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- Aguiar Borges, Luciane, 1969-
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Stories of Pasts and Futures in Planning
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Societies are constantly changing, facing new challenges and possibilities generated by innovative technologies, sociospatial re-structuring and mobilities. This research approaches these challenges by exploring the role that stories about pasts, presents and futures play in planning. It sees stories as interlinked spaces of struggle over meanings, legitimacies and powers through which “our” valuable pasts and “our” desirable futures become re-constructed, framed and projected. It argues that powerful stories might consciously or unconsciously become institutionalised in policy discourses and documents, foregrounding our spatial realities and affecting our living spaces. These arguments and assumptions are investigated in relation to three cases: Regional-Pasts, SeGI-Futures and ICT-Futures. The stories about pasts, presents and futures surrounding these cases are investigated with the aim of initiating critical discussions on how stories about pasts and futures can inform, but also be sustained by, planning processes. While studies of these cases are presented in separate papers, these studies are brought together in an introductory essay and reconstructed in response to the research questions: How do regional futures become informed by the pasts? How do particular stories about the pasts become selected, framed and projected as envisioned futures? What messages are conveyed to the pasts and the presents through envisioned futures? How can stories of the past be referred and re-employed in planning to build more inclusive futures? To engage with the multidisciplinarity of these questions, they are investigated through dialogues between three main fields: heritage studies, futures studies and planning. The discussions have challenged the conventional divides between pasts, presents and futures, emphasised their plural nature and uncovered how the discursive power of stories play a significant role when interpreting pasts and envision futures in planning practices.
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- Alm, Susanne, 1970-, et al.
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Att utforska framtiden : valda perspektiv
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Visst går det att utforska framtiden på vetenskaplig grund! I boken ges exempel på hur perspektiv från såväl humaniora som samhälls- och naturvetenskap kan berika studiet även av det forskningsobjekt som ännu inte finns.
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- Amcoff, Jan, et al.
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Dör byn när lanthandeln stänger?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Plan. - Stockholm : Föreningen för samhällsplanering. - 0032-0560. ; :3, s. 20-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Amcoff, Jan, et al.
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Understanding Rural Change : Demography as a key to the future
- 2007
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Ingår i: Futures. - : Futures. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 39:4, s. 363-379
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The last decades have seen a rapidly growing interest in foresight methodology. Methods have been developed in corporate and governmental communication exercises often labelled technology foresight. In reality, these foresights have often drifted into processes of social change, since technological change is hard to foresee beyond what is already in the pipe-line. Forecasting of social change, however, must be based on solid knowledge about the mechanisms of continuity and change. Virtually nothing can be said about the future without relating to the past; foresights and futures studies are about revealing the hidden pulse of history. Hence, the answer to forecasting the future is empirical research within the social sciences. Demographic change has been recognised as a key determinant for explaining social change. Population changes are fairly predictable and the age transition can explain a wide range of socio-economic changes. For rural futures, demographic change is a key issue, since age structure in rural areas is often uneven and also unstable due to migration patterns. A number of policy related questions as well as research challenges are raised as a consequence.
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- Ameur, Adam, et al.
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Global gene expression analysis by combinatorial optimization
- 2004
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Ingår i: In Silico Biology. - 1386-6338. ; 4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Generally, there is a trade-off between methods of gene expression analysis that are precise but labor-intensive, e.g. RT-PCR, and methods that scale up to global coverage but are not quite as quantitative, e.g. microarrays. In the present paper, we show how how a known method of gene expression profiling (K. Kato, Nucleic Acids Res. 23, 3685-3690 (1995)), which relies on a fairly small number of steps, can be turned into a global gene expression measurement by advanced data post-processing, with potentially little loss of accuracy. Post-processing here entails solving an ancillary combinatorial optimization problem. Validation is performed on in silico experiments generated from the FANTOM data base of full-length mouse cDNA. We present two variants of the method. One uses state-of-the-art commercial software for solving problems of this kind, the other a code developed by us specifically for this purpose, released in the public domain under GPL license.
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- Andersson, Jenny, et al.
