I teach Swedish, EU and international environmental law and supervise and examine master thesis in environmental law.

Research

My research mainly concerns the role of law in governing complex and dynamic ecosystems and achieving environmental targets and the interplay between law and ecology. Focus areas are fisheries and hunting law, species and habitat protection, planning law, cultural heritage protection and environmental quality standards.

Ongoing research activities include project leading of the interdisciplinary research projects Legal perspective on landscape planning for a sustainable climate change transition (funded by Formas)

Main supervisor:

• Ph.D. student Edith Lalander Malmsten (1/9 2021 - ) (landscape planning and climate)
• Ph.D. student Rebecka Thurfjell (1/9 2022 - ) (fisheries and protection of biodiversity)
• Ph.D. student Emma Flevaud Dufau (2/9 2024 - ) (proteciton of biodiversity and climate)

Peer-reviewed publications before 2018, not included in the publication list below, include inter alia:

• Christiernsson A. and G. Michanek. 2016. Miljöbalken och fisket. Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2016:1, 11–28.
• Stage, J, Christiernsson, A. and P. Söderholm. 2016. The economics of the Swedish individual transferable quota system: Experiences and policy implications. Marine Policy 66, 15–20.
• Christiernsson, A. 2015. God miljöstatus och fiske – Hur effektiva är miljökvalitetsnormer? Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2015:2, 93–106.
• Christiernsson, A., Michanek, G. and P. Nilsson. 2015. Marine Natura 2000 and Fishery – The Case of Sweden. Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law 12:1, 22–49.
• Christiernsson, A. 2015. Åtgärdsprogrammens funktion vid länsstyrelsernas prövningar och tillsyn av vattenverksamheter. Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2015:2, 59–75.
• Michanek, G. and A. Christiernsson. 2014. Adaptive Management of EU Marine Ecosystems – About Time to Include Fishery. Scandinavian Studies in Law 59, 228–234.
• Söderholm, P. and A. Christiernsson. 2008. Policy Effectiveness and acceptance in the taxation of environmentally damaging chemical compounds. Environmental Science and Policy 11, 240–253.
• Söderholm, P. and A. Christiernsson. 2007. Environmental Taxation of Fertilizers in Europe: Policy Design, Outcome and Future Potential. In Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation IV. Oxford: Oxford University press, 515–541.

Conference paper

• Christiernsson, A. 2006. Legal Limits and Adaptive Management of Wildlife Populations Swedish Law. Digital Library of the Commons, Indiana University.