Małgorzata Blicharska
Biographic Data
| ID | 4425419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Małgorzata Blicharska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Małgorzata |
| FAMILY NAME | Blicharska |
| SIGNATURE | BLICHARSKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7731-7039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Incoherence Is, in a Way, a Choice’
This study explores the production of coherence between Uruguay's agricultural, environmental and water policies amidst growing tensions, which are particularly manifested in conflicts between an expanding agricultural sector and water insecurity for the broader public. We apply a novel mixed‐method approach, combining a political discourse analysis of key sectoral policies, the ruling party's programme and workshop discussions with a survey of i…
Policies and practices impacting the implementation of nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly suggested to address biodiversity decline and climate change. However, many ecosystems are hardly used as NBS, including ponds and pondscapes. We therefore examine how policies and practices affect their implementation as NBS. Using a content analysis of policy documents and stakeholder inputs, we assess the policy context in eight countries but also zoom in on policies and practices in seventeen pond…
Multifunctional landscapes in Sweden – How the concept is understood and implemented in research and practice
Multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as key to promoting biodiversity and delivering diverse benefits at the landscape level. However, varying interpretations in research and policy create challenges for practical implementation. This study examines how multifunctionality is understood and governed across five landscape types in Sweden: forest, agricultural, coastal and marine, urban, and mountain. By combining a review of scientific and…
Prescriptive Positivism
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2030, prompting debate about what should follow. Beyond revision, there is a need to critically examine what values and assumptions have shaped how the SDGs are conceptualised and operationalised. Much of the academic discussion about the SDGs has centred around their interactions. Using an inductive, latent thematic analysis of 35 papers, we analysed the discourse on SDG int…
Farm advisors’ perspectives on barriers and opportunities for wetland creation – the view from Sweden
Farm advisors are important knowledge transfer agents for improving rural sustainability.Most literature focuses on their role in improving farm economies, but they can also promote greater environmental sustainability.Across Europe, most natural wetlands have been drained, impacting multiple ecosystem services (ES) including biodiversity support and nutrient retention, highlighting the need for increased restoration and creation efforts.In Swede…
Global presumed drylands
This is the first study on "presumed drylands"; lands with an aridity index higher than or equal to 0.65 and dryland features.It aims to describe the nature and extent of "presumed drylands" and their drivers and pressures of land degradation, current state, ongoing impacts, and land-management responses.We find that "presumed drylands" cover 10.75 million km 2 (7% of the globe).Most "presumed drylands" are tropical and subtropical grassland biom…
Impact of explicit consent to data protection rules on the stakeholder landscape in transdisciplinary Nexus research projects
Transdisciplinary Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus projects intend to engage stakeholders from a broad base. European Union funded projects must adhere to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that govern the way in which personal data of stakeholders is gathered, stored, and used. In the H2020 project NEXOGENESIS, WEFE nexus interlinkages are assessed in five river basins, four in Europe and one in Southern Africa. This work is carr…
Beyond Asking the Right Questions
Accurate information about anglers’ motivations, satisfaction, and fishing behavior is needed to design effective recreational fisheries management. This study used a comprehensive survey of Swedish anglers to explore the risk for common sampling strategies and survey response groupings to introduce significant error or biases that impact the interpretation of data. Angler motivation and satisfaction differed between anglers based on avidity, typ…
Effects of Recreational Anglers’ Sense of Place on Their Stewardship Intentions in Private and Social Contexts on Gotland, Sweden
Rethinking the nature of justice
Low-carbon transitions are essential but contested, particularly regarding what constitutes a ‘just transition’. To grasp their political nature, adopting a spatial perspective becomes indispensable, as different actors hold different views on how to allocate burdens and benefits across scales. In this study, we examine how notions of ‘justice’ are expressed and manifested spatially, negotiated between conflicting parties, and undergo changes, de…
Opportunities and limitations for Nature-Based Solutions in EU policies – Assessed with a focus on ponds and pondscapes
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are growing in popularity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, enhance biodiversity, and secure human well-being. However, the emergence of NBS has not generated equal attention for all ecosystems. One such neglected ecosystem are ponds and pondscapes (i.e. groups of ponds in a landscape), which are deteriorating in quality and diminishing in quantity. As the European Union (EU) is regarded as influential in the c…
Drought hazards and stakeholder perception
