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- Gooch, Pernille, et al.
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Natural resource conflicts in the Capitalocene
- 2019
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In: 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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Reports (other academic/artistic)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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In: Annales Botanici Fennici. - : Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board. - 0003-3847 .- 1797-2442. ; 52:3-4, s. 149-159
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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Agenda 2030. För oss och kommande generationers skull.
- 2022
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Skriften ger en kortfattad genomgång av de 17 globala hållbarhetsmålen med målet att uppnå en socialt, miljömässigt och ekonomiskt hållbar värld till år 2030. Åtgärder på nationell och regional nivå beskrivs kortfattat. Varje mål illustreras med verksamheter på lokal nivå. Skriftens huvudsyfte är att belysa den lokala nivån och peka på civilsamhällets stora roll i hållbarhetsarbetet.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Agribusiness and Green power - the benefits for whom? A case study from Tanzania.
- 2009
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In: World Congress on Environmental History, Abstract volume. Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August 2009..
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Agribusiness and Green power - the benefits for whom? A case study from Tanzania Wilhelm Östberg1 and Gunilla A. Olsson2 1 Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, SE -106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 School of Global Studies, P.O. Box 700, Göteborg University, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden The current excited interest in alternatives to fossil fuel is based on the growing insights of the rapid decrease of the global stores of fossil resources for energy production. This has led to a global race for discovering and developing new energy sources – with the dual goal of using renewable resources and to decrease CO2 emissions. Large-scale plantations of rapid growing crops suitable for processing to ethanol or bio-diesel are established especially in tropical and sub-tropical environments. Land, arable and non-arable, has become an expensive commodity linked to high expectations on conveying wealth and large economic benefits to the involved groups. Investors from all parts of the world are searching for suitable areas that can be transformed to bio-energy plantations. This happens in Tanzania where large-scale plantations of sugar cane for ethanol production for the European market, is under way put in order by a foreign company and with encouragement from the Tanzanian government. The land was sold very cheap by the government with the expectation that this enterprise would contribute to positive economic development for the country. It is stated that the new land use would be very profitable since this dryland is unproductive and deserted by humans. This paper presents a study on the implications for local communities and their possibilities to sustainable development when being involved in the globalised market of the production of biofuel. The current and historical land use in this region based on documents and interviews of local communities is surveyed with specific focus on the resource use in local agro-ecosystems. The influence of the new enterprise with its related activities on the livelihoods and resource needs of local peoples are studied. The production of green biofuels is related to the questions of sustainable development for different societies and at different time and spatial scales.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Biofuels and biodiverssity
- 2010
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In: Rapport från SBSTTA 14, Nairobi maj 2010. Vetenskapliga Rådet för Biologisk Mångafald. Naturvårdsverket. Stockholm. ; , s. 15-18
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Biofuels in East Africa
- 2009
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In: Biofuel International Workshop, Summary of presentations. NTNU, Trondheim, 2-5 February, 2009. Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU..
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Biologisk mångfald - en förutsättning för vår matförsörjning
- 2021
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In: Biologisk mångfald, naturnyttor och ekosystemtjänster. Svenska perspektiv på livsviktiga framtidsfrågor. - Stockholm & Uppsala : Naturvårdsverket & Centrum för biologisk mångfald. - 1403-6568. - 9789188083364 ; , s. 222-233
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- I detta kapitel ges först en kort inblick i hur den vilda biologiska mångfalden blev grunden för jordbruket och utvecklats som en del av människors matlandskap inom olika lokala ekosystem. I takt med att tillgång till nya energikällor har matproduktionen och matsystemen ändrats vilket bidragit till den allvarliga, lokala och globala miljösituationen vi befinner oss i. Möjligheter till och ramverk för en hållbar matproduktion och hållbara matsystem baserade på agroekologiska system skisseras.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Biologisk mångfald var aldrig meningen! Herröns odlingslandskap – 40 år senare
