Doris A Carson
Biographic Data
| ID | 372519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doris A Carson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doris A |
| FAMILY NAME | Carson |
| SIGNATURE | CARSON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8439-2640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Local government planning for community sustainability in municipal peripheries: Insights from the inland north of Sweden
This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, a…
Rural–Urban Disparities in In‐Home Care Journeys in Sparsely Populated Areas: A Case From Northern Sweden
This paper investigates rural–urban disparities in the experiences of in‐home care services for older adults in a sparsely populated municipality (Storuman) in Northern Sweden. Such municipalities are characterised by long‐term population loss and ageing, an increasing concentration of residents and services in municipal centres and resultant rural ‘resource deserts’. Disparities are measured through four ‘endpoint’ measures—exits to residential …
Towards a cordial dialogue between lifestyle migration/mobilities and rural tourism geographies
This article introduces the special issue Changing dimensions of lifestyle mobilities in turbulent times: impacts of COVID-19 outbreaks and multiple crises. It aims not just to understand the individual drivers and consequences of mobility but their interactions with local manifestations of spatial (in)justice in various meaningful places. This editorial synthesizes the four studies of population flows in proximate and remote rural areas in Europ…
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions
This paper examines the role of public funding in transforming tourism pathways in sparsely populated Arctic destinations, comparing Northern Sweden and Finnish Lapland. Our theoretical framework considers destination path plasticity and moments of change through the lens of geographical political economy to understand patterns of uneven development. This perspective helps explain how regional development funding driven by multi-scalar political …
Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development: Perspectives from sparsely populated areas
This article introduces the special issue ‘Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery’. It problematises the relationships between growing cities and hinterland areas in SPAs, such as those commonly found in Arctic, Outback and similar remote resource peripheries of developed countries. Many SPAs are rapidly urbanising, with polarised development…
Northern cities and urban-rural migration of university-qualified labour in Australia and Sweden: Spillovers, sponges, or disconnected city-hinterland geographies
This article examines the migration flows of university-qualified labour (UQL) between cities and hinterland regions in the sparsely populated north of both Australia and Sweden. These peripheries have become increasingly urbanised in recent decades and have received substantial investment in urban higher education hubs that are expected to generate skills for their regions. Whether these skills remain within the few urban centres or are redistri…
The Continuing Advance and Retreat of Rural Settlement in the Northern Inland of Sweden
In 1960, a range of leading rural geographers started a debate about population development and the “advance and retreat” of human settlement in sparsely populated rural areas, including in the inland north of Sweden. In what came to be known as the “Siljan Symposium,” they identified a number of key themes in relation to migration and human mobility that were thought to determine settlement patterns in the inland north, including: internal migra…
Arctic Tourism in Times of Change: Dimensions of Urban Tourism
This case study was originally published as: de la Barre, S. (2020). Urban tourism in the wilderness city Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada). In Müller, D.K., Carson, D.A., de la Barre, S., Granås, B., Jóhannesson, G.T., Øyen, G., Rantala, O., Saarinen, J., Salmela, T., Tervo-Kankare, K., & Welling, J. Arctic tourism in times of change: Dimensions of urban tourism (pp. 28-40). Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/temanord2020-529
The mining resource cycle and settlement demography in Malå, Northern Sweden
Research on the demographic impacts of mining in sparsely populated areas has focused primarily on relatively large towns. Less attention has been paid to smaller villages, which may experience different impacts because of their highly concentrated economies and their small populations, making them more vulnerable to demographic “boom and bust” effects. This paper examines demographic change in four small villages in northern Sweden, which are lo…
My Village Is Dying? Integrating Methods from the Inside Out
The purpose of this paper is to confront the notion of "decline" at the village level by illustrating a more immersive approach to sociological and demographic research within rural and remote communities. The research uses case studies of three villages in Australia, Canada, and Sweden, all of which have been labeled as "declining villages," typified by population loss, an aging population, high rates of youth outmigration, and loss of businesse…
Tourism destination choice sets for families with wheelchair-bound children
Families with disabled children encounter a range of mobility constraints when travelling for tourism purposes, yet how such constraints affect their ultimate destination choices is currently not well understood. This paper applies a destination choice set model to explain how families with wheelchair-bound children with cerebral palsy choose their holiday destinations. Interviews with 13 parents revealed that these families find many destination…
Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies: A View From the 'Boring' Peripheries
Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies : A view from the 'boring' peripheries
International lifestyle immigrants and their contributions to rural tourism innovation: Experiences from Sweden's far north
Repopulating and revitalising rural Sweden? Re-examining immigration as a solution to rural decline
Increasing international immigration is often portrayed as a potential solution to persistent economic and population decline in rural areas. Based on longitudinal register data, this study examines the extent to which international migration has contributed to demographic and labour market changes in rural Sweden between 1990 and 2010. Results show that the urbanisation rate of international migrants is very high while their employment rate in r…
