Landscape, Planning and Society
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- Reinventing landscape planning for targeting “undisciplined” environmental challenges
- Landscape management in the Wildland-Urban Interface to reduce future wildfire vulnerability for communities — What are the barriers to change?
- Therapeutic landscapes beyond the lush season - Extending the well-being benefits of urban green and blue spaces through outdoor leisure
- LANDPATHS - Forest landscapes
- The Welfare Landscape Reassembled - Policies for sustainable outdoor recreation in times of urban densification
- Political Landscape
- Reinterpreting Fitness Running - A topological study for healthy cities
- Landscape up in smoke
- Sustainable Leisure Mobilities in Compact Towns - Changing patterns of outdoor recreation in transit-oriented development (TOD)
- A Balancing Act between Swift and Slow Planning - Reimagining deliberative planning in view of the urgency of sustainability challenge
- Researching and Decolonizing - Forest fires and indigenous landscape relations (ReaD-FIRE)
- Norra Sorgenfri Planned, Populated and Problematised - The role of social sustainability in urban renewal
- Decode: Community Design for Conflicting Desires
- Climate-smart spatial planning with social values
Related research topics
The subject group studies the landscape as an arena for sustainable and just societal transformation.
We combine landscape and planning studies, drawing primarily on theories and methods from the social sciences and the humanities. Particular emphasis is placed on qualitative, theory-driven research that contributes innovative and critical perspectives on contemporary societal development in general, and on the planning and governance of landscapes in particular.
The field spans both rural and urban landscapes, and ranges from the international to the local scale. Studies of landscape planning, landscape analysis, and the professional practices of landscape architects and planners are central.
In line with the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, research is mainly conducted at the intersections between established fields. Key interfaces include:
- Landscape and planning theory, focusing on theoretical development and critical analysis.
- Landscape and planning history, examining the interactions between landscape, planning, and other governance mechanisms in order to understand the conditions for societal transformation.
- Landscape and urban development, comprising qualitative and spatial landscape studies at the intersection of planning and design.
- Strategic planning and landscape policy, including policy-oriented studies at local, regional, national, and international levels.
- Mobility studies and landscape, exploring the interface between mobility studies, landscape research, and planning for sustainable everyday life.
- Critical theory and landscape planning, offering critical perspectives on planning, power, inclusion, and the right to landscape.