PhD Candidate

Ingrid Knutsdotter Koren

Field of work

I see myself as an academic "potato" with an interdisciplinary education and experience

My interdiciplinary background includes a broad scope of topics, from nature and technology, to language and social sciences.

Areas of expertise:

  • Climate change management and planning
  • Co-production of climate and environmental knowledge in spatial planning
  • Citizen participation in spatial planning
  • Behavioral economy and "nudging"
  • Greenwashing and green trust in business environmental strategy
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Chinese language and culture

PhD Research Fellow enrolled in RESINNREG - Resonsible Innovation and Reginal Development.

Courses taught
  • PL4-304: Climate change adaptation in spatial planning (MSc)
  • Theses supervision (MSc and BSc)
Research areas
  • Landscape research
  • Sustainable land use of peatlands
  • Land use conflicts on peatlands
  • Knowledge, perception, and behavior of stakeholders in spatial planning
  • Co-production of climate and environmental knoweldge in spatial planning
  • Citizen participation and multi-stakeholder analyses

Projects:

  • REPEAT - Rethinking sustainable land use of peatlands. 
  • The COMETS (Collective Action Models for the Energy Transition and Social Innovation) project aims to fill the knowledge gaps around citizen engagement in the energy transition to renewable sources (project closed).