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 - 2025-01-09

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 - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/ostarp-project - 2025-01-09

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 - 2025-01-09

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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 - 2025-01-09

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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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/social-sciences-faculty-library - 2025-01-09

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

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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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-phd-projects/what-are-environmental-effects-selective-migration-long-term-residents-swedish-and-danish-affordable - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/technology-shifts-labour-mobility-and-transformation-industry-spaces-evidence-swedish-regions - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/political-ecology-campania-waste-conflicts-geographies-contamination-and-grassroots-movements - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/current-research-projects/assessing-potential-socio-economic-opportunities-and-challenges-bio-char-adoption-small-holder - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/socio-spatial-transformations-area-korup-national-park-cameroon - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/crush-critical-urban-sustainability-hub - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/sefira-socio-economic-implications-individual-responses-air-pollution-policies-eu-27 - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/entitle-european-network-political-ecology - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/sustainable-management-water-resources-under-climate-change-alleviate-poverty-lake-chad-basin - 2025-01-09

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/what-driving-unsustainable-bushmeat-hunting-cross-river-state-nigeria-urban-market-or-local-peoples - 2025-01-09