Department of Urban and Rural Development

  • Multi- and trans-disciplinary department
  • Research and teaching focusing on the societal aspects of SLU’s areas of responsibility
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Research projects

  • 2025-01-01 - 2027-12-31

    JUSTPOWER

    Understand and develop new tools to support a more just and democratic energy transition, based on the central question: How can democratic values be centered in the energy transition in a way that leads to a more inclusive and equitable societal development?
  • 2025-03-01 - 2028-12-31

    Include2Restore

  • 2025-09-01 - 2028-12-31

    COPE

  • 2023-01-01

    Continuity

  • 2025-01-01 - 2027-12-31

    Mill capacities and mill monopolies in Early Modern Sweden, 1625–1825

    The aim of this project is to study the economic and social workings of the milling industry in Sweden during the Early Modern period (ca. 1625–1825) - how local mill monopolies arose, persisted, and changed over the period, and how this resulted in lacking milling  capacity.

Research groups

  • 2025-06-09

    Political Science

    Political science is the scientific study of politics. Central to this are issues of democracy, power, politics, governance, and public administration at different levels.
  • 2025-06-05

    Agrarian History

    Agrarian history is a broad discipline examining people in the rural society, their social and economic conditions, and their relationship with nature, the landscape and wider society, as well as agricultural production and technological development.
  • 2025-06-05

    Landscape Architecture - Design Theory

    The design theory group is concerned with the methods, tools, and pedagogy of the landscape architecture discipline.