Romina Rodela
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Romina Rodela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Romina |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodela |
| SIGNATURE | RODELA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0070-6794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Photovoice in urban planning
The inclusion of less represented voices in spatial planning is increasingly important, especially regarding how practitioners engage young people, that is a social group long been marginalised in city-making. This paper examines the potential of Photovoice as a tool for gathering insights into places that youth value or dislike. In collaboration with a Swedish municipality, nine young people participated over three weeks in an activity that led …
Aesthetic perception of urban biodiversity
Understanding the links between biodiversity and human aesthetic perception is vital for designing favourable urban environments and aligning conservation goals with well-being agendas. Despite evidence supporting the preference for beautiful and biodiverse landscapes, inconsistencies exist. This study aims to review the empirical literature on aesthetic perception and biodiversity research in urban settings and identify key methodological challe…
Inclusive urban planning for and with children
Children and youth are increasingly recognized as a stakeholder group that needs to be involved in all planning processes affecting their living environments, such as urban playgrounds. Schoolyards and public playgrounds, as key spaces embedded in the everyday geographies of children, offer a promising site for child-friendly nature-based solutions to counter social and environmental challenges, including health challenges, urban heat stress, and…
Participatory mapping with young people
Understanding preferences and experiences of young people with meeting places and public spaces in urbanized environments
This paper explores the preferences and experiences of young residents in Huddinge Municipality, Sweden, regarding public spaces and meeting places. Using qualitative data from participatory mapping, the study reveals the importance of accessible green spaces, socialization opportunities, and safety perceptions in shaping youth engagement with public spaces. Areas perceived as unsafe or lacking youth-oriented amenities are not used and avoided. T…
Decision support for inclusive spatial planning in the European geographical context
This study investigates decision support within the European geographical area. A total of 21 tools have been analysed leading to the identification of a few emerging trends. Predominantly concentrated in the northern part of Europe, these tools aim to assist urban planners in different ways. Findings reveal issues with tools accessibility and a rather weak focus on hard-to-reach groups, including youth. This study underscores the importance of a…
The Role of Ecological Factors, Gender, and Age in Shaping Visual Preferences for Urban Wetlands
Wetlands are crucial for sustainable cities, providing key ecosystem services, including aesthetic quality. Effective management requires understanding residents’ preferences and socio-demographic differences in aesthetic perception. Furthermore, it is essential to understand how the composition and arrangement of landscapes influence their aesthetic perception. In this study, we report on research examining how different age and gender groups of…
Talking about my future city
Young people as a political subject in the context of environmental governance
The discourse on environmental challenges has evolved significantly in recent years, with climate change emerging as a central global concern. This transformation has been heavily influenced by the last wave of youth-led social movements, notably the Fridays for Future movement, who have mobilized young people at a global scale contributing at a shift in public discourse on the topic of climate action. However, despite the impact of the newly eme…
Empowering Young People in Shaping an Intersectional Future for Public Spaces
Public spaces, such as squares, urban parks, and communal areas are arenas that reflect societal values and power structures, influencing who has access and how they engage with these spaces. This viewpoint explores the application of intersectionality—considering factors like gender, race, and socioeconomic status—in understanding how diverse identities shape the lived experience of young people in public spaces. More specifically, it focuses on…
Advancing environmental justice in cities through the Mosaic Governance of nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are championed for providing co-benefits to cities and residents, yet their environmental justice impacts are increasingly debated. In this paper, we explore whether and how hybrid governance approaches, such as Mosaic Governance, may contribute to just transformations and sustainable cities through fostering long-term collaborations between local governments, local communities, and grassroots initiatives. Based on ca…
Opening up spatial planning to the participation of children and youth
This article reports on a study examining the pathway to and practices for inclusive participatory planning in Sweden. Recently, the Swedish government has transposed the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child into national law, making it a requirement for Swedish planners to involve children and youth in participatory spatial planning processes. The challenges planners face when needing to open up planning and engage children and youth in mo…
Serious games in natural resource management
