Scientific CV and Publications list Name: Elin Slätmo Born: November 19, 1984 Place of birth: Örebro, Sweden Citizenship: Swedish E-mail: elin.slatmo@slu.se Research interests My overall research interests are sustainable and long term use of resources. It includes developing overall understandings of how and why our world is constantly changing and how changes can be influenced through policy. I also have an interest in how individuals and the society value and use the physical environment, what type of knowledge that influences decisions about land use and which consequences the use has from a sustainability perspective. My ambition is to continue to develop a combination of critical and applied research. Current position 2015-2017 Postdoctor, at the Unit for Rural Development, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. Comment: My postdoctor project focuses on sustainability assessments of Nordic agriculture. Funded by: Future Agriculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Education and Academic degrees 2014 PhD in Human Geography, University of Gothenburg 2009 Master of Science in Human and Economic Geography, University of Gothenburg 2009 Master of Science in Environmental Science with Specialization in Environmental Planning, University of Gothenburg 1
Relevant working experience Nov 2014- Feb 2015 Teacher and researcher, Unit of Human geography, Department of Economy and Society, School of business, economics and law, University of Gothenburg. Comment: Researcher, primarily responsible for a knowledge compilation in the joint project Stationers roll för utveckling i mindre orter och dess omland. Participants: Official workers from the Region of Västra Götaland and the Region Halland, along with official workers from the Swedish municipalities Trollhättan, Lilla Edet, Stenungssund, Kungsbacka, Varberg och Hylte. The project was also a part of the platform Mistra urban futures. Funded by: Public Transportation Sectretariat (kollektivtrafiksekretariatet) in Västra Götalandsregionen & Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket). The work also included teaching on undergraduate level (see below) June 2010 - Oct 2014 PhD student, Unit of Human geography, Department of Economy and Society, School of business, economics and law, University of Gothenburg. Working with the PhD project: Jordbruksmark i förändring. Drivkrafter bakom och förutsättningar för offentlig styrning i Sverige och Norge / Agricultural land use change in Sweden and Norway. An analysis of driving forces and the potential to influence change through policy Comment: Research about sustainable land use, agriculture, landscape, change, driving forces, time-geography, actor-structure, context, scale, governance, spatial planning. Main supervisor: Prof. Marie Stenseke, Unit of Human geography, Department of Economy and Society, School of business, economics and law, University of Gothenburg. Assisting supervisor: Ass. prof. Gabriel Bladh, Unit of Human Geography, Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University. The PhD-project was funded by the University of Gothenburg and the research projects Land use changes in urban pressure areas - threats to food production and landscape qualities (research council of Norway 2009-2012) and Rethinking agricultural land abandonment to create 2
socially responsive and biodiverse landscapes ( The Swedish research council Formas 2009-2011) The work also included teaching on undergraduate level (see below) Sept 2009- June 2010 Researcher, Unit of Human geography, Department of Economy and Society, School of business, economics and law, University of Gothenburg. Comment: Research assistant, working with empirical field work (interviews), data analysis and report writing in two interdisciplinary projects: Land use changes in urban pressure areas - threats to food production and landscape qualities (with financial support from the research council of Norway 2009-2012). Collaboration with researchers from Norway, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands. Rethinking agricultural land abandonment to create socially responsive and biodiverse landscapes. (with financial support from The Swedish research council Formas 2009-2011). Collaboration with researchers from Sweden, Portugal and Australia. Additional assignments and projects (selection of) Oct 2013 Dec 2013 Visiting PhD-student at The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Comment: The visit enabled me broaden my research network, to present findings from my PhD project in an international context and allowed me to collect ideas and inspiration from AUSCCERs focus on cultural environmental research (e.g. how we value, plan for and use physical resources). 1 month during autumn 2011 1 month fulltime work for The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien - KSLA). Comment: Working with two seminars and a report about sustainable agricultural land management in Sweden: Jorden vi ärvde. Den svenska åkermarken i ett hållbarhetsperspektiv. 2008-2011 I was engaged in starting up and running the youth organization PeaceWorks Fokus Miljö in Göteborg. PeaceWorks Sweden is a non-profit 3
peace organisation run by youth, for youth. Through different campaigns and projects the local group Fokus Miljö had focus on highlighting the relations between peace and environmental issues. For example Fokus Miljö conducted, in collaboration with LRF Ungdomen in Skaraborg, the project Agriculture and Environment - Farmers meet students in april 2010. The project gave possibilities for environmental students (and other interested) and young farmers to meet and discuss Swedish agriculture and global environmental issues. Teaching experience 2010 2015 650 clock hours (162,5 lektorstimmar) Teaching experience from several courses on undergraduate level in Human Geography, Tourism Geography, Geography, Social- and environmental science programme (SMIL), Human ecology and the master programme in Innovation and Industrial Management (risk management) at University of Gothenburg. The teaching includes: Lecturing around foremost sustainability, landscape as a theorethical field, spatial planning in theory and practice and environmental problems and solutions. Examinations. Seminar leader for planning exercises («role play») and literature discussions. Preparing and carrying out excursions: in Northern part of Denmark - concerning geographical dilemmas in coastal areas (1 time), and in different parts of Göteborg- concerning urban agriculture (1 time) and sustainable cities (1 time). Supervision of 2 thesis on candidate level (undergraduate) in Human Geography and Geography respectivelly. 2013 Pedagogic courses «Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: basic course», 5.0 credits at University of Gothenburg 4
