Research
Researcher at the Centre for Research on Societal Risks. The research focuses on various aspects of learning after natural disasters—what we learn, how we do it, and what we do with that knowledge. General interest in society’s emergency preparedness and risk management, as well as the need to integrate these with climate adaptation.
Teaching
Excellent teacher in risk and environmental studies. The teaching covers various components of emergency preparedness, risk management, climate adaptation, environmental risks, and natural resource management within the Environmental Science Programme—specialisation in Risk Management, 180 credits—as well as in the advanced Master’s programme Risk Management in Society, 120 credits.
Commissioned education in accident investigation methodology.
Programme director for the Master’s programme Risk Management in Society, 120 credits.
Collaboration
The Centre for Research on Societal Risks (link) collaborates with a range of external partners, for example Länsförsäkringar, The Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency, the County Administrative Board of Värmland, and Karlstad Municipality.
Bio
Associate Professor Magnus Johansson is a senior lecturer in risk management and a researcher at the Centre for Societal Risk Research (CSR) at Karlstad University. He and his colleagues conducts multi-disciplinary research and education within the area of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. One focus area is on floods and its consequences for humans, ecosystems and the society. The Centre runs a network of stakeholders, both public and private organizations, and is also one of three partners in the national research school at the Swedish Centre for Natural hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) together with Uppsala University and Swedish National Defence College. Magnus Johansson supervise PhD students within the research school.
He has also been employed as an analyst and project leader within the area of natural hazards at the MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) Lessons Learning Section during 2006-2016. He was responsible for the government commission to build the Swedish Natural Hazards Information System (ndb.msb.se), which was done in cooperation with Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, and stakeholders in Sweden (Swedish Geotechnical Institute, SMHI, Swedish Geological Survey, Road Administrative Board, The Swedish Board of Housing, Building and Planning, Swedish Police, insurance businesses, some selected municipalities and county administrative boards).
His research is currently focused on lessons learning and data capture from past extreme hydrometeorological accidents and risk assessments.