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Slaget om framtiden : forskningens roll i konflikten mellan tillväxt och miljö
- 2019
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur kan vi skapa balans mellan ekonomisk tillväxt och en hållbar miljö? Hur påverkas framtida liv på jorden av vårt sätt att leva idag? Hur tänker vi människor kring tid och framtid och vilken roll spelar framtiden i dagens samhälle?Klimatkrisen kräver att våra samhällen omvandlas, men den hindras av nutida intressen. Det behövs kunskap, social mobilisering och kreativa lösningar för att ge kraft åt både civilsamhälle och politiska institutioner. Humanister och samhällsvetare står inför en viktig uppgift: visa att samhället inte är ett gemensamt vi som väljer framtid. Varje förändring sker i kamp mellan olika intressen som har att vinna eller förlora på att allt fortsätter som förut respektive förändras. Den som får gehör för sin bild av framtiden får makt i nutiden.Miljöforskningens roll är avgörande. Men kravet på att forskningen ska vara till nytta nu står i direkt konflikt med framtiden. Forskningsprogrammen riskerar att bli megafoner för förutbestämda idéer präglade av finansiärernas kortsiktiga intressen. Strävan efter enighet urholkar sökandet efter alternativa vägar till framtiden.Med konkreta exempel från den svenska skogsforskningen och forskningen om Arktis visar författarna att det behövs samhällsvetenskap och humaniora som står fri från dagens intressen och agendor.
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- Angelstam, Per, et al.
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Tradition as asset or burden for transitions from forests as cropping systems to multifunctional forest landscapes: Sweden as a case study
- 2022
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Ingår i: Forest Ecology and Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-1127 .- 1872-7042. ; 505
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Expectations of what forests and woodlands should provide vary among locations, stakeholder groups, and over time. Developing multifunctional forests requires understanding of the dynamic roles of traditions and cultural legacies in social-ecological systems at multiple levels and scales. Implementing policies about multifunctional forests requires a landscape and social-ecological perspective, and recognition of both spatial and temporal features at multiple scales. This study explores the dissemination of even-aged silviculture in central, eastern and northern Europe, and the consequences of choosing different vantage points in social-ecological systems for mapping of barriers, and to identify levers, towards multifunctional forest landscapes. Using a narrative approach, we first summarise the development of even-aged silviculture in four European regions. Next, we focus on Sweden as a keen adopter of even-aged silviculture, and identify levers at three groups of vantage points. They were (1) biosphere with biodiversity as short-hand for composition, structure and function of ecosystems, which support human well-being at multiple scales; (2) society in terms of different levels of stakeholder interactions from local to global, and (3) economy represented by value chain hierarchies and currencies. The emergence of even-aged silviculture >200 years ago formed an expanding frontier from central to northern Europe. Sustained yield wood production and biodiversity conservation encompass different portfolios of ecosystem aspects and spatio-temporal scales. Ignorance and lack of knowledge about these differences enforce their mutual rivalry. An exploratory review of six groups of stakeholders at multiple levels in the traditional industrial forest value chain highlights inequalities in terms of distribution of income and power across different levels of governance. This effectively marginalises other than powerful industrial actors. The distribution of financial results along the value chain is dynamic in space and time, and not all benefits of forest ecosystems can be measured using monetary valuation. There are also other currencies and incentives. A discussion of cultural trajectories in central and eastern European, Russian and Swedish forest management illustrates that forest history patterns repeat themselves. Longitudinal case studies of countries and regions can help foster holistic multi-dimensional and multilevel systems thinking. Application of deep levers of change is likely to require external drivers. A key challenge is to handle the manufacturing of doubt and decay of truth, i.e., the appearance of alternative facts, and the diminishing role of evidence and systems analyses in political and civic discourses. This transition is fuelled by new and rapidly evolving digital arenas.
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- Beland Lindahl, Karin, et al.
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Future forests: Perceptions and strategies of key actors
- 2012
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 27, s. 154-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract This paper investigates how key actors perceive the future of the forest sector: how they position themselves in relation to climate, energy and demography related trends. Actors’ perceptions of future challenges and opportunities influence their choice of strategy and action. Actors’ relative capacity to realise their visions, in turn, shape future forest use. Frame analysis is used to explore selected actor’s perceptions and strategies and the existence of major divisions, i.e. frame conflicts. Empirically, the study is based on the case of Sweden as a typical boreal forest producing region. Actors’ perceptions of the challenges facing the forest sector diverge widely. Yet, most actors see the future of the forest sector as linked to broader issues of climate mitigation and energy transition. These issues trigger fundamental discussions about social change and the role of forests in future society. A major division separates actors who perceive biomass supply as unlimited, or at least not constraining, and those who stress scarcity and re-distribution of resources. This difference, or frame conflict, is reflected in actors’ forest related strategies and may fuel future forest debates and conflicts
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- Brandt, Daniel, et al.
