Svarstadt CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Hanne Svarstad hanne.svarstad -at- nina.no Unit for Human—Environment Studies, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway Personal homepage |
Title of the talk: Biodiversity, local participation and gender - Or: The introduction of a feminist political ecology (pdf: 1MB)
Biosketch
Dr. Hanne Svarstad is a sociologist and Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Oslo. The following key words provide some ideas about her research interests and on what she has published:
Topics: Environment and development; management of areas and natural resources: use, conservation, distributional aspects, gender, biodiversity, bioprospecting, protected areas.
Approaches: Sociological contributions to inter-disciplinary approaches on use and conservation of areas and natural resources; sociology of the environment; sociology of development; rural sociology; political ecology; discourse analysis; narrative analysis; scenario building; evaluation; social science epistemology; qualitative methods; grounded theory; comparative analysis.
Geographic specialisations: Norway, East Africa, global discourses, studies of human-environment questions on various scales.