Decline, Adaptation or Transformation: New Perspectives on Demographic Change in Resource Peripheries in Australia and Sweden
Many sparsely populated resource peripheries in developed countries are perceived to suffer from periods of demographic decline due to loss of employment opportunities and services, youth out-migration and population ageing. While these trends tend to apply at broad regional scales and for particular time periods, diverse patterns of demographic change may be apparent if different spatial, temporal and social scales of analysis are taken into con…
Lessons from the Arctic past: The resource cycle, hydro energy development, and the human geography of Jokkmokk, Sweden
The role of heritage tourism in attracting “active” in-migrants to “low amenity” rural areas
Tourism can influence in-migration to rural areas by enhancing the attractiveness of rural communities and providing opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship and volunteer engagement appealing to in-migrants. Much research on the rural tourism-migration nexus has focused on “high amenity” areas characterized by scenic environments and well-developed tourism and service infrastructures. Many communities in inland Australia, however, are in “…
Using Internet technologies in rural communities to access services: The views of older people and service providers
Resilient communities: Transitions, Pathways and Resourcefulness
This is a Review Essay. It uses as a starting point ideas from the recent book by Geoff A Wilson, Community resilience and environmental transitions, to develop arguments about the nature of work by geographers on the resilience of human communities. It considers the legacy of ideas about resilience derived from ecology and engineering, whilst noting a third interpretation relating to adaptive resilience and the contribution of work from psycholo…
Local economies of mobility in sparsely populated areas: Cases from Australia's spine
Understanding local innovation systems in peripheral tourism destinations
Tourism destinations in peripheral areas are often large regions established by centralised government agencies to encourage collaboration between dispersed communities and foster innovation. Relatively little research attention has been paid to the impact that centrally defined destination boundaries have on whether and how small communities contribute to innovation at a regional level. This paper examines the case of Burra, a small town in rura…
Indigenous Long Grassers: Itinerants or Problem Tourists
Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management
This is the introduction to the Ecology and Society special feature on "Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management". Primarily drawing upon examples from Australia, the nine papers in the feature illustrate how landscape science seeks to integrate information from diverse sources to generate management solutions for implementation by individual land managers, communities, and governments at different levels. This introduction refer…
Resilient communities: Transitions, Pathways and Resourcefulness
This is a Review Essay. It uses as a starting point ideas from the recent book by Geoff A Wilson, Community resilience and environmental transitions, to develop arguments about the nature of work by geographers on the resilience of human communities. It considers the legacy of ideas about resilience derived from ecology and engineering, whilst noting a third interpretation relating to adaptive resilience and the contribution of work from psycholo…
Repopulating and revitalising rural Sweden? Re-examining immigration as a solution to rural decline
Increasing international immigration is often portrayed as a potential solution to persistent economic and population decline in rural areas. Based on longitudinal register data, this study examines the extent to which international migration has contributed to demographic and labour market changes in rural Sweden between 1990 and 2010. Results show that the urbanisation rate of international migrants is very high while their employment rate in r…
International lifestyle immigrants and their contributions to rural tourism innovation: Experiences from Sweden's far north
Understanding local innovation systems in peripheral tourism destinations
Tourism destinations in peripheral areas are often large regions established by centralised government agencies to encourage collaboration between dispersed communities and foster innovation. Relatively little research attention has been paid to the impact that centrally defined destination boundaries have on whether and how small communities contribute to innovation at a regional level. This paper examines the case of Burra, a small town in rura…
Local economies of mobility in sparsely populated areas: Cases from Australia's spine
Using Internet technologies in rural communities to access services: The views of older people and service providers
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions
This paper examines the role of public funding in transforming tourism pathways in sparsely populated Arctic destinations, comparing Northern Sweden and Finnish Lapland. Our theoretical framework considers destination path plasticity and moments of change through the lens of geographical political economy to understand patterns of uneven development. This perspective helps explain how regional development funding driven by multi-scalar political …
Tourism destination choice sets for families with wheelchair-bound children
Families with disabled children encounter a range of mobility constraints when travelling for tourism purposes, yet how such constraints affect their ultimate destination choices is currently not well understood. This paper applies a destination choice set model to explain how families with wheelchair-bound children with cerebral palsy choose their holiday destinations. Interviews with 13 parents revealed that these families find many destination…
The role of heritage tourism in attracting “active” in-migrants to “low amenity” rural areas
Tourism can influence in-migration to rural areas by enhancing the attractiveness of rural communities and providing opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship and volunteer engagement appealing to in-migrants. Much research on the rural tourism-migration nexus has focused on “high amenity” areas characterized by scenic environments and well-developed tourism and service infrastructures. Many communities in inland Australia, however, are in “…
Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development: Perspectives from sparsely populated areas
This article introduces the special issue ‘Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery’. It problematises the relationships between growing cities and hinterland areas in SPAs, such as those commonly found in Arctic, Outback and similar remote resource peripheries of developed countries. Many SPAs are rapidly urbanising, with polarised development…
Decline, Adaptation or Transformation: New Perspectives on Demographic Change in Resource Peripheries in Australia and Sweden
Many sparsely populated resource peripheries in developed countries are perceived to suffer from periods of demographic decline due to loss of employment opportunities and services, youth out-migration and population ageing. While these trends tend to apply at broad regional scales and for particular time periods, diverse patterns of demographic change may be apparent if different spatial, temporal and social scales of analysis are taken into con…
My Village Is Dying? Integrating Methods from the Inside Out
The purpose of this paper is to confront the notion of "decline" at the village level by illustrating a more immersive approach to sociological and demographic research within rural and remote communities. The research uses case studies of three villages in Australia, Canada, and Sweden, all of which have been labeled as "declining villages," typified by population loss, an aging population, high rates of youth outmigration, and loss of businesse…
Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management
This is the introduction to the Ecology and Society special feature on "Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management". Primarily drawing upon examples from Australia, the nine papers in the feature illustrate how landscape science seeks to integrate information from diverse sources to generate management solutions for implementation by individual land managers, communities, and governments at different levels. This introduction refer…
Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies: A View From the 'Boring' Peripheries
Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies : A view from the 'boring' peripheries
Towards a cordial dialogue between lifestyle migration/mobilities and rural tourism geographies
This article introduces the special issue Changing dimensions of lifestyle mobilities in turbulent times: impacts of COVID-19 outbreaks and multiple crises. It aims not just to understand the individual drivers and consequences of mobility but their interactions with local manifestations of spatial (in)justice in various meaningful places. This editorial synthesizes the four studies of population flows in proximate and remote rural areas in Europ…
Northern cities and urban-rural migration of university-qualified labour in Australia and Sweden: Spillovers, sponges, or disconnected city-hinterland geographies
This article examines the migration flows of university-qualified labour (UQL) between cities and hinterland regions in the sparsely populated north of both Australia and Sweden. These peripheries have become increasingly urbanised in recent decades and have received substantial investment in urban higher education hubs that are expected to generate skills for their regions. Whether these skills remain within the few urban centres or are redistri…
Lessons from the Arctic past: The resource cycle, hydro energy development, and the human geography of Jokkmokk, Sweden
Indigenous Long Grassers: Itinerants or Problem Tourists
Indigenous Long Grassers: Itinerants or Problem Tourists
Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management
This is the introduction to the Ecology and Society special feature on "Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management". Primarily drawing upon examples from Australia, the nine papers in the feature illustrate how landscape science seeks to integrate information from diverse sources to generate management solutions for implementation by individual land managers, communities, and governments at different levels. This introduction refer…
Local economies of mobility in sparsely populated areas: Cases from Australia's spine
Understanding local innovation systems in peripheral tourism destinations
Tourism destinations in peripheral areas are often large regions established by centralised government agencies to encourage collaboration between dispersed communities and foster innovation. Relatively little research attention has been paid to the impact that centrally defined destination boundaries have on whether and how small communities contribute to innovation at a regional level. This paper examines the case of Burra, a small town in rura…
Lessons from the Arctic past: The resource cycle, hydro energy development, and the human geography of Jokkmokk, Sweden
The role of heritage tourism in attracting “active” in-migrants to “low amenity” rural areas
Tourism can influence in-migration to rural areas by enhancing the attractiveness of rural communities and providing opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship and volunteer engagement appealing to in-migrants. Much research on the rural tourism-migration nexus has focused on “high amenity” areas characterized by scenic environments and well-developed tourism and service infrastructures. Many communities in inland Australia, however, are in “…
Using Internet technologies in rural communities to access services: The views of older people and service providers
Resilient communities: Transitions, Pathways and Resourcefulness
This is a Review Essay. It uses as a starting point ideas from the recent book by Geoff A Wilson, Community resilience and environmental transitions, to develop arguments about the nature of work by geographers on the resilience of human communities. It considers the legacy of ideas about resilience derived from ecology and engineering, whilst noting a third interpretation relating to adaptive resilience and the contribution of work from psycholo…
International lifestyle immigrants and their contributions to rural tourism innovation: Experiences from Sweden's far north
Repopulating and revitalising rural Sweden? Re-examining immigration as a solution to rural decline
Increasing international immigration is often portrayed as a potential solution to persistent economic and population decline in rural areas. Based on longitudinal register data, this study examines the extent to which international migration has contributed to demographic and labour market changes in rural Sweden between 1990 and 2010. Results show that the urbanisation rate of international migrants is very high while their employment rate in r…