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Statens Nya Geografi
- 2006
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bygdell, Cecilia, 1974-
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Omsorgsfylld landsbygd : Rumsliga perspektiv på åldrande och omsorg på den svenska landsbygden
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to study the intersection of rural areas, ageing and care. It is based on interviews with elderly and caregivers carried out in the municipality of Heby in the middle of Sweden. Care is given a broad definition and includes help with many daily activities given by family members, the public sector, the private sector, voluntary organisations and neighbours.The studied rural area is described as filled with care, as there exist people with care needs and caregivers from several sectors. Together the elderly and their caregivers create a landscape of care which they strive to describe as characterized by mutual dependency and carefulness, as well as created between formal and informal relationships. The different care givers are dependent on, complement and sometimes exclude each other.With an increasing trend with ageing in place, the own home is becoming more Important for the rural aged. This creates special careneeds, and reshapes the home physically and gives it and the local community a specific meaning. The own home and its surroundings are seen as consisting of physical features, social relationships and memories of the lived life. The own home is both seen as a place where the elderly can be independent and as a place where they are dependent, which defines the home as a contradictory place.The study wants to contribute to a more developed theoretical understanding of the rural with an age and care perspective. Above all it is stressed that the rural is filled with care relations. Also it is stated that the elderly live in a constantly changing rural society and that the rural is placed between a material and social understanding respectively between the concepts of periphery and center.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Forskning om och för landsbygds- och glesbygdsutveckling
- 2000
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Ingår i: Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens Tidskrift. - Stockholm : Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien. - 0023-5350. ; 139:11
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- Eckerberg, Katarina, 1953-, et al.
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Miljøinstituttene i Norge : Hovedrapport
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Norges forskningsråd har startet en omfattende evaluering av alle forskningsinstitutter som er underlagt Retningslinjer for statlig basisfinansiering. Denne evalueringen er den første i denne runden, og omfatter de åtte instituttene som utgjør miljøarenaen i basisfinansieringssystemet.Utvalget har både vurdert instituttene enkeltvis og sett på det samlede systemet som instituttene inngår i. Hensikten med evalueringen har både vært å gi råd for utforming av nasjonal instituttpolitikk, gi grunnlag for videre utvikling av Forskningsrådets virkemidler og å være til nytte for instituttene selv i deres eget utviklings- og strategiarbeid.Arbeidet med evalueringen har pågått fra mai 2014 til april 2015. I løpet av denne tiden har utvalget hatt fem møter, hvorav én samling hvor utvalget møtte alle instituttene. Som bakgrunn for evalueringen har utvalget hatt instituttenes egenevalueringer, en egen brukerundersøkelse, en faktarapport samt en rekke opplysninger som er skaffet til veie underveis ved hjelp av Forskningsrådet og Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning (NIFU). NIFU har også vært sekretær for arbeidet ved forskningsleder Espen Solberg.Evalueringen har bygget på et bredt mandat, som har omfattet en gjennomgang av instituttenes roller, formål og oppgaver, deres rammevilkår, instituttenes samspill og samarbeid, relevans for brukerne samt fremtidige utfordringer og muligheter. Det har vært en meget interessant men også krevende oppgave å dekke disse dimensjonene for en så heterogen gruppe av institutter. Arbeidet har også vist at instituttene har et sterkt fokus på strategisk utvikling og tilpasning til nye utfordringer og muligheter. Utvalget håper at evalueringen vil bidra med verdifulle perspektiver til disse prosessene, og at den vil utgjøre et nyttig kunnskapsgrunnlag for både instituttene, Forskningsrådet, departementer og øvrige myndigheter på feltet.Evalueringsutvalget vil rette en spesiell takk til de åtte miljøinstituttene for den innsatsen da har lagt ned i egenevalueringene og for svært interessante og nyttige samtaler under utvalgets møter med instituttene. Utvalget vil også takke Forskningsrådet for utmerket tilrettelegging gjennom hele prosessen samt til NIFU for et godt samarbeid om utformingen av rapporten og sammenfatningen av materialet fra evalueringen.Evalueringen er utarbeidet i fellesskap og er enstemmig.
