Finished Research Projects

Understanding Smart City-development from a resilience perspective
This research project was carried out in collaboration with scholars at HIG Urban Studio at Gävle University, Sweden and the Stockholm Resilience Centre and investigated the pros and cons of the digitalization of cities and if adopting a Smart City framework as a governance framework posed any risks.
It also sought to to improve understanding on how the Smart City framework may impact human cognition, pro-environmental behaviour, and reconnecting city inhabitants to the biosphere.

Analysing city densification from an ecological resilience perspective.
The project explored the environmental rationales behind city densification through: 1) conducting a large-scale international literature review;2) studying where and what type of land use city-densification is occurring in the Stockholm region; and 3) analyzing the potentials for improving resiliency of city-dense structures in Stockholm. The purpose was to improve environmental understanding of city-densification and to analyze to what extent it is possible to make such physical structures more ecologically resilient to meet an uncertain future of climate change and loss of ecosystem services.

Moving from urban form to socio-ecological form: knowledge for urban resilience building
This research project investigated how urban form promotes desirable social and ecological processes in urban systems. Involved 3 senior researchers and master student projects.

SUPER – Sustainable Urban Planning for Ecosystem services and Resilience
The aim of the SUPER project was to develop knowledge on how urban spatial planning processes can better integrate ecosystem services so as to nurture urban resilience. Involved 3 senior researchers, 1 PhD, and several master student projects.

Green wedges as urban commons: Applying a complex social-ecological system approach to sustainable urban planning
The overall aim of this project was to explore how institutional insights on common property (pool) resource management systems combined with novel approaches for urban spatial planning can contribute to more sustainable urban development that better account for the complex, reciprocal relationship between urban and ecological systems. Involved 1 senior researchers and 1 PhD.

Albano Resilient Campus
The Albano area in Stockholm is a contested brown field located within the National Urban Park (NUP) close to the city centre, scheduled to host 100 000 m2 of research- and student space for the expansion of Stockholm University. Involved 7 senior researchers, 1 PhD and several master student projects.