Rural development

Diss Karolin Andersson

Governing agriculture, (re)producing gender Continuity and change of social difference amidst Rwanda’s socio-ecological transformation [email protected] Karolin Andersson defends her

Agricultural Landscapes

We monitor the agricultural landscape and contribute to an overall picture of the environmental quality in the agricultural landscape. The results are used for evaluations of the Swedish

Food Act

The project aims to describe, analyze and develop agroecological transformation processes, in order to propose measures for sustainable food supply in times of crisis based on these results. This

JUSTPOWER

The purpose of this research project is to understand and develop new tools to support a more just and democratic energy transition, based on the central question: How can democratic values be

Tania Li lecture

Development-imposed harms, differentiated citizenship, and access to redress: Towards a comparative account [email protected] Division of Rural Development invites you to an public lecture with

secondary-forests

The project investigates what forest futures can be built, by whom and how, at the forest frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon, and what the role of forest conservation policies are in this. Background A

Education

The department offers undergraduate courses, at basic and advanced level, in the subjects Environmental science, Landscape architecture, Rural development and Sustainable develoopment. We are

Collaboration

At the department of Urban and Rural Development we see collaboration with actors in society as a tool for our coworkers to contribute to a sustainable development, and as a method to conduct and

Migrant relations

The project analyses how migration is changing rural Sweden and through that, preconditions for sustainability and social justice. Focusing on the changing composition of socio-environmental

JUSTNORTH

JUSTNORTH is a Horizon 2020 project that set focus on social, economic and ecological justice in the Arctic area. Case study 18 dealt with the socio-economic conditions to carry out reindeer

Contested forests

How are just and sustainable climate transitions possible in places where conflicts over forests are both complex and intractable? Putting people and local institutions at the heart of the project,

Rural development

When researchers and practitioners meet and share experiences it may result in a new type of understanding. The Unit of Rural Development is therefore continuously engaged in different types of