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- Gossas, Markus, 1971-
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Kommunal samverkan och statlig nätverksstyrning
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Samarbete mellan kommuner har ökat i omfattning under 1990- och 2000-talet. I rapporten betraktas fenomenet samverkan som uttryck för en kommunreform där staten har en central och pådrivande roll. Reformen har genomförts successivt sedan 1970-talet, främst genom lagändringar som möjliggör samverkan mellan kommuner, och i mindre utsträckning genom kommunikation, idéer och ekonomiska incitament. Drivkrafter och motiv till reformen är flera; genom ökad samverkan antas kommunerna kunna hantera ökat ansvar, bli mer kostnadseffektiva, lösa problem som kräver samordning samt skapa förutsättningar för regional tillväxt. Sammantaget innebär reformen att staten utvecklat medel för nätverksstyrning, en indirekt styrning som syftar till att möjliggöra samverkan mellan offentliga organisationer, och att forma villkoren för sådan samverkan. Genom reformen ges kommunerna medel att skapa gränsöverskridande ordningar av olika slag, från interkommunala avtal till gemensamma förvaltningar med egen beslutsrätt. Reformen utgör exempel på den nätverksbaserade förvaltningsmodellens genomslag i samhällsorganisationen.Ur indelningssynpunkt kan tre reformperioder urskiljas under 1900-talet, där olika principer för indelningar utvecklas och implementeras. Den första perioden (1920-45 ca) motsvaras av ett utbrett bruk av kommunsamverkan i form av kommunalförbund, en slags gemensamma förvaltningsorgan. Kommunalförbundslagen gav kommunerna ökade möjligheter till samverkan, men användes också som ett medel för staten att styra förekomsten av samverkan; genom lagen kunde förbund tvångsbildas vilket med tiden utsträcktes till flera uppgiftsområden. Kommunalförbunden gjorde kommungränserna flexibla, och brister i indelningen kunde åtgärdas genom samverkan. Den andra perioden (1945-75 ca) motsvaras av en ökad skepsis från statens sida mot samverkan, och en betoning av möjligheterna till central planering. För att möjliggöra välfärdens utbyggnad krävdes administrativt och ekonomiskt starka kommuner, vilket skapades genom centralt planerade sammanslagningar. Därigenom tänktes bruket av samverkan upphöra och kommungränserna bli stabila. Den tredje perioden (1976-2002 ca), som står i fokus i avhandlingen, motsvaras av en återgång till mer flexibla gränser och samverkan. Den första och den tredje indelningsreformen liknar varandra genom bruket av samverkan, men de skiljer sig fundamentalt genom att statens roll omdefinierats.Genom en fallstudie av en mellansvensk kommun studeras reformens genomslag i kommunens förvaltning och beslutsfattande sedan tiden efter storleksreformerna. Samverkan i sig visar sig ha förekommit sedan kommunblocksreformens slut, men över tid har samarbetena blivit fler och mer formaliserade. Historiskt sett har flera strategiskt viktiga samarbeten utvecklats genom återkommande förhandlingar i ett interkommunalt nätverk, en institution som är löst organiserad och där konsensus krävs för att beslut ska kunna fattas. Genom nätverket framträder en interkommunal politisk beslutsnivå och ökad administrativ sammanvävning vilket skulle kunna tolkas som första steget mot en kommunsammanslagning. Samtidigt visar kommunens samverkan att olika uppgiftsområden och intressen kräver olika aktörssammansättning och olika geografiska skalnivåer. Kommunens egenskap som enhetligt territorium kan därmed problematiseras.
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- Gradén, Mattias, 1974-
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Storskalig vindkraft i skogen : Om rationell planering och lokalt motstånd
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The global climate threat has intensified Sweden’s ambitions to build wind power stations. This thesis explores the planning of, and opposition to, wind power in the inland rural and forest regions of Sweden. It is in these autonomous communities that the plans are implemented and the aim of the thesis was to, from a local perspective, understand and analyse the planning and acceptance challenges that large-scale wind power development faces in places that are both sparsely populated and have good wind conditions.This thesis is based on qualitative methods and was conducted as two studies. The case study area comprises four municipalities in Dalarna County. The first study analyses the planning and establishment process in three municipalities using interviews and an analysis method called process tracing. The second study analyses one wind power establishment, in which the interviews form the basis for a discourse analytical approach.One striking finding highlights the relationship between the global and the local. Global environment and energy aspects are absent in the local process, and wind power becomes a technical land issue that clashes with other local land interests. Another finding of the study reveals that planning for wind power establishment follows a rational planning tradition. The feelings and memories of the individual – different views regarding the landscape – play a background role in the formal permit process, while measurable observable conditions have a more prominent role. Wind power developers thereby acquire a more significant position than what they probably would have had if the planning had included local residents’ views on wind power in the landscape at an early stage.
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- Halling, Siw-Inger, 1958-
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Tourism as Interaction of Landscapes : Opportunities and obstacles on the way to sustainable development in Lamu Island, Kenya
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract Lamu Island on the Kenyan coast is the home of a society with a thousand year history of contacts with other cultures through trade and shipping. The loss of its traditional socio-economic base has led to the entry of tourism as the main income generating activity and the major contact with distant peoples. Tourism in Lamu is based on the old heritage in combination with a rich but sensitive tropical landscape. One concern is how to develop tourism and at the same time preserve a certain set of landscape values. The thesis is based on observations and interviews with the host community in Lamu, focusing on how the local community conceptualize and adjust to the transformations in their envisaged and experienced landscape as a result of their involvement in tourism. Modern tourism ought to be closely linked to development in all respects and could be regarded as an important part of an open society which gives possibilities for interaction between people from different backgrounds. This investigation focus on the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability and deals with the residents’ adaption to the new opportunities. The analysis show that the meeting with tourism gives certain effects in the social land-scape such as the accentuation of differences already existing in the society, the evolvement of a new moral landscape and the highlighting of the need of strategies to achieve sustainable development.
