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Mats Lundmark

Position: Professor Emeritus School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

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Research subject

Human Geography

About Mats Lundmark

Mats Lundmark is professor of human geography. His research interests lies primarily in the field of economic geograpgy. The research deals with local and regional development, location analysis, local labor markets and regional policy . Current research deals with changes in industrial regions, labor, recruitment in growing businesses and industries, as well as cluster dynamics and labor mobility. He is part of the research group Center for Urban and Regional Studies, CURES.

Completed projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals

Pugh, R. , Van Veelen, B. , Lundmark, M. & Marques, P. (2024). At the intersection of economic history and contemporary regional development: insights from a Swedish 'bruksort'. European Planning Studies. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. & Pugh, R. (2020). Economic development and place attractiveness: The case of Karlskoga in Sweden. Siirtolaisuus-Migration, 46 (1), 21-29. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Lundmark, M. (2020). The Persistence of Society-driven Engagement in Swedish Cinema: a locational analysis, 1936-2016. TMG Journal for Media History, 23 (1-2), 1-30. [BibTeX]
Han, M. , Håkansson, J. & Lundmark, M. (2019). Intra-urban location of stores and labour turnover in retail. International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research, 29 (4), 359-375. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. & Hedfeldt, M. (2015). New firm formation in old industrial regions: a study of entrepreneurial in-migrants in Bergslagen, Sweden. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, 69 (2), 90-101. [BibTeX]
Thulemark, M. , Lundmark, M. & Heldt-Cassel, S. (2014). Tourism Employment and Creative In-migrants. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 14 (4), 403-421. [BibTeX]
Eimermann, M. , Lundmark, M. & Müller, D. K. (2012). Exploring Dutch migration to rural Sweden: international counterurbanisation in the EU. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 103 (3), 330-346. [BibTeX]
Bienkowska, D. , Lundmark, M. & Malmberg, A. (2011). Brain circulation and flexible adjustment: labour mobility as a cluster advantage. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 93 (1), 21-39. [BibTeX]
Gustavsson, E. , Elander, I. & Lundmark, M. (2009). Multilevel governance, networking cities and the geography of climate-change mitigation: two Swedish examples. Environment and Planning. C, Government and Policy, 27 (1), 59-74. [BibTeX]
Power, D. & Lundmark, M. (2004). Working through knowledge pools: labour market dynamics, the transference of knowledge and ideas, and industrial clusters. Urban Studies, 41 (5-6), 1025-1044. [BibTeX]

