Fay Madeleine Farstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fay Madeleine Farstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fay Madeleine |
| FAMILY NAME | Farstad |
| SIGNATURE | FARSTAD F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | CICERO Center for International Climate Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4190-6899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ruminating on sustainable food systems in a net-zero world
Metagoverning through intermediaries: The role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation
There is little knowledge of how policymakers manage governance networks (“metagovern”) within climate policy and especially at non-executive levels of public management. One strategy to metagovern is through using intermediary actors such as funding bodies. However, as novel actors within climate governance, such “climate intermediaries” are under-researched. We address these gaps by exploring the metagovernance through an intermediary actor, na…
Intermediating climate change: Conclusions and new research directions
The urgency and threats of climate change have elevated the issue to a prominent – albeit often contested – position within the policy process. Resultantly, climate politics and climate change governance have received enhanced attention in both the academic literature and in real-life discourse. Yet, except regarding certain empirical contexts, there has been a lack of conceptualization or analysis of intermediating actors in climate politics – w…
Intermediating climate change: The evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”
Climate change governance systems comprise a wide variety of actors. Here, we introduce “climate intermediaries” as one potentially influential yet often neglected type of actor, behaving as “go-betweens” that connect different types of actors and/or governance levels. This Special Issue analyses two under-researched forms of climate intermediaries: those that exist for reasons unconnected to climate change, and new or uncommon forms of climate i…
Climate change doesn't win you a climate election: Party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election
The 2021 Norwegian General Election was hailed as a ‘climate election’, yet the Greens only won three seats. What explains the centrality of climate change and why did this not translate into more success for the Greens? The academic literature emphasises the valence nature of climate change, meaning it is a consensus issue and that parties compete on competence. Presenting original voter data, we demonstrate this not to be the case. The Greens f…
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands
For decades Norwegian climate policy has largely ignored the agricultural sector and focused on cost-effective emission reductions abroad. Yet in June 2020, Norway decided to ban the cultivation of peatlands to protect critical carbon sinks, and the issue became ‘high politics’. We explain this radical policy change by combining an adapted version of the Multiple Streams framework with the Punctuated Equilibrium model of agenda-setting. We argue …
The local political economy of the regulatory state: Governing affordable housing in England
Regulatory governance involves the use of heterogeneous mechanisms to extract welfare gains from market‐based processes. While often viewed as a depoliticization mechanism, here, we explore a distinctly political manifestation of regulatory governance. Our study focuses on the governance of affordable housing in England, specifically on local authorities' use of ‘Section 106′ (S106) powers to compel private developers to include affordable housin…
Making Brexit work for the environment and livelihoods: Delivering a stakeholder informed vision for agriculture and fisheries
The decision of the UK to leave the EU has far‐reaching, and often shared, implications for agriculture and fisheries. To ensure the future sustainability of the UK’s agricultural and fisheries systems, we argue that it is essential to grasp the opportunity that Brexit is providing to develop integrated policies that improve the management and protection of the natural environments, upon which these industries rely. This article advances a stakeh…
Does size matter? Comparing the party politics of climate change in Australia and Norway
The implications of state size for the party politics of climate change are examined, and in particular its effect in facilitating or impeding cross-party consensus on the issue. This issue is explored through an in-depth, qualitative comparison of Australia and Norway, which are shown to be comparable in important respects yet differ in terms of their size and climate politics. Original primary data is presented from 44 interviews with policymak…
What does Brexit Mean for the UK 's Climate Change Act
This article examines the potential implications of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (so‐called ‘Brexit’) for the success and survival of the country's flagship climate policy, the Climate Change Act 2008. The impact of a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit for the main features of the Climate Change Act are assessed, building on documentary evidence and elite interviews with key policy‐makers and policy‐shapers. The article argues that t…
What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience
The article explains the variation of climate change salience in party manifestos, examining the effects of party characteristics. Creating a novel measure of parties’ climate change salience based on Comparative Manifesto Project data, the article finds that parties have broadly not made climate change a salient issue, though significant differences remain. Left–right ideology significantly helps explain these differences and is more important t…
The Greens in the UK general election of 8 June 2017