- 2021
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Naturreservatet Herrön på den svenska västkusten är ett unikt kulturlandskap i kustmiljö. Landskapets mångfald av livsmiljöer har gett en ovanligt rik biologisk mångfald. Detta har sin grund i en lång och kunskapsrik jordbruksverksamhet baserad på lokala naturförutsättningar. På Herrön utfördes 1980 en tvärvetenskapligt projekt där kulturlandskapets historia, kultur och ekologi i studerades. Under 2020 återstuderades ett stort antal gräsmarker (semi-natural grasslands) för att undersöka förändringar sedan 1980. Resultaten presenteras i denna skrift och innehåller tidigare opublicerat material från 1980. Syftet med detta arbete är att ge ett underlag till framtida bruk och skötsel av landskapet på Herrön och att förmedla att detta landskap är en produkt av naturförutsättningar och människors arbete och kunskap med en tidsdimension av mer än 1000 år. Området har en unik potential för sambandet biologisk mångfald och matförsörjning, hållbarhetsarbete och hållbarhetsvisioner. I det totala materialet noterades 274 växtarter. Av dessa är 105 arter nya eller försvunna, vilket ger en förvånande stor artomsättning på 38 %. Den högsta arttätheten var på den torr/friska slåttermarken och något lägre på friska respektive fuktiga gräsmarker hävdade med slåtter eller bete. De skötselinsatser som idag bedrivs på Herrön med slåtter, betesdrift, odlingsverksamhet vid gården Ängen, begränsning av sly i bryn osv., är alla mycket väl utförda och högst väsentliga och bör upprätthållas. Detta visas av denna jämförande studie 1980- 2020 . De olika vegetationstyperna hävdas på bästa möjliga sätt för att efterlikna det bruk som Ragnar Andersson och hans syskon drev här fram till 1990-talet. Den grundläggande skillnaden är givetvis att idag drivs inte detta skärgårdsjordbruk med försörjningssyfte utan enbart för att bevara områdets biologiska mångfald. Dock existerar två omistliga och unika restaureringsobjekt, fuktängen vid Hisingsviken och sältan vid Rördammen. Dessa saknar idag hävd vilket strider mot gällande skötselplaner. Markägaren motsätter sig skötselinsatser. Genom våra studier med vegetationsdata och fotografier, från 1980 och 2020, finns ett unikt material som gör restaureringsåtgärder möjliga och meningsfulla för dessa båda lokaler. Det framgår tydligt att avsaknad av slåtter (efter 1988) och bete (efter 2010) på fuktängen vid Hisingsviken lett till minskande artmångfald och dominans av ett fåtal storvuxna arter. Den tidigare slåtterhävdade och betade unika sältan vid Rördammen, som varit ett fundament för bosättningen på Herrön sedan förhistorisk tid, uppvisar betydande artförändringar och minskande artantal efter en tid av utebliven slåtter. Det långa tidsperspektivet för gräsmarker och deras hävd med bete och slåtter, frånvaro av kemiska medel, inklusive konstgödsel, har gett möjlighet till utveckling av unik och representativ biologisk mångfald inom många växt- och djurgrupper. Det långa tidsperspektivet på Herrön utgör levande historia om hur människor levt och försörjt sig på tillgängliga naturresurser vid den svenska kusten. Dagens stora globala utmaning är att ställa om till hållbar resursanvändning och att mildra den pågående globala klimatförändringen. I det sammanhanget ger landskapet och det kulturskapade ekosystemet som finns kvar på Herrön en unik möjlighet till kunskap om samspelet mellan natur och kultur, biokulturell mångfald. Den existerande mångfalden av organismer utgör en resurs för vetenskaplig kunskap och för spridning, kolonisering och restaurering av motsvarande vegetationstyper och ekosystem.
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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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In: Tomorrow’s Food Travel (TFT) conference, Centre for Tourism – University of Gothenburg, 8–10 October 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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
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Coronasmittan bereder väg för en större omställning
- 2020
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In: Dagerns Nyheter.. - 1101-2447. ; :14 mars 2020
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Corona-pandemins snabba framfart visar på samhällens sårbarhet och den starka tilltron till globaliseringens fördelar har rubbats. Med dessa insikter ges nya möjligheter för återuppbyggnad av samhället efter coronan - en omställning till ett klimatsmart och hållbart samhälle. Det betyder varken försakelse eller armod men större lokalt engagemang med behov av fler arbetstillfällen, mer utbrett demokratiskt intresse och ett mer sammanhållet samhälle.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Environmental stresses and resource uses – analysed by the DPSIR framework
- 2014
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In: Tran Dinh, L., Olsson, E.G.A. & Alpokay, S.(eds.). 2014. Environmental stresses and resource use in coastal urban and peri-urban regions – DPSIR approach to SECOA’s 17 case studies. - Roma : Sapienza University Press. - 9788898533237 ; , s. 21-32
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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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In: Development Research Conference 2018: “Rethinking development”, 22–23 August 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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, et al.
