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LU0098

Natural resource governance

Naturresursförvaltning
I den här kursen får du en grundläggande översikt i centrala begrepp och teorier inom ekologi och naturresursförvaltning som bidrar till förståelsen av komplexa naturresursdilemman.

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The course evaluation is open between 2025-03-17 and 2025-04-07

Additional course evaluations for LU0098

Academic year 2023/2024

Natural resource governance (LU0098-30332)

2024-01-15 - 2024-03-19

Academic year 2022/2023

Natural resource governance (LU0098-30096)

2023-01-16 - 2023-03-21

Academic year 2021/2022

Natural resource governance (LU0098-30221)

2022-01-17 - 2022-03-23

Syllabus and other information


Syllabus

LU0098 Natural resource governance, 15.0 Credits

Naturresursförvaltning

Subjects

Rural Development Rural Development

Education cycle

Bachelor’s level

Modules

Title Credits Code
Single module 15.0 0101

Advanced study in the main field

First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Bachelor’s level (G1N)

Grading scale

5:Pass with Distinction, 4:Pass with Credit, 3:Pass, U:Fail
The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Language

Swedish

Prior knowledge

General entry requirements for higher education.

Objectives

The aim of the course is to give students a basic overview of key concepts and theories in natural resource management that contribute to the understanding of complex natural resource dilemmas.

After completion the student shall, orally and in writing, be able to:

  • account for different theoretical perspectives and central concepts within the subject fields of resource governance and ecology;

  • describe, and critically discuss, the concept of sustainable development;

  • describe how different natural resources are institutionally embedded at different spatial and temporal scales;

  • account for different conflicting objectives in the governance of natural resources and discuss these from ecological and societal perspectives;

  • account for ecological and societal impacts of the human use of natural resources.

Content

The main content of the course consists of a broad introduction to different theoretical perspectives as a base for understanding "man and nature" relations and the governance of natural resources. The course covers current natural resource dilemmas and how they are managed in societal contexts at local, national and international levels. Further, the course deals with ecological effects of various forms of natural resource management, and how the governance of resources is institutionally embedded at local, regional and global levels. The course comprises of a mixture of lectures and autonomous work, individually and in groups, which is presented and discussed during seminars. The course literature is discussed during lectures and in seminars and students are expected to use the literature during different forms of autonomous work and discussions.

Grading form

The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Formats and requirements for examination

The course objectives are assessed through written assignments and seminar exercises. Approved examination and approved participation in compulsory sessions are required for passing the course.

  • If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.

  • The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.

  • If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.

  • For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Other information

  • The right to participate in teaching and/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.

  • If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Responsible department

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Cooperating departments:

Department of Ecology

Further information

Determined by: Programnämnden för utbildning inom naturresurser och jordbruk
Replaces: LU0066 och delar av BI1085, LU0087

Litterature list

Återkommande litteratur att införskaffa

Bokcirkel | Välj en av nedanstående böcker att läsa under kursens gång

Vecka 4 | Introduktion, h****ållbar utveckling och natursyn

  • Helmfrid, Hillevi. 2007. Natursyn Tre svar på vad natur är. Rapport nr 1. Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Uppsala.
  • Moran, L. and Rau, Henrike 2014. Mapping divergent concepts of sustainability: lay knowledge, local practices and environmental governance. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.
  • Nightingale, A., Böhler, T., Campbell, B., Karlsson, L. 2017. Ch. 4 Enacting Sustainability. In: Nightingale et al. Environment and Sustainability in a Globalising World. Routledge.

Extra läsning:

  • Rockström et.al (2009) Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

Vecka 5 | Centrala begrepp och teoretiska perspektiv

  • Wall, D. (2017). Elinor Ostrom’s rules for radicals: cooperative alternatives beyond markets and states. Pluto Press. Kapitel 2
  • Hornborg, A. (2013). Revelations of resilience: From the ideological disarmament of disaster to the revolutionary implications of (p)anarchy. Resilience, 1(2), 116–129.
  • Folke, C., S. R. Carpenter, B. Walker, M. Scheffer, T. Chapin, and J. Rockström. 2010. Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Ecology and Society 15(4): 20.
  • Cleaver and de Koning (2015) ‘Furthering critical institutionalism’, International Journal of the Commons, 9(1), p. 1-18.
  • Li, Tania Murray (2014), 'What Is Land? Assembling a Resource for Global Investment', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39 (4), 589-602.

