Katarina is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) within Human Geography and researches accessibility to every day destinations like different kinds of services, recreational activities, work, education and social relationships. Research focus has been on the physical, spatial dimension of accessibility, i.e. distance and/or proximity but also movability. This essentially entails the spatial localisation patterns for different types of destinations as well as the population settlement patterns, the spatial relationships between them and people’s accessibility strategy for bridging distance and proximity based accessibility respectively.
Between 1990 and 2010 the group of forest owners changed in many ways, increasingly coming to resemble the general population. However, this change is not noticeable in how forests are managed. The period between 1990 and 2010 saw an increase in the number of forest owners living in a different municipality than where their forest…
While the general public rates the forest’s ecological and social values the highest, the public and forest owners nonetheless highly agree on the significance of the forest’s economic value. All forms of land use generate tensions between economic development and ecological as well as social values. Because of this, debate often arises regarding how forest…
While the number of forest owners is increasing, at the same time a decrease in the size of forest properties can be noted. This has the potential to negatively affect the access to timber. Joint ownership of forest properties is increasing, which could lead to increased fragmentation, meaning that the forest is divided into smaller,…
Owning forest as an entrepreneur could increase the firms’ possibility to survive in a harsh economic environment. However, the effect is only visible for men and is more vivid in rural areas. 60 000 new firms are started in Sweden each year. These new firms gives hope of rural and regional development, stronger labour market…