PhD thesis graduation
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
- Patterns and challenges of urban nature conservation - a study of southern Sweden
- Outside the boundary - land use changes in the surroundings of urban nature reserves
- Nature conservation for what? Analyses of urban and rural nature reserves in southern Sweden 1909-2006
- Scale mismatches in management of urban landscapes
- 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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript.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.
Download the thesis and the papers from Stockholm University
and my PhD abstract.