Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp

Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp is a researcher in Environmental Communication whose research focuses on societal transformations, with a specific interest in communication and meaning making process shaping governance. His research has revolved around climate change adaptation, forest management and communication cultures, which all have been joined through an interest in how people understand and relate to the environment and other (living) entities.

• "Engaging Critically with Environmental Governance Practices"(Course leader)
• "Hållbarhetens Politik och Praktik" (Course leader)

Current projects: 

• Back-to-the-land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside? - exploring the scope and impact of back-to-the-land migration in rural Sweden
• Bortom tillväxtparadigmet - Hållbarhetsutmaningar och omställningsmöjligheter i "resten av Sverige"
• Conceptualising antimicrobial resistance from an interdisciplinary One Health perspective (Starting September 2026)

Finished project: 

• Exploring Environmental Communication Cultures, Mistra Environmental Communication 
• Making Sense of Adaptation – the adaptation practice in a governance perspective, Formas
• Den Lokala Skogen – Kommunen som skogspolitisk aktör, Skogssällskapet
• Att ställa om: värderingar och skogliga intressekonflikter i omställningen till en biobaserad ekonomi, Formas 

Co-supervisor of PhD Student Teresa Sarasa Nagore in the project "The properties and relations of Maize".

Co-supervisor of PhD Student Nora Wahlström in the project "Back-to-the-land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside?" 

• Herzberg, A.J., Kanarp, G.C.S. & Xu, J. Scientists and their monsters: China’s carbon neutrality imaginary. Sustain Sci (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-026-01862-4
• Kanarp, G. C. S., Steffen Böhm and Annette Löf. (2025) Contested adaptation futures: the role of global imaginaries in climate adaptation governance. Sustain Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01608-0
• Holmgren, Sara., Ann Grubbström, Stina Powell, Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp, Kornelia Johansson, Cecilia Lundin, (2025) Looking around for liveable forest futures. In Socioecological Transformations (pp. 182-198). Routledge.
• Kanarp, G. C. S. (2024) From Imagination to Practical Understandings – Meaning making in mlimate change adaptation. Doctoral Thesis in Environmental Communication, Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU, Uppsala
• Kanarp, G. C. S. (2024) “‘Your Research or my tinkering won’t help’: on (the lack of) Climate Adaptation Imaginaries in the Swedish Arctic”. Futures 162 (2024) 103433, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103433
• Kanarp, G. C. S., and Lotten Westberg. (2023) “Adapting Climate Change – How Government Authorities in Sweden Make Sense of Adaptation through a Network Practice.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1–21. doi:10.1080/09640568.2023.2171278.
• Holmgren, Sara., Alexandru Giurca, Johanna Johansson, Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp, Tove Stenius, Klara Fischer. (2022) ”Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy”, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Volume 42, 2022, Pages 44-57, ISSN 2210-4224, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.11.005.
• Joosse, Sofie., Stina Powell, Hanna Bergeå, Steffen Böhm, Camilo Calderón, Elvira Caselunghe, Anke Fischer, Ann Grubbström, Lars Hallgren, Sara Holmgren, Annette Löf, Helena Nordström Källström, Kaisa Raitio, Susan Senecah, Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp, Erica von Essen, Lotten Westberg & Martin Westin (2020): Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think with, Environmental Communication, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2020.1725588