The future risk for droughts and water shortages calls for substantial efforts by authorities to adapt at local levels. Understanding their perception of drought hazards, risk and vulnerability can help to identify drivers of and barriers to drought risk planning and management in a changing climate at the local level. This paper presents a novel interdisciplinary drought case study in Sweden that integrates soft data from a nationwide survey amo…
Landscape perception
Changes in the landscape affect not only people's well-being but also how people perceive and use the landscape. An increasing number of policies have highlighted the importance of conserving a landscape's recreational and aesthetical values. This study develops and evaluates a model that links people's perceptions of a mountain landscape to physical monitoring data. Using a questionnaire, we revealed how respondents working with the Swedish moun…
Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development
What a forest? Whose forest? Struggles over concepts and meanings in the debate about the conservation of the Białowieża Forest in Poland
Why is it difficult to enlarge a protected area? Ecosystem services perspective on the conflict around the extension of the Białowieża National Park in Poland
Integrating Ecological, Social and Cultural Dimensions in the Implementation of the Landscape Convention
Implementation of the European Landscape Convention requires new tools that link ecological, social and cultural dimensions in practical planning. Here, we propose connectivity as a conceptual tool to include different dimensions into landscape and spatial planning. We present a short review of the connectivity concept in relation to ecological, social and cultural dimensions and illustrate it by examples from a real landscape planning case
The Polish Promotional Forest Complexes
What a forest? Whose forest? Struggles over concepts and meanings in the debate about the conservation of the Białowieża Forest in Poland
Why is it difficult to enlarge a protected area? Ecosystem services perspective on the conflict around the extension of the Białowieża National Park in Poland
Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development
Integrating Ecological, Social and Cultural Dimensions in the Implementation of the Landscape Convention
Implementation of the European Landscape Convention requires new tools that link ecological, social and cultural dimensions in practical planning. Here, we propose connectivity as a conceptual tool to include different dimensions into landscape and spatial planning. We present a short review of the connectivity concept in relation to ecological, social and cultural dimensions and illustrate it by examples from a real landscape planning case
The Polish Promotional Forest Complexes
Rethinking the nature of justice
Low-carbon transitions are essential but contested, particularly regarding what constitutes a ‘just transition’. To grasp their political nature, adopting a spatial perspective becomes indispensable, as different actors hold different views on how to allocate burdens and benefits across scales. In this study, we examine how notions of ‘justice’ are expressed and manifested spatially, negotiated between conflicting parties, and undergo changes, de…
Opportunities and limitations for Nature-Based Solutions in EU policies – Assessed with a focus on ponds and pondscapes
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are growing in popularity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, enhance biodiversity, and secure human well-being. However, the emergence of NBS has not generated equal attention for all ecosystems. One such neglected ecosystem are ponds and pondscapes (i.e. groups of ponds in a landscape), which are deteriorating in quality and diminishing in quantity. As the European Union (EU) is regarded as influential in the c…
Landscape perception
Changes in the landscape affect not only people's well-being but also how people perceive and use the landscape. An increasing number of policies have highlighted the importance of conserving a landscape's recreational and aesthetical values. This study develops and evaluates a model that links people's perceptions of a mountain landscape to physical monitoring data. Using a questionnaire, we revealed how respondents working with the Swedish moun…
The Polish Promotional Forest Complexes
Integrating Ecological, Social and Cultural Dimensions in the Implementation of the Landscape Convention
Implementation of the European Landscape Convention requires new tools that link ecological, social and cultural dimensions in practical planning. Here, we propose connectivity as a conceptual tool to include different dimensions into landscape and spatial planning. We present a short review of the connectivity concept in relation to ecological, social and cultural dimensions and illustrate it by examples from a real landscape planning case
Why is it difficult to enlarge a protected area? Ecosystem services perspective on the conflict around the extension of the Białowieża National Park in Poland
What a forest? Whose forest? Struggles over concepts and meanings in the debate about the conservation of the Białowieża Forest in Poland
Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development
Landscape perception
Changes in the landscape affect not only people's well-being but also how people perceive and use the landscape. An increasing number of policies have highlighted the importance of conserving a landscape's recreational and aesthetical values. This study develops and evaluates a model that links people's perceptions of a mountain landscape to physical monitoring data. Using a questionnaire, we revealed how respondents working with the Swedish moun…
Opportunities and limitations for Nature-Based Solutions in EU policies – Assessed with a focus on ponds and pondscapes
