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- Gooch, Pernille, et al.
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Natural resource conflicts in the Capitalocene
- 2019
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Ingår i: Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development. - London : Routledge. - 9781138576889 - 9781351268646 - 9781138576896 ; , s. 11-23
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Matproduktion och urban hållbarhet - Fallstudie från Hisingen och Göteborgs framtida möjligheter. Report 2016:2
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hållbara städer är en frekvent vision i västvärlden och i Sverige som är ett av Europas högst urbaniserade länder. I diskussionen om städers hållbarhet och om system för energiförsörjning, kommunikation och säkerhet tas matförsörjningen ofta för given. I praktiken har svensk matförsörjning följt samma utveckling som i andra västländer med mat- och livsmedelsproduktionssystem som helt integrerade delar i en globaliserad ekonomisk marknad. I detta system ingår att lagerhållning minimeras i strävan för kostnadseffektivitet, att beredskapslager av mat är avskaffat och att det sker en snabb marknadsrespons på efterfrågan. Effektiviteten och funktionen av ett sådant system förutsätter ett antal villkor vars uppfyllande kan ifrågasättas i dagens situation som inte kan frikopplas från en global kontext: tillgång till mark, råvaror och insatsmedel för matproduktion; effektiva och pålitliga transporter och framkomlighet utmed kommunikationsleder i luft, vatten, land och cyberrymd; tillgång till energi som drivmedel för transporter, produktion, förädling och distribution; frånvaro av politiska, militära konflikter eller terrorangrepp. I rapporten diskuteras dels matförsörjning som en försummad och starkt sårbar dimension av urban hållbarhet, dels hur ett alternativ till denna situation skulle kunna se ut och vilka förändringsfaktorer som existerar. Rapporten utgör genom en fallstudie på Hisingen i Göteborg ett exempel på hur stor potential och möjlighet som finns för urban och peri-urban matproduktion. Utöver en beskrivning över de nuvarande förutsättningar som finns i Göteborg innefattar rapporten beräkningar på ytbehov för självförsörjning i Göteborg samt en utvecklad vision med identifierade nyckelfaktorer för framtiden.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Variation in Life History Traits of Gentiana nivalis (Gentianaceae) in Alpine and Sub-alpine Habitats in the Norwegian Mountains – Implications for Biodiversity in relation to Environmental Change
- 2015
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Ingår i: Annales Botanici Fennici. - : Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board. - 0003-3847 .- 1797-2442. ; 52:3-4, s. 149-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The alpine gentian, Gentiana nivalis, is an obligate annual. Because of its complete population turnover every year, it is likely to be more responsive to environmental shifts than are perennials, and also likely to undergo more rapid genetic change in response to selection pressure. The detected morphological differentiation between habitats was related to different proportions of spring- and autumn-germinating individuals with a larger proportion of winter annuals in the subalpine habitats. The spring-germinating annuals that have shorter time for development and have a shorter stature can still develop at the alpine sites where competition is weaker. The subalpine habitats are all semi-natural, shaped by livestock grazing and human activities related to summer farming. Declining human impact is leading to successional changes in the mountain landscape. The future of G. nivalis in the light of current trends in landscape development and climate change is discussed.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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City–Region Food Systems: Scenarios to re-establish urban-rural links through sustainable food provisioning
- 2018
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Ingår i: Tomorrow’s Food Travel (TFT) conference, Centre for Tourism – University of Gothenburg, 8–10 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- City–Region Food Systems (CRFS) is a cutting-edge concept and an emerging field of research. As a new analytical lens, it offers an integrated and multi-dimensional perspective on food’s origins, how it is grown and the path it follows to our plates and beyond. Building on this concept, this presentation reflects a prospective research project which seeks to explore opportunities for innovative and sustainable food systems in the Gothenburg region of Sweden by focusing on how rural and urban regions, food production and market can be integrated to promote regional food security. The project intends to: 1) develop scenarios with stakeholders for local food production in the region; 2) analyze the consequences of the scenarios on landscape change and biodiversity; 3) explore socio-economic consequences for producers and local communities; and 4) evaluate the sustainability and feasibility of scenarios with stakeholders. Five municipalities in Western Sweden (Gothenburg, Kungälv, Lerum, Alingsås and Essunga) will serve as study areas for the project, selected to reflect different kinds of potential for local food production in terms of dissimilar environmental conditions, prerequisites for farming and economic histories. The project responds to expressed interests and knowledge needs in the region and will be developed and implemented in direct cooperation with local and regional actors such as Västarvet, the Västra Götaland Region, the municipalities and various producer organizations. In sum, there are premises suggesting that recent urban food strategies and plans with sustainability ambitions are embracing several Sustainable Development Goals in the environmental, social, economic, and equity dimensions. This, in turn, is a characteristic of the Transition Movements pathway, in which the utility of food strategies in the work with sustainability transitions seems inevitable. The results are therefore likely to be transferable to other regions.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Food systems sustainability - For whom and by whom? : An examination of different 'food system change' viewpoints
