Malgorzata Blicharska
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Earth Sciences; Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 70 56
- E-mail:
- malgorzata.blicharska@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 16
75236 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
75236 Uppsala
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
- Academic merits:
- Docent
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Keywords
- biodiversity conservation
- climate change
- ecosystem services
- governance
- policy implementation
- sustainable development
Biography
The focus of my work in my PhD (finalized in 2011) was on implementation of biodiversity conservation policies, public participation in environmental decision making, spatial planning for biodiversity conservation and conservation conflicts.
Since then my research interest have included different aspects of linked to sustainable development of natural resources. For example, I worked with application of sustainable forest management concept, implementation of action plans for threatened species, the impacts of management and socio-economic factors on biodiversity of urban ponds, the role of religions in conservation of biodiversity and the North-South divide in science and policy.
Recent years the focus of my work has shifted towards the concept of ecosystem services: its implementation, its role in the argumentation for biodiversity conservation and its effectiveness in the policy process. I also applied ecosystem services perspective in investigating conservation conflicts, assessing cultural values in the Swedish mountains, and the application of nexus perspective in natural resources management. In addition, my work focuses a lot on effective involvement of stakeholders in environmental decision making.
Research
In the Department of Earth Sciences I work with numerous issues linked to sustainable development, including governance aspects and management measures in fish conservation and habitat restoration, socio-economic valuation of recreational fisheries, ecological and socio-economic assessment of ecosystem services, implementation of the ecosystem services concept and Sustainable Development Goals.
Presently I am also working within the following projects:
1. LANDPATHS (as co-ordinator): a research programme funded by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on multifunctional landscapes. The goal of the LANDPATHS is to develop new strategies for governance and management that strengthen the landscape's biodiversity and promote its multifunctionality. The programme includes 9 Sub-projects and covers five different landscapes: forest, agricultural landscape, sea and coast, city and mountains. https://www.geo.uu.se/research/natural-resources-sustainable-development/ongoing-research/landpaths/
2. Horizon 2020 project PONDERFUL (as WP lead): the project explores effects of land use and climate changes on biodiversity of small waterbodies (ponds) and the implications for delivery of ecosystem services. It is conducted in close collaboration with stakeholders and include policy, social and economic analysis of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-Based Solutions. https://ponderful.eu/
3. Horizon 2020 project NEXOGENESIS (as WP lead): the project focuses on streamlining water-related policies into Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus. We apply policy analysis to map the nexus and then conduct modelling of the interactions between nexus components. We finally use Artificial Intelligence to explore available actions to be taken while optimizing a reward function representing a desired state (e.g. integration of water policies minimizing detrimental impacts to other sectors). https://nexogenesis.eu/
4. Wet-Kit (as WP lead): a project funded by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on optimazing and promoting wetland creation and restoration. https://wetkit.weebly.com/
5. PUDDLE-JUMP (as WP lead): a project funded by Formas focusing on hydrological and other ecosystem services that can be provided by small artificial waterbodies (SAWs: ponds and wetlands).
Publications
Selection of publications
- Operationalisation of ecological compensation (2022)
- SDG partnerships may perpetuate the global North–South divide (2021)
- Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management - A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Bialowieza Forest case (2020)
- Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development (2019)
- “A Thousand flowers are flowering just now” – towards integration of ecosystem services concept into decision making (2018)
- Shades of grey challenge practical application of the Cultural Ecosystem Services concept (2017)
- Steps to overcome the North-South divide in research relevant to climate-change policy and practice (2017)
- Contribution of social science to large scale biodiversity conservation (2016)
- Indirect impacts of climate change (2016)
- What a forest? Whose forest? Struggles over concepts and meanings in the debate about the conservation of the Białowieża Forest in Poland. (2015)
- Incorporating social and cultural significance of large old trees in conservation policy. (2014)
- Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: a systematic review (2014)
- Biodiversity important areas and religions – a global analysis of spatial overlap. (2014)
Recent publications
- Unlocking the potential of ponds and pondscapes as nature-based solutions for climate resilience and beyond: Hundred evidences (2024)
- Global presumed drylands: drivers, pressures, state, impacts, responses (2024)
- Ecosystem Services Approach in Turnicki National Park Planning: Factors Influencing the Inhabitants’ Perspectives on Local Natural Resources and Protected Areas (2024)
- An introduction to data-driven modelling of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus (2024)
- Droughts in forested ecoregions in cold and continental climates (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Unlocking the potential of ponds and pondscapes as nature-based solutions for climate resilience and beyond: Hundred evidences (2024)
- Global presumed drylands: drivers, pressures, state, impacts, responses (2024)
- Ecosystem Services Approach in Turnicki National Park Planning: Factors Influencing the Inhabitants’ Perspectives on Local Natural Resources and Protected Areas (2024)
