Current research at CRS

Descriptions of research in progress at the Centre for Research on Sustainable Societal Transformation, CRS

SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

Avit Bhowmik and Moa Tunström are involved in the international project Alliance of Regional Innovation Ecosystems Based on Smart Sustainable Specialisation Strategies (ARIES4), funded by Erasmus+. Within the framework of the project, they have worked with indicators for sustainable regional development. How do you measure sustainability at the regional level? What data are there, and what should be measured in order to determine whether a region is developing in a sustainable way or not?

DEINDUSTRIALISATION AND “GREEN” REINDUSTRIALISATION

Stefan Backius is involved in the international project Changing Places of Work: A Place-Based Approach for Re-Imagining Work in Fossil Free Industrial Towns of the Future, funded by Formas and Forte. His focus is on the history of deindustrialisation and the reindustrialisation of our time. How have the experiences from the structural transformations in former industrial communities affected people’s view of the “green” industrial initiatives that are taking place now?

DIGITALISATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA

Eva Svensson is involved in the national collaboration project Swedish National Infrastructure for Digital Archeology (Swedigarch), funded by the Swedish Research Council. By enabling analysis of large amounts of historical data from the Ice Age to the present, SveDigArk wants to contribute to sustainable community development. SveDigArk’s new digital research infrastructure helps to create completely new avenues for interdisciplinary and archaeological research, which can contribute to formulating solutions for a sustainable future.

THE WOLF AND YOU

Sofia Billebo is one of the doctoral students at the Graduate School on Sustainable Societal Transformation. As part of her doctoral thesis, she studies people’s relationship with nature, animals and environmental issues. She would like to come into contact with people who have positive, negative or neutral attitudes towards the wolf in order to contribute with new and in-depth knowledge about the wolf issue.

WATER CHALLENGES IN SPATIAL PLANNING

Moa Tunström is involved in WATCH Research School, consisting of two doctoral students from Karlstad University and five from Örebro University. The starting point for the research conducted within WATCH is to understand and find solutions to the growing number of challenges that arise at the intersection between strategies for sustainable planning for the built environment and water challenges. The research school aims to develop interdisciplinary perspectives and links between the doctoral students’ research projects, as well as between academia and practice.

FAGERSTA MUNICIPALITY’S HANDLING OF THE OUTBREAK OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER – EVALUATION OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND CRISIS COMMUNICATION

The project is commissioned by Fagersta municipality with the purpose of analysing how the municipality handled the outbreak of African swine fever in wild boar in 2023, based on management, governance, communication and collaboration. The goal of the project is to evaluate the municipality’s crisis management and present suggestions for future improvements. The project includes researchers Ulrika Åkerlund, Lena Grip and Sol Agin.


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