Extra läsning:

**Vecka 6 | Centrala begrepp och teoretiska perspektiv ekologi **

  • Pleijel, H. Ekologi – En introduktion, Gleerups utbildning AB, Malmö
    -Kap 1 Vad är ekologi? Sid 7-15
    -Kap 2 Ekologi, energi och näring, sid 17-37
    -Kap 6 Folkräkning i vår herres hage, sid 101-112.
    -Kap 8 Samspel på hög nivå, sid 143-155.
    -Kap 9 Natur och kultur, sid 157-175.
  • Cimon-Morin, J., Darveau, M. & Poulin, M. 2013. Fostering synergies between ecosystem services and biodiversity in conservation planning: A review. Biological Conservation 166: 144-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.06.023

Extra läsning:

Vecka 7 | Klimat- och mineral dilemman

  • Stoddard, I et.al. 2021. Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven’t We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 46:653-689
  • Tunón, H., Borg, A. & Hilding-Rydevik, T. (red.). 2024. Den biologiska mångfalden och maten vi äter. SLU Future Food Reports 27. SLU, Uppsala.
  • Shove, E. (2012). Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change. Contemporary Social Science, 9(4), 415–429.

Extra läsning och Lyssning:

  • Kanarp (2024) Your research or my tinkering won’t help: On (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic.
  • Rydberg, I et al. 2019. Jordbrukets klimatanpassning. Future Food Reports nr 9. SLU
  • Johan Rockström 2020: Jordens framtid i Antropocen, Föreläsning. Vetenskapsakademin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6no6Oa3l4FU

Vecka 8 | Skogs- och naturvårdsdilemman

  • Beland Lindahl, K., Sténs, A., Sandström, C., Johansson, J., Lidskog, R., Ranius, T., Roberge, J.-M. M., (2017). The Swedish forestry model: More of everything? Forest Policy and Economics, 77, 44–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2015.10.012
  • Sandström, E (reds). 2019. Skogens värden och värderingar: En studie om skogliga diskurser och dilemman på Gotland. Inst. för stad och land, SLU.
  • Sandström, E. 2015. Allmänningarnas återupplivande – om makt och identitet i kampen för utvecklingen av ett lokalt förvaltarskap. Kapitelutkast.
  • Sunseri (2009) ‘Chapter 8: Biodiversity Preservation and Emergent Forest Conflicts, 1980–Present ’Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820 – 2000. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press).Tillgänglig här: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/slub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1774095&pq-origsite=primo

Extra läsning och Lyssning:

Vecka 9 | Jordbruk och försörjningsdilemman

  • McMichael, P (2009). A food regime analysis of the ‘world food crisis’. Agric Hum Values 26, 281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-009-9218-5
  • Rundgren, G. Food: From Commodity to Commons. J Agric Environ Ethics 29, 103–121 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-015-9590-7
  • Röös, E., Carlsson, G., Ferawati, F., Hefni, M., Stephan, A., Tidåker, P., & Witthöft, C. (2020). Less meat, more legumes: Prospects and challenges in the transition toward sustainable diets in Sweden. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 35(2), 192-205. doi:10.1017/S1742170518000443
  • Eriksson, C. (2018) Livsmedelsproduktion ur ett beredskapsperspektiv. Uppsala: SLU Future Food

Extra läsning och Lyssning:

  • Radio P1: “Kampen om Jorden” Fyra avsnitt. https://sverigesradio.se/kampenomnaturen
  • Johanna Björklund och Hillevi Helmfrid. 2010. Klimatsmart lantbruk – stor- eller småskaligt? Erfarenheter från ett deltagardrivet forskningsprojekt. Centrum för uthålligt lantbruk.

Vecka 10 | Vattendilemman

  • Sandström, E. Jägerskog, A. and Oestigaard, T. 2016. Changing Challenges: New Hydropolitical Landscapes in the Nile Basin. In Sandström, E. Jägerskog, A. and Oestigaard, T (eds). Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and New Investments.
  • Kadfak & Antonova 2021 Sustainable Networks - Modes of governance in the EUs external fisheries policy
  • Alarcón, 2022, Book Chapter, Power, Conflicts and Environmental Communication in the Struggles for Water Justice in Rural Chile- Insights from the Epistemologies of the South and the Anthropology of Power

Extra läsning och Lyssning:

  • Sveriges Radio P1: “Kampen om vattnet” Fyra avsnitt. https://sverigesradio.se/kampenomnaturen
  • Sandström, E. 2016. Dealing with water – emerging land investments and the hydropolitical landscape of the Nile Basin. In Sandström, E. Jägerskog, A. and Oestigaard, T (eds). Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and New Investments.

Vecka 11 | Bokcirkel, se läsinstruktionen i början av dokumentet

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Rural Development - Societal Change Business and Economics - Sustainable Development (BSc) Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 27500 SEK Cycle: Bachelor’s level (G1N)
Subject: Rural Development Rural Development
Course code: LU0098 Application code: SLU-30172 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: Swedish Responsible department: Department of Urban and Rural Development Pace: 100%