Political scientist specialised in democratic governance, public management and participation, with a multidisciplinary foundation in rural and regional studies. My work focuses on local and regional development processes, environmental governance, innovation systems and economic restructuring. My ambition is to develop conceptual and applied knowledge about citizen participation, governance systems and the dynamics shaping sustainable rural and regional development.
Senior Research Fellow
Kenneth Nordberg
Publications
Nordberg Kenneth, Aflaki Inga (2025). Public sector readiness for value co-creation: the diffusion of a governance innovation. Public Money & Management, 1–12.
Nordberg, Kenneth (2024). The dynamic rural stayer – Analysing the dynamics of the staying process in rural areas. Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 111, 1-11.
Ghorbanzadeh Sakineh, Nordberg Kenneth (2024). The multilocality of sense of place in ecosystem services discourse. Sustainability Science, Vol. 19, pages 989–1002.
Nordberg Kenneth, Virkkala Seija, Mariussen Åge, (2024), Municipalities and communities enabling social innovations in peripheral areas – case studies from Ostrobothnia, Finland. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.
Ghorbanzadeh, Sakineh, Nordberg, Kenneth. (2024). The multilocality of sense of place in ecosystem services discourse. Sustainability Science (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01464-y
Aflaki I., Hallik M., Nordberg K., Kangro K. (2023). Co-Creation and Enhanced Youth Participation in Local Decision-Making: The Perception of Public Sector Readiness. Polish Political Science Yearbook, vol. 52, Special Issue (2023), pp. 55–68
Nordberg Kenneth (2021), Distributed Rural Proofing – an essential tool for the future of rural development? Sociologia Ruralis Vol 60, Issue 4.
Nordberg Kenneth (2020). Spatial Justice and Local Capability in Rural Areas. Journal of Rural Studies 78: pp. 47-58.
Nordberg Kenneth, Mariussen Åge, Virkkala Seija (2020), Community-driven social innovation and quadruple helix coordination in rural development. Case study of the LEADER group, Aktion Österbotten. Journal of Rural Studies, 79: pp. 157-168.
Nordberg Kenneth, Salmi Pekka (2019), Addressing the gap between participative ideals and the reality of environmental management – the case of the cormorant in Finland. Environmental policy and governance Vol 29, Issue 4, 251-261.
Nordberg Kenneth (2017), Revolutionizing Economic and Democratic Systems: Reinventing the Third Way, Palgrave MacMillan.
Nordberg, Kenneth (2015), Enabling Regional Growth in Peripheral Non-University Regions – The Impact of a Quadruple Helix Intermediate Organisation in Journal of Knowledge Economy, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp 334-356
Nordberg, Kenneth (2014), On the Democracy and Relevance of Governance Networks in Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, Vol 18, No 1.
Nordberg, Kenneth (2013), Is there a need for Transnational Learning? – The Case of Restructuring in Small Industrial Towns in Mariussen & Virkkala (Eds) Learning transnational learning, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London och New York.
