Olof Stjernström
Biographic Data
| ID | 1522144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olof Stjernström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olof |
| FAMILY NAME | Stjernström |
| SIGNATURE | STJERNSTRÖM O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6557-3876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Customizing nature
We explore the fluidness of the nature-culture dichotomy related to game management in a Nordic context. Studies have explored the problems of seeing wilderness lying outside human influence, with a focus on nature conservation, endangered species and climate systems. Our focus is not so much on wilderness as a separate spatial category but on wildness and its opposite pole, that which is not wild but tame, and the challenges that this dichotomy …
Complexity and interdependence in local mineral extraction planning
The Green Transition demands mineral extraction. The importance for Europe to gain independence from China within this area is also high on the political agenda, which has resulted in a renewal of interest in mineral-extraction in the Nordic countries, including Norway. Despite the increasing demand at the global, European and national level, the planning process itself though takes place at the local level, raising issues of complexities, contra…
The private in the public
This paper investigates the Norwegian practice of private regulation planning (or private zoning plans), seeking to discern if and how the processes and resulting plans align with the acknowledged benefits of public private partnership (PPP). To assess the topic, we have employed a mixed-methods case-study approach, combining document studies with stakeholder interviews. Two cases were studied in two different municipalities in mid-Norway. We foc…
Contrasting views on co-management of indigenous natural and cultural heritage – Case of Laponia World Heritage site, Sweden
This article discusses the evaluation of the management of the Laponia World Heritage site (Laponia WHS) in northern Sweden. After inscription on the World Heritage list in 1996, difficulties emerged in establishing a common understanding about the involvement of various stakeholders into the site’s management model, the key point of contention being the influence of the representatives from indigenous Sami people and how that should be organised…
The Politics of Arctic Resources
Historically, northern peripheries have been colonized in order to access northern resources. The use of these resources promised economic wealth and community development even in northern parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sörlin, 1988). However, already in the late 19th century the Swedish Tourist Association started promoting the area as also being worth a visit (Aldskogius 1993). Still, tourism has developed slowly, and as an industry remai…
Livability of Urban Public Spaces in Northern Swedish Cities
This study explores how winter conditions are taken into accountin urban planning in the city of Umeå in northern Sweden. Snowand harsh winter conditions are to some extent considered in urban planning in most northern towns in Sweden. Besides that, snow and ice could also be elements in the city attracting people and contribute to the design of public spaces. Current plans and interviews with planners were complemented with participatory observa…
Experiences and emotions among private forest owners versus public interests
Making Russian Arctic accessible for tourists
Recent improvements in nature protection in the European territory of Russia's Arctic islands and archipelagoes – such as the creation of the Russian Arctic National Park – have also resulted in an increase in visitation to this area. This study uses the Key Informants' Technique to analyze Russian tourism planning and development of this territory since 2011. The majority of the principle stakeholders identified for this study agreed that these …
Socioeconomic Determinants of Divorce in Sweden, 1960–1965
During the 1960s in Sweden, socioeconomic differentials decreased sharply and both the labor force participation of married women and aggregate divorce rates increased more rapidly than during any other period of the twentieth century. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the socioeconomic composition of the couple influenced the probability of divorce during this period of rapid restructuring. The study uses a large data set covering the …
Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants
Research on segregation of immigrant groups is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas toward other important places, such as the workplace, where immigrants can meet and interact with members of the native population. This article examines workplace segregation of immigrants. We use longitudinal, georeferenced Swedish population register data, which enables us to observe all immigrants in Sweden for the period 1990–2005 on an a…
Life Course Preferences, Sibling Ties, and the Geographical Dispersion of Sibling Networks
Using Swedish register data, we analyse how life course preferences and sibling ties are related to the geographical dispersion of siblings. We argue that life course preferences and sibling ties are influenced by siblings' sociodemographic characteristics, by similarities and differences between them, and by their family background. The measurement of geographical dispersion, the nearest neighbour index, allows us to go beyond dyadic relationshi…
Geographical distance between children and absent parents in separated families
