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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,
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/about-department/plans-and-policies - 2025-07-03
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/room-bookings - 2025-07-03
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
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/social-sciences-faculty-library - 2025-07-03
Our research projects, publications, and seminars Research at the department is broad in scope, but rests on longstanding traditions within economic, social and cultural geography, with development geography developing into an area of specialization in recent years. Likewise, human ecology is a relatively young subject, and our expertise in Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research - 2025-07-03
Research Student: Süheyla TürkDuration: 2014 - 2018Supervisor: Guy BaetenAssistant supervisor: Henrik Gutzon Larsen A view from the case areas in Sweden and Denmark 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
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
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Socio-spatial transformations in the area of Korup National Park in CameroonContact person: Yahia MahmoudOverviewThe purpose of this project is to assess the dependence of local people on ecosystem services obtained from tropical forests, and the sustainability of different kinds of resource extraction. The project uses a multidisciplinary appro
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: CRUSH: Critical Urban Sustainability HubProject's duration: 2014-2018Contact person: Guy BaetenResearchers in the project:Henrik Gutzon LarsenAnders Lund HansenProject's websiteOverviewCRUSH brings together the five largest research environments for urban and housing research in Sweden and is a research platform that engages critically with urba
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: SEFIRA: Socio-economic implications for individual responses to air pollution policies in EU +27Project's duration: 2013-2016Contact person: Guy BaetenOverviewSefira has the objective of creating a European coordination of transdisciplinary scientific and socio-economic resources in order to support the review and implementation of air quality l
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: ENTITLE: European Network for Political EcologyProject's duration: 2012-2017Contact person: Guy BaetenResearchers in the project:Guy BaetenEric ClarkAnders Lund HansenSalvatore Paolo De RosaOverviewENTITLE is an EU-funded Initial Training Network under the Marie Curie action of FP7. It is coordinated by ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barce
Research project in Development Geography Project's title: Sustainable Management of Water Resources under Climate Change to Alleviate Poverty in the Lake Chad BasinProject's duration: 2013-01-01 - 2015-12-31Contact person: Cintia Bertacchi UvoResearchers on the project:Cintia Bertacchi Uvo Erik NilssonJan HöjbyPer BeckerMaria Andrea NardiOverviewFinanced by: SIDA-SAREC Department of Water Resourc
Research project in Development Geography Project's title: What is driving unsustainable bushmeat hunting in Cross River State, Nigeria? Urban market or local peoples’ livelihoods?Project's duration: 2012-2014Contact person: Ola Olsson, Department of BiologyResearchers on the project:Ola HallYahia MahmoudAndrea NardiOverviewThe purpose of this project is to assess the dependence of local people on
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: African urban agriculture: social, economic and environmental challenges and prospects under changing global and demographic realitiesPeriod: 2013-2019Contact person: Magnus JirströmProject participants: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, LU/Human Geography; Hayford Ayerakwa LU/Human Geography and University of Ghana, Samuel Omondi LU/Human Geography an
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/african-urban-agriculture - 2025-07-03
(This form is closed now. If you missed the deadline for signing up, please send an email to bids [at] keg [dot] lu [dot] se)Dear students, It is our pleasure to inform you that on November 17, the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy and the participants of the International Training Programme are visiting BIDS for the first time. Please check the Programme in the correspondent Worksh
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Dear students, It is our pleasure to inform you that on November 17, the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy and the participants of the International Training Programme are visiting BIDS for the first time. Please check the Programme in the correspondent Workshop folder in l@l.We believe this is a great opportunity for you to meet and discuss real projects with local practitioners. T
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Research project in Human Geography and Human Ecolgy Project's title: Lund University Centre of Excellence for the Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability Project's duration: 2009-2018Contact person: Eric Clark and Alf HornborgResearchers in the project:Eric ClarkAlf Hornborg Pernille Gooch (substitute for Alf Hornborg)Yahia Mahmoud (substitute for Eric Clark)Wim CartonGrego
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/lucid - 2025-07-03
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: URB @ Exp - Towards new forms of urban governance and city development: learning from URBan Experiments with Living Labs & City Labs Project's duration: 2014-2017Contact person: Eric ClarkResearchers in the project:Eric ClarkIlia FarahaniOverviewEuropean cities face economic, social and environmental challenges of growing complexity. In response
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/urbexp - 2025-07-03
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Towards new forms of urban governance and city development: learning from URBan Experiments with Living Labs & City Labs Project's duration: 2013-2014Contact person: Eric ClarkResearchers in the project:Eric ClarkOverviewSustainable Welfare is a Pufendorf Theme at Lund University, led by Max Koch (Department of Social Work) and involving a dozen
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/sustainable-welfare - 2025-07-03
