Sara Holmgren

Min forskningsprofil är inriktad mot det skogspolitiska området med särskilt fokus på kunskap/makt. Jag är särskilt intresserad av hur olika diskurser formar och formas av människors syn på skogen och dess användning, politiska agendor, kunskapsproduktionen samt vilka som deltar/inte deltar i skogsförvaltning och beslutsfattande på olika nivåer i samhället. 

Sara coordinates the Independent project In Environmental Sceince - Master's thesis and takes the role as a supervisor in that are empirically focusing on natural resource use and sustainable development, particularly from discourse analytical perspectives.

Sara has an undergraduate science background in Environmental policy and a master’s degree in Environmental communication and natural resource management. After working in the state administration she continued as a PhD student in forest policy. Her collaboration with external partners (University of Freiburg, Linköping University), as well as with other SLU departments (Dep. of urban and rural development, Dep. of Ecology), have served as inspiration both for research and teaching.

2021-2024

Max Whitman, PhD student

2020-2024

Daniel Valentini, PhD student

2016

Master thesis, Caroline Lagergren.

Master thesis, Maris Neeme.

2015

Master thesis, Marcus Syd Göransson.

Master thesis, Kajsa Matsson.

Sofie Joosse, 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, 14:6, 758-771, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2020.1725588

Holmgren, S., Fischer, K., Lövbrand, E. (2020) Policybrief - Skogens roll i klimatomställningen, September 2020. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.13067.31528

Holmgren, S., D’Amato, D. & Giurca, A. Bioeconomy imaginaries: A review of forest-related social science literature. Ambio 49, 1860–1877 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01398-6

Masiero, M., Secco, L., Pettenella, D. et al. Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students. Ambio 49, 1925–1942 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01376-y

Fischer, Klara & Stenius, Tove & Holmgren, Sara. (2020). Swedish Forests in the Bioeconomy: Stories from the National Forest Program. Society & Natural Resources. 33. 1-18. 10.1080/08941920.2020.1725202. 

Holmgren, S., Pever, M., & Fischer, K. (2019). Constructing low-carbon futures? Competing storylines in the Estonian energy sector's translation of EU energy goals. Energy Policy, 135, 111063.

Baycheva-Merger, T., Sotirov, M., Holmgren, S., & Selter, A. (2018). Institutional and actor-oriented factors constraining expert-based forest information exchange in Europe: A policy analysis from an actor-centred institutionalist approach. Forests, 9(3), 129.

Eggers, J., Holmgren, S., Nordström, E. M., Lämås, T., Lind, T., & Öhman, K. (2017). Balancing different forest values: Evaluation of forest management scenarios in a multi-criteria decision analysis framework. Forest Policy and Economics.

Holmgren, S. and Arora-Jonsson, S. (2016) The Forest Kingdom – with what values for the world? Climate change and gender policy in a contested context. In Colfer, C. et al. (Eds) Gender and forests.Climate change, gender, value chains and emerging issues.CIFOR.

Holmgren, S. (2015) Skogsrikets värderingar – en fråga om prioriteringar. I Andersson, E. (ed): Den öppna skogen, Kön, genus och jämställdhet i skogssektorn. Uppsala: SLU Service Repro.

Holmgren, S. (2015) Governing forests in a changing climate. Exploring patterns of thought at the climate-forest policy intersection. Doctoral Thesis No.2015:61. Uppsala: SLU Service/Repro.

Holmgren, S. and Arora-Jonsson, S. (2015) The Forest Kingdom – with what values for the world? Climate change and gender equality in a contested forest policy context. Scandinavian Journal of Forestry Research, 30(3), s.235-245.

Holmgren, S. (2013) REDD+ in the making: Orders of knowledge in the climate-deforestation nexus. Environmental Science and Policy (33), 369-377.

Kleinschmit, D, Ingemarsson, F., and Holmgren, S. (2011). Swedish forest policy research – a review. Scandinavian Journal of Forestry Research (27:2), 120-129.

Ongoing projects

Governing the Bioeconomy Transition: Actors, values and trade-offs. https://www.slu.se/institutioner/stad-land/forskning/miljokommunikation/aktuell-forskning/bioeconomy/#