This study seeks to illuminate the reasons to and consequences of the decision to choose Holmön as place for settlement for people in the age 25-40. The Island of Holmön, outside of Umeå in northern Sweden, has for decades experienced a depopulation. But in the last years several people in the age 25-40 – a phase of life often characterized by labo...
The emergence over the last decade of large numbers of vulnerable EUcitizens begging on Swedish streets has led to ambivalent responses from the Swedishstate, including from local police forces charged with policing public order. Based onresearch including interviews with vulnerable EU citizens and with police officials intwo socio-economically div...
Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual article is to explore how Bernstein’s concepts can further our understanding of the internal structure of knowledge informing physical education (PE) and the transmission of knowledge from its site of production into the school subject. In the process of constructing a school subject, knowledge is chosen and ...
Published in Journal of epidemiology and community health
Concerns about loss of greenspace with urbanisation motivate much research on nature and health; however, contingency of greenspace-health associations on the character of community change remains understudied. With aggregate data from governmental sources for 1432 Swedish parishes, we used negative binomial regression to estimate incidence rate ra...
This article aims at investigating and measuring the economic resilience of local communities (43 urban and 403 rural) in Romania. The study focuses on the implications of the deep economic and financial crisis from 2008 to 2011 and explores the capacity of Romanian local economies in the North-West region to respond to these events. The research c...
This paper makes two original contributions to research on young adults’ boomerang mobility. First, it reveals the magnitude and complexity of return moves by young people to their parental home and neighbourhood. Secondly, it shows that the determinants and associates of return migration vary significantly when analysed at two different geographic...
A number of smaller municipalities have decreasing population rates. Generally, the young move out, increasing the proportion of older people. To increase our understanding of the living conditions of an ageing population in small municipalities, a postal survey was conducted in three small, semi-rural municipalities in southern Sweden. In the surv...
This paper examines the phenomenon known as urban heat island and its consequences on public health, pollution and how it can affect energy use in homes and workplaces. Moreover, in this paper it has been discussed how city and regional planners can reduce high temperatures impact on Swedish urban areas. Lastly the phenomenon’s presence and visibil...
Urbana områden har formats efter den bilnorm som råder i modern tid. Detta har belastat miljön och medfört att städer idag står inför det stora arbetet att ställa om till hållbara samhällen. Hållbara mobilitetslösningar har blivit ett aktuellt ämne som följd av denna problematik. Viktiga aktörer i arbetet med åtgärder för hållbar urban mobilitet är...
Stadskärnans syfte har förändrats över tid. Från en stadskärna som präglas av service- och tjänsteverksamheter i slutet av 1800-talet och början av 1900-talet, till att fokusera på detaljhandel i slutet av 1900-talet. Detaljhandeln som syfte för stadskärnan har under lång tid varit en stark bidragande faktor till stadskärnans identitet. Idag diskut...