Books

Lundmark, M. , Hedfeldt, M. & Jakobsson, M. (2016). Bergslagen - en industriregion i upplösning?. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Lundmark, M. (2020). Labour Mobility in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector in Sweden. In: Walmsley A., Åberg K., Blinnikka P., Jóhannesson G.T., Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices and Opportunities (pp. 279-302). . Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. (2019). EU:s regional- och strukturfondspolitik. In: Gunnel Forsberg, Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik (pp. 294-306). Stockholm: Liber. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. (2018). Arbetskraftsinvandring till Bergslagen. In: Geijer, Mia och Isacson, Maths, Det svarta järnet: Bergslagens vapenindustri under 1900-talet (pp. 133-143). Stockholm: Walborg bokförlag. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Lundmark, M. (2017). Cinemagoing in Sweden in the 1940s: Civil society organisations and the expansion of rural film exhibition. In: Thissen, J. and Zimmermann, C., Cinema beyond the City: Small-town and rural film culture in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. (2010). Industrial development in Sweden: patterns of location, internationalization and knowledge production. In: Brita Hermelin, Ulf Jansson, Placing human geography: Sweden through time and space (pp. 223-250). Stockholm: Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi. [BibTeX]
Gustavsson, E. , Elander, I. & Lundmark, M. (2009). Klimatpolitikens lokala geografi: exempel från svenska kommuner. In: Ylva Uggla, Ingemar Elander, Global uppvärmning och lokal politik (pp. 83-108). Stockholm: Santérus Förlag. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. (2009). Vart tar Bergslagens ungdomar vägen?. In: Maths Isacson, Mats Lundmark, Cecilia Mörner, Inger Orre, Fram träder Bergslagen: nytt ljus över gammal region (pp. 37-58). Västerås: Mälardalens högskola. [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. & Power, D. (2008). Labour market dynamics and the development of the ICT cluster in the Stockholm region. In: Charlie Karlsson, Handbook of research on innovation and clusters: cases and policies (pp. 208-222). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Isacson, M. (ed.) , Lundmark, M. (ed.) , Mörner, C. (ed.) & Orre, I. (ed.) (2009). Fram träder Bergslagen: nytt ljus över gammal region (1ed.). Västerås: Mälardalens högskola (Bergslagsforskning 3). [BibTeX]
Berger, S. (ed.) , Lundmark, M. (ed.) & Strömberg, T. (ed.) (2006). Bergslagsidentitet i förändring: en forskningsresa i tid och rum (1ed.). Örebro: Universitetsbiblioteket (Bergslagsforskning 1). [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Jernudd, Å. & Lundmark, M. (2019). The Importance of Civic Societies to Swedish Cinema History: Mapping cinema exhibition in the rural and small town region of Bergslagen. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, August 27-30, 2019. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Lundmark, M. (2018). The Persistence of Cinema in Rural Sweden: a location analysis. Paper presented at HoMER@necs 2018, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 27-29, 2018. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Lundmark, M. (2017). Bio i Bergslagen: Mapping Rural Cinema in Sweden 1956-76. Paper presented at Rural History 2017, the 3rd biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), Leuven, Belgium, September 11-14, 2017. [BibTeX]
Gustavsson, E. & Lundmark, M. (2008). Climate Change Mitigation and Economic Growth: Determinants for Local Level Climate Policy?. In: The 2008 Annual meeting of Association of American Geographers (AAG). Paper presented at The 2008 Annual meeting of Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, Ma, US, 15-19 April, 2008. [BibTeX]
Jakobsson, M. & Lundmark, M. (2007). Bergslagen: från basindustri till upplevelseindustri. Paper presented at Industriarv i förändring – rapport från en konferens i Koppardalen, Avesta. 7-9 maj 2006. [BibTeX]
Jakobsson, M. & Lundmark, M. (2006). Cultural industries and place identity in an old industrial region: the case of Bergslagen, Sweden. Paper presented at Destinations and locations: exploring the multiple identities of place. [BibTeX]

Other

Lundmark, M. & Webster, N. A. (2023). Att skapa rum och plats: Småföretag som ankare och broar. Ludvika: Stiftelsen Ekomuseum Bergslagen.(Ekomuseum Bergslagen Magasinet) [BibTeX]

Reports

Lundmark, M. , Halvarsson Lundkvist, A. & Öhman Sandberg, A. (2020). Skolpersonalens rörlighet på arbetsmarknaden i Örebro kommun och län. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Praktiknära FoU-projekt 2020:1). [BibTeX]
Forsberg, G. , Lundmark, M. & Stenbacka, S. (2012). Demografiska myter: föreställningar om landsbygden - mer myter än faktiska fakta?. Stockholm: Pwc Sverige. [BibTeX]
Widgren, M. , Simonsen, K. , Lehtinen, A. , Lundmark, M. & Ostwald, M. (2011). Geography research in Norway: an evaluation. Oslo: Norges forskningsråd. [BibTeX]
Eliasson, F. & Lundmark, M. (2007). Dynamik och rörlighet i regionala kluster: en studie av logistiksektorn och maskinindustrin i Örebro län. Örebro: Regionförbundet Örebro (Rapport 2007:6). [BibTeX]
Lundmark, M. & Hermelin, B. (2005). Arbetskraftsförsörjning ur ett sociologiskt och kulturgeografisk perspektiv: kulturgeografisk arbetsmarknadsforskning – en forskningsöversikt med exempel från Stockholmsregionen. Stockholm: Region- och trafikplanekontoret. [BibTeX]