Arild Gjertsen

• Public planning and management

• The welfare society

• Public safety and emergency preparedness

Arild Gjertsen har bred erfaring med forskning på offentlig styring og samarbeid – fra det lokale til det internasjonale. Han har arbeidet ved Nordlandsforskning siden 1997 og har bred erfaring fra forskning knyttet til interkommunalt samarbeid, kommunestruktur, kommunal forvaltning, lokaldemokrati og regional utviklingspolitikk. I tillegg har han arbeidet med problemstillinger knyttet til endringer i kommunestruktur, med et særlig fokus på demokratiaspekter.

Arild Gjertsen er Cand.polit i statsvitenskap fra Universitetet i Oslo. 

PhD thesis "From policy to practice; Implementation of changes in law to support and protect children of ill parents" at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway.

Here you can read my CV.

No ongoing projects

• Mapping of Norwegian districts' pasture use in Sweden

• Shiftplastics

• PROVIDE (Paris Agreement Overshooting – Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs)

• Transadapt

• Smart mobility in rural areas

• UrbanMine: Institutionalization processes in times of circular green transitions

• GOVOUT: Governing transitions in the Norwegian outfields: Between agrarian traditions, modern consumption and green industrialisation

• The county municipality as planning supervisor

• CityLoops

• Evaluation of the Research Council's work on Sami, Kven and Forest Finnish research (NFREV)

• The impact of the trust reform on renewal and innovation work, stakeholder cooperation, and reporting and control in the government sector

• Barriers to more sustainable mobility

• AREALGAE

• Citizen participation in municipal reform

• CAPADAPT

• MIDAS

• ACHILLES

• REGINA

Here you can read my publications in NVA.