Elisabeth M.C. Svennevik

• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2022). Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. ISSN 2210-4224. 44, p. 163–184. doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2022.06.006.
• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2021). Providers and practices: How suppliers shape car-sharing practices. Sustainability. ISSN 2071-1050. 13(4), p. 1–14. doi: 10.3390/su13041764. Full text in Research Archive
• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C.; Dijk, Marc & Arnfalk, Peter (2021). How do new mobility practices emerge? A comparative analysis of car-sharing in cities in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 82. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102305.
• Doody, Brendan J.; Schwanen, Tim; Loorbach, Derk; Oxenaar, Sem; Arnfalk, Peter & Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2021). Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits. Mobilities. ISSN 1745-0101. 17(4), p. 484–500. doi: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1958365. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Car sharing could support a transition away from private vehicle ownership and use. Attempts to understand participation in car sharing have primarily focused on minor and major disruptions which catalyse change in practices. This paper examines how processes of entering, continuing or exiting car sharing systems unfold in Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Car sharing is conceptualised as an arrangement of elements assembled, adjusted and supported by events, practices and habits. Drawing on biographically-oriented household interviews, we build on and extend existing understandings of change and stability in car sharing in four ways. First, by focusing on households rather than individual users, the paper complements recent attempts to understand the decoupling of family and private-car-based mobility. Second, under-examined processes of exiting, alongside entry and continuation are considered. Third, it highlights the importance of recognising more imperceptible, gradual and continuous changes which might not necessarily coincide with a disruptive event. Fourth, habits of shared car arrangements are demonstrated to be fragile and not as deeply ingrained as those associated with ownership. Existing household practices and habits thus raise further questions about the potential for shared mobility services to disrupt the primacy of the car.

• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C.; Julsrud, Tom Erik & Farstad, Eivind (2020). From novelty to normality: reproducing car-sharing practices in transitions to sustainable mobility. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. ISSN 1548-7733. 16(1), p. 169–183. doi: 10.1080/15487733.2020.1799624. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article investigates the role of practices in sustainability transitions. Employing a social practices approach, we analyze the reproduction of car-sharing practices and discuss its role in transitions to sustainable mobility. We assemble data from interviews with 39 households using car sharing in Oslo, Norway, and show three specific ways of reproducing car-sharing practices: (a) FUSS: Frequent, Unplanned, Short-term, and Small-car use, (b) POLL: Planned, Occasional, Longer-term, and Larger-car use; and (c) PERC: Purpose Elected from Range of Cars. After examining contributing factors, especially the role of provider and user contexts, we turn to how car sharing relates to other household practices. We highlight how cardependent activities and substitutes for daily car use contribute to the reproduction of carsharing. We then discuss how the reproduction of a new practice can help to explain the process through which a niche-based practice becomes a regime-based practice in the transition from one mobility regime to a new one. The article shows that by understanding the reproduction of practices as several different performances, a social practices approach can contribute to understanding the normalization of new mobility practices in sustainability transitions.

• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2019). The existing and the emerging: Car ownership and car sharing on the road towards sustainable mobility. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management. ISSN 1470-9511. 19(3-4), p. 281–300. doi: 10.1504/IJATM.2019.10021998. Full text in Research Archive

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• Anfinsen, Martin; Haugland, Bård Torvetjønn & Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2021). Elbilene lander ikke på magisk vis i Norge fri for utslipp. Forskersonen.no.
• Haugland, Bård Torvetjønn; Anfinsen, Martin & Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2021). Elbilen kan ikkje løyse klima­utfordringane åleine. Forskersonen.no.
• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2018). From novelty to normality – understanding the uptake and use of car sharing.
• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2018). Transition towards sustainable mobility: A qualitative case study on how households use car sharing in Oslo.
• Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2018). Connecting experimental processes and systemic change: The role of car sharing in a transition towards sustainable mobility.
• Andersen, Elise Rønnevig & Svennevik, Elisabeth M.C. (2018). Slik klarer tobarnsfamilien seg uten bil. Her er alternativene dersom du vurderer det samme. [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.

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