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Grass: from local pastures to global energy markets in eastern Tanzania
- 2012
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In: Ecology and power : struggles over land and material resources in the past, present, and future / edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark and Kenneth Hermele. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9780415601467 ; , s. 206-216
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Landskap för människor, Hisingen, Göteborg
- 2015
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In: Rapport från Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Seminarier 2015: Stadsnära landskap - konflikter kring nyttjande, Stockholm 28 januari 2015.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing the Multiple Potential Benefits of REDD+ in a Traditional Transnational Savanna-Woodland Region in West Africa
- 2013
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In: Ambio. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 42:3, s. 309-319
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The REDD+ scheme of the United Nations intends to offer developing countries financial incentives to reduce the rates of deforestation and forest degradation for reducing global CO2 emissions. This is combined with building carbon stocks in existing wooded ecosystems and fostering other soil, biodiversity and water conservation objectives. Successful application of REDD+ to the Xylophone Triangle of West Africa faces substantial challenges and risks to both meeting REDD+ objectives and to the local people’s rights and livelihoods. The transnationality of the culturally coherent area requires collaboration of three national governments. The opportunities, however, are great to capitalize on the region’s biodiversity, the well-developed traditional ecological knowledge and the use of local medicinal plants as an integral part of the agro-ecosystem. Possibilities open to, not only sequester carbon, but also to increase the resilience of the ecosystem and of independent rural livelihoods in the face of climate change and globalization.
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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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Reports (other academic/artistic)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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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Peri-Urban Food Production and Its Relation to Urban Resilience
- 2016
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In: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 8:12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Food production on the urban-rural fringe is under pressure due to competing land uses. We discuss the potential to improve resilience for urban-rural regions by enhancing food production as part of multifunctional land use. Through studies of peri-urban land in the regions of Gothenburg (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Gent (Belgium), recent developments are analysed. Arable farming has been declining since 2000 in all three areas due to urban expansion and recreational land use changes. In city plans, networks of protected areas and green spaces and their importance for human wellbeing have been acknowledged. Policies for farmland preservation in peri-urban settings exist, but strategies for local food production are not expressed in present planning documents. Among the diversity of peri-urban agricultural activities, peri-urban food production is a developing issue. However, the competing forms of land use and the continuing high dependence of urban food on global food systems and related resource flows reduces peri-urban food production and improvements in urban food security. The positive effects of local food production need to be supported by governance aiming to improve the urban-rural relationship. The paper discusses the resilience potential of connecting urban-rural regions and re-coupling agriculture to regional food production.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Peri-urban food production as means towards urban food security and increased urban resilience
- 2018
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In: Zeunert J. & Waterman T. (eds) Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781138125155
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter focuses on food production and food provisioning as overlooked and neglected aspects of urban sustainability in developed countries. The focus is on peri-urban land and the restructuring of peri-urban land use that is occurring in the outskirts of urban regions. In these areas, agricultural production for urban consumption is routinely abandoned and substituted with numerous other uses such as urban sprawl and recreation activities, for example, golf courses and horseback riding. Moreover, protected areas and alternatives to this development are also discussed. The multiple dimensions of a sustainable food system as an alternative to the globalised food system are elaborated. Development of local food systems can be seen as steps towards a more sustainable society. The chapter includes results from a European research project on future food production, with a case study from a peri-urban region in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Peri-urban food production - increasing urban resilience and linking urban and rural regions
- 2016
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In: Rethinking Sustainability Models and Practices. International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) 22d Conference. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Proceedings. - Lisboa.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the Anthropocene era most people globally live in cities and urban areas which rises vast challenges for handling resources and navigating towards sustainable urban development. The sustainable city is a frequently used vision but in the discussion on sustainable systems for housing, energy, waste, communication and security etc., the food security issue is most often absent. The food system in the industrial world is totally integrated in a global food system directly linked to the globalized economic market. The efficient functioning of a such system assumes reliable access to land, natural resources, energy, efficient and undisturbed transportation along routes in land, water, cyber space and absence of political and military conflicts. To the uncertainty of all those factors the environmental uncertainty, e.g. climate warming, must be added, and thus making food security endangered. The strong current interest in urban agriculture in many cities is partly a response to this situation although the food produced here cannot satisfy the need of the urban population. In contrast, the peri-urban regions have a large potential for food production but the land here is under severe pressure for a number of different and contradicting