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are growing in popularity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, enhance biodiversity, and secure human well-being. However, the emergence of NBS has not generated equal attention for all ecosystems. One such neglected ecosystem are ponds and pondscapes (i.e. groups of ponds in a landscape), which are deteriorating in quality and diminishing in quantity. As the European Union (EU) is regarded as influential in the c…
Drought hazards and stakeholder perception
The future risk for droughts and water shortages calls for substantial efforts by authorities to adapt at local levels. Understanding their perception of drought hazards, risk and vulnerability can help to identify drivers of and barriers to drought risk planning and management in a changing climate at the local level. This paper presents a novel interdisciplinary drought case study in Sweden that integrates soft data from a nationwide survey amo…
Farm advisors’ perspectives on barriers and opportunities for wetland creation – the view from Sweden
Farm advisors are important knowledge transfer agents for improving rural sustainability.Most literature focuses on their role in improving farm economies, but they can also promote greater environmental sustainability.Across Europe, most natural wetlands have been drained, impacting multiple ecosystem services (ES) including biodiversity support and nutrient retention, highlighting the need for increased restoration and creation efforts.In Swede…
Global presumed drylands
This is the first study on "presumed drylands"; lands with an aridity index higher than or equal to 0.65 and dryland features.It aims to describe the nature and extent of "presumed drylands" and their drivers and pressures of land degradation, current state, ongoing impacts, and land-management responses.We find that "presumed drylands" cover 10.75 million km 2 (7% of the globe).Most "presumed drylands" are tropical and subtropical grassland biom…
Impact of explicit consent to data protection rules on the stakeholder landscape in transdisciplinary Nexus research projects
Transdisciplinary Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus projects intend to engage stakeholders from a broad base. European Union funded projects must adhere to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that govern the way in which personal data of stakeholders is gathered, stored, and used. In the H2020 project NEXOGENESIS, WEFE nexus interlinkages are assessed in five river basins, four in Europe and one in Southern Africa. This work is carr…
Beyond Asking the Right Questions
Accurate information about anglers’ motivations, satisfaction, and fishing behavior is needed to design effective recreational fisheries management. This study used a comprehensive survey of Swedish anglers to explore the risk for common sampling strategies and survey response groupings to introduce significant error or biases that impact the interpretation of data. Angler motivation and satisfaction differed between anglers based on avidity, typ…
Effects of Recreational Anglers’ Sense of Place on Their Stewardship Intentions in Private and Social Contexts on Gotland, Sweden
Rethinking the nature of justice
Low-carbon transitions are essential but contested, particularly regarding what constitutes a ‘just transition’. To grasp their political nature, adopting a spatial perspective becomes indispensable, as different actors hold different views on how to allocate burdens and benefits across scales. In this study, we examine how notions of ‘justice’ are expressed and manifested spatially, negotiated between conflicting parties, and undergo changes, de…
‘Incoherence Is, in a Way, a Choice’
This study explores the production of coherence between Uruguay's agricultural, environmental and water policies amidst growing tensions, which are particularly manifested in conflicts between an expanding agricultural sector and water insecurity for the broader public. We apply a novel mixed‐method approach, combining a political discourse analysis of key sectoral policies, the ruling party's programme and workshop discussions with a survey of i…
Policies and practices impacting the implementation of nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly suggested to address biodiversity decline and climate change. However, many ecosystems are hardly used as NBS, including ponds and pondscapes. We therefore examine how policies and practices affect their implementation as NBS. Using a content analysis of policy documents and stakeholder inputs, we assess the policy context in eight countries but also zoom in on policies and practices in seventeen pond…
Multifunctional landscapes in Sweden – How the concept is understood and implemented in research and practice
Multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as key to promoting biodiversity and delivering diverse benefits at the landscape level. However, varying interpretations in research and policy create challenges for practical implementation. This study examines how multifunctionality is understood and governed across five landscape types in Sweden: forest, agricultural, coastal and marine, urban, and mountain. By combining a review of scientific and…
Prescriptive Positivism
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2030, prompting debate about what should follow. Beyond revision, there is a need to critically examine what values and assumptions have shaped how the SDGs are conceptualised and operationalised. Much of the academic discussion about the SDGs has centred around their interactions. Using an inductive, latent thematic analysis of 35 papers, we analysed the discourse on SDG int…
Environmental resource management (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)