The 2017 general election represented a step backwards for the Greens, after a strong performance in 2015 had seemed to establish the party as a serious (if small) electoral force. In 2015, on the
The Norwegian Greens: Coming in From the Cold
The Norwegian general election of September 2013 saw the Norwegian Green Party (Miljopartiet De Gronne) gain its first ever seat in parliament. Although a historic result, it was also considerably
What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience
The article explains the variation of climate change salience in party manifestos, examining the effects of party characteristics. Creating a novel measure of parties’ climate change salience based on Comparative Manifesto Project data, the article finds that parties have broadly not made climate change a salient issue, though significant differences remain. Left–right ideology significantly helps explain these differences and is more important t…
The local political economy of the regulatory state: Governing affordable housing in England
Regulatory governance involves the use of heterogeneous mechanisms to extract welfare gains from market‐based processes. While often viewed as a depoliticization mechanism, here, we explore a distinctly political manifestation of regulatory governance. Our study focuses on the governance of affordable housing in England, specifically on local authorities' use of ‘Section 106′ (S106) powers to compel private developers to include affordable housin…
What does Brexit Mean for the UK 's Climate Change Act
This article examines the potential implications of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (so‐called ‘Brexit’) for the success and survival of the country's flagship climate policy, the Climate Change Act 2008. The impact of a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit for the main features of the Climate Change Act are assessed, building on documentary evidence and elite interviews with key policy‐makers and policy‐shapers. The article argues that t…
Metagoverning through intermediaries: The role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation
There is little knowledge of how policymakers manage governance networks (“metagovern”) within climate policy and especially at non-executive levels of public management. One strategy to metagovern is through using intermediary actors such as funding bodies. However, as novel actors within climate governance, such “climate intermediaries” are under-researched. We address these gaps by exploring the metagovernance through an intermediary actor, na…
Does size matter? Comparing the party politics of climate change in Australia and Norway
The implications of state size for the party politics of climate change are examined, and in particular its effect in facilitating or impeding cross-party consensus on the issue. This issue is explored through an in-depth, qualitative comparison of Australia and Norway, which are shown to be comparable in important respects yet differ in terms of their size and climate politics. Original primary data is presented from 44 interviews with policymak…
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands
For decades Norwegian climate policy has largely ignored the agricultural sector and focused on cost-effective emission reductions abroad. Yet in June 2020, Norway decided to ban the cultivation of peatlands to protect critical carbon sinks, and the issue became ‘high politics’. We explain this radical policy change by combining an adapted version of the Multiple Streams framework with the Punctuated Equilibrium model of agenda-setting. We argue …
Intermediating climate change: The evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”
Climate change governance systems comprise a wide variety of actors. Here, we introduce “climate intermediaries” as one potentially influential yet often neglected type of actor, behaving as “go-betweens” that connect different types of actors and/or governance levels. This Special Issue analyses two under-researched forms of climate intermediaries: those that exist for reasons unconnected to climate change, and new or uncommon forms of climate i…
Intermediating climate change: Conclusions and new research directions
The urgency and threats of climate change have elevated the issue to a prominent – albeit often contested – position within the policy process. Resultantly, climate politics and climate change governance have received enhanced attention in both the academic literature and in real-life discourse. Yet, except regarding certain empirical contexts, there has been a lack of conceptualization or analysis of intermediating actors in climate politics – w…
Climate change doesn't win you a climate election: Party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election
The 2021 Norwegian General Election was hailed as a ‘climate election’, yet the Greens only won three seats. What explains the centrality of climate change and why did this not translate into more success for the Greens? The academic literature emphasises the valence nature of climate change, meaning it is a consensus issue and that parties compete on competence. Presenting original voter data, we demonstrate this not to be the case. The Greens f…
The Norwegian Greens: Coming in From the Cold
The Norwegian general election of September 2013 saw the Norwegian Green Party (Miljopartiet De Gronne) gain its first ever seat in parliament. Although a historic result, it was also considerably
The Greens in the UK general election of 8 June 2017
The 2017 general election represented a step backwards for the Greens, after a strong performance in 2015 had seemed to establish the party as a serious (if small) electoral force. In 2015, on the
The Norwegian Greens: Coming in From the Cold
