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1. Local sustainability initiatives in cooperation with research
CASE OSLO
Guttorm Grundt
Environmental Affairs Coordinator
Department of Environment and Transport
City of Oslo

2. Case 1: +
The Oslo Fjord Programme
• Surveying and defining water
quality and water ecology
development
• Defining challenges and strategies for improvements
• Producing action plan for improving water quality and
ecology

3. Case 2: +
Ecological Footprint for Oslo
• Calculation and assessment of ecological
footprint
• Methodology adjustment
• Revised calculation and development
assessment

4. Case 3: +
Climate change in the Oslo region
• Defining the challenges
• Defining the stakeholders
of the challenge and
solutions
• Defining a program/project
for further research

5. Case 4: +
Developing a common Environmental
Research Programme for Oslo
• Common workshop between City bureaucrats/experts and CIENS
researchers
• Defining the city’s interest/need for new knowledge on urban
ecology and local sustainability
• Defining the researchers competence and interest/capacity on urban
ecology and local sustainability
• Writing and adopting a common programme for Environmental
Research for Oslo

6. Problems/barriers +
• Lack of mutual interest/insight/understanding
• Legal/ “Fairness” procura principles/rules
• Dependance on third party financing

7. Advantages/opportunities: +
• High quality knowledge/competence of
information/assessment/advice
• “Unbiased” information/assessment/advice
• Mutual learning and development regarding
theory/practice
• Links to national and international networks for exchange
of experiences

8. +
Desirable support from
researchers/research institutions.
• Scientific interest/curiosity in local urban ecology/sustainability
management, challenges and issues, over time (including in media)
• Scientific initiative for cooperation on urban ecology/sustainability
issues, respecting local framework and conditions
• Completion of current cooperation programme development and
adoption process, and preparing agreed research projects for
financing/application, management and production.