Marcus Hedblom

I am leading the landscape management group at the department. My background is in urban landscape ecology and nature conservation. In my research and teaching I am interested in how we can plan, design and manage urban green areas so that both humans and other species thrive. I am especially interested in how to conserve biodiversity in urban settings and how biodiversity effects human health. Thus my approach is interdisciplinary and linked to urban ecology and landscape architecture. It includes mapping of species, how humans percieve and physically react to different urban green settings, and their managment regimes. Read more about the landscape management subject area (and me) here.

RUNNING PROJECTS

SMELL- Smell from nature and reduction of human stress in urban environments  In this transdisciplinary project we will investigate how smell from nature is percived by humans and their potential as stress reducers. PI- Marcus Hedblom. PhD student. Francesca Taufer. FORMAS funded 2023-2025.

GreenMe. HORIZON  EUROPE project 2023-2027. Advancing Greencare in Europe: an integrated multi-scalar approach for the expansion of nature-based therapies to improve Mental health Equity. Swedish chapter coordinator - Marcus Hedblom. Co-reserachers- Anna-Maria Palsdottir, Helena Nordh and PhD student Anna Åshage. In close collaboration with Petra Cau Wetterholm -grundare av Shinrin-Yoku Sweden.

Designed urban plant communities: do they promote pollinating insects? This project aims to provide evidence-based guidance for planning and design of urban green spaces that promote wild pollinators. PI: Associate Professor Erik Öckinger and collaborating researcher Juliana Dániel Ferreira. Read more (in Swedish here). 

Sounds like Norway. Sounds like Norway: the aural experiences of outdoor life and biodiversity. The goal of SLN is to chart how important natural soundscapes are for outdoor life and biodiversity and develop indicators useful for national park planning. PI - Rose Kellner. Co-researacher Marcus Hedblom + additional team members. Research council of Norway 2023-2027.

LANDPATHS. This major research programme aims at promoting multifunctional landscapes that are both biodiversity rich and provide multiple benefits for a range of actors. Listen to the Subpoject leaders talking about the program on Youtube here. Marcus Hedblom Sub project leader together with Professor Terry Hartig and post doc Lara Tickle for the Subproject linked to Urban Environments. SEPA funded 2022-2027.
Framtidens miljöövervakning med sensorteknik. Foma SLU Funded. 2022-2024. Marcus Hedblom PI.

NORDARK. "Unconventional methods to inform sustainable design: Mediating the needs of people and nature in Nordic after-dark environments". Marcus Hedblom WP leader of Biodversity ecology mapping of animals in close collaboration with Claudia Lopez-Alfaro. NORDFORSK funded 2021-2025.

Finished projects
Green multi-sensory indoor environments for increased well-being which is a project running during 2020-2024 linked to indoor environments to reduce pain and streess (financed by SLU Future Animals, Nature and Health and MOVIUM) in cooperation with the city of Helsingborg. I am PI but work in close collaboration with Gunnar Cerwén. Gröna multisensoriska inomhusmiljöer för ökat välbefinnande. SVENSKA.

REGREEN project (2019-2024) H2020. The Swedish team work with the Landscape laboratory in Alnarp including co-creation and learning with children. H2020 funded 2019-2024.
2022-2023.

Skogsstyrelsen– förstudie om skogskvaliténs betydelse för rekreativt nyttjande

Systematizing Ecological knowledge to optimize Ecological Compensation – SEEC is a major review project linked to Biodiversity Offsets  (2018-2020).

Future labs (2020-2021) is a transdiciplinary project linked to future studies where I collaborate with Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris about future urban green cities. 

Natural sounds and stressreduction. PI -Researcher  (2016-2020) and Forests as potential stressreducers. PI- Researcher (2018-2020).

Valuation of ecosystem services provided by urban greenery researcher. (2012-2016). 

Searching for sustainable lawns in Sweden researcher (2012-2016). 

NILS -ESS National monitoring for assessing and valuating ecosystem services in alpine and boreal landscapes researcher (2013-2016). 

WISE - project. Pedagogical project Teacher/Researcher (2015-2017).

Use of NILS data for indicators to support the Swedish environmental objectives analyst. (2011- 2020).