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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
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 - 2025-06-27
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
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 - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
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
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 - 2025-06-27
Research project in Human Geography Project's title: Models for local developmentContact person: Andrea NardiResearchers in the project:Johanna Bergman-Lodin Andrea NardiMabel HungwOverviewThree projects are combined under common topic - "New African Agricultural Technology and Smallholder Welfare", ”Local development and institutions in the context of rural devlopment in Northern Argentina”, “Com
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/models-local-development - 2025-06-27
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
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/tanzania-1850-2000 - 2025-06-27
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
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/education/study-information/during-your-studies/student-influence - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
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 - 2025-06-27