PUBLICATIONS Peer reviewed publications Slätmo, E. (2014). Jordbruksmark i förändring. Drivkrafter bakom och förutsättningar för offentlig styrning i Sverige och Norge. Meddelanden från Göteborgs universitets geografiska institutioner. Avhandlingar. Serie B, nr 125, Göteborg. ISBN 91-86472-73-9 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37012 Beilin, R., Lindborg, R., Stenseke, M., Pereira, H.M., Llausàs, A., Slätmo, E., Cerqueira, Y., Navarro, L., Rodrigues, P., Reichelt, N., Munro, N., & Queiroz, C. (2014). Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania. Land Use Policy, 36(0), 60-72. Stenseke, M., Lindborg, R., Dahlberg, A. & Slätmo, E. (2012). System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics. I Bieling, C. & Plieninger, T. (Red.), Resilience and the cultural landscape: Understanding and managing change in humanshaped environments. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 80-94. Scientific reports Slätmo, E. (2015). Stationers roll för utveckling av mindre orter och dess omland. Kunskapssammanställning och forskningsbehov. (Working Papers in Human Geography 2015:3). Avdelningen för Kulturgeografi, Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. Slätmo, E. & Stenseke, M. (2013). Offentlig förvaltnings hantering av jordbruksmark och landskapskvaliteter i tätortsnära områden. En studie av beslutsunderlag och processer i Sandnes och Sarpsborg kommuner. (Working Papers in Human Geography 2013:2). Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. Arnoldussen, A., Eiter, S., Slätmo, E., Stenseke, M. & Hofmeister, F. (2013). Arealbruksendringer i tettstedsnære områder - en pilotstudie på effekten av drivkrefter og jordkvalitet i Sandnes og Sarpsborg. Bioforsk Fokus 8(2), s. 67-69. Slätmo, E. (2012). Hur starkt är jordvern i tätortsnära områden? En studie av drivkrafter och prioriteringar i arealanvändningen i Sandnes kommun 1995-2007. (Occasional papers 2012:5). Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. Slätmo, E., Edling, P., Norderhaug, A. & Stenseke, M. (2012). Jorden vi ärvde. Den svenska åkermarken i ett hållbarhetsperspektiv. Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens Tidskrift, Stockholm, (Nr. 6, Årgång 151). 5
Slätmo, E. (2011) Driving forces of rural land use change. A review and discussion of the concept driving forces in landscape research (Occasional papers 2011:5). Department of Human and Economic Geography, School of business, economics and law, University of Gothenburg. Slätmo, E. (2010). Markanvändningsplanering i Sarpsborgs kommun. En studie kring drivkrafter och prioriteringar, åren 1997-2007 (Occasional Papers 2010:1). Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. A selection of conference contributions Slätmo, E. (2014). Understanding the situation for extensive agriculture in Sweden today the importance of a landscape perspective. Paper presented at PECSRL - The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 26th Session, 2014. Göteborg & Mariestad, Sweden, 8 12 September. Slätmo, E. (2013). Driving forces for agricultural land use change - perspectives from Scandinavia. Presentation in the seminar series at The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER), University of Wollongong, Australia. Slätmo, E. (2013). Dualistic thinking and agricultural land. Paper presented at NGM - The 5th Nordic Geographers Meeting. Session Rural-urban linkages: beyond the rural-urban dichotomy. 11-14 June 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland. Slätmo, E. (2012). Theorising rural land use change. Paper presented at PECSRL - The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, 25th Session, 2012. Leeuwarden & Terschelling, the Netherlands, August 20-24. Slätmo, E. (2012). Change and management in peri-urban landscapes. Paper presented at IGC - 32nd International Geographical Congress, 26-30 August 2012 Cologne. Slätmo, E. (2011). Driving Forces to Changed Agricultural Land Use: A Call for a Landscape Perspective. Paper presented at The International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, ISSRM. Madison, Wisconsin, USA 4-8 June 2011. Slätmo, E. (2011). Driving forces to land use change and the role of spatial planning in periurban areas. Paper presented at Nordic Geography Meeting, NGM. Roskilde, Denmark 24-27 May 2011. 6
Popular publications Slätmo, E. (2013). Jordbruksmarken är en naturresurs. Lantbrukets affärstidning, ATL.se Synpunkten [on-line http://www.atl.nu/synpunkten/jordbruksmarken-r-ennaturresurs, 2013-05-28] Degree thesis s Slätmo, E. (2009): Uppfattningar kring miljöfrågor i det moderna industrisamhället. En studie av uppfattningar kring samhällets relation till naturmiljön och miljöfrågor i Lysekils kommun. Magisteruppsats vid Göteborgs universitet, Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi och Samhällsvetenskapligt Miljövetarprogram. Slätmo, E. (2009): Villkoren för god miljökommunikation. En studie av västsvenska kommuners arbete med information och kommunikation kring miljöfrågor. Kandidatuppsats vid Göteborgs universitet, Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi och Samhällsvetenskapligt Miljövetarprogram. Languages Swedish (mother tongue), English (fluent), Norweigan & Danish (working knowledge) Personal information On my spare time I like to sketch cartoons, do outdoorsy stuff and spending time with my small-scale food production in my allotment garden and the aquaponic system (growing fishes and salad in a closed system) in my living room. I have a partner working in the film and TV industry; writing manuscripts and doing post-production. My family is primarily based in Örebro, Sweden. References Available on request 7