New funding to sustainability research

Two research projects at the Department of Human Geography have been granted research funding totaling nearly SEK 6 million, from Formas, research council for sustainable development.

Andrew Byerley and Dominic Power, researchers at the Department of Human Geography.
Andrew Byerley and Dominic Power, researchers at the Department of Human Geography.
Photo: Anders Rickegård/Stockholm University.
 

The projects that are granted funds are:

Andrew Byerley, Department of Human Geography, with co-applicants Ulf Jansson and Annika Dahlberg, Department of Physical Geography, to "Walking the Line. Exploring conflicts of rationality between formally scripted pedestrian planning and re-scripting urban green spaces with disobedient desire lines", SEK 2 941 753.

 

Dominic Power, Department of Human Geography, with co-applicants Andreas Back, Umeå University and Johan Jansson, Uppsala University, for the project "One foot here one foot there: how is sustainable economic development, innovation and working life affected by second home ownership in Sweden?", SEK 2 999145.