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- Heldt Cassel, Susanna, et al.
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En väg till utveckling? : Betydelsen av väginvesteringar för regional utveckling - exemplet Falun-Borlänge
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna rapport behandlar förutsättningar för regionala utvecklingseffekter av en väginvestering. Projektet är en inledande studie kring effekterna av vägen mellan Falun och Borlänge som öppnades för trafik 2005. Projektet är finansierat av Vägverket. Projektet avser att besvara två huvudsakliga frågeställningar: Vilka samhälleliga effekter får en ny väg mellan två städer som ligger inom samma lokala arbetsmarknad? Kan betydelsen för en region av en väginvestering påverkas genom medvetet arbete från regionens aktörer för att utnyttja dess potential? I vår studie går vi bortom själva tidsvinsten och fördjupar oss i hur utbytet mellan de två kommunerna ser ut och förändras. Vi vill också komma åt orsakerna till dessa förändringar. Det är intressant för oss hur aktörernas perspektiv och förväntningar omvandlas till beslut kring resande, byggande, kollektivtrafiksatsningar osv. Betydelsen av den nya vägen avgörs till stor del av hur regionens aktörer ser på den och agerar för att ta vara på dess potential. Studien kan ses som en förstudie. Avsikten har varit att studera utbytet mellan orterna innan vägens färdigställande och att kartlägga synen på regionens potential, vägens betydelse hos företrädare för näringslivsorganisationer, större arbetsgivare, politiker, m fl. Frågorna måste besvaras genom flera olika delstudier med skilda perspektiv. Vi har arbetat med intervjuer med beslutsfattare i den berörda regionen, vi har studerat pendlingsrörelser, analyserat kollektivtrafikens utveckling och vi har försökt att sätta in vägen i ett regionalpolitiskt utvecklingsperspektiv. Fokus i studien ligger på institutionella förhållanden och begrepp och processer i regional utveckling.
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- Landstrom, Ingegerd, 1969-
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Towards Collaborative Coastal Management in Sri Lanka? : A study of Special Area Management planning in Sri Lanka's coastal region
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is concerned with the efforts to bring about a greater degree of local community participation in the use and management of Sri Lanka's coastal land and natural resources. Through the application of the Special Area Management (SAM) strategy in geographically distinct areas along the coast, the aim is to create collaborative arrangements - partnerships - that will enable coastal communities and local governments to work together with the Sri Lankan state and share responsibility and authority over the management of coastal land and natural resources. Using a political-geographical perspective that highlights the political and spatial dimensions of this shift in forms for governing the coast, the thesis seeks to identify and discuss factors that can have a bearing on the participatory dimension of collaborative coastal management in Sri Lanka. The thesis focuses particularly on factors influencing the role played by the local communities and the degree to which they actually come to share authority with respect to the use and management of coastal natural resources as envisioned in the SAM strategy. The thesis illustrates that, despite an ambition to bring about a sharing of authority and control in costal management, this has not quite worked out in practice. Due to circumstances relating both to the SAM strategy itself and to the context in which it is implemented, the degree to which coastal communities have gained any degree of influence with respect to the management of coastal land and resources remains questionable. The study is carried out prior to the tsunami that hit the Sri Lankan shores in December 2004. However, given the major reconstruction of Sri Lanka's coast that currently is ongoing and the controversy that surrounds it, the issues raised in this thesis are highly relevant.
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- Larsen, Katarina, et al.
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Environmental scenarios and local-global level of communityengagement : Environmental justice, jams, institutions and innovation
- 2011
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Ingår i: Futures. - : Elsevier. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 43:4, s. 413-423
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- National climate change policy currently operates on a continuum from the local community to the supra-national level. These initiatives include local deliberative processes of low-carbon futures as well as local-global interactions in ‘eco-innovation jam’ dialogues carried out in a virtual space, but founded on communicating with local stakeholder groups. Experiences from national processes and international examples of these structured dialogues of community engagement raise important questions of environmental justice and deliberative processes that facilitate participation by some groups, but perhaps also neglect others. This is particularly relevant since the environmental justice discourse traditionally frames environmental concerns in a place-bound manner that includes local responses to environmental questions. In this paper we argue the importance of local and global forums and deliberative processes for community engagement in order to incorporate stakeholders’ perceptions of future options for low-carbon living, travelling and consuming services and products. Important policy transformations in planning for low-carbon societies are outlined and results from cases are discussed. We conclude with three remarks about the importance of citizen participation for understanding local conditions for change, processes of localized internationalization, and new roles for nation states facing the climate change challenge. We also recognise the importance of the local and global level of deliberative processes targeting sustainable urban futures.
