- Unit:
- SINTEF Ocean AS
- Department:
- Climate and Environment
- Office:
- Trondheim
Rachel Tiller is a Chief Scientist at SINTEF Ocean, Department of Climate and Environment and the Director of the key strategic research area of biodiversity and area use at SINTEF.
Education
Tiller received her PhD in Political Science from NTNU in 2010 with the title: “New Resources in Old Waters: The Potential of National and International Conflicts Deriving from the Future Harvest of Calanus finmarchicus”.
Competence and research areas
Tillers expertise focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to multi-level governance challenges and opportunties around ocean industries, sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, resource manangement and user group conflicts. Tiller has interdisciplinary experience around sustainability analysis, usergroup interactions, biodiversity challenges and governance analysis and work on these through methodological approaches centered on analysing governance mechanisms using event ethography, conceptual stakeholder driven perception workshops, serious games and user driven scenario development.
Highlighted publications
- The once and future treaty: Towards a new regime for biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
- Who cares about ocean acidification in the Plasticene?
- The clear and present danger to the Norwegian sovereignty of the Svalbard Fisheries Protection Zone: Enter the snow crab
- Norwegian aquaculture expansion and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM): Simmering conflicts and competing claims
- Stakeholder driven future scenarios as an element of interdisciplinary management tools; the case of future offshore aquaculture development and the potential effects on fishermen in Santa Barbara, California
Other publications
- The BBNJ treaty and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
- A systems approach for the sustainable development of coastal-rural regions
- Social capital and institutional complexity in Svalbard: the case of avalanche disaster management
- Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics
- Nei, en global plastavtale er ikke på plass - ennå
- Manetslim mot mikroplast
- Global Ocean Governance and Ocean Acidification
- Understanding Stakeholder Synergies Through System Dynamics: Integrating Multi-Sectoral Stakeholder Narratives Into Quantitative Environmental Models
- The Role of Humanity's Responsibility towards Biodiversity: The BBNJ treaty
- What shall we do with a sea of plastics? A systematic literature review on how to pave the road towards a global comprehensive plastic governance agreement