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Katarina Eckerberg
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Professor in Public Administration |
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| Address: | Deptartment of Political Science Umeå University S-901 87 Umeå |
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| Tel: | +46 (0)90 - 786 52 30 +46 (0)70 - 671 14 79 |
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| Fax: | +46 (0)90 - 786 66 81 | |||
| E-mail: | katarina.eckerberg@pol.umu.se |
From 1 August 2006 on 80% leave from Umeå University for work as Deputy Director,
Stockholm Environment
Institute phone:+46-8-412 1419
Researcher and teacher in environmental policy and administration. A more complete CV is available here.
Research:
Current and recently finished research projects include:
Learning in Local Nature Protection Areas, funded by SEPA
Multi-level Environmetal Policy Integration in Bioenergy, funded by Formas 2007-2009.
A European Forest Policy? (project description in Swedish) funded by FORMAS 2005-2007.
The Mountain MISTRA Programme see http://www-fjallmistra.slu.se/eng
Policy integration for sustainability: Institutional perspectives and case studies of the energy and agricultural sectors in Sweden and the EU. Research project funded by FORMAS 2002-2006, in collaboration with SEI and FMS, see http://www.sei.se/policy/PINTS/
Evaluation of the Swedish government's local investment programme for ecological restructuring (project description in Swedish) funded by SEPA
Implementation of Local Agenda 21 at municipal level in Sweden, (project description in Swedish) funded by the Strategic Fund for Environmental Research and the Ministry of Environment.
Expert roles:
- Member of Programming Board at The Norwegian Research Council: Miljø
2015 and chair of SAMFUNN committee; member of FRIMUF
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
- Member of the Bothnian Water Management District Board
- Member of Scientific Reference Group for the research project Effective Environmental
Management, Academy of Finland
- Member of Reference Group for IIASA, Formas
- Member of Editorial Boards for Environmental Politics, Frank Cass Publishers, London;
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, John Wiley&Sons, Forest Policy & Economics, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam
and Local Environment, Carfax, London
Selected publications:
In
Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New governance practices at the
sub-national level in Europe
Routledge (Taylor&Francis Group) co-edited with Susan Baker, February
2008.
Governance for Sustainable Development in Sweden: The Experience of the Local Investment Programme. Local Environment, Vol.12, No.4, August 2007, pp. 325-342 (with Susan Baker)
Project or Process? Fifteen years’ experience with Local Agenda 21 in Sweden. In special issue Desarrollo sostenibilie y Agenda 21 Local, Economiaz: Revista Vasca de Economia, No. 64, July 2007, pp. 124-141 (with Katrin Dahlgren), can be downloaded here.
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning. Earthscan, London, co-edited with Måns Nilsson, March 2007.
Tourism and Protected Areas: motives, actors and processes, International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management 2, 2006, pp. 350-58 (with Anna Zachrisson, Klas Sandell och Peter Fredman), can be downloaded here.
Understanding LIP in Context: Central Government, Business, and Comparative Perspectives. Report 5454, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm, 2005. (with Susan Baker, Agneta Marell, Katrin Dahlgren, Adrian Morley och Niklas Wahlström) can be downloaded here.
Status för Lokal Agenda 21: en enkätundersökning 2004 (Status for Local Agenda 21: A survey 2004). Hållbarhetsrådet, April 2005, (with Katrin Dahlgren) can be downloaded here.
Multi-level Environmental Governance: a concept under stress? Guest editorial, Local Environment, special issue, vol. 9.No. 5, Oct 2004, pp. 405-412. (with Marko Joas)
The use of Local Sustainability Indicators: case studies in two Swedish municipalities, Local Environment, vol.8, No 6, December 2003, pp.591-614 (with Eva Mineur)
The Nature of Rural Development: Sweden. Swedish case study in an EU comparative research project. Department of Political Science, Umeå University, Research Report 1:2001. (with Jessika Wide).
Sweden: Problems and Prospects at the Leading Edge of LA21 Implementation. Chapter in: William M. Lafferty (ed) Sustainable Communities in Europe. Earthscan, London 2001.
Sweden: Progression Despite Recession. Chapter in William M. Lafferty and James Meadowcroft (eds) Implementing Sustainable Development: Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies, Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Status of LA21 in Europe: A Comparative Overview (with William M. Lafferty and Frans Coenen). Chapter 14 in Implementing LA21 in Europe, William M. Lafferty (ed), ProSus, Oslo, 1999.
Sweden: Combining Municipal and National Efforts for Quick Progress. Chapter 2 in Implementing LA21 in Europe, William M. Lafferty (ed), ProSus, Oslo, 1999.
Implementing Agenda 21 in Local Government: the Swedish Experience. Local Environment, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1998, pp. 333-347 (co-author Björn Forsberg).
From the Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21: Working Towards Sustainable Development, with William M. Lafferty (eds). Earthscan, London, 1998, 328 pp./ From Earth Summit to Local Forum: Studies of Local Agenda 21 in Europe, with William Lafferty (eds). ProSus, Oslo, June 1997, 308 pp.
Managing Uncommon Grounds: Swedish forestry policy and environmental sustainability. Chapter in Anders Sandberg och Sverker Sörlin (eds) Sustainability - The Challenge: People, Power and the Environment. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1998, pp. 90-98.
National and Local Policy Implementation as a Participatory Process. Chapter in Mats Rolén, Helen Sjöberg och Uno Svedin (red) International Governance on Environmental Issues, Kluwer Academic Publ, Dordrecht/Boston/London 1997, pp. 119-137.
Public Policy and Policy Instruments in Environmental Management. EMERGO, Journal of Transforming Economies and Societies. Vol. 4. No.3, Summer 1997, (co-author Karin Hilmer Pedersen), pp. 82-94.
Comparing the local use of environmental policy instruments in Nordic and Baltic countries - the issue of diffuse water pollution. Environmental Politics, Vol.6, No.2, Summer 1997, pp 24-47.
Policy Strategies for Reducing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Leaching from Agriculture and Forestry and Their Local Implementation: A Case Study of the Laholm Bay. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 39 (2), June 1996 (co-author Björn Forsberg), pp.223-242.