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- Larsson, Lars, 1969-
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När EU kom till byn : LEADER II - ett sätt att styra landsbygdens utveckling
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to analyse changes in political and territorial organisation that followed the introduction and implementation of the EU initiative for rural development, LEADER II, in Sweden. Focusing on the actors involved, the LEADER process is analysed from three perspectives: local democracy; the construction of regions; and the political capacity to act. Governance is the conceptual framework that guides the analysis. The main empirical material consists of 85 interviews conducted with people who actively participated in LEADER II. The LEADER programme is aiming at transgressing existing boundaries between societal sectors. It is done through the creation of partnership organisations and new regions. Viewed from a governance standpoint, the inclusion of actors from the private and non-profit sectors promises higher efficiency in delivering political goods through added resources and increased local knowledge. However, even if governance indicates that new forms for political implementation can be experimented with there are limits to what can be achieved. In the LEADER case, it is clear that the public sector retained its power over resources, means and ends.
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- Lindahl, Karin Beland, et al.
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Nordic Forest Futures : An Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: The Future Use of Nordic Forests. - Cham : Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag. - 9783319142173 - 9783319142180 ; , s. 1-10
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book focuses on how global trends are likely to affect the future use of Nordic forests. The aim is to contribute to a broad debate about future Nordic forest management. The book invites professionals in the forest sector, civil society organizations and decision makers to be part of a dialog about the opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs associated with future forest use. The book is produced within the Future Forests Research Program (www.futureforests.se), a major cross-disciplinary research effort to address future Swedish forest use in the light of climate change and an increasing demand for forest-related products and services
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- Lindahl, Karin Beland, et al.
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Transdisciplinarity in practice : aims, collaboration and integration in a Swedish research programme
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1943-815X .- 1943-8168. ; 11:3-4, s. 155-171
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the practice of crossdisciplinarity in the context of future-oriented sustainability studies. Much research into crossdisciplinarity has concentrated on programmatic and epistemological questions. In this study, we focus on research practice and efforts to realize transdisciplinary aims across a research programme. We use the Swedish Future Forests programme as a case study and explore its aims, forms of collaboration and level of conceptual integration. The study demonstrates that efficient integration requires organizational settings able to support the development of a common conceptual framework. To achieve this, the aims and forms of collaboration and the means of integration ought to be consistent. Far-reaching integration and short-term instrumental objectives may be difficult to combine because integration requires intellectual space, specific boundary settings and time. Short-term instrumental objectives may also hamper open and reflexive discussion of alternative pathways to sustainability and of how participating actors shape the research process. These insights may help researchers and participating actors to design research programmes that enable a realization of their transdisciplinary ambitions.
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- Mellberg, Sofie, et al.
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Transcriptional profiling reveals a critical role for tyrosine phosphatase VE-PTP in regulation of VEGFR2 activity and endothelial cell morphogenesis.
- 2009
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Ingår i: The FASEB journal. - : Wiley. - 1530-6860 .- 0892-6638. ; 23:5, s. 1490-1502
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To define molecular events accompanying formation of the 3-dimensional (3D) vascular tube, we have characterized gene expression during vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-induced tubular morphogenesis of endothelial cells. Microarray analyses were performed comparing gene induction in growth-arrested, tube-forming endothelial cells harvested from 3D collagen cultures to that in proliferating endothelial cells cultured on fibronectin. Differentially expressed genes were clustered and analyzed for specific endothelial expression through publicly available datasets. We validated the contribution of one of the identified genes, vascular endothelial protein tyrosine phosphatase (VE-PTP), to endothelial morphogenesis. Silencing of VE-PTP expression was accompanied by increased VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR2) tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of downstream signaling pathways. The increased VEGFR2 activity promoted endothelial cell cycle progression, overcoming the G(0)/G(1) arrest associated with organization into tubular structures in the 3D cultures. Proximity ligation showed close association between VEGFR2 and VE-PTP in resting cells. Activation of VEGFR2 by VEGF led to rapid loss of association, which was resumed with time in parallel with decreased receptor activity. In conclusion, we have identified genes, which may serve critical functions in formation of the vascular tube. One of these, VE-PTP, regulates VEGFR2 activity thereby modulating the VEGF-response during angiogenesis.
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- Mårald, Erland, 1970-, et al.
