News & Events
News
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SLU highlights critical perspectives on environmental psychology at international conference
From 15 to 18 June, SLU took part in the International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP 2025). More than 600 participants explored one of the most pressing issues of our time: how people’s experience of place is shaped by climate change, urban development, health, and social change. -
The book Prototypa! – now available in English
The book "Prototyping! Building places together" is now available in English to download as a pdf. -
Challenges in restoring Sweden's urban ecosystems
From 2027, Sweden will work according to a national restoration plan for our nature, which includes urban ecosystems. -
New research project on resilience among smallholder farmers in rural Africa
How do farmers and pastoralists in Africa deal with change, uncertainty and crisis situations in their daily lives? Linda Engström, a researcher in rural development, will investigate this together with colleagues from Tanzania and Canada in a project funded by Formas. -
Extreme heat in cities – a growing threat to public health
Rising temperatures in urban areas pose a serious threat to public health – especially for the most heat-sensitive groups in society. During the webinar “Venue: Urban Landscapes,” was discussed how climate-adapted urban planning can help mitigate the effects of extreme heat.
Research
Research projects
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Economics, policy and food systems transformation
The Bommarco lab explores how diversified farming affects farm economy, how it can be developed and promoted in food value chains and food systems. We explore how biodiversity and ecosystem services, especially pollinators and pollination, are discussed and integrated in policy. -
Planning for a just coal energy transition from the ground up: Engaging coalfield communities in India for a fossilfree future
This research project engages coalfield communities in India to develop a replicable framework for a just energytransition that is participatory, bottom-up and socially inclusive. -
Back-to-the-land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside? Exploring the scope and impact of back-to-the-land migration in rural Sweden
The project analyses the past decades of back-to-the-land migration in Sweden— its underpinning motives, practices and ideals and discusses its relevance for understanding contemporary rural change in Sweden and for broader food systems transformations? -
Secondary forests, commodity frontiers and the micro-politics of land claims: Struggling to build smallholder forest futures
The project examines how the cultivation of two commercial crops (cocoa, oil palm) in Peru generates new borderlands and drives interconnected processes.
Research groups
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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. -
Landscape Architecture - Design Theory
The design theory group is concerned with the methods, tools, and pedagogy of the landscape architecture discipline. -
Landscape Architecture - Landscape Management
The landscape management subject focuses on how urban open space management such as vegetation, water and soil contributes to biodiversity, climate change adaptation and ecosystem services. -
Landscape Architecture - Profession and Practice
In the subject area the profession and practice, we focus on methods and theories used by landscape architects in their professional work. -
Landscape Architecture - Spatial Planning
The subject area spatial planning studies the interplay between the landscape, spatial planning and (other forms of) governance. -
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.