Lise Byskov Herslund

Short presentation

I am an Associate Professor in the section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Institute of Geoscience and Natural resource Management. I have both my masters and PhD in human geography and works broadly with urban and regional development in Denmark , Europe and developing countries. My perspective is often on capacities for collective action and community-led development and change as well as an everyday life perspective with a focus on people's daily lives and living conditions.

I am currently the leader of a Danida financed research project on water resilient South African cities where we together with the University of Cape Town explore into water resilient urban design and how this connects with especially water supply.

I am also currently working with a research project on refugees as a resource for small town development. The question is what are important factors for refugees staying long-term in the small communities in which they initially have been placed and what role can the local community play in this.

Recently I have worked on a Danida funded project 'Water Resilient Cities in Africa ' which explores the possibilities of using the landscape to make cities in Africa more resilient to floods and droughts. http://ign.ku.dk/english/research/landscape-architecture-planning/landscape-technology/water-green-africa/.

In addition, I work with small towns (service towns) in Denmark and the challenges they face as a result of the regional development in general. My focus is mainly on their changing lifeforms and the social organization in the service towns.

I am responsible for the course 'Urban sociology - human, place and city' at the Institute of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management (IGN) and is also responsible for the graduate course 'Motivation and Pro-environmental Behaviour ' in collaboration with the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (IFRO). I am also course responsible for the master course in the landscape architecture master  'Theories of Urban design'.

From 2010-2013, I was workpackage leader in the EU FP-7 project ‘Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa (CLUVA)’. My main research activities centered on development of indicators and typologies for the identification of climate-sensitive areas in African cities, assessment of planning and governance of climate adaptation and development of important strategies and measures to take in collaboration with stakeholders to make the cities of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia more resilient to climate change (www.cluva.eu).

Previously, I worked as a Research and Education Advisor in a Danida funded project in Nepal (2007-2010). The project was to support capacity building in research and teaching at the Institute of Forestry at Tribhuwan University. In addition, I have participated in the Center for Strategic Urban Research with a research project on counterurbanisation and opportunities for starting knowledge-intensive micro-enterprises in rural areas.

My PhD thesis concerned the transition from planned to market economy in rural areas in the Baltic countries.

CV

Name:           Lise Byskov Herslund

Title              Associate professor, Ph.D.

Workplace:  Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management,University of Copenhagen,

                      Tel +45 353 31926, E-mail: [email protected]

Education, degrees:

2005              Ph.D in Human Geography, University of Copenhagen

1999              Master in Human Geography, University of Copenhagen

Employment:

2012-             Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management

2006-2012     Researcher at Forest & Landscape, Denmark

2001-2005     PhD-studies at Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen

1999-2001     Research assistant at Centre for Regional- and Tourism Research

Research and research management

2013-             Research project on resilience and urban flooding in Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam funded by Danida.

2012-              Research project on transformation of Danish service towns with particular focus on social organisation and everyday live funded by Foundation Realdania and Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs.

2010-2013       Work Package Leader in the EU seventh Framework Programme ‘Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa’ (CLUVA).

2007-2010     Research and Education Advisor for the Danida funded research and capacity building project ‘Community Based Natural Forest and Tree Management in the Himalaya’ (ComForM).

2007-2010      Research project – on knowledge workers in the countryside. An individual research project funded within the framework of the Centre for Strategic Urban Research and its work on the ‘borderless city’ in Denmark financed by Foundation Realdania.

2001-2005    Project works –Interreg IIIB project MECIBS - Medium Sized Cities in Dialogue around the Baltic Sea and ESPON – the European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion.

2001-2005    PhD study – on rural and regional change in the Baltic States. Enrolled at the Intitute         of Geography, University of Copenhagen. Main supervisor associate professor Stefan Anderberg.

1999-2001   Research assistant - taking part in various research projects mainlyInterreg IIC projects; BEST – Exchange on sustainable tourism and BALDER – Cultural Heritage and EU Raphael funded project Guide 2000 – Cultural tourism in the European periphery.

Teaching and capacity building

2014-             Course responsible and teaching the master course Motivation and Pro-environmental Behaviour at faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

2010-             Course responsible and teaching the course Urban politics. A 7.5 ETCS point mandatory bachelor course part of the education in Landscape Architecture, University of Copenhagen.

2009-            Course responsible and teaching the course Urban sociology. A

7.5 ETCS point optional course for 3^rd year and master level students part of the education in Landscape Architecture, University of Copenhagen.

2007-2011 Coordinator of the ‘Urban Design Line’ within the education of Landscape Architecture.

2007-2010    Course responsible and teaching the course Plan & Design (bloc 4). A 7.5 ETCS point mandatory course for first year students at the education Landscape Architecture.

2003-2005   Programme secretary for the Master in Landscape Management and Rural   Development.