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Changing approaches to the future in Swedish forestry, 1850-2010
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nature and Culture. - : Berghahn Books. - 1558-6073 .- 1558-5468. ; 11:1, s. 1-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the changing construction of the future in Swedish forestry since 1850. The framework is based on three concepts: (1) knowability, addressing changing views of knowledge; (2) governability, addressing changing views of the ability to steer the future; and (3) temporality, referring to varying ways of relating to time. The results reveal that until the 1980s, trust in science-based forestry triggered other knowledge-based activities, such as education, surveys, and field trials. The future was seen as predictable and forecasts were expected to support increased forest production. In the 1970s, the environmental debate about the forest incorporated a pluralistic futures agenda. High-production forestry using intensive management methods was questioned. Futures studies shifted focus from predictions to scenarios, highlighting a less predictable future open to human agency. Paradoxically, with increased knowledge of forest ecology and forest markets with improved modeling techniques, the future horizon shifted to one of risks and uncertainties.
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- Möller, Peter, et al.
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När lanthandeln stänger : En studie av lanthandelns betydelse för flyttning in och ut och för människorna i byn
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Sweden the number of rural food shops has decreased for more than 50 years. Often the closing of a village shop is supposed to affect the migration patterns in the area it has been serving. However, according to this study, neither in- nor out-migration in the area affected by the closing is affected. The deficits of migration usual in those areas are established at least 10-12 years before the closing year. Thus, the typical closing takes place subsequent to a long term population decline. On the other hand, localities hosting a shop that survived during the study period 1990-2004 have a bigger total population and show tendencies towards decreasing deficit of migration at any potential closing year. These statistical results are supported by interviews carried out in three villages where the last shop has closed. They indicate that the shop has already lost its importance as supplier when it closes. By then the village shop is primarily used as complement to nearby towns or shopping centres. Each of the two studies accounted for here point at a relative un-importance of the village shop as a service point at the closing time. However, as it often offer the last public space in the village the village shop serves a key function as a meeting point for some households. When the shop has closed, the village holds private homes only. That is a situation increasing loneliness to some inhabitants.
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- Möller, Peter, et al.
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The (un)importance of the closure of village shops to rural migration patterns
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 0959-3969 .- 1466-4402. ; 21:2, s. 129-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the importance of local service provision for the survival of rural areas. EU Rural Development Policy includes support to village shops as a means to sustain population. Shop closing is assumed to negatively affect migration to and from the area served. We analyse quantitative data on all Swedish village shops and the migration patterns in their market areas before and after shop closure. No significant effect of shop closure on either in- or out-migration can be established, regardless of whether larger or smaller market areas are employed or whether migrants with more urban shopping habits (i.e. commuters and families with children) are excluded. Complementary interviews in three villages where the last shop has closed verify the results.
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- Möller, Peter, 1974-
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Young adults in rural tourism areas
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines how tourism affects conditions for young adults in rural areas. Such a study lies at the intersection of research about tourism impacts, adult transition, and rural areas. The aim is to examine how largescale tourism affects the opportunities for young adults living in rural areas; their perception of place and the perceived opportunities and obstacles that tourism provides.The thesis utilizes a mixed method approach. A quantitative study based on micro-data on individuals identifies the patterns and magnitudes of the mechanisms by which tourism affects population change among young adults. Interview methods are used in the case study area, Sälen, to investigate these mechanisms in depth. Finally, the rural–urban dichotomy is explored in a conceptual study that asks how tourism affects the perception of a local village as either rural or urban. Young inhabitants in rural areas are rarely considered in tourism research; therefore, the main contribution of this thesis is that it illuminates how tourism affects conditions for young adults in rural areas.The thesis reveals a substantial impact on the adult transition, mainly due to easier access to the labor market and a good supply of jobs during the high season. Further, the large number of people passing through creates flows of opportunities to make friends, get a job, or just meet people. All of these factors contribute to high mobility in these places, and to the perception of them as places where things happen. The high mobility in Sälen implies that fixed migrant categories (such as stayers and leavers) are largely insufficient. The tourism environment creates a space that is always under construction and continually producing new social relations mainly perceived as opportunities. Conceptualizing this as a modern rurality is a way to move beyond the often implicit notions of urban as modern and rural as traditional.
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The Future Use of Nordic Forests : A Global Perspective
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Discusses the balance between the various functions of boreal forests.Looks at global trends that may affect the future use of forests.Explores pathways to sustainability in the light of global population and economic growth forecasts.Considers challenges and possible responses for future forest governance.
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- Törnqvist, Anders, et al.
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Landscape analysis in the VI Agroforestry Programme, Lake Victoria basin,. An integrated approach: GIS based field mapping and interviews.
