Planning and Complexity

Andreas Duit works in the field of comparative environmental politics, with special focus on governance and complexity, institutional theory, and the role of the state in addressing environmental problems. He is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science a research fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Center, both at Stockholm University.

Duit’s dissertation focused on the evolution of Swedish institutions for environmental protection, and after receiving his PhD in 2002 he worked with research on natural resource management within the Millennium Assessment Project at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM), Stockholm University. On behalf of governmental evaluation committees Duit has written reports on electoral campaign financing, the effects of electoral reforms, and immigrant voters. He has also written a report on political science and the sustainable society on behalf of MISTRA (Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) and the Swedish Research Council. During 2004, Duit was a STINT-sponsored Visiting Scholar at the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University.

Duit is currently project coordinator and researcher in the MISTRA-financed MAPLE-project, which studies environmental policy in a comparative perspective. Beginning 2006, he also coordinates the CTM-based project “Contested Species – An Interdisciplinary Approach for Understanding Conflict Dynamics in Wildlife Management”, financed by FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Science and Spatial Planning). Beginning 2007, he is Theme Leader for the research theme Multilevel Governance of Socio-ecological Systems within theStockholm Resilience Centre.

In 2007, Duit was awarded a four-year research fellowship from the Swedish Research Council to work on the project “The Ecological State: Cross-National Patterns of Environmental Governance Regimes”. Duit has published in Public Administration,Journal of Environment and Development, and Governance.