Natural resource management (NRM) is complex and often characterized by a multitude of stakeholders at different scales, each with their own goals. Increasingly, serious games are used in these contexts as (social) learning tools and boundary objects to facilitate collective learning and support local decision-making. However, despite the well-established interest, the scientific evidence of the impact of serious games remains a debated topic. He…
Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources
Environmental governance is recognized as a key issue in many natural and social sciences. It is highly relevant for ecosystem services and common-pool resources as well. Both fields overlap yet have typically been studied separately. Therefore, this study aimed a) to examine the emerging body of literature that incorporates concepts from both fields of research and considers governance challenges, and b) to identify policy tools and recommendati…
Serious gaming as a tool to facilitate inclusive business; a review of untapped potential
Inclusive Business (IB) is increasingly popular as a way to address the sustainable development goals (SDG) by including the poor in business. While the IB model is commonly believed capable of making a real impact on poverty reduction, it is not without critique. With the empirical evidence still largely lacking, and with continued power imbalances and knowledge disparity among actors, the question of how much IB as a top-down business-led appro…
Intersections of ecosystem services and common-pool resources literature
Integrating farmers’ adaptive knowledge into flood management and adaptation policies in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Process and Contextual Factors Supporting Action-Oriented Learning
Despite a long-term focus on learning in natural resource management (NRM), it is still debated how learning supports sustainable real-world NRM practices. We offer a qualitative in-depth synthesis of selected scientific empirical literature (N = 53), which explores factors affecting action-oriented learning. We inductively identify eight key process-based and contextual factors discussed in this literature. Three patterns emerge from our results…
An Investigation of the Role of Social Dynamics in Conversion to Sustainable Integrated Mangrove‐Shrimp Farming in Ben Tre Province, Vietnam
In the coastal area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, much of the mangrove forest has been cut to make space for expansion of industry and aquaculture. Export‐oriented shrimp farming is a particularly fast‐growing business. Nonetheless, the importance of tropical mangrove forest ecosystems for coastal protection and marine biodiversity is widely recognized. The Vietnamese government, supported by non‐governmental organizations and donors, has sough…
A social marketing perspective on road freight transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables
With the large increase in transportation over the last decades and the associated negative impacts upon the environment and society, a more sustainable use of transport is a crucial policy issue. This analysis focuses on road freight transport of selected produce (carrots, cabbage, apples and pears) with the aim to appraise the sustainability of road freight transport of these for the Slovene market. To this end, we take into account self-suffic…
The social side of spatial decision support systems
Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) represent a step forward in efforts to account for the spatial dimension in environmental decision-making. The aim of SDSS is to help policymakers and practitioners access, interpret and understand information from data, analyses and models, and guide them in identifying possible actions during a decision-making process. Researchers, however, report difficulties in up-take of SDSS by the intended users. Som…
Social learning research in ecological economics
Challenges to and opportunities for biodiversity science–policy interfaces
Environmental non-governmental organizations and transnational collaboration
Previous studies of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO) have primarily taken place within a nation-state perspective without considering multiple levels of politics and governance. Because environmental problems are usually cross-border phenomena, environmental movements must develop transnational features to play constructive roles in politics and governance. This study contributes to the theorizing and study of transnationalizat…
A review of assertions about the processes and outcomes of social learning in natural resource management
Integrating farmers’ adaptive knowledge into flood management and adaptation policies in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Social Learning and Natural Resource Management
A review is presented of research contributions that use social learning in research on natural resource management. The review is based on an extensive survey of peer-reviewed journal articles appraised against the following selected analytical items: (1) characterizing features, (2) level of analysis, and (3) operational measures. Together, these allowed for an assessment of underlying assumptions and emerging themes. The findings suggest that,…
The social side of spatial decision support systems
Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) represent a step forward in efforts to account for the spatial dimension in environmental decision-making. The aim of SDSS is to help policymakers and practitioners access, interpret and understand information from data, analyses and models, and guide them in identifying possible actions during a decision-making process. Researchers, however, report difficulties in up-take of SDSS by the intended users. Som…
Challenges to and opportunities for biodiversity science–policy interfaces
The social learning discourse
Social learning research in ecological economics
