and transnational assemblages in Norway, Nepal and Tanzania
Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy imaginaries in the countries engaged with? ‘Energy imaginaries’ can be understood as the set of institutions, logics, values, and visions that spur ideas around what sources of energy and forms of energy governance best foster development. Adopting a historical and comparative …
The price of thirst: Water inequality and the coming chaos. By Karen Piper
Karen Piper takes readers on a tour de force of the failed piped dreams of the world. In vivid detail, she describes the plight of people for whom clean water is out of reach. The main thrust of her argument is on the privatization of water services, in particular the expansion of big multinational corporations, tracing the machinations and power struggles of corporate interests in water supply services in a variety of settings around the globe. …
A fair share? Perceptions of justice in South Africa’s water allocation reform policy
Needs, Rights and Responsibilities in Water Governance: Some Reflections
This article discusses needs, rights and responsibilities with regard to water, drawing on global discourses and cases from South Africa. Taking the New Delhi and Dublin Statements as a point of departure, it describes the prevalent global discourses and sets of dichotomies that have characterised much of the water governance debates, such as human right/economic good, public/private, formal/informal, etc. It explores the boundaries of responsibi…
The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors
The River Nile in the Post‐Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation in the Nile Basin Terje Tvedt (ed.)
2010 London: IB Tauris, 203 pp. The River Nile in the Post‐Colonial Age, edited by Terje Tvedt, is a valuable volume for anyone interested in the Nile, and in particular the riparian states’ past
A “Blue Revolution” for African Agriculture
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
A fair share? Perceptions of justice in South Africa’s water allocation reform policy
The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors
Claiming space: Contested coastal commons in Mumbai
Many of the world’s cities are located on the coast, and coastal ecologies and livelihoods are under increasing pressure from rapid urban transformations and climate change. This necessitates paying attention to how coastal spaces are understood and governed, but the spatial dimensions of urban coastal commons has received comparatively little attention. How are coastal spaces framed, understood, and contested? Drawing on scholarship on socio-spa…
States of power: Energy imaginaries and transnational assemblages in Norway, Nepal and Tanzania
Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy imaginaries in the countries engaged with? ‘Energy imaginaries’ can be understood as the set of institutions, logics, values, and visions that spur ideas around what sources of energy and forms of energy governance best foster development. Adopting a historical and comparative …
Making maps, making claims: The politics and practices of visualisation in environmental governance
What role does visualisation—such as images and maps—play in environmental and landscape governance? As pointed out by our late colleague Eirin Hongslo, surprisingly little research has been conducted on what ‘work’ images and maps do in these fields. This special issue draws on her insights, and the wider scholarship on critical cartography and political ecology, to explore how images and maps act as technologies of governance through creating a…
Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India
In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge practices and legal activism. We start by tracing the emergence of colonial declensionist views of environments in India as ‘productive’ and ‘normal’, which have powerfully shaped visions of environments and socio–environmental relations in contemporary times, marking certain landscapes ‘marginal’ or ‘unproductive’. …
Contested Coastal Commons and Blue Spatial Justice: Enclosures, Rescaling, and Resistance in Northern Norway
The coastal commons are increasingly contested around the world, coming under pressure from competing interests. In particular, the discourses of ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ have become powerful buzzwords, giving rise to concerns about the impacts on communities depending on coastal resources, such as small-scale fishers. In Norway, aquaculture is the second-most important export industry in the country, but there are increasing conflicts wi…
A “Blue Revolution” for African Agriculture
The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors
The River Nile in the Post‐Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation in the Nile Basin Terje Tvedt (ed.)