uses. Such pressures include 1) Land for built up activities and infrastructure; 2) Natural and cultural values and protected areas; 3) Recreation (golf courses, horse activities etc); 4) Food production. The challenge for urban planning of resilient livelihoods is to find a balance between the four competing dimensions since they all include needs for human wellbeing. The aim of this paper is to address the peri-urban land use changes in relation to food production, and to discuss the potential of increasing resilience for urban-rural regions by enhancing food production as part of multifunctional land use in those areas. A case study addressing this aim is performed in peri-urban Gothenburg, Sweden. This is a coastal city with considerable cultural diversity, segregation problems and challenges for social sustainability. Methods applied are interviews of different groups of stakeholders including planners and mapping of historical, statistical, land use data and land use plans. Among the preliminary findings are: unique situation in Gothenburg with a combination of considerable peri-urban land owned by the municipality and strong engagement and political will among officials and local residents to preserve the peri-urban agricultural land and to increase the local food production; Food production activities can produce multiple values available for citizens in the urban and peri-urban regions; Multifunctionality in protected areas that are part of the agricultural landscape; Local food production creating new job opportunities; Food production activities as arena for knowledge sharing and cultural integration; Combining the urban and peri-urban food production and including adjoining rural municipalities can revitalize the region; Food production activities increasing social and environmental sustainability have a potential for increasing resilience of urban-rural regions.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Peri-urban food production promoting urban resilience and bridging urban and rural regions
- 2017
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In: ABSTRACTS 3rd International Conference on Urban Sustainbility and Resilience, 13-14 June 2017, University College, London. - London : UCL Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience.
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- Abstract The dimension of food provisioning is mostly overlooked in the discussion of urban resilience.The sustainable city is a frequently used vision but in the analysis of sustainable and resilient systems for housing, energy, waste, communication and security etc., the food security issue is most often absent. The food system in the industrial world is totally integrated in a global food system and directly linked to the globalized economic market. For efficient functioning of the global food system it is necessary to have uninterrupted and reliable access to natural resources, energy, efficient and undisturbed transportation along routes in land, water, cyber space and absence of accidents, sabotage, political and military conflicts. To the uncertainty of all those factors must be added the environmental uncertainty, e.g. climate warming, thus making food security endangered. The strong current interest in urban agriculture in many cities is partly a response to this situation although the food produced here cannot satisfy the need of the urban population. The peri-urban regions, on the other hand, often have a large potential for food production on its unexploited but currently unused agricultural land. The land here is under severe pressure for a number of different and contradicting uses. Such pressures include 1) Land for built up activities and infrastructure; 2) Natural and cultural values and protected areas; 3) Recreation (golf courses, horse activities etc); 4) Food production. The challenge for urban planning of resilient livelihoods is to find a balance between the four competing dimensions since they all include needs for human wellbeing. The aim of this paper is to address the peri-urban land use changes in relation to food production, and to discuss the potential of increasing resilience for urban-rural regions by enhancing food production as part of multifunctional land use in those areas. This talk will report from a case study addressing this aim in peri-urban Gothenburg, Sweden. This is a coastal city formerly dominated by heavy industries including wharfs, but today in transition to new economies. The city of Gothenburg has considerable cultural diversity, segregation problems and challenges for social sustainability but is surrounded by extant agricultural landscapes. Methods applied in the study are interviews of different groups of stakeholders including planners and mapping of historical, statistical, land use data and land use plans. Among the preliminary findings are: the unique situation in Gothenburg with a combination of considerable peri-urban land owned by the municipality and strong engagement and political will among city officials and local residents to preserve the peri-urban agricultural land and to increase the local food production. There is an increasing request for locally produced food among the urban citizens and current production is very far from the capacity of meeting this demand. Local food production activities can produce multiple values available for citizens in the urban and peri-urban regions. Multifunctionality in protected areas that were shaped by farming activities and belonging tothe agricultural landscape include meat production from grass-fed livestock – grazing is part of the biodiversity management – preservation of biocultural values, and simultaneously facilitating visitor access for recreation purposes. Local food production is creating new job opportunities; Food production activities can be seen as arena for knowledge sharing and cultural integration between different socio-ethnic-cultural groups; Combining the urban and peri-urban food production and including adjoining rural municipalities can revitalize the region, e.g. by ‘food charters’- different types of economic agreements on food production and cultivation between consumers and producers/farmers in the near and distant peri-urban-rural regions. This creates new jobs in the rural regions and contributes to a direct link between the city and its distant peri-urban-rural regions. Food production activities increasing social and environmental sustainability have a potential for increasing resilience of urban-rural regions. Several of the above mentioned issues are considered in the ongoing work in Gothenburg on a local food strategy that started Spring 2017. Some highlights from this work will be given
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Peri-urban land use tranformations in Gothenburg, Sweden
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In: Final Conference of RETHINK - Rethinking the links between farm modernisation, rural development and resilience in a world of increasing demands and finite resources, Brussels 2 December 2015..