Advancing environmental justice in cities through the Mosaic Governance of nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are championed for providing co-benefits to cities and residents, yet their environmental justice impacts are increasingly debated. In this paper, we explore whether and how hybrid governance approaches, such as Mosaic Governance, may contribute to just transformations and sustainable cities through fostering long-term collaborations between local governments, local communities, and grassroots initiatives. Based on ca…
Intersections of ecosystem services and common-pool resources literature
Process and Contextual Factors Supporting Action-Oriented Learning
Despite a long-term focus on learning in natural resource management (NRM), it is still debated how learning supports sustainable real-world NRM practices. We offer a qualitative in-depth synthesis of selected scientific empirical literature (N = 53), which explores factors affecting action-oriented learning. We inductively identify eight key process-based and contextual factors discussed in this literature. Three patterns emerge from our results…
Environmental non-governmental organizations and transnational collaboration
Previous studies of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO) have primarily taken place within a nation-state perspective without considering multiple levels of politics and governance. Because environmental problems are usually cross-border phenomena, environmental movements must develop transnational features to play constructive roles in politics and governance. This study contributes to the theorizing and study of transnationalizat…
Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources
Environmental governance is recognized as a key issue in many natural and social sciences. It is highly relevant for ecosystem services and common-pool resources as well. Both fields overlap yet have typically been studied separately. Therefore, this study aimed a) to examine the emerging body of literature that incorporates concepts from both fields of research and considers governance challenges, and b) to identify policy tools and recommendati…
Social Learning and Natural Resource Management
A review is presented of research contributions that use social learning in research on natural resource management. The review is based on an extensive survey of peer-reviewed journal articles appraised against the following selected analytical items: (1) characterizing features, (2) level of analysis, and (3) operational measures. Together, these allowed for an assessment of underlying assumptions and emerging themes. The findings suggest that,…
A review of assertions about the processes and outcomes of social learning in natural resource management
An analysis of the methodological underpinnings of social learning research in natural resource management
The social learning discourse
Social learning research in ecological economics
Challenges to and opportunities for biodiversity science–policy interfaces
Environmental non-governmental organizations and transnational collaboration
Previous studies of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO) have primarily taken place within a nation-state perspective without considering multiple levels of politics and governance. Because environmental problems are usually cross-border phenomena, environmental movements must develop transnational features to play constructive roles in politics and governance. This study contributes to the theorizing and study of transnationalizat…
A social marketing perspective on road freight transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables
With the large increase in transportation over the last decades and the associated negative impacts upon the environment and society, a more sustainable use of transport is a crucial policy issue. This analysis focuses on road freight transport of selected produce (carrots, cabbage, apples and pears) with the aim to appraise the sustainability of road freight transport of these for the Slovene market. To this end, we take into account self-suffic…
The social side of spatial decision support systems
Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) represent a step forward in efforts to account for the spatial dimension in environmental decision-making. The aim of SDSS is to help policymakers and practitioners access, interpret and understand information from data, analyses and models, and guide them in identifying possible actions during a decision-making process. Researchers, however, report difficulties in up-take of SDSS by the intended users. Som…
An Investigation of the Role of Social Dynamics in Conversion to Sustainable Integrated Mangrove‐Shrimp Farming in Ben Tre Province, Vietnam
In the coastal area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, much of the mangrove forest has been cut to make space for expansion of industry and aquaculture. Export‐oriented shrimp farming is a particularly fast‐growing business. Nonetheless, the importance of tropical mangrove forest ecosystems for coastal protection and marine biodiversity is widely recognized. The Vietnamese government, supported by non‐governmental organizations and donors, has sough…
Serious gaming as a tool to facilitate inclusive business; a review of untapped potential
Inclusive Business (IB) is increasingly popular as a way to address the sustainable development goals (SDG) by including the poor in business. While the IB model is commonly believed capable of making a real impact on poverty reduction, it is not without critique. With the empirical evidence still largely lacking, and with continued power imbalances and knowledge disparity among actors, the question of how much IB as a top-down business-led appro…
Intersections of ecosystem services and common-pool resources literature
Integrating farmers’ adaptive knowledge into flood management and adaptation policies in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Process and Contextual Factors Supporting Action-Oriented Learning