- 2018
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Ingår i: Development Research Conference 2018: “Rethinking development”, 22–23 August 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The United Nations identifies the food crisis as one of the primary overarching challenges facing the international community. Different stakeholders in the food system have widely different perspectives and interests, and challenging structural issues, such as the power differentials among them, remain largely unexamined. These challenges make rational discourse among food system actors from different disciplines, sectors and levels difficult. These challenges can often prevent them from working together effectively to find innovative ways to respond to food security challenges. This means that finding solutions to intractable and stuck issues, such as the food crisis often stall, not at implementation, but at the point of problem identification. Food system sustainability means very different things to different food system actors. These differences in no way undermine or discount the work carried out by these players. However, making these differences explicit is an essential activity that would serve to deepen theoretical and normative project outcomes. Would the impact and reach of different food projects differ if these differences were made explicit? The purpose of this initial part of a wider food system research project is not to search for difference or divergence, with the aim of critique, but rather to argue that by making these differences explicit, the overall food system project engagement will be made more robust, more inclusive and more encompassing. This paper starts with some discussion on the different food system perspectives, across scales, regions and sectors but focuses primarily on the design of processes used to understand these divergent and at times contradictory views of what a sustainable food system may be. This paper draws on ongoing work within the Mistra Urban Futures project, using the food system projects in cities as diverse as Cape Town, Manchester, Gothenburg and Kisumu as sites for this enquiry.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Landskap för människor, Hisingen, Göteborg
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rapport från Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Seminarier 2015: Stadsnära landskap - konflikter kring nyttjande, Stockholm 28 januari 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Peri-urban agricultural transformations in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Peri-urban agricultural transformations in Gothenburg, Sweden The study area, Hisingen, is the northern part of the municipality of Gothenburg, peri-urban to the city and comprising peri-urban residential, industrial and commercial areas as well as agricultural land. The study area has riverine shorelines to the Göta and Nordre rivers and coastal shoreline to the North Sea. The case study is primarily about the transformation of and the contemporary conditions for farming in a peri-urban area and with specific reference to dimensions of resilience and governance in relation to use of natural resources for land use. The focused time period is 1967-2014 using the situation in the mid-1930s as a reference for land use. The sources used for the study are interviews with farmers, city planners and other stakeholders, and land use data from land use map from 1934; an analysis of land use parcels (digital maps) from which are drawn statistics on agricultural production for each farm for the years 2001,2004, 2013. Additionally there are also analyses of municipality plans and national policy documents. Four challenges for current and future agriculture in this area were identified: 1.Farmer’s lease contracts (often short–term) means that land is in waiting stage to become con-verted to settlement areas or industries. 2.The establishment of a large number of small-acreage horse farms as renters replaces agricultural land use as horse enterprises are willing to pay higher lease then farmers are able to. This has direct bearing on land use changes since large parts of arable fields are used for grazing by horses, thus replacing other agricultural production. 3.Demand for land for housing and settlements increases the pressure on agricultural land. This is counteracted by a general municipality strategy of sustainable livelihoods which includes agricul-tural activities for local food production and active cultural landscapes. The contrasting demands and strategies create paradoxes and conflicts in municipal planning. 4.A rising number of conflicts of interests between farmers and urban dwellers, from uncomfortable smell to leisure activities has appeared and can be expected to increase. Three parallel transformation processes have been identified during the last four decades in the study area: (a) parallel development of intensification (specialized production of commodities) and extensifica-tion (horse farms) implying that significant arable land has been transformed into permanent pas-tures, (b) development of niche production and increase of farm size, and (c) abandonment of arable land including former grazing land.
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