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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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 - 2025-07-07

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/participatory-assessment-sustainable-scenarios-himalayan-pastoralism - 2025-07-07

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.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/next-generation-regional-innovation-policy-circle - 2025-07-07

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

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/finished-research-projects/sustainable-development-problem-global-distribution - 2025-07-07