

Main research areas
- Land use change
- Forest policy
- Inequality and justice
Current research
My research project explores relations between humans and forests and how we can understand the connection between forest policy, decisionmaking and land use change. Specifically, I focus on private forest owners' relations to forests and the effects those may have on forest governance and management. I use a mixed methods approach including walking interviews, geographic information and agent-based social simulation. The project is part of the interdisciplinary research project GreenPole and my position is shared between the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science.
Overall, I have an interest for society’s use of natural resources, land use change and urban/rural dynamics. With a background in Physical Geography and Gender studies, I have earlier studied water availability in rural Nepal, landslides in Uganda, socio-environmental conflicts in Chilean forestry and movements against mining in Sápmi and Ecuador.
Teaching
I take part in teaching around public administration, governing the commons, community planning, environmental problems, and sustainable development in the following Swedish speaking courses:
Publications
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleConflicting interests and sustainable land use – the forest case
Hanna Ekström
(2022)
Conference - otherHuman behavior and forestry – a comparison of agent-based models
Hanna Ekström, Nils Droste, Mark V. Brady
(2022)
Conference - otherNon-industrial private forest owner archetypes
Hanna Ekström, Brian Danley, Nils Droste
(2022)
Conference - otherRoot system estimation based on satellite remote sensing : An applied study in Eastern Uganda
Petter Pilesjö, Malin Ahlbäck, Maya Ahlgren, Hanna Ekström, Malin Hansson, et al.
(2018) Geospatial Technologies for All : short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lund University 12-15 June 2018, Lund, Sweden
Conference paper
Introduction
I am interested in human-environment interactions. I hold a MSc in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis, and prior to joining as a PhD, I worked with geographic information (GIS) of water quality and spatial planning.