Landscape planning

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Landscape planning encompasses a broad range of research, teaching and environmental monitoring projects (FOMA) related to planning practice.

The analysis and planning of landscapes to promote sustainability is the focus of our teaching, research and projects. We cover all types of landscapes, i.e. urban, rural, peri-urban and natural. We are focused on meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Multiple fields

Our methods are interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences and technology, and aim to support decision-making and planning.

Key subfields are landscape, garden and planning history, planning theory, multifunctional landscape planning, stakeholder participation, urban-rural interactions, risk analysis and behavioural decision analysis. Our networks extend regionally, nationally and internationally.

Head of Department: Patrik Olsson
Subject Representative: Ingrid Sarlöv-Herlin

Lina Berglund-Snodgrass, Senior Lecturer: Urban Sustainability, Action Research, Democratization of Social-Ecological Development

Kristina Blennow, Professor: Risk Communication, Risk Analysis, Science and Proven Experience

Amanda Bäckman, Research Assistant

Linnéa Fridell, Senior Lecturer: Outdoor Life, Sustainable Urban Planning and Management, Landscape Analysis

Christine Haaland, Researcher: Landscape Ecology, Biodiversity, Green Infrastructure

Abdulghani Hasan, Senior Lecturer: GIS, Hydrological Modeling, Flood Modeling for Urban Planning

Anna Jakobsson, Senior Lecturer: Garden History, Social Sustainability, Heritage of Landscape Architecture

Christopher Klich, Senior Lecturer: Digital Tools, Landscape Visualization, Spatial Analysis with GIS

Åsa Klintborg Ahlklo, Researcher: Garden History, Green Education History, Green gender studies

Blaz Klobucar, researcher

Maria Kylin, senior lecturer: Children's environments, urban planning, pedagogy and design

Anders Larsson, senior lecturer: Comprehensive landscape planning, planning processes, collaboration between city and country

Marie Larsson, senior lecturer: Urban cultivation, urban agriculture, community activism

Lisa Norfall, senior lecturer: Urban planning, green infrastructure, municipal planning processes

Patrik Olsson, senior lecturer: Cultural heritage, historical geography, landscape conservation

Anna Peterson, senior lecturer: Regional development, municipalities, food

Sara Ringvall Sundkvist, doctoral student

Neil Sang, researcher: GIS, computer science, landscape modeling

Ingrid Sarlöv-Herlin, professor: Interdisciplinary, everyday landscapes, integrated planning and management

Love Silow, senior lecturer: Sustainable landscapes, food landscapes, relationships between food, people and place

Sanna Stålhammar, researcher: Ecosystem services, sociocultural values, interpretation methods

We test, develop and apply frameworks and theory (e.g. in landscape history, landscape analysis, planning, environmental psychology, landscape ecology, valuation, behavioural decision research) and methods (interviews, surveys, computer simulations, GIS, landscape analysis, visualisations and cognitive experiments).

For example:

  • Climate change and changing landscapes
  • Landscape identity in relation to landscape change
  • Use and planning of everyday urban and rural landscapes for quality of life, especially for children's activities and recreation
  • The role of urban density and green structure for urban functions and ecosystem services
  • Planning processes and land use conflicts in relation to densification and sprawl
  • Location considerations with regard to noise, inter-municipal cooperation.
  • Cultural heritage and sustainable development
  • Migration and sustainable development
  • The relationship between food consumption, production and urban and rural landscapes
  • Planning discourses and landscape values
  • Risk analysis and behavioural decision research
  • Human relationship to and use of the landscape in a historical perspective
  • Landscape analysis and geoinformatics (GIS)
  • Geodesign
  • Using social media to collect data on stakeholders' perceptions of landscapes

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