Urban Rural Development
Below are some of the researchers within The Baltic University Programme working within the theme Urban-Rural Development. The theme is coordinated by a theme coordinator.
BUP theme coordinator

PhD
Lund University, Lund
"Communities matter"
Keywords: renewable energy; community energy; environmental justice; energy justice; intermediation; urban climate governance; climate change in video games
Research profile: Henner Busch on Lund University website

Researchers

PhD
Uppsala University, Uppsala
"Sustainable management and inventory of urban green spaces to adapt to extreme heat events in cities of Ukraine and Baltic region"
Keywords: urban green spaces; urban green inventory; climate extremes; heat waves; Baltic region
Research profile: ResearchGate Oleksandra Khalaim


PhD, Associate Professor
Daiva Verkulevičiūtė-Kriukienė
Klaipeda University, Klaipeda
"Territorial features of socio-economic phenomena."
Keywords: population geography: rural geography; depopulation
Research profile: ResearchGate Daiva Verkulevičiūtė-Kriukienė


PhD, Professor
Klaipeda University, Klaipeda
"Status of rural landscape components and ecosystems quality with focus on their interrelations in the Baltic Sea coastal region."
Keywords: rural landscape; catchment; sub-catchment; land use; sustainability; farming intensity; surface runoff; drainage runoff; nature protected areas
Research profile: ResearchGate Angelija Bučienė


PhD
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra
Keywords: urban agriculture; urban gardening; housing development; allotment gardens
Research profile: ResearchGate Barbora Čakovská


PhD
Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan
Keywords: sustainable city; sustainable neighborhood; urban-rural development
Research profile: ResearchGate Anna Bernaciak


PhD, Associate professor
WSB University in Poznan, Poznan
"The role of various actors in shifting the socio-economic systems towards sustainable development."
Keywords: regional development; urban development; sustainable development; environmental economics; ecological economics; environmental management; leadership; education for sustainable development
Research profile: ResearchGate Arnold Bernaciak


PhD
Uppsala University, Uppsala
Keywords: Gulf of Finland; forest landscape; land cover; historical maps; island


PhD, Associate Professor
Uppsala University, Uppsala
Keywords: spatial planning; dense planning; agricultural land; sustainable communities; residential areas
Research profile: ResearchGate Madeleine Granvik


PhD candidate
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Keywords: Landuse; Spatial planning; GIS; Remote sensing; Agricultural land
Research profile: ResearchGate Mahsa Shahbandeh


Associate Professor
Magdalena Czałczyńska-Podolska
West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
"Look deep into the landscape and then you will better understand the people, their history, culture, needs and everything else."
Keywords: cultural landscape; coastal tourism development; human friendly environment and children friendly city; therapeutic landscapes
Research profile: ResearchGate Magdalena Czałczyńska-Podolska


Associate Professor
West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.” - Norman Foster
Keywords: cultural heritage; cultural landscape; seaside resorts; tourism architecture; tourism development
Research profile: ResearchGate Wojciech Bal


PhD
West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
Keywords: City Planning; Urban Sustainability; Spatial Planning; universal design; Sustainable development
Research profile: ResearchGate Katarzyna Krasowska


Associate Professor
West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
Keywords: urban design; accessibility; universal design; GIS; urban climate
Research profile: ResearchGate Adam Zwoliński