Despite a long-term focus on learning in natural resource management (NRM), it is still debated how learning supports sustainable real-world NRM practices. We offer a qualitative in-depth synthesis of selected scientific empirical literature (N = 53), which explores factors affecting action-oriented learning. We inductively identify eight key process-based and contextual factors discussed in this literature. Three patterns emerge from our results…
Opening up spatial planning to the participation of children and youth
This article reports on a study examining the pathway to and practices for inclusive participatory planning in Sweden. Recently, the Swedish government has transposed the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child into national law, making it a requirement for Swedish planners to involve children and youth in participatory spatial planning processes. The challenges planners face when needing to open up planning and engage children and youth in mo…
Serious games in natural resource management
Natural resource management (NRM) is complex and often characterized by a multitude of stakeholders at different scales, each with their own goals. Increasingly, serious games are used in these contexts as (social) learning tools and boundary objects to facilitate collective learning and support local decision-making. However, despite the well-established interest, the scientific evidence of the impact of serious games remains a debated topic. He…
Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources
Environmental governance is recognized as a key issue in many natural and social sciences. It is highly relevant for ecosystem services and common-pool resources as well. Both fields overlap yet have typically been studied separately. Therefore, this study aimed a) to examine the emerging body of literature that incorporates concepts from both fields of research and considers governance challenges, and b) to identify policy tools and recommendati…
Young people as a political subject in the context of environmental governance
The discourse on environmental challenges has evolved significantly in recent years, with climate change emerging as a central global concern. This transformation has been heavily influenced by the last wave of youth-led social movements, notably the Fridays for Future movement, who have mobilized young people at a global scale contributing at a shift in public discourse on the topic of climate action. However, despite the impact of the newly eme…
Empowering Young People in Shaping an Intersectional Future for Public Spaces
Public spaces, such as squares, urban parks, and communal areas are arenas that reflect societal values and power structures, influencing who has access and how they engage with these spaces. This viewpoint explores the application of intersectionality—considering factors like gender, race, and socioeconomic status—in understanding how diverse identities shape the lived experience of young people in public spaces. More specifically, it focuses on…
Advancing environmental justice in cities through the Mosaic Governance of nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are championed for providing co-benefits to cities and residents, yet their environmental justice impacts are increasingly debated. In this paper, we explore whether and how hybrid governance approaches, such as Mosaic Governance, may contribute to just transformations and sustainable cities through fostering long-term collaborations between local governments, local communities, and grassroots initiatives. Based on ca…
Aesthetic perception of urban biodiversity
Understanding the links between biodiversity and human aesthetic perception is vital for designing favourable urban environments and aligning conservation goals with well-being agendas. Despite evidence supporting the preference for beautiful and biodiverse landscapes, inconsistencies exist. This study aims to review the empirical literature on aesthetic perception and biodiversity research in urban settings and identify key methodological challe…
Inclusive urban planning for and with children
Children and youth are increasingly recognized as a stakeholder group that needs to be involved in all planning processes affecting their living environments, such as urban playgrounds. Schoolyards and public playgrounds, as key spaces embedded in the everyday geographies of children, offer a promising site for child-friendly nature-based solutions to counter social and environmental challenges, including health challenges, urban heat stress, and…
Participatory mapping with young people
Understanding preferences and experiences of young people with meeting places and public spaces in urbanized environments
This paper explores the preferences and experiences of young residents in Huddinge Municipality, Sweden, regarding public spaces and meeting places. Using qualitative data from participatory mapping, the study reveals the importance of accessible green spaces, socialization opportunities, and safety perceptions in shaping youth engagement with public spaces. Areas perceived as unsafe or lacking youth-oriented amenities are not used and avoided. T…
Decision support for inclusive spatial planning in the European geographical context
This study investigates decision support within the European geographical area. A total of 21 tools have been analysed leading to the identification of a few emerging trends. Predominantly concentrated in the northern part of Europe, these tools aim to assist urban planners in different ways. Findings reveal issues with tools accessibility and a rather weak focus on hard-to-reach groups, including youth. This study underscores the importance of a…
Political science (20 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Knowledge management (9 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Economics (7 works)