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Revisiting drivers for Environmental Migration in Africa
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In: Deveopment Research Conference 2016. August 22-24, Stockholm University. - Stockholm : Stockholm University, VR, Formas, SIDA.
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- International migration is one of the burning global challenges for sustainable development. Environmental migration is a contested concept since destruction of livelihood conditions that leads to the deterioration of options for securing a living, is caused by a number of interacting variables such as changes in climate, land use, local and regional ecological conditions, socio-cultural-economic and political dynamics. The different factors act at different temporal and spatial scales that makes the outcome difficult to generalize for a specific site, which adds to the confusion of the interpretation and application of the concept. Yet migration due to livelihood deterioration is ongoing and environmental migrants seem to be an increasing challenge. This is also acknowledged by the EU, whose governance system related to migration does not cater for the environmental dimension. In spite of much of environmentally induced migration to the EU originates from Africa, this topic has not until recently been up on the agenda of policy discussions between the EU and Africa. The Valletta Summit on Migration, November 2015, was organised to discuss the ‘migration crisis’ experienced in Europe and Africa. The summit resulted in the EU setting up an Emergency Trust Fund to promote development in Africa, in return for African countries to help out in the crisis. We are reporting from a project on the complex interactions of different drivers acting on the local African livelihoods and thus driving migration. The aim is inform the development of sustainable governance mechanisms at different institutional levels in the EU-Africa relations.
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Sambandet mellan kunskap om biologisk mångfald och hållbar utveckling
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In: Systematikdagarna 2010, Göteborg. Abstract volume.
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- Föredraget belyser hur taxonomisk kunskap är en förutsättning och ett nödvändigt redskap och för en hållbar utveckling som bygger på resursutnyttjade där biologisk mångfald är en kritisk del. Kulturell mångfald (TEK) och biologisk mångfald; ekosystemtjänster och TEEB – och länken till taxonomisk kunskap. Exempel från några olika ekosystem.
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The shaping of food landscapes from the Neolithic to Industrial period: changing agro-ecosystems between three agrarian revolutions
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In: Zeunert J. & Waterman T. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781138125155
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- This chapter focuses on critical factors shaping agricultural landscapes during the longest period in human agricultural history, between the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions, roughly 6,000 years. The diversity of European agro-ecosystems are related to the interaction between local environmental factors and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) expressed in applied agrarian techniques and practices, implying the development of rich bio-cultural diversity at the levels of landscape, habitats and species. This chapter covers part of the time period treated in the preceding chapter but continues further until emergence of the Industrial period, in the early nineteenth century. The chapters are complementary.
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The sustainability paradox and the conflicts on the use of natural resources
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In: Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development. Gunilla Almered Olsson, Pernille Gooch (red.). - London : Routledge. - 9781138576896 ; , s. 1-7, s. 1-7
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- The chapter elaborates on the sustainability and sustainable development concepts in relation to the ongoing conflicts on the use of natural resources. The deterioration of natural and biological resources and the climate challenge are related to the current paradigm of economic growth and The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by UN member states in 2015. Conflicts can be seen as opportunities for change as they open up a range of new options and demand innovations for transitions to sustainable alternatives. The ongoing environmental conflict on climate change, a conflict of lifestyle and overconsumption by the few, a conflict on where the different dimensions of equity, in space and over time, intergenerational equity, are at the conflict centre, could be our great opportunity to enter the transition towards a sustainable future. The span of this book is global with case studies from both Global North and South. The themes elaborated and discussed are exemplified in the case studies and have the ambition to represent the major environmental conflicts – although far from exhaustive. The overriding theme of this book, ‘Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development’, can be sub-divided into three themes: Theme one – human-environment relationship; Theme two – justice and equity dimensions; Theme three – conflict resolution/transformation and pathways towards sustainability
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The transformative potential of the food system concept: Sustainability conflicts or sustainability transitions?