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Over a number of years, geographers from Högskolan Dalarna (HDa) have been working on a method to map, analyse and present elements in landscapes through fieldwork with handheld computers and using GIS-technology (Geographical Information Systems) in combination with interviews at household level. The last few years we have applied the method in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda) in a co-operation with VI Agroforestry Programme (VI AFP). This report aims at drawing together the experiences from this cooperation.
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- Waldenström, Cecilia, et al.
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Bioenergy From Agriculture : Challenges for the Rural Development Program in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Society & Natural Resources. - : Routledge. - 0894-1920 .- 1521-0723. ; , s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the challenges for the EU Rural Development Program (RDP) to promote sustainable bioenergy production from agriculture. Drawing on the Swedish example, we identify opportunities for farmers and discuss agricultural-based bioenergy production in relation to the program objectives for agricultural competitiveness, sustainability and climate effects, and rural development. The sustainability and climate effects of agricultural-based bioenergy can be ascertained only through contextual analysis, and research indicates that rural development may be best promoted through local collaborative energy systems. Contrasting two ideal-type roles farmers may assume in bioenergy production, we discuss Swedish institutional contexts of energy production. In Sweden, the national energy policy tends to favor large-scale energy solutions and farmers taking on the roles as suppliers of primary products in large-scale energy systems. For RDP objectives to be realized, this tendency needs to be countered, local solutions need to be supported, and a national three-tiered energy policy integration needs to be furthered.
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- Waldenström, C, et al.
(författare)
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The Natural Resource Turn : Challenges for Rural Areas
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Journal of Rural Management. - Canada. - 0973-0052 .- 0973-0680. ; 4:1, s. 102-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forecasts for demographic change and long-term economic growth in the world indicate a probable critical growth in demand for biological resources such as food, bioenergy, and forest products over the next few decades. In Sweden, as in other western economies where the rural economy and the rural population have been declining since the Second World War, such an expected natural resource turn may have major implications for social and economic change in rural areas. In this paper we explore the research needs that follow from the perspective of a natural resource turn, which we define as a long-term economic upgrading of natural resources following on critical growth in demand. Based on the situation in Sweden, we elaborate on four themes, considered as central to understanding natural resource turn–related rural change from a future perspective: (a) the production and management of biological resources and landscapes; (b) demographic change; (c) the location of economic activity to rural areas; and (d) social transformations in rural communities. Finally, some policy implications of these changes are outlined.
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- Westholm, Erik
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A territorial approach to politics of climate change
- 2009
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Ingår i: What Future for Social Investment?. - Stockholm : Institute for Futures Studies. - 9789197853712 ; , s. 143-151
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the 2000 Lisbon Agenda, the EU expressed its intention of making Europe become ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010’. With less than one year left until the deadline, it seems that these goals will be hard to meet, even more so with the current global crisis. Yet thinking has to go beyond immediate responses to the current crisis to discuss the kind of strategy that should be implemented in the medium to long term in order not to reproduce the failures of the recent past. In this respect, the ‘social investment’ paradigm that emerged in the mid-1990s may provide governments and the EU with some guidelines for the macro-economic and social policies that need to be implemented in order to promote sustainable economic growth and ensure the political and social sustainability of the European Social Model.This report assesses the diversity feasibility, but also the relevance of the social investment strategy in Europe. What policies have been implemented in different countries, with what success? What have been the key drivers of change or impeding factors in pursuing a social investment strategy? The report also questions whether the goals defined in 2000 are still relevant, and whether the social investment strategy can help face not only traditional European problems but also new issues created by the current crisis.
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- Westholm, Erik, et al.
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Closing the Future: Environmental Research and the Management of Conflicting Future Value Orders
- 2019
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Ingår i: Science, Technology, and Human Values. - : SAGE Publications. - 0162-2439 .- 1552-8251. ; 44, s. 237-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines a struggle over the future use of Nordic forests, which took place from 2009 to 2012 within a major research program, Future Forests-Sustainable Strategies under Uncertainty and Risk, organized and funded by Mistra, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. We explore the role of strategic environmental research in societal constructions of long-term challenges and future risks. Specifically, we draw attention to the role played by environmental research in the creation of future images that become dominant for how societies structure action for the long term. We also show that this process is on several accounts problematic. Research labeled "strategic" or "relevant" is intended to manage long-term risks and challenges in a sustainable way, by taking into account the "open" and "plural" nature of the future. The case of Future Forests suggests, rather, that by contributing to the emergence of dominant future images, environmental research is entangled with a process of gradual consensus creation around what may be highly selective or biased narratives of the long term, which may conceal or postpone key forms of future conflict.
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- Westholm, Erik
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Dynamik i långsamma landskap
- 2004
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Ingår i: Att leva med befolkningsförändringar. - Stockholm : Sv Kommunförbundet. - 9172892331
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