- An introduction to data-driven modelling of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus (2024)
- Droughts in forested ecoregions in cold and continental climates (2024)
- User-Validated Drought Vulnerability Factors in Forested Cold Climates (2024)
- Sectoral Vulnerability to Drought (2024)
- A Delphi‐study to identify drivers of future angling participation in five Nordic countries (2024)
- Informing obligations (2023)
- The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus (2023)
- Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions (2023)
- Regional targeting of purpose driven wetlands (2023)
- Trade-offs and synergies in the design of multifunctional wetlands (2023)
- Opportunities and limitations for Nature-Based Solutions in EU policies - Assessed with a focus on ponds and pondscapes (2023)
- The Where, the How, and the Why of the gleaning fishery (2023)
- Drought hazards and stakeholder perception (2023)
- Operationalisation of ecological compensation (2022)
- International Trends and Practices on Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education Institutions (2022)
- Been there, done that? (2022)
- SDG partnerships may perpetuate the global North–South divide (2021)
- Compensating for lost nature values through biodiversity offsetting-Where is the evidence? (2021)
- Stakeholder Perspectives on Blue Mussel Farming to Mitigate Baltic Sea Eutrophication (2021)
- Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management - A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Bialowieza Forest case (2020)
- Landscape perception (2020)
- Hit or miss? (2020)
- Catch reporting in recreational fishing (2020)
- Ecosystem services in the Swedish water-energy-food-land-climate nexus (2020)
- Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development (2019)
- Socio-economic impacts of marine conservation efforts in three Indonesian fishing communities (2019)
- Why conserve biodiversity? A multi-national exploration of stakeholders views on the arguments for biodiversity conservation (2018)
- “A Thousand flowers are flowering just now” – towards integration of ecosystem services concept into decision making (2018)
- What factors enable or hinder engagement of civil society in ecosystem management? (2018)
- Recreational fishing for sea trout – Resource for whom and to what value? (2018)
- Bialowieza Forest (2018)
- Environmental Conservation Challenges in a multi-sector system (2018)
- Cycling in Warsaw, Poland - Perceived enablers and barriers according to cyclists and non-cyclists (2018)
- How does biodiversity conservation argumentation generate effects in policy cycles? (2018)
- Comparing the relative abilities of tree species to cool the urban environment (2018)
- Arguments for biodiversity conservation (2018)
- Is there a relationship between socio-economic factors and biodiversity in urban ponds? (2017)
- Shades of grey challenge practical application of the Cultural Ecosystem Services concept (2017)
- Steps to overcome the North-South divide in research relevant to climate-change policy and practice (2017)
- Caught between personal and collective values (2017)
- How natural capital delivers ecosystem services: a typology derived from a systematic review (2017)
- Effects of management intensity, function and vegetation on the biodiversity in urban ponds (2016)
- Effects of management, function and vegetation on the biodiversity in urban ponds (2016)
- Contribution of social science to large scale biodiversity conservation (2016)
- When development and amphibians meet – a case study of a translocation of great crested newts (Triturus cristatus) in Sweden (2016)
- The Białowieża Forest – a U NESCO Natural Heritage Site – protection priorities (2016)
- Gaps in ecological research on the world's largest internationally coordinated network of protected areas (2016)
- Indirect impacts of climate change (2016)
- Biodiversity Boundaries (2016)
- Inequality (2016)
- Why protect biodiversity? Perspectives of conservation professionals in Poland. (2015)
- Developing world: use mentoring to fix science inequality. (2015)
- What a forest? Whose forest? Struggles over concepts and meanings in the debate about the conservation of the Białowieża Forest in Poland. (2015)
- Public participation in road planning process and perceived landscape values – a case study from Sweden (2015)
- Governance of ecosystem services: a framework for empirical analysis. (2015)
- Practical implementation of species’ recovery plans – lessons from the White-backed Woodpecker Action Plan in Sweden. (2014)
- Incorporating social and cultural significance of large old trees in conservation policy. (2014)
- Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: a systematic review (2014)
- Biodiversity important areas and religions – a global analysis of spatial overlap. (2014)
- Why is it difficult to enlarge a protected area? Ecosystem services perspective on the conflict around the extension of the Białowieża National Park. (2014)
- Scale of global road map is impractical (2013)
- Old trees: cultural value. (2013)
- Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services of sacred groves – experiences from northern Western Ghats. (2013)
- Integrating ecological, social and cultural dimensions in the implementation of the Landscape Convention. (2013)
- The Polish Promotional Forest Complex (2012)
- Metrics (2012)
- Road, forestry and regional planners’ work for biodiversity conservation and public participation (2011)
- Context dependency and stakeholder involvement in EIA (2011)
- Think bigger for conservation (2011)
- Conservation at risk: conflict analysis in the Białowieża Forest, a European biodiversity hotspot (2010)
- Costs and benefits of ivory-billed woodpecker “re-discovery". (2010)
- What factors enable or hinder engagement of civil society in ecosystem management? The case of “pike factories” and wetland restoration in Sweden.
- What factors enable or hinder engagement of civil society in ecosystem management? The case of “pike factories” and wetland restoration in Sweden.
- Beyond asking the right questions
- Exploring the local context of mangrove fragmentation. An analysis of livelihood security and potenital for mangrove conservation in Batan, the Philippines