Forest Resource Economics

The research on energy, strongly influenced by questions pertinent to the Swedish and European context today, is focused on: exploring questions related to the efficient provision of renewable energy; the design of future electricity markets; understanding how consumer energy-related behaviour interacts with markets for renewable energy; and the intersection between energy, forests and climate.

Our research on exploring decision making processes in resource contexts involves a range of approaches, including choice experiments and controlled lab and field experiments, on decision makers as varied as students, pastoralists, and other resource-related decision makers. Lab experiments are focused on how individuals make choices on values or tacit motivations that are not directly observable in the field and how individuals interact in relevant contexts e.g common property management and resources depletion. Field experiments tell us how resource owners behave in their actual resource use settings. In its emphasis on moving beyond the traditional sphere of understanding decisions and values, our group is at the research frontier on understanding how resources are, and ought to be, managed. We also actively contribute to public policy making via projects with relevant public authorities and private institutions.