SEK 15 million for research into joint nature resource management
Camilla Sandström, project leader at Future Forest, is one of three researchers awarded a grant by the Swedish Research Council Formas. The award is to "Research leaders of the future in the area Rural Development".
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Over the next five years Camilla Sandström will receive three million Swedish kronor per year for her research programme "Sustainable rural development — on whose terms?". The theme of the project is that rural inhabitants are expected to both use and conserve natural resources to satisfy both their own needs and those of the growing urban population. Conflicts often arise between use and conservation, between traditional and new economic activities, and between town and country. This particularly applies in the forest.Various forms of partnership and joint management of natural resources have become increasingly common. In management, various players work together to find the right balance between different stakeholders. This collaboration, which is carried out together with public service agencies, companies and interest organisations, can help to reduce the conflicts.
Camilla Sandström will investigate how partnerships in nature conservation and wildlife/fish/water management programmes promote sustainable rural development. By recruiting young researchers to the field, the project will strengthen the inter-disciplinary research carried out in the sub-project "Collaboration and conflict in future forests" in Future Forests.
Camilla Sandström is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Umeå University.
