Heidi Rapp Nilsen

Biographic Data

ID1580056
NAMEHeidi Rapp Nilsen
GIVEN NAMESHeidi Rapp
FAMILY NAMENilsen
SIGNATURENILSEN H R
AFFILIATIONSNorwegian University of Science and Technology
ORCID0000-0002-2704-6143
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Transforming local governance

    Open AccessRita Nerland, Gisle Solbu et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2025References: 8

    Despite the global call for sustainability transformations, researchers and practitioners struggle to achieve this goal. One promising avenue is to use concepts from systems theory, particularly system leverage points, to understand and accelerate transformation processes. This paper addresses how public decision-makers and politicians at different levels of local government understand sustainability transformations and the implications of this u…

  • Code Red for Humanity

    Open AccessHeidi Rapp NilsenARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2024

    The urgency of the ecological crisis, described as a ‘code red for humanity’, is also a call to the business ethics community to work even harder for a safe space for humanity. This commentary suggests two specific domains of engagement, with the aim of having more impact in mitigating the ecological crisis: (1) the empirical fact of non-negotiable biophysical thresholds to convey the status and severity of the crisis, and (2) the need for strong…

  • Relational visioning and the emerging future

    Open AccessRita Nerland, Dina Hestad et al.ARTICLEFutures2024References: 35

    The Earth is currently facing unprecedented anthropogenic impacts. In this context of widespread environmental degradation and climate anxiety, there is an urgent need to reimagine our approaches to sustainability. This paper explores how a relational framing of sustainability can be applied to visioning exercises to foster transformative actions in local governance. While relational approaches are increasingly recognized as important to spark tr…

  • Biosphere‐based sustainability in local governments

    Open AccessRita Nerland, Heidi Rapp Nilsen et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2022Cited by: 3References: 8

    Knowledge on sustainable development goals (SDGs) interactions has a bias toward global perspectives and lacks regional or country‐specific differentiation. This paper takes a biosphere‐based sustainability approach and assesses SDG interactions in a local governmental context. We start by addressing how the SDGs promote a biosphere‐based sustainability. Here, we find a range of opinions and we settle on a set of SDGs. Second, we explore how a se…

  • A Broad Alliance of Civil Society Organizations on Climate Change Mitigation

    Open AccessHeidi Rapp Nilsen, Kristin Strømsnes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Civil Society2017Cited by: 1References: 10

    One hundred and one very different organizations joined together prior to the election for the Norwegian parliament in 2013 in order to make climate change mitigation the most important issue in the election campaign. The alliance (CE2013) agreed on six political demands relating to mitigation. In this article, we categorize the 101 organizations and discuss their identity and objectives according to these demands. The analysis demonstrates that …

  • The power of environmental indifference. A critical discourse analysis of a collaboration of tourism firms

    Open AccessHeidi Rapp Nilsen, May-Britt EllingsenARTICLEEcological Economics2015

  • The joint discourse ‘reflexive sustainable development’ — From weak towards strong sustainable development

    Open AccessHeidi Rapp NilsenARTICLEEcological Economics2010

  • Overlapping consensus versus discourse in climate change policy

    Open AccessHeidi Rapp NilsenARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2010References: 1