2010 London: IB Tauris, 203 pp. The River Nile in the Post‐Colonial Age, edited by Terje Tvedt, is a valuable volume for anyone interested in the Nile, and in particular the riparian states’ past
Needs, Rights and Responsibilities in Water Governance: Some Reflections
This article discusses needs, rights and responsibilities with regard to water, drawing on global discourses and cases from South Africa. Taking the New Delhi and Dublin Statements as a point of departure, it describes the prevalent global discourses and sets of dichotomies that have characterised much of the water governance debates, such as human right/economic good, public/private, formal/informal, etc. It explores the boundaries of responsibi…
A fair share? Perceptions of justice in South Africa’s water allocation reform policy
The price of thirst: Water inequality and the coming chaos. By Karen Piper
Karen Piper takes readers on a tour de force of the failed piped dreams of the world. In vivid detail, she describes the plight of people for whom clean water is out of reach. The main thrust of her argument is on the privatization of water services, in particular the expansion of big multinational corporations, tracing the machinations and power struggles of corporate interests in water supply services in a variety of settings around the globe. …
States of power: Energy imaginaries and transnational assemblages in Norway, Nepal and Tanzania
Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy imaginaries in the countries engaged with? ‘Energy imaginaries’ can be understood as the set of institutions, logics, values, and visions that spur ideas around what sources of energy and forms of energy governance best foster development. Adopting a historical and comparative …
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Asserting authority through mapping: The politics of re-scaling coastal planning in western Norway
Integrated coastal zone planning seeks to balance competing interests, with aquaculture representing an increasing pressure fuelled by a dominant discourse of ‘blue growth’. Recently, more regional-level approaches to planning and mapping in the coastal zone have emerged. Maps, however, are not neutral artefacts, but are infused with particular values and meanings, strengthening some interests rather than others. Drawing on a case study from Hord…
Making maps, making claims: The politics and practices of visualisation in environmental governance
What role does visualisation—such as images and maps—play in environmental and landscape governance? As pointed out by our late colleague Eirin Hongslo, surprisingly little research has been conducted on what ‘work’ images and maps do in these fields. This special issue draws on her insights, and the wider scholarship on critical cartography and political ecology, to explore how images and maps act as technologies of governance through creating a…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
Claiming space: Contested coastal commons in Mumbai
Many of the world’s cities are located on the coast, and coastal ecologies and livelihoods are under increasing pressure from rapid urban transformations and climate change. This necessitates paying attention to how coastal spaces are understood and governed, but the spatial dimensions of urban coastal commons has received comparatively little attention. How are coastal spaces framed, understood, and contested? Drawing on scholarship on socio-spa…
Dynamics of knowledge creation and use for disaster management in Chokwe district, Mozambique
Purpose Disaster management practices depend on societies' knowledge. As climate change rapidly reshapes knowledge, questions arise about how knowledge for disaster management is produced and (re)shaped in modern world and how effective it is to withstand the ever-growing frequency and magnitude of disasters. This paper discusses the dynamics of knowledge creation and its use for disaster management in Chokwe district, southern Mozambique. Design…
Contested Coastal Commons and Blue Spatial Justice: Enclosures, Rescaling, and Resistance in Northern Norway
The coastal commons are increasingly contested around the world, coming under pressure from competing interests. In particular, the discourses of ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ have become powerful buzzwords, giving rise to concerns about the impacts on communities depending on coastal resources, such as small-scale fishers. In Norway, aquaculture is the second-most important export industry in the country, but there are increasing conflicts wi…
Co-production and transformative change: Lessons and challenges
This article takes the case of the TAPESTRY project to look at how transformative change can be co-produced between local communities, researchers, community-based organisations and other actors. We lay out the process, challenges and tensions of doing co-produced research with marginalised people in marginalised environments affected by climate-related uncertainties and other crises. We reflect on the strategies needed to ensure that the voices …
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change: Contestations in uncertain ‘marginal’ environments
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India
In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge practices and legal activism. We start by tracing the emergence of colonial declensionist views of environments in India as ‘productive’ and ‘normal’, which have powerfully shaped visions of environments and socio–environmental relations in contemporary times, marking certain landscapes ‘marginal’ or ‘unproductive’. …
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects: Insights from marginal environments in India and Bangladesh
The paper explores how deliberate transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments with high levels of climatic uncertainty. • Using the lens of transformation as praxis, we highlight pathways and practices that facilitate or impede transformative change. • Using a transdisciplinary approach, the focus is on exploring pathways to transformation drawing on bottom-up approaches. • We attempt to co-produce hybrid knowledge(s) combining…
Transformative environments: Climate change uncertainties, marginality and locally driven transformative change in India and Bangladesh
Climate change uncertainties, particularly at the local level, remain one of the central challenges to the sustainability of societies and ecosystems.Despite advances in climate science, significant uncertainties persist regarding the scale, intensity and impacts of climatic change (Dessai and van der Sluijs, 2007; Mehta et al, 2021b), and how these get compounded with other intersecting crises (Leach et al, 2021).These uncertainties are especial…
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