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Research project in Human Geography Project's title: AFRINT I, AFRINT II, AFRINT III, AFRINT IVProject's duration: 2002-Contact person: Agnes AnderssonResearchers in the project: The programme is carried out by research teams in each  country and co-ordinated by researchers at Lund University. OverviewThe Afrint project which has been running since 2002 is an interdisciplinary, comparative project

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/afrint - 2025-12-17

Afrint III continues the work of Afrint I and II, through the collection of a third round of survey data among the Afrint households in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The research is now focused into three sub-projects in rural areas:  one in Ghana and Kenya (Poverty effects of income diversification in Kenya and Ghana) funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsråde

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/afrint/afrint-iii - 2025-12-17

African small-scale agriculture at the cross-road? Staple food production, agricultural diversification and poverty reduction. With continuing food insecurity and a rise of extreme poverty, according to the UN, Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicentre of crisis amongst regions and countries showing little progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Poverty on the continent is still rurally

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/afrint/afrint-ii - 2025-12-17

African food security has become an increasing concern during the last decade. Reports are regularly appearing about famine and hunger in countries south of the Sahara. Pessimism is widespread about the possibilities for the continent to feed its growing population. Until recently, optimism about Asian development on the other hand seemed boundless, and Asia is considered the emerging centre of th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/afrint/afrint-i - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Beyond GDP growth: Scenarios for sustainable building and planning.Period: 2014-2018Contact person: Alf HornborgResearchers in the project:Alf Hornborg External researchersProject's websiteOverviewIn policies for sustainable urban development, continued GDP growth is generally taken for granted. Sustainable growth is an overall political goal. How

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/beyond-gdp-growth - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Cluster life cycles – the role of actors, networks and institutions in emerging, growing, declining and renewing clustersProject's duration: 2011-2014Contact person: Bjørn AsheimResearchers in the project:Bjørn AsheimJerker MoodyssonRoman MartinOverviewThe project is funded by European Science Foundation/Swedish Research Council.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/cluster-life-cycles-circle - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade Project's duration: 2011-2015Contact person: Alf HornborgResearchers in the project:Alf Hornborg Rikard WarleniusMartin OuluResearch project's homepageOverviewAs global consumption of resources and human populations increase, the search for energy and materials cause the “commodity frontie

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/ejolt - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Extra- and intra-regional mechanisms in technology shift processesProject's duration: 2010-Contact person: Karl-Johan LundquistResearchers in the project:Lars-Olof OlanderKarl-Johan LundquistMartin HenningMikhail Martynovich OverviewThe project is funded by funded by Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and faculty means.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/extra-and-intra-regional-mechanisms-technology-shift-processes - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography and Human Ecology Project's title: Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development Project's duration: 2011-2016Contact person: Eric ClarkResearchers in the project:Eric ClarkAnders Lund Hansen Henrik Gutzon LarsenAlf HornborgKenneth HermeleIlia FarahaniOverviewFESSUD is a multidisciplinary, pluralistic project which aims to forge alliances across

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/fessud - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Knowledge about the role of the garden in the own-your-own-home movement in Sweden 1905-1936 and its applications in the discussion on sustainable development and well-being in cities of todayProject's duration: 2013-2015 Contact person: Tomas GermundssonResearchers in the project:Tomas GermundssonAnna JakobssonOverviewA large number of stately

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/knowledge-about-role-garden-own-your-own-home-movement-sweden-1905-1936 - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Indigenous peoples and climate changeProject's duration: 2014-2017Contact person: Anders BurmanResearchers in the project:Dan RosengrenAnders BurmanKarsten PaerregaardOverviewIndigenous peoples’ understandings of weather and climate often differ from Western meteorology. This project aims to investigate contact and cooperation between indigenous p

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/indigenous-peoples-and-climate-change - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Rising Sea Levels – the planning and design of an uncertain landscapeProject's duration: 2012-2014Contact person: Tomas GermundssonResearchers in the project:Tomas GermundssonKristina Blennow (SLU)Carola Wingren (SLU)OverviewThe project aims at analyzing the current planning of the coastal landscape in the light of the growing awareness of risin

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/rising-sea-levels-planning-and-design-uncertain-landscape - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Konsekvenser av AIDS-epidemin i TanzaniaContact person: Franz-Michael RundquistResearchers in the project:Franz-Michael RundquistKarin LindsjöOverviewThis project which is a collaboration between researchers from our department, and from the department of physical geography as well as GIS Centre, has focus on issues related to demographic, socia

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research-projects/finished-research-projects/impact-aids-epidemic-tanzania - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Local crisis – local dynamics. Plant closures and development strategiesProject's duration: 2008-Contact person: Ola JonssonOverviewThe project is funded by Region Skåne.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/local-crisis-local-dynamics - 2025-12-17

Department of Human Geography:ASG Commons and Commoning - Human rights and sustainabilityCluster life cycles (CIRCLE)Commercialising the CountrysideEnabling the transition to a bio-economy: innovation system dynamics and policyExploring challenges for New Big Science: The realization of ESS and MAX IV in LundKnowledge about the role of the garden in the own-your-own-home movement in Sweden 1905-19

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: The Metropolitan corridor revisited: tracing rural/urban hybrids as a base for sustainable developmentProject's duration: 2012-2014Contact person: Tomas GermundssonResearchers in the project:Tomas GermundssonMattias Qviström (SLU)OverviewUrban sprawl is a major threat for the environment in Europe. In Sweden a main strategy to curb sprawl is to

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/metropolitan-corridor-revisited - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Time, Memory, Representation Project's duration: 2010-2015Contact person: Alf HornborgResearch project's homepageOverviewTime, Memory and Representation is a research program that gathers 27 scholars from 14 different disciplines, for a joint exploration and development of recent transformations in historical consciousness, and its implications fo

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/tmr - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: COMMERCIALISING THE COUNTRYSIDE THROUGH LEISURE DEVELOPMENT. Economic opportunities and sustainable developmentProject's duration: 2008-2012Contact person: Erik Jönsson, Guy BaetenOverviewThe aim of this FORMAS-financed project was to reach a deeper understanding of the possible simultaneously social, economic, and environmental transformations

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/commercialising-countryside - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Ecology Project's title: Intensive Cultivation without State and Population Pressure: A Comparative Study of Non-capitalist Agrarian Systems in a Political Ecological Perspective (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) Project's duration: 2008-2010Contact person: Thomas Håkansson (natrix [at] mindspring [dot] com; +1-859 269 7704) OverviewThe relationship between soc

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/intensive-cultivation-without-state-and-population-pressure - 2025-12-17

Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Governing transition towards Low Carbon Energy and Transport Systems For 2050Project's duration: 2009-2013Contact person:  Lars-Olof OlanderResearchers in the project:Lars-Olof OlanderKarl-Johan LundquistOverviewThe project was funded by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, VINNOVA and Swedish Transport Administration.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/lets-2050 - 2025-12-17