Decline, Adaptation or Transformation: New Perspectives on Demographic Change in Resource Peripheries in Australia and Sweden
Many sparsely populated resource peripheries in developed countries are perceived to suffer from periods of demographic decline due to loss of employment opportunities and services, youth out-migration and population ageing. While these trends tend to apply at broad regional scales and for particular time periods, diverse patterns of demographic change may be apparent if different spatial, temporal and social scales of analysis are taken into con…
My Village Is Dying? Integrating Methods from the Inside Out
The purpose of this paper is to confront the notion of "decline" at the village level by illustrating a more immersive approach to sociological and demographic research within rural and remote communities. The research uses case studies of three villages in Australia, Canada, and Sweden, all of which have been labeled as "declining villages," typified by population loss, an aging population, high rates of youth outmigration, and loss of businesse…
Tourism destination choice sets for families with wheelchair-bound children
Families with disabled children encounter a range of mobility constraints when travelling for tourism purposes, yet how such constraints affect their ultimate destination choices is currently not well understood. This paper applies a destination choice set model to explain how families with wheelchair-bound children with cerebral palsy choose their holiday destinations. Interviews with 13 parents revealed that these families find many destination…
Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies: A View From the 'Boring' Peripheries
Challenges and opportunities for rural tourism geographies : A view from the 'boring' peripheries
The Continuing Advance and Retreat of Rural Settlement in the Northern Inland of Sweden
In 1960, a range of leading rural geographers started a debate about population development and the “advance and retreat” of human settlement in sparsely populated rural areas, including in the inland north of Sweden. In what came to be known as the “Siljan Symposium,” they identified a number of key themes in relation to migration and human mobility that were thought to determine settlement patterns in the inland north, including: internal migra…
Arctic Tourism in Times of Change: Dimensions of Urban Tourism
This case study was originally published as: de la Barre, S. (2020). Urban tourism in the wilderness city Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada). In Müller, D.K., Carson, D.A., de la Barre, S., Granås, B., Jóhannesson, G.T., Øyen, G., Rantala, O., Saarinen, J., Salmela, T., Tervo-Kankare, K., & Welling, J. Arctic tourism in times of change: Dimensions of urban tourism (pp. 28-40). Nordic Council of Ministers. DOI: 10.6027/temanord2020-529
The mining resource cycle and settlement demography in Malå, Northern Sweden
Research on the demographic impacts of mining in sparsely populated areas has focused primarily on relatively large towns. Less attention has been paid to smaller villages, which may experience different impacts because of their highly concentrated economies and their small populations, making them more vulnerable to demographic “boom and bust” effects. This paper examines demographic change in four small villages in northern Sweden, which are lo…
Northern cities and urban-rural migration of university-qualified labour in Australia and Sweden: Spillovers, sponges, or disconnected city-hinterland geographies
This article examines the migration flows of university-qualified labour (UQL) between cities and hinterland regions in the sparsely populated north of both Australia and Sweden. These peripheries have become increasingly urbanised in recent decades and have received substantial investment in urban higher education hubs that are expected to generate skills for their regions. Whether these skills remain within the few urban centres or are redistri…
Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development: Perspectives from sparsely populated areas
This article introduces the special issue ‘Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery’. It problematises the relationships between growing cities and hinterland areas in SPAs, such as those commonly found in Arctic, Outback and similar remote resource peripheries of developed countries. Many SPAs are rapidly urbanising, with polarised development…
Towards a cordial dialogue between lifestyle migration/mobilities and rural tourism geographies
This article introduces the special issue Changing dimensions of lifestyle mobilities in turbulent times: impacts of COVID-19 outbreaks and multiple crises. It aims not just to understand the individual drivers and consequences of mobility but their interactions with local manifestations of spatial (in)justice in various meaningful places. This editorial synthesizes the four studies of population flows in proximate and remote rural areas in Europ…
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions
This paper examines the role of public funding in transforming tourism pathways in sparsely populated Arctic destinations, comparing Northern Sweden and Finnish Lapland. Our theoretical framework considers destination path plasticity and moments of change through the lens of geographical political economy to understand patterns of uneven development. This perspective helps explain how regional development funding driven by multi-scalar political …
Rural–Urban Disparities in In‐Home Care Journeys in Sparsely Populated Areas: A Case From Northern Sweden
This paper investigates rural–urban disparities in the experiences of in‐home care services for older adults in a sparsely populated municipality (Storuman) in Northern Sweden. Such municipalities are characterised by long‐term population loss and ageing, an increasing concentration of residents and services in municipal centres and resultant rural ‘resource deserts’. Disparities are measured through four ‘endpoint’ measures—exits to residential …
Local government planning for community sustainability in municipal peripheries: Insights from the inland north of Sweden
This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, a…
Geography (19 works) · Economics (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Rural development and sustainability (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Tourism (9 works)