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Kjersti Bardal
Nordland Research Institute, N-8049 Bodø, Norway

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PhD in Transport economics from Business School, Nord University, Bodø, Norway; Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration, Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Current position: Senior researcher at Nordland Research Institute, Bodø, Norway. Previous position: Associated professor at the Business School, Nord University, Bodø, Norway. Scientific interests: Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in planning, transition to more sustainable mobility, cost-benefit analysis, transport economics, project management. E-mail address: [email protected] Phone: +47 413 22 114

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Journal article
Published: 12 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on regional and local authorities’ ability to implement the goals in their respective contexts. Through a survey and interviews with informants in Norwegian municipalities and county councils, this paper explores and offers new empirical insight into (1) which factors can be identified as facilitating the implementation of the SDGs in Norwegian local and regional planning; (2) how the facilitating factors are conditioned by the different local and regional institutional contexts; and (3) how these factors from the Norwegian context correspond or differ from those in the international literature. We find that the existing Planning and Building Act is considered a suitable framework for the implementation of the SDGs in the Norwegian context, and that the SDGs are high on the national and regional governmental agendas. However, work remains in integrating the SDGs into underlying governmental activities. They must be incorporated into action plans and planning tools, which will require involvement, collaboration and development work across sectors and authority levels, and the development of guidelines for how this can be done. Allocating enough resources for this work will be crucial, and smaller municipalities may need other types and degrees of support than larger ones.

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Kjersti Bardal; Mathias Reinar; Aase Lundberg; Maiken Bjørkan. Factors Facilitating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Regional and Local Planning—Experiences from Norway. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4282 .

AMA Style

Kjersti Bardal, Mathias Reinar, Aase Lundberg, Maiken Bjørkan. Factors Facilitating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Regional and Local Planning—Experiences from Norway. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4282.

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Kjersti Bardal; Mathias Reinar; Aase Lundberg; Maiken Bjørkan. 2021. "Factors Facilitating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Regional and Local Planning—Experiences from Norway." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4282.

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Published: 04 August 2020 in Research in Transportation Economics
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This paper addresses the issue with contradictory outcomes of cost-benefit analyses (CBA) performed on the same project that can be seen in many Norwegian public-investment projects. Different stakeholders may order “their own” appraisals of a specific project, which sometimes conclude quite differently from the other appraisals. This phenomenon is explored by studying the appraisals performed on eight Norwegian public-investment projects. Each of the projects analysed have been subject to many appraisals, which have all been compared and analysed. The following research questions have been explored: (1) How may various appraisals of the same project differ? (2) How may clients be able to influence the results of the appraisals? (3) How may the challenge with differing results, technical bias and low transparency of the appraisals be addressed in order to help decision-makers evaluate the various outcomes of CBAs? The findings show that the appraisals did vary in the projects studied; for some of them, quite substantially. The differences between appraisals were mostly related to the benefit side of the projects, both regarding which types of benefits were quantified and how they were measured and monetised. Important project-specific assumptions also differed among the appraisals. The findings indicate that the clients ordering the appraisals may have impacted the outcome of the appraisals by, for example, impacting project specific assumptions and demanding certain methodologies and standards to be used when quantifying and valuing benefits. A CBA can never be a complete, objective description of the matters under consideration. However, it is crucial that the appraisals are transparent and report on important factors that have large impact on the results so that decision-makers can evaluate the various appraisals and are able to use the information from them in decision-making processes.

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Kjersti Granås Bardal. Contradictory outcomes of cost-benefit analyses – Findings from Norwegian public-investment projects. Research in Transportation Economics 2020, 82, 100874 .

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Kjersti Granås Bardal. Contradictory outcomes of cost-benefit analyses – Findings from Norwegian public-investment projects. Research in Transportation Economics. 2020; 82 ():100874.

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Kjersti Granås Bardal. 2020. "Contradictory outcomes of cost-benefit analyses – Findings from Norwegian public-investment projects." Research in Transportation Economics 82, no. : 100874.

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Published: 03 April 2020 in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
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The paper explores barriers for designing and implementing policies for the transition to more environmentally sustainable urban mobility, and strategies for overcoming these barriers in three Norwegian cities. Empirical data has been collected by interviewing key informants and analysing relevant documents. The findings show that there is broad political support for placing sustainable mobility high on the political agenda. Challenges appear when policy measures are designed and implemented. Cultural, legal, political, organisational, financial and knowledge-related barriers are identified. Many similar barriers are identified in the three case cities, but differences also appear. The results indicate that the size of the cities as well as the type of policy packages implemented are important factors, impacting both the type and strength of barriers. Several strategies for overcoming barriers have been implemented in the three case cities with success. The implementation of policy packages with a combination of “push” and “pull” measures is perhaps the most important strategy. In addition, using communication strategically and allowing for trials and step-by-step introduction of policy measures are success factors. Better methods for stakeholder involvement and planning tools for bicyclists and pedestrians may increase the acceptance of policy measures and speed up the transition toward sustainable mobility.

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Kjersti Granås Bardal; Arild Gjertsen; Mathias Brynildsen Reinar. Sustainable mobility: Policy design and implementation in three Norwegian cities. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2020, 82, 102330 .

AMA Style

Kjersti Granås Bardal, Arild Gjertsen, Mathias Brynildsen Reinar. Sustainable mobility: Policy design and implementation in three Norwegian cities. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2020; 82 ():102330.

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Kjersti Granås Bardal; Arild Gjertsen; Mathias Brynildsen Reinar. 2020. "Sustainable mobility: Policy design and implementation in three Norwegian cities." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 82, no. : 102330.