Scholars
Nikolaj Kornbech
Roskilde University
Based in
Denmark
Europe
Nikolaj Kornbech is a PhD Fellow at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. His research concerns the politics of science and technology with respect to climate mitigation, including in the topics of carbon dioxide removal, solar geoengineering and ‘sustainable intensification’ of industrial agriculture.
Across such topics, he investigates (a) how technical and natural sciences construe the social world in which they imagine technical solutions to work, and what effect this has for the desirability and feasibility of such solutions, and (b) the political economy behind practices of science and technology development, exploring the ways institutions of knowledge production are shaped by vested interests and economic imperatives, and the implications this has on the kind of knowledge they produce.
Country(ies) of Specialty
DenmarkFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Geoengineering Scientific assessments AgriculturePublications
Articles
Kornbech, Nikolaj, et al. ‘Securing the “Great White Shield”? Climate Change, Arctic Security and the Geopolitics of Solar Geoengineering’. Cooperation and Conflict, Aug. 2024, p. 00108367241269629 (OnlineFirst). SAGE Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241269629.
Corry, Olaf, Duncan McLaren and Nikolaj Kornbech. ‘Scientific Models versus Power Politics: How Security Expertise Reframes Solar Geoengineering’. Review of International Studies, Nov. 2024, pp. 1–20 (First View). Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000482.
Corry, Olaf, and Nikolaj Kornbech. ‘Geoengineering: A New Arena of International Politics’. International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches, edited by David Chandler et al., Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 95–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_6.