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Ingemar Elander

Ingemar Elander

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Overview

Ingemar Elander is a researcher affiliated with Örebro University in Sweden. Their scholarly work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on complex societal challenges intersecting governance, public health, and sustainability.

Their main research areas include:

  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Social Science and Policy Research

Ingemar Elander's work is published in venues such as:

  • Sustainability
  • Politics Religion & Ideology
  • Progress in Planning

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Governance and planning in a 'perfect storm': Securitising climate change, migration and Covid-19 in Sweden, 2021, Progress in Planning
  • Urban Renewal, Governance and Sustainable Development: More of the Same or New Paths?, 2022, Sustainability
  • COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses, 2020, Sustainability (co-author Rolf Lidskog)
  • Between Securitization and Counter-Securitization: Church of Sweden Opposing the Turn of Swedish Government Migration Policy, 2021, Politics Religion & Ideology (co-author Charlotte Fridolfsson)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ingemar Elander include:

  • Charlotte Fridolfsson
  • Rolf Lidskog
  • Adam Standring
  • Mikael Granberg
  • Stig Montin

Their research contributions reflect an interdisciplinary approach, often linking social and environmental sciences, addressing pressing issues such as climate change governance, the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and migration policy.

Best Publications

  • Local Governance and Climate Change: Reflections on the Swedish Experience

    Mikael Granberg;Ingemar Elander

  • Multilevel Governance, Networking Cities, and the Geography of Climate-Change Mitigation: Two Swedish Examples

    Eva Gustavsson;Ingemar Elander;Mats Lundmark

  • Consuming Cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio declaration

    Brendan James Gleeson;Nicholas Low;Ingemar Elander;Rolf Lidskog

  • Addressing climate change democratically. Multi-level governance, transnational networks and governmental structures

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

  • Ecological modernization in practice? : the case of sustainable development in Sweden

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

  • Decentralisation and control : central-local government relations in Sweden

    Ingemar Elander;Stig Montin

  • Partnerships and urban governance

    Ingemar Elander

  • Citizenship, Consumerism and Local Government in Sweden

    Stig Montin;Ingemar Eländer

  • Cities in transformation, transformation in cities : social and symbolic change of urban space

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  • Reinterpreting Locational Conflicts: NIMBY and nuclear waste management in Sweden

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

  • Representation, Participation or Deliberation? Democratic Responses to the Environmental Challenge

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

  • Housing policy in Sweden — still a success story?

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  • Sustainability potential of a redevelopment initiative in Swedish public housing: The ambiguous role of residents’ participation and place identity

    Eva Gustavsson;Ingemar Elander

  • COVID-19, the climate, and transformative change: Comparing the social anatomies of crises and their regulatory responses

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander;Adam Standring

  • Cocky and climate smart? Climate change mitigation and place-branding in three Swedish towns

    Eva Gustavsson;Ingemar Elander

  • Good dwellings for all: The case of social rented housing in Sweden

    Ingemar Elander

  • Governance and planning in a ‘perfect storm’: Securitising climate change, migration and Covid-19 in Sweden

    Ingemar Elander;Mikael Granberg;Mikael Granberg;Mikael Granberg;Stig Montin

  • Between Centralism and Localism: On the Development of Local Self-Government in Postsocialist Europe

    Ingemar Elander

  • Biodiversity in Urban Governance and Planning: Examples from Swedish Cities

    Ingemar Elander;Elisabet Lundgren Alm;BjÖrn Malbert;Ulf G. SandstrÖm

  • Neighbourhood development and public health initiatives: who participates?

    Karin Fröding;Ingemar Elander;Charli Eriksson

  • The re-emergence of local self-government in Central Europe.: Some notes on the first experience

    Ingemar Elander;Mattias Gustafsson

  • Social rented housing in Europe: Policy, tenure and design

    Berth Danermark;Ingemar Elander

  • Partnerships and Democracy: A Happy Couple in Urban Governance?

    Ingemar Elander;Maurice Blanc

  • Analysing Central–Local Government Relations in Different Systems: A Conceptual Framework and Some Empirical Illustrations†

    Ingemar Elander

  • Sweden and the Baltic Sea pipeline : between ecology and economy

    Rolf Lidskog;Ingemar Elander

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog Örebro University
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Paul Cloke
Paul Cloke University of Exeter

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