Carmen Mapis, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, will defend her PhD thesis 'Environmental Sustainability in Municipal Second Homes Planning in Eastern Norway: A Study of Meaning, Power and Utopia.'
Norwegian title of thesis:
Miljømessig bærekraft i kommunal planlegging av fritidsboliger i Øst-Norge: En studie av mening, makt og utopi
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
What can planning achieve? A critical review of the role and potential of planning in delivering sustainability in the context of multi level governance.
Time and place:
Venue: Gullvepsen, Bikuben, NMBU and on ZOOM
12:30 Welcome and trial lecture
13:20 Break
13:40 Presentation of the research by the candidate
14:10 Discussion with the first opponent
15:00 Discussion with the second opponent
15:45 Completion of the public defence
16:30 Reception in the Gamle styrerommet (room 213), Circus Building, NMBU
Evaluation committee:
- Jørund Aasetre, Department of Teacher Education and Department of Geography and Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Yvonne Rydin, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
- Matthew Cashmore, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Supervisors:
- Jin Xue, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Knut Bjørn Stokke, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Thesis:
ISSN: 1894-6402
ISBN: 978-82-575-2356-5
Thesis number: 2026:37

