Conflicts over extended land use in primary forests: Insights and lessons learned from Swedish and Colombian cases
Session 27
Many ecosystems, and especially old-growth forest, face an increasing expansion of anthropogenic land use, threatening biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and the livelihood of people living in these areas. The conflicts arising from land use expansion are in many areas of the world increasing in intensity.
We will hear about Lisa Röstlund’s, a Swedish investigative journalist and author, journalistic work on the Swedish forestry sector. We can likely expect a seminar that draws from Lisa's award winning book, Skogslandet, and from her rich and extensive journalistic work on logging of natural forests and conflicts arising from such aspects of the Swedish forestry, in academia and in the general society.
A second talk will be given by Torsten Krause and Fariborz Zelli that draws from their work on environmental justice and people’s rights to land and resources in Colombian Amazon. This way the seminar will explore similarities between the expansion of Swedish land use and the situation in the Colombian Amazon. Are the situations in Sweden and Colombia very different, or are there similarities in boreal and tropical forest land use conflicts?
Further information about the session
Open for Abstract submission: No
Keywords: Old-growth forest; land-use, conflict, forestry
Language: English or Swedish
Time and venue: 13:30-15:00, Antarktis.
Organisers:
- Anders Ahlström, Lund University
- Edith Hammer, Lund University
- Åsa Knaggård, Lund University
- Fariborz Zelli, Lund University
- Torsten Krause, Lund University