SLU calculates and reports emissions and uptake from Sweden's Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry sector (LULUCF).
My interests are biodiversity, nature conservation, landscape ecology and green structure planning in rural, peri-urban and urban landscapes. The development of multifunctional green infrastructure - with focus on biodiversity, recreation, aesthetics and cultural heritage – is another topic that has been important to me.
At the moment I am the program director of studies for the master program Sustainable Urban Management (taught in Swedish) and head of the landscape planning unit.
Examiner of the course "Biological systems of the landscape" (more info here) for first year undergraduate landscape architect students
Teaching in courses at undergraduate and graduate level on sustainable urban development, biodiversity, ecosystem services and landscape ecology.
In my research I have worked with issues concerning biodiversity and landscape ecology and in particular with butterflies. The development and planning of (multifunctional) green structure has been another topic that I have studied (in interdisciplinary research groups).
Ongoing research project (participant): VivaPlan
Project recently finished (participant): BiodiverCity, where I investigate butterflies and bumblebees in green structures - including green roofs - in Malmö.
Participant in the local Scania platform of Urban Mistra Futures
Master (Diploma) in Biology (nature conservation) from Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany (1995)
PhD from SLU, Department of Landscape Planning, Alnarp (2003)
Selected publications:
Haaland, C. (2017) How to preserve a butterfly species within an urbanising settlement and its surroundings: a study of the scarce copper (Lycaena virgaureae L.) in southern Sweden. Journal of Insect Conservation 21, 917–927
Haaland, C. & Konijnendijk van den Bosch, C. (2015) Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: a review. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 14, 760-771
Haaland, C. (2015) Abundances and movement of the Scarce Copper Butterfly (Lycaena virgaureae L.) on future building sites at a settlement fringe in southern Sweden. Journal of Insect Conservation 19, 255-264
Haaland, C., Fry, G. & Peterson, A. (2011) Designing farmland for multifunctionality, Landscape Research 36 (1), 41-62
Haaland, C., Naisbit, R,E. & Bersier, L.-F. (2011) Sown wildflower strips for insect conservation – a review, Insect Conservation and Diversity 4 (1), 60-80
Haaland, C. & Gyllin, M. (2010) Butterflies and bumblebees in greenways and sown wildflower strips in southern Sweden, Journal of Insect Conservation 14, 125-132
Schneider, C. (2003) The influence of spatial scale on quantifying insect dispersal: an analysis of butterfly data, Ecological Entomology 28, 252-256
ResearchGate: Christine Haaland
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