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Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Participatory Assessment of Sustainable Scenarios for Himalayan Pastoralism (The Swedish Research Council - SIDA- Swedish Research Links 2007-2009; The Swedish Research Council 2008-2010)Project's duration: 2007-2010Contact person: Pernille Gooch OverviewThe aim of this project is to provide reliable socioeconomic and environmental information on
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Next generation regional innovation policy: How to combine science and user driven approachesProject's duration: 2010-2013Contact person: Bjørn AsheimResearchers in the project:Bjørn AsheimJerker MoodyssonOverviewThe project was funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Sustainable Development as a Problem of Global Distribution: Transdisciplinary Theory and Methods for Tracing Environmental Load Displacement (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agriculture and Spatial Planning)Project's duration: 2008-2010Contact person: Alf HornborgOverviewThis project pursues a currently emerging reconceptualization
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Swedish regional economic growth in a European perspective: Markets, agglomerations and comparative advantage 1800-2000Project's duration: 2009-2012Contact person: Martin HenningResearchers in the project:Martin HenningKerstin Enflo Lennart SchönOverviewThe project was funded by the Swedish Research Council.Database: Regional GDP data for Swedi
Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Tanzania 1850-2000: The Political Ecology of Trade Networks, Food Production and Land Cover Change (The Swedish Research Council and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)) Project's duration: 2004-2008Contact person: Thomas Håkansson (natrix [at] mindspring [dot] com; +1-859 269 7704)OverviewThe project aims at analyzing
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If you study courses or programmes at our department, you are welcome to become a member at the Social Sciences student union. Join the union if you want to influence education policy, get involved in relevant social activities, and strengthen your career identity in social sciences. The student union The Social Sciences student union represents students whose main area of study is social science
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Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: The Prehistory of Amazonian Languages: Cultural and Ecological Processes Underlying Linguistic Differentiation (EUROCORES/The Swedish Research Council)Project's duration: 2002-2008Contact person: Alf HornborgOverviewA point of departure for this project is that historical linguistics in lowland South America would benefit from closer consideration
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/prehistory-amazonian-languages - 2026-08-03
Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Power, Land, and Materiality: Global Studies in Historical-Political Ecology as a Framework for Assessing Policies for ”Sustainable Development” (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agriculture and Spatial Planning)Project's duration: 2008-2010Contact person: Alf HornborgOverviewThe project consolidates a coherent, trans-disciplinary the
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/power-land-and-materiality - 2026-08-03
Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Local Knowledge for Self-Maintaining Agricultural Systems/The Östarp Project (The Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research 1998-2000, The Crafoord Foundation 1998-1999, The National Heritage Board, 1998-2000)Project's duration: 1998-2000Contact person: Pernille GoochOverviewÖstarp is a small hamlet situated on the slopes of the Romel
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In these pages you can find information about finished PhD research projects in the Human Geography Department and Human Ecology Division, starting in the year of 2001. Most of the listed projects also contains a short research description. The research projects are sorted by publication year, in the left-side menu.
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Chia-Sui Hsu: Agriculture Lifestyle in Eastern Taiwan: Going back to the ‘Land’ or Rural GentrificationHjalti Nielsen: Survival in spite of location: KIBS in non-core areasSüheyla Türk: What are the environmental effects on the selective migration of long-term residents in Swedish and Danish affordable housing areas?
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-phd-projects - 2026-08-03
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Here you can find strategic documents and policies that are developed and implemented by our department. Strategy for the work environmentThe Department of Human Geography strives for a good and safe working environment. Read more about this in our working environment policy document.Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversityThe responsibility for the department’s work on gender equality,
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The Social Sciences Faculty Library (Sambib) is your library if you takes courses or programmes at our Department. Here you can find, borrow, and read course and reference literature and academic journals as well as access databases for your discipline. You can also get help with searching for scientific resources and managing your references. The Library also offers courses in information managem
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Learn more about the research conducted at our Department Research at the department is broad in scope, but rests on longstanding traditions within economic, social and cultural geography, and a growing specialization in development geography, and human ecology. Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing is increasingly integrated in the above research areas. Research at the departme
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Research Student: Süheyla TürkDuration: 2014 - 2018Supervisor: Guy BaetenAssistant supervisor: Henrik Gutzon Larsen In this research, environmental effects, which cause citizens to leave their neighbourhoods after they have improved their socio-economic conditions.will be analysed by focusing on Nordic countries’ welfare states in national and local levels. Access to affordable housing is national
Research Student: Mikhail MartynovichThe Swedish economy has undergone substantial structural change over last three decades. Overwhelming forces of ‘creative destruction’, technological progress and tertiarisation of the economy led to dramatic changes in Swedish industrial landscape which boosted economic development, while at the same time posing many challenges for policy-makers. Some of the m
Research Student: Salvatore Paolo De RosaDuration: 2012 – 2016Supervisor: Guy BaetenAssistant supervisor: Marco Armiero (KTL Environmental Humanities Lab of Stockholm); Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester) The image of huge piles of trash engulfing the spaces of social life in the Southern Italian region of Campania, and in its capital city Napoli, hit the headlines of global news several ti
Research project in Development Geography Project's title: Assessing the potential socio-economic opportunities and challenges of Bio-char adoption on small-holder farming systemsProject's duration: 2013-2019Contact person: Yahia MahmoudResearchers on the project:Yahia MahmoudCecilia Sundberg (SLU)Kristina Roing de Nowina (IITA)OverviewBio-char has recently received attention in scientific and pop
