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My main area of research and teaching concerns social aspects related to people’s everyday life mobility and accessibility.
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January 2017 - December 2017
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In Swedish regional policy, regional enlargement, i.e. geographically extended labour markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal. This is in order to stimulate economic growth and better match labour supply to the qualifications of the population. However, this policy seldom takes gender into account, overlooking the imp...
This article analyses how cohabiting women and men negotiate and respond to individual needs and claims related to commuting. The study is based on 20 in-depth interviews with parents of small children, who were highly skilled participants in specialized labour markets, living in the Gothenburg urban region of Sweden. The study applies a time-geogr...
Current urban planning for sustainability is gradually shifting from car-based to proximity ideals. However, when concretized in regular planning thinking and practice, the latter ideal becomes contested and complex. This paper explores sustainable accessibility and how urban planners understand, seek to operationalize, and integrate the concept in...
Although proximity by densification is a leading strategy to promote sustainable mobility, knowledge of the gendered and situated use of proximity is scarce. This study explores how women and men use nearby amenities in urban environments varying in amenity concentration. We use survey data from cities in western Sweden to analyse how amenity densi...
For the sake of reducing car dependence, much can be learned from non-car owners about how everyday life can, and cannot, be organized without private car ownership. This study aims to explore carless mobility, including the role of the car, in relation to specific everyday projects and life situations. We do so through a descriptive analysis of da...
Denna rapport presenterar en kunskapsöversikt som syftar till att summera huvuddragen i de tillämpningar av normkritiska perspektiv som gjorts inom svensk samhällsplanering under det senaste decenniet. Översikten beskriver ett urval av totalt 57 normkritiska initiativ med avseende på typ av åtgärd/insats, problemformulering och målgrupp,
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Denna antologi behandlar frågor om planering för socialt hållbara transporter. Dels handlar det om att se transporterna som en del i ett större sammanhang som är betydelsefullt för alla medborgares tillgänglighet till utbildning, arbete, viktiga samhällsfunktioner och gemenskap. Dels handlar det om fördelning av resurser och alla medborgares möjlig...
Denna rapport är en praktikerorienterad slutrapport från forskningsprojektet ”Mot en hållbar urban och regional tillgänglighet”. Projektets och rapportens syfte är att utveckla begreppet hållbar tillgänglighet och göra det användbart i den urbana och regionala planeringen. Utgångspunkten är att det behövs nya metoder och verktyg för att definiera,...
In striving for sustainability, urban policy and planning increasingly emphasize proximity ideals in order to go beyond established mobility- and speed-oriented accessibility strategies. Yet proximity is a fluid concept with many contextualized meanings, cutting across most sectors of urban planning. When proximity is realized in actual planning, c...
This paper operationalizes the concept of sustainable accessibility by emphasizing the environmental and social dimensions of sustainability from a spatial perspective. In doing so, we develop a heuristic model that focusses on the crucial dimensions of who gets access to what by using sustainable means of movement. We apply our conceptual approach...
I Sverige finns sedan 2001 ett transportpolitiskt mål om jämställdhet som bl.a. säger att transportsystemet ska vara utformat efter både kvinnors och mäns transportbehov, liksom att deras värderingar ska tillmätas samma vikt i systemets utformning. Tidigare forskning visar dock på många svårigheter för planerare att implementera målet.
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This paper explores whether gender-based commuting gaps change in Sweden in times when policies at various levels seek to promote both spatially extended labour markets and gender equality. We use Swedish national travel survey data from 1994–1995 and 2005–2006 to explore inequality in terms of distance, time use, speed, and car use. Special attent...
In the context of regional planning and policy in Sweden, regional enlargement, or geographically-extended labor markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal in order to stimulate economic growth. However, since women commute shorter distances than men the process of regional enlargement is expected to be different for wom...