In recent decades, the share of traditional nuclear‐family households has decreased in most Western countries, resulting in an increase in the proportion of children living in other forms of household constellations. How children with an absent parent or vice versa arrange their life and relations is partly a matter of physical distance between them. The aim of the study is to analyse the geographical distance between children and absent parents,…
Learning through Contact? The Effects on Earnings of Immigrant Exposure to the Native Population
Factors influencing immigrant labour-market outcomes have received increased scholarly attention lately. A recent research focus has been the effects of residential setting on labour-market outcomes. This study brings a new dimension to this emerging body of research, introducing the role played by workplace composition, in addition to place of residence, in immigrant earnings. Based on Swedish longitudinal register data, ordinary least squares r…
Local or non-Local
Local or Non-Local? Some Notes on the Economic-Geographical Impacts of Large Investments
Urban Lindgren, Ron Mahieu, , Local or Non-Local? Some Notes on the Economic-Geographical Impacts of Large Investments, Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 74, No. 3 (1992), pp. 211-228
Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants
Research on segregation of immigrant groups is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas toward other important places, such as the workplace, where immigrants can meet and interact with members of the native population. This article examines workplace segregation of immigrants. We use longitudinal, georeferenced Swedish population register data, which enables us to observe all immigrants in Sweden for the period 1990–2005 on an a…
Geographical distance between children and absent parents in separated families
In recent decades, the share of traditional nuclear‐family households has decreased in most Western countries, resulting in an increase in the proportion of children living in other forms of household constellations. How children with an absent parent or vice versa arrange their life and relations is partly a matter of physical distance between them. The aim of the study is to analyse the geographical distance between children and absent parents,…
Learning through Contact? The Effects on Earnings of Immigrant Exposure to the Native Population
Factors influencing immigrant labour-market outcomes have received increased scholarly attention lately. A recent research focus has been the effects of residential setting on labour-market outcomes. This study brings a new dimension to this emerging body of research, introducing the role played by workplace composition, in addition to place of residence, in immigrant earnings. Based on Swedish longitudinal register data, ordinary least squares r…
Life Course Preferences, Sibling Ties, and the Geographical Dispersion of Sibling Networks
Using Swedish register data, we analyse how life course preferences and sibling ties are related to the geographical dispersion of siblings. We argue that life course preferences and sibling ties are influenced by siblings' sociodemographic characteristics, by similarities and differences between them, and by their family background. The measurement of geographical dispersion, the nearest neighbour index, allows us to go beyond dyadic relationshi…
Experiences and emotions among private forest owners versus public interests
The private in the public
This paper investigates the Norwegian practice of private regulation planning (or private zoning plans), seeking to discern if and how the processes and resulting plans align with the acknowledged benefits of public private partnership (PPP). To assess the topic, we have employed a mixed-methods case-study approach, combining document studies with stakeholder interviews. Two cases were studied in two different municipalities in mid-Norway. We foc…
Contrasting views on co-management of indigenous natural and cultural heritage – Case of Laponia World Heritage site, Sweden
This article discusses the evaluation of the management of the Laponia World Heritage site (Laponia WHS) in northern Sweden. After inscription on the World Heritage list in 1996, difficulties emerged in establishing a common understanding about the involvement of various stakeholders into the site’s management model, the key point of contention being the influence of the representatives from indigenous Sami people and how that should be organised…
Socioeconomic Determinants of Divorce in Sweden, 1960–1965
During the 1960s in Sweden, socioeconomic differentials decreased sharply and both the labor force participation of married women and aggregate divorce rates increased more rapidly than during any other period of the twentieth century. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the socioeconomic composition of the couple influenced the probability of divorce during this period of rapid restructuring. The study uses a large data set covering the …
Local or non-Local
Local or Non-Local? Some Notes on the Economic-Geographical Impacts of Large Investments
Urban Lindgren, Ron Mahieu, , Local or Non-Local? Some Notes on the Economic-Geographical Impacts of Large Investments, Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 74, No. 3 (1992), pp. 211-228
Learning through Contact? The Effects on Earnings of Immigrant Exposure to the Native Population
Factors influencing immigrant labour-market outcomes have received increased scholarly attention lately. A recent research focus has been the effects of residential setting on labour-market outcomes. This study brings a new dimension to this emerging body of research, introducing the role played by workplace composition, in addition to place of residence, in immigrant earnings. Based on Swedish longitudinal register data, ordinary least squares r…
