Researcher Groups
SUM's research activities are organised into researcher groups and research projects.
This research group focuses on social perceptions of - and attitudes to - nature and the way these are created and changed in various cultural, political and institutional contexts.
The aim of this multidisciplinary research group is to explore the theoretical and policy challenges associated with moving energy consumption in a more sustainable direction in countries of both the North and the South. Since energy, water and land use are all interlinked, the consumption of land and water will also constitute important research domains.
The importance of governance has been increasingly recognised in efforts to achieve poverty reduction and sustainable development. This area focuses on the way power is exercised in policy processes and negotiations between states, multilateral organisations, private companies and other non-state actors.
Despite several decades of development, efforts to radically reduce world poverty have enjoyed only moderate success. This interdisciplinary research area focuses on a set of interrelated sub-topics related to development and poverty reduction.