Human Geography
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Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of research
- Sustainable Development
Human geography is the study of people and societies in their spatial and geographical context, i.e. how people and societies use, produce, and are shaped by the conditions that exist in different places and in different parts of the world. Geographical differentiation, patterns of location and spatial relationships are central areas of study, as well as the interaction between humans and the physical and built environment. Human geography can be divided into several specialised areas depending on the phenomena being studied or based on the theories and methods used. Human Geography research at Örebro University revolves around the theme of urban and regional development. Research interests concern issues like economic geography (industrial location, mobility and restructuring in local labour markets), social geography (processes of residential segregation, segregation in the Swedish school system, and the concept of social sustainability), population geography (counter-urbanisation, life-style migration, population development in tourism dominated rural areas) and sustainable urban planning (local climate change policy, everyday life).
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Active projects
- Challenges and opportunities of the sharing economy
- Dignity and decency at work - the invisible and unrecognised workers in hotel housekeeping
- Effects of re-scaling for sustainable transformation. 10 years with regional transportation authorities as strategic spatial planners.
- Multi-level learning journeys for green and just regional transfromations
- Planning urban waterfronts for multispecies co-existance
- Powering a (re)volution
- Space, place and ecology in the spiritual and existential dimensions of protection and stewardship of church forests in Sweden and Ethiopia
- Water challenges in sustainable planning and built environment (WATCH)