• Society, development and the environment (utveckling och miljö; miljöutmaningar i ett samhällsperpektiv).
• Rural landscapes, landscape history and environmental change (with a focus on agricultural landscapes in Africa) (landskap- och miljöshistoria med fokus på afrikanska jordbrukslandskap)
• Environmental justice (miljörättvisa)
• History of geographical thought and the theory, methods and philosopy of geography (geografins idéhistoria, metoder och teorier)
• Methods and research design (metoder och forskningsdesign)
• Cartography (Kartografi)
• Thesis supervision (uppsatshandledning), all levels

In my research I am interested in exploring society-nature, farmer-environment and labor-ecology relations. 

I am active in several research projects that all have a focus on geographies of labor, rural landscapes and environmental change (land use, water flows, biodiversity, climate change...). 

Since the late 1990s my research has broadly been concerned with landscape history, rural development and environmental change in different African countries (Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Burkina Faso). 

More recently I have become interested in questions of labor and landscapes in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation, which I currently research in a project on farmwork in Sweden (together with Brian Kuns, SLU and Ida Säfström, SU), where we look at farm labor (experiences, social patterns and processes) in the context of sustainability transformations and visions in Swedish farm-based production.

During the academic year 2019-2020 I was on sabbatical leave as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz at the Environmental Studies Department. 

I have recieved several research grants from Formas, VR, Forte and have been involved in several international research projects, including EU and internationally funded projects, for example the recently completed project on "Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability" financially supported by the Belmont Forum and NORFACE Joint Research Programme on Transformations to Sustainability, and co-funded by NWO, ANR, VR, UKRI-ESRC, NSF, ISC and the European Commission through Horizon 2020.

I have supervised seven PhD projects to completion (five as main supervisor), and is currently the main supervisor of one PhD project at the department.

See my publications at: 

‪Lowe Börjeson - ‪Google Scholar

I am one of the founders and the editor-in-chief for the journal

Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History,

Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History (rurallandscapesjournal.com)