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Henner Busch

Researcher, Docent

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Contact details
  • Email: henner [dot] busch [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Phone: +46 46 222 30 24
Organisation
  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • Visiting address: Biskopsgatan 5, Lund
  • Service point: 59
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Associate professor
    LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Research Topics

  • Energy Justice
  • Community Energy
  • Just Transition
  • Transnational Municipal Climate Networks
  • Nature in Videogames

Ongoing Research

Broadly speaking, my research focusses on the intersection between energy systems, climate policies and society. In particular, I am interested in questions of justice: who benefits from energy projects and who bears the burden? Whose interests do we serve when building an oil pipeline, a hydropower station or when developing new energy regulations? Who has the power to shape debates on future energy systems and who defines which pathways of climate mitigation are realistic and which are not? 

I am currently working on a number of projects:

  1. Just Swedish Transport Industry Transitions (JUSTIT) aims to assess the impact of low-carbon transition on transport workers in Sweden and to support trade unions, government and businesses with designing policies and strategies to ensure a just transition. More information here.
  2. Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain aims at empowering industry workers to become active agents in a green transition. More information here. 
  3. Burying problems? Imaginaries of Carbon Capture and Storage in Scandinavia examines how ideas about a future application of CCS shape policies and decision-making around climate mitigation today. More information here.
  4. Of Pople, PV, Pwer Lines: Energy Islands in the Nordics investigates how island communities in Sweden and Finland manage citizen involvement in planning processes in an energy transition. More information here. 

Previous projects include:

 "Navigating Justice Claims - Between Riots, Strikes and Business as Usual", which investigated different justice claims that are voiced by all kinds of groups in society and explored ways to navigate these claims. (2020-2023)

The Co2mmunity project (http://co2mmunity.eu/), which investigated the establishment and management of community energy projects in the Baltic Sea Region. (2018-2020)

A project entitled “Mot hållbar biomassa inom bioekonomin?”, which focusses on the role of certification schemes for bioenergy in the growing biobased economy. (2016/2017)

A project hosted by the Pufendorf Instistute for Advanced Studies, which focusses on Energy Justice. More information on this project can be found here. (2016/2017)

Teaching

I teach, supervise and examine students at undergraduate, master and PhD level. In the past, I taught both methodology-oriented content such as systems thinking, energy justice and cost benefit analysis and content that focusses on trends and empirics, such as development of energy systems, globalisation or the depiction of climate change in video games. I have supervised some 40 master thesis on a wide range of topic, including community energy, urban development, discourses on air pollution or edible insects.   

Videos

 


Presentation of the paper "Green Attraction"

 

 


Presentation of the paper "Linked for Action?"

 

 


Presentation of the paper "Local Power"

Publications

Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.

Biography

With a background in Governmental Studies (Erfurt, Germany) and a MSC in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) as well as a PhD in Sustainability Science from Lund University, Henner's education has been interdisciplinary from the start. He graduated from his Masters in 2010 with a thesis on the motivation of municipal key-actors to support the introduction of renewable energies. After graduation, he worked for a short spell at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engeneering in Potsdam-Bornim, Germany before returning to Lund. He graduated from his PhD in 2016 with a thesis on the impact of transnational municipal climate networks on urban climate governance. In 2018, he changed department to work for about three years at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University in a project on community energy projects in the Baltic Sea Region before returning to LUCSUS in late 2020. His work mainly focusses on energy and climate governance.

Page manager: henner [dot] busch [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se | 9 Feb 2024