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PhD thesis graduation

Urban shades of green.

ISBN: 978-91-7447-194-6

Author: Sara Borgström (Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Systems Ecology) (Natural Resource Management)

Title: Urban shades of green: Current patterns and future prospects of nature conservation in urban landscapes

Publicly defended on Friday 4 February 2011 in Nordenskiöldsalen, Geovetenskapens hus, Stockholm University.

Grading committee:

  • Professor Sverker Sörlin (KTH & SRC),
  • Professor Berit Balfors (KTH)
  • Professor Katarina Eckerberg (Umeå Universitet & SRC).

Opponent:

Christer Nilsson, Professor (Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap)

Supervisor:

  • Regina Lindborg, Docent (Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (INK))
  • Sara Cousins, Docent (Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (INK))
  • Thomas Elmqvist, Professor (Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Systems Ecology)

LIST OF PAPERS

  1. Patterns and challenges of urban nature conservation - a study of southern Sweden
  2. Outside the boundary - land use changes in the surroundings of urban nature reserves
  3. Nature conservation for what? Analyses of urban and rural nature reserves in southern Sweden 1909-2006
  4. Scale mismatches in management of urban landscapes
  5. Challenging dichotomies - exploring resilience as an integrative and operative conceptual framework for large-scale urban green structures in Stockholm

Note:
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Submitted. Paper 5: Manuscript.


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