Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Finished projects in Environmental Communication

Here you find links to the research projects in Environmental communication that are finished.

Follow the fish The ways fish travel to our plates and how these fishways influence economy, community and environment. 19 September 2017
Sustainability trade-offs and the politics of bioeconomy in Finnish forest policy How is the pathway to sustainability defined in the official Finnish forest policy? What are the sustainability tradeoffs emerging from this dominant pathway? How have the political processes, in which the dominant pathway and the trade-offs have been defined, addressed the tensions and conflicts between competing pathways to sustainability, and between the actors promoting them? 19 September 2017
Collaboration between Research and Advisory Services in the Green Sector This research project studied the collaborative phenomenon (samverkan) in the Swedish green sector. We investigated how collaboration as a governing idea and ideal is constructed and filled with meaning, the consequences this generates and how collaborative practices between research, advisory services and practitioners play out. The aim was to critically explore and provide a multidimensional perspective on collaboration as an idea, form of organization and practice 28 June 2017
The Role and Responsibilities of the Municipalities in the Wording and Implementation of the Forest Policy A study of the accountability of Swedish municipalities concering the social value of forests and how this accountability in forest policies can be improved. 14 May 2017
Constructivity and destructivity in NRM conflicts An analytical framework and methodology for understanding the role of communication and institutions in transforming conflicts. 17 March 2017
What Makes Nordic Hunters Tick? Outlining the Challenges Facing the Contemporary Nordic Hunting Ethic In this 2-year postdoctoral research project, Erica von Essen explored the do’s and don’ts and taboos that exist on wildlife harvesting and killing among modern Swedish hunters. The findings were corroborated by equivalent studies on Danish, Norwegian and Finnish hunters. This to meet the principal aim of the research project, which was to identify a common Nordic hunting ethic. 14 March 2017
Fish in the City 07 June 2016
Communication Capacity in Management of Swedish Mountain Resources The project examined communication in two types of joint communication forums in Sweden: consultations between forestry companies and Sami villages on forestry; and consultations between County Boards and Sami villages on predator management. The aim of the study was to describe the communication in the forums, and the wider implications these forums have for the overall management of reindeer, forests and predators. 30 June 2015
Indigenous Rights and the Global Politics of Resource Extraction: The Case of Mining in Sápmi Over the last two decades there has been a growing global acknowledgement of Indigenous land and resource rights. At the same time, there has also been a dramatic increase in extractive activities and infrastructure projects on traditional Indigenous lands. Using the case of mining in Sápmi, this research project investigated the increasingly complex politics of resource extraction on traditional Indigenous lands emerging from these two contradictory trends. 06 March 2013
Confronting challenges to political legitimacy of the natural resource management regulatory regime in Sweden: The case of illegal hunting This four-year interdisciplinary research project explored the sociopolitical drivers to illegal hunting in Sweden through a multi-method approach comprising an in-depth interview study with Swedish hunters, a quantitative survey, critical discourse analysis and literature studies. 04 December 2012

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