Tore Sager

Tore Sager is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and advisor to the Concept Research Programme funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. His research is mostly about planning theory and decision processes in the public sector. Sager has published on evaluation methods, communicative planning theory, neoliberalism, populism and activist planning in more than twenty international academic journals....See more

Tore Sager is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and advisor to the Concept Research Programme funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. His research is mostly about planning theory and decision processes in the public sector. Sager has published on evaluation methods, communicative planning theory, neoliberalism, populism and activist planning in more than twenty international academic journals. One article won the competition for AESOP Best Published Paper Award in 2007, and two other articles reached the finals in 2017 and 2021. His three books in English analyse communicative planning and democratic social choice. Two recent research reports by Sager deal with foresight methods in mega-project planning and how to stop weak government projects at an earlier planning stage. His main research interest is the creative and democratic potential of activist planning. See less