Life Course Preferences, Sibling Ties, and the Geographical Dispersion of Sibling Networks
Using Swedish register data, we analyse how life course preferences and sibling ties are related to the geographical dispersion of siblings. We argue that life course preferences and sibling ties are influenced by siblings' sociodemographic characteristics, by similarities and differences between them, and by their family background. The measurement of geographical dispersion, the nearest neighbour index, allows us to go beyond dyadic relationshi…
Geographical distance between children and absent parents in separated families
In recent decades, the share of traditional nuclear‐family households has decreased in most Western countries, resulting in an increase in the proportion of children living in other forms of household constellations. How children with an absent parent or vice versa arrange their life and relations is partly a matter of physical distance between them. The aim of the study is to analyse the geographical distance between children and absent parents,…
Making Russian Arctic accessible for tourists
Recent improvements in nature protection in the European territory of Russia's Arctic islands and archipelagoes – such as the creation of the Russian Arctic National Park – have also resulted in an increase in visitation to this area. This study uses the Key Informants' Technique to analyze Russian tourism planning and development of this territory since 2011. The majority of the principle stakeholders identified for this study agreed that these …
Socioeconomic Determinants of Divorce in Sweden, 1960–1965
During the 1960s in Sweden, socioeconomic differentials decreased sharply and both the labor force participation of married women and aggregate divorce rates increased more rapidly than during any other period of the twentieth century. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the socioeconomic composition of the couple influenced the probability of divorce during this period of rapid restructuring. The study uses a large data set covering the …
Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants
Research on segregation of immigrant groups is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas toward other important places, such as the workplace, where immigrants can meet and interact with members of the native population. This article examines workplace segregation of immigrants. We use longitudinal, georeferenced Swedish population register data, which enables us to observe all immigrants in Sweden for the period 1990–2005 on an a…
Experiences and emotions among private forest owners versus public interests
The Politics of Arctic Resources
Historically, northern peripheries have been colonized in order to access northern resources. The use of these resources promised economic wealth and community development even in northern parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sörlin, 1988). However, already in the late 19th century the Swedish Tourist Association started promoting the area as also being worth a visit (Aldskogius 1993). Still, tourism has developed slowly, and as an industry remai…
Livability of Urban Public Spaces in Northern Swedish Cities
This study explores how winter conditions are taken into accountin urban planning in the city of Umeå in northern Sweden. Snowand harsh winter conditions are to some extent considered in urban planning in most northern towns in Sweden. Besides that, snow and ice could also be elements in the city attracting people and contribute to the design of public spaces. Current plans and interviews with planners were complemented with participatory observa…
Contrasting views on co-management of indigenous natural and cultural heritage – Case of Laponia World Heritage site, Sweden
This article discusses the evaluation of the management of the Laponia World Heritage site (Laponia WHS) in northern Sweden. After inscription on the World Heritage list in 1996, difficulties emerged in establishing a common understanding about the involvement of various stakeholders into the site’s management model, the key point of contention being the influence of the representatives from indigenous Sami people and how that should be organised…
The private in the public
This paper investigates the Norwegian practice of private regulation planning (or private zoning plans), seeking to discern if and how the processes and resulting plans align with the acknowledged benefits of public private partnership (PPP). To assess the topic, we have employed a mixed-methods case-study approach, combining document studies with stakeholder interviews. Two cases were studied in two different municipalities in mid-Norway. We foc…
Complexity and interdependence in local mineral extraction planning
The Green Transition demands mineral extraction. The importance for Europe to gain independence from China within this area is also high on the political agenda, which has resulted in a renewal of interest in mineral-extraction in the Nordic countries, including Norway. Despite the increasing demand at the global, European and national level, the planning process itself though takes place at the local level, raising issues of complexities, contra…
Customizing nature
We explore the fluidness of the nature-culture dichotomy related to game management in a Nordic context. Studies have explored the problems of seeing wilderness lying outside human influence, with a focus on nature conservation, endangered species and climate systems. Our focus is not so much on wilderness as a separate spatial category but on wildness and its opposite pole, that which is not wild but tame, and the challenges that this dichotomy …
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