Stadsnära Lantgård is an in-town farm, open to the public. The purpose of the company is to work at a local level in order to contribute to a sustainable society. The farm wants to give visitors the opportunity to learn ...

This essey is about how the natural pastures of Lidan ravine system to preserve its character and biodiversity. Natural pasture about the future has recent decades become a political issue, both nationally and internationally, ...

Current forestry exploits put a lot of strain on the global ecosystem that all life on earth depends on. Boreal natural dynamic forest environments are turned into sterile clear-cut areas. Forestry exploits also affect the ...

In historic times pollarding has been an important way of collecting, among a wide range of other things, food for your animals, wood for your stove and material for handicraft and woodwork. Nowadays those uses are ...

Abandoned churchyards are an important part of our cultural heritage and show the older structures in the landscape. Their age and long continuity gives them a unique position, as reflected in the strong sense of identity ...

This essay explores the traditional usage of hazel in wooded meadows in the island of Gotland, and the relations between this usage and the biodiversity of these lands. Research on relations between historical land-use and ...

Most studies made on wild solitary bees in recent time shows that their numbers are declining. This essay examines the change in life conditions over time for a red-listed (NT) species of mining bee (Andrena fulvago), ...

In pace with the increasing energy demand is a growing demand for alternative energy sources. In Sweden, the establishment of energy forests on farmland has been one of the answers to this demand. Plantations of this kind ...

With a thorough literature study this paper aims to pinpoint several biological features that in some way functions to preserve and/or benefit biodiversity in urban environments and, if possible, specifically urban cemeteries. ...

This essay was written with the knowledge that Gunnebo’s landscape management plan is in need of revision, mainly to adapt its maintenance to new research and updated national environmental goals. The cultural reserve’s ...