Märit Jansson

Märit Jansson is an associate professor working as a senior lecturer in landscape planning with focus on the use and management of urban landscapes. She is collaboration specialist in the theme urban environments, supporting collaboration between SLU landscape and other organisations and actors concerning her own expertise and more.

Main interests are the values of green spaces and their management with focus on socially sustainable urban development. Earlier studies have included children’s outdoor environments in playgrounds, school grounds, and neighbourhoods, children’s and other users’ perspectives on outdoor areas and their management and planning, the benefits of urban open space, effects of densification and perceived safety by vegetation.

Märit Jansson is theme group leader for Landscape Governance and Management.

During 2013-21 she was elected member of the LTV faculty board and during 2022-25 of the LTV appointment board.

Her main themes include:
- Management of outdoor spaces: user-orientation, multifunctionality
- Child-friendly environments
- Children's perspectives and participation
- Places for children, such as school grounds and playgrounds
- Planning and development of environments for people: densification, perceived safety, participation, health and justice

Leading and participating in various research projects. Lately, focus has been on outdoor office development, the welfare landscape, densification and sustainable greening of school grounds. Other studies have included child-friendly management and planning, perceived personal safety in residential areas with vegetation, Swedish playgrounds in history and today, children’s perspectives on school ground greening, and the value of urban open space.

Lecturing in several courses, particularly in parts dealing with children’s environments and qualitative research methods, and supervision of student theses to some extent.