Anton Stahl Olafsson

Anton Stahl Olafsson

cand. scient Geografi & Geoinformatik, PhD, PhD

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7940-8126

  • Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C

20062019

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I am Associate Professor, PhD in Outdoor Recreation and Green Space Planning.

I work with human-nature relationships in an urban world. I focus on the daily nature in and around cities, on sustainable behavior, including cycling as a mode of transport, on coastal and marine outdoor recreation, as well as on how nature contact promotes sense of place and nature and nature perceptions.

I am interested in how to monitor, map and document the spatial dimensions of people and nature linkages. It includes newer approaches such as PPGIS, social media VGI, and mixed methods, but also more traditional approaches such as questionnaire surveys and qualitative interviews as well as spatial GIS analyses.

I am interested in how knowledge transform into practice and how research can support planning and management in new governance systems.

Key words:

  • Participatory mapping, PPGIS, social media VGI, spatial decision-making
  • Green and blue infrastructure; parks, urban forests, and informal green spaces
  • Outdoor recreation, nature experiences and cultural ecosystem services in various settings from coastal and marine to the countryside and the city.
  • Place values, well-being, and natur perception
  • Planning, management, policy and governance

 

CV

Current and previous positions: 
2018-Associate Professor in Outdoor Recreation and Green Space Planning. Section of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
2013-2018:  Assistant Professor. Section of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
2012-2013:Post doc at Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen. Employment in the Bikeability project financed by Danish Council for Strategic Research. The position includes research devoted to the preconditions of cycling in Denmark (WP1), the position also included teaching.
 2011-2011:Research assistant at Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen. Three months employment in the Bikeability project WP1. The work includes elaboration, development and distribution of a representative Internet survey on transportation behavior and cycling behavior to 5.122 adults.
 2008-2011:PhD Fellow at Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen.
2007-2008:Research Assistant (full time), Forest and Landscape (University of Copenhagen), in the second phase of an EU-financed Interreg IIIa project: “The landscape as a resource, scenarios and strategies for a sustainable development in the Sound region”. The project was a joint venture between regional and local planning authorities in Denmark and Sweden, and scientists from the Danish and Swedish agricultural universities.
2006-2006: Research assistant (part time), Institute of Geography and International Development Studies, University of Roskilde.
 2004-2006:Research Assistant (full time), Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University). Project employed in an EU-financed Interreg IIIa project “The landscape as a resource, scenarios and strategies for a sustainable development in the Sound region”.
Academic degrees: 
2012:  PhD from Forest and Landscape, LIFE, University of Copenhagen. PhD thesis: GIS-based recreation experience mapping: Development, Validation and Implementation
2007:M.Sc. in Geography and Geoinformatics, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Master thesis: Recreation Experience Assessment and Landscape Character Assessment at Municipality Level: Theoretical context, development and visions for practical implementation in Frederikssund Municipality
Teaching responsibility:

Master course 'Nature Perception - Theories and Methods' (block 2) and 'Outdoor Recreation - Planning and Management' (block 3). Supervision of Master Theses, and co-supervision of 2 Ph.D.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

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  • Faculty of Science

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