The Norwegian general election of September 2013 saw the Norwegian Green Party (Miljopartiet De Gronne) gain its first ever seat in parliament. Although a historic result, it was also considerably
The Greens in the UK general election of 8 June 2017
The 2017 general election represented a step backwards for the Greens, after a strong performance in 2015 had seemed to establish the party as a serious (if small) electoral force. In 2015, on the
What does Brexit Mean for the UK 's Climate Change Act
This article examines the potential implications of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (so‐called ‘Brexit’) for the success and survival of the country's flagship climate policy, the Climate Change Act 2008. The impact of a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit for the main features of the Climate Change Act are assessed, building on documentary evidence and elite interviews with key policy‐makers and policy‐shapers. The article argues that t…
What explains variation in parties’ climate change salience
The article explains the variation of climate change salience in party manifestos, examining the effects of party characteristics. Creating a novel measure of parties’ climate change salience based on Comparative Manifesto Project data, the article finds that parties have broadly not made climate change a salient issue, though significant differences remain. Left–right ideology significantly helps explain these differences and is more important t…
Making Brexit work for the environment and livelihoods: Delivering a stakeholder informed vision for agriculture and fisheries
The decision of the UK to leave the EU has far‐reaching, and often shared, implications for agriculture and fisheries. To ensure the future sustainability of the UK’s agricultural and fisheries systems, we argue that it is essential to grasp the opportunity that Brexit is providing to develop integrated policies that improve the management and protection of the natural environments, upon which these industries rely. This article advances a stakeh…
Does size matter? Comparing the party politics of climate change in Australia and Norway
The implications of state size for the party politics of climate change are examined, and in particular its effect in facilitating or impeding cross-party consensus on the issue. This issue is explored through an in-depth, qualitative comparison of Australia and Norway, which are shown to be comparable in important respects yet differ in terms of their size and climate politics. Original primary data is presented from 44 interviews with policymak…
The local political economy of the regulatory state: Governing affordable housing in England
Regulatory governance involves the use of heterogeneous mechanisms to extract welfare gains from market‐based processes. While often viewed as a depoliticization mechanism, here, we explore a distinctly political manifestation of regulatory governance. Our study focuses on the governance of affordable housing in England, specifically on local authorities' use of ‘Section 106′ (S106) powers to compel private developers to include affordable housin…
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands
For decades Norwegian climate policy has largely ignored the agricultural sector and focused on cost-effective emission reductions abroad. Yet in June 2020, Norway decided to ban the cultivation of peatlands to protect critical carbon sinks, and the issue became ‘high politics’. We explain this radical policy change by combining an adapted version of the Multiple Streams framework with the Punctuated Equilibrium model of agenda-setting. We argue …
Metagoverning through intermediaries: The role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation
There is little knowledge of how policymakers manage governance networks (“metagovern”) within climate policy and especially at non-executive levels of public management. One strategy to metagovern is through using intermediary actors such as funding bodies. However, as novel actors within climate governance, such “climate intermediaries” are under-researched. We address these gaps by exploring the metagovernance through an intermediary actor, na…
Intermediating climate change: Conclusions and new research directions
The urgency and threats of climate change have elevated the issue to a prominent – albeit often contested – position within the policy process. Resultantly, climate politics and climate change governance have received enhanced attention in both the academic literature and in real-life discourse. Yet, except regarding certain empirical contexts, there has been a lack of conceptualization or analysis of intermediating actors in climate politics – w…
Intermediating climate change: The evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”
Climate change governance systems comprise a wide variety of actors. Here, we introduce “climate intermediaries” as one potentially influential yet often neglected type of actor, behaving as “go-betweens” that connect different types of actors and/or governance levels. This Special Issue analyses two under-researched forms of climate intermediaries: those that exist for reasons unconnected to climate change, and new or uncommon forms of climate i…
Climate change doesn't win you a climate election: Party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election
The 2021 Norwegian General Election was hailed as a ‘climate election’, yet the Greens only won three seats. What explains the centrality of climate change and why did this not translate into more success for the Greens? The academic literature emphasises the valence nature of climate change, meaning it is a consensus issue and that parties compete on competence. Presenting original voter data, we demonstrate this not to be the case. The Greens f…
Ruminating on sustainable food systems in a net-zero world
Political science (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works)