- 2019
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In: Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development. E.G.A. Olsson; P. Gooch (red.). - London : Routledge. - 9781138576896 ; , s. 199-216
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- The dependence on the global food system both in the Global North and Global South, has a profound impact on people’s dietary pattern and health – and creates immediate vulnerability and unpredictability related to food security. With growing insight into the consequences of the global food system for the environment, many cities in the Global North have implemented local/regional food strategies, food charters and other food system-related policies in an attempt to improve urban food security and encourage sustainable food system activities. Such activities include, for example, climate and ecosystem-friendly production methods, minimising the transportation of commodities in favour of food production located closer to consumers, and food systems driven by local participation and community actions. There seems to be connection between several of the proposed food system activities and Transition Movement actions (IPBES, 2018). Could the development of a sustainable food system catalyse transitions towards sustainability? In order to explore this question, the aim of this chapter is to analyse the link between sustainable food systems and pathways towards sustainability transitions. The chapter elaborates on how the sustainable food system relates to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and identifies eight aspects for such systems. Those dimensions/aspects agree well with the activities characteristic of the Transition Movements pathway towards a sustainable future.
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Urban food systems as vehicles for sustainability transitions
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In: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series. - : Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University. - 1732-4254 .- 2083-8298. ; 40:40, s. 133-144
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- Strategies and action plans for sustainable food provisioning and urban food security are in progress in many urban regions both in the global North and South. A number of urgent challenges need to be confronted such as increasing uncertainty and unpredictability related to stronger dependence on a global market for food import, ongoing political unrest and environmental conflicts, increasing resource scarcity and climate warming making food production hazardous. There is an increased vulnerability with respect to food security for human societies, both in developing and developed countries. The food security dimension of access to healthy food is related to equality and poverty and is relevant for cities in the North via the segregation challenges. The food system issue is well-suited for assessing sustainable development since food provisioning is both a multiscale and cross-sectorial issue and thus addresses more than the three dimensions of social, economic and environmental sustainability. How is the planning for sustainable food strategies in urban regions in Europe concordant with the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals and with the transition towards sustainable futures? This paper deliberates on using the food system issues for sustainability transition, drawing on the forthcoming 2018 IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) work on pathways for sustainable futures and a recent survey of existing urban food system strategies. Against this background, some reflections are given relevant for the ongoing work on a local urban food strategy for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Vår kärnkraft andras olycka
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In: GöteborgsPosten. ; 16 juni 2010:16 juni 2010
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Årtusenden av brukande födde Herröns mångfald
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In: Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift. - 0039-646X. ; 115:4, s. 236-245
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- I denna artikel önskar vi förmedla något av det komplexa sambandet mellan natur och kultur uttryckt i småskaliga odlingslandskap och ge argument till varför dessa mat-landskap med rötter i förhistorien har ett mycket stort värde för en hållbar framtid. De tre syskonen Erik, Asta och Ragnar Andersson var de sista som bedrev traditionellt jordbruk på Herrön i Bohuslän. När det sista syskonet hade gått bort 1993 blev deras gård naturreservat. Författarna inventerade ön 1980. En återinventering 40 år senare visar att en hel del av den unika floran bevarats, medan andra arter har gått förlorade sedan syskonens regelbundna slåtter upphörde.
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- Bruckmeier, Karl, 1952, et al.
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An attempt to clarify the resilience concept for renewed strategies of agricultural and farm modernization
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In: Farming systems facing global challenges. Capacities and strategies. Eds. Aenis, T., Knierim, A., Riecher, M-C., Ridder, R., Schobert, H. & Fischer, H. Proc. 11th European IFSA Symposium, Berlin, Germany 2-4 April 2014..
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