Lars Hallgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 992607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Hallgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Hallgren |
| SIGNATURE | HALLGREN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0430-682X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The flipside of hope discourse
Nowadays, environmental scholars and practitioners largely embrace the importance of characterizing environmental communication via messages of hope. Overall, research on hope and communication suggests that strategically designed hope messages can foster pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. However, such research tends to focus solely on the instrumental aspects of communication. Conversely, research emphasizing the social function of hope…
Constructive disagreement and harmful hope in environmental communication for sustainability transition
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environments have become increasingly urgent. This special issue directs our attention to the processes and outcomes of such communication and explores what a focus on communication makes visible and accessible for practic…
When hope messages become the discursive norm
Environmental communication research often conceptualises hope as an internal state of mind, suggesting that messages focused on hope can be used in strategic communication to foster environmental engagement.In this paper, we critique this individualising approach and instead explore hope discourse as an emergent social phenomenon, focusing on how it is constructed and managed in inspirational meetings about the circular economy.Using critical di…
Between authority and argumentation
Facilitators of collaborative governance structure communication between stakeholders. They influence the process and, in some instances, also the outcome of collaborative governance. Even so, facilitators are, in the literature and in practice, most often reduced to being neutral or seen merely as power sharers. This reductive understanding obscures facilititators’ use of power. The purpose of this paper is to outline a nuanced understanding of …
Meaning-making in the practice of collaboration
Although communication is considered crucial for collaboration in natural resource management (NRM), its role has so far been superficially studied.In this paper, we present a way to investigate this communication by focusing on its implicit aspects.We observed and examined communication in three processes that aimed to find solutions to predator-reindeer problems through collaboration between reindeer herders and wildlife authorities in northern…
“I don’t know if we should have that discussion now”
Collaborative governance within natural resource management relies on dialogical forums where people can negotiate complex issues through conversations. In this paper, we investigate situations where procedural frames around these discussions are negotiated in the conversations between its participants in a corpus from five different natural resource management contexts. We present how frame discussions are initiated, how actors express that acti…
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
While calls for critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication (EC) abound, few articles discuss what this may practically entail. With this article, we aim to contribute to a discussion in EC about the methodological implications of such scholarship. Based on our combined experience in EC research and drawing from a variety of academic fields, we describe six methodological dilemmas that we encounter in our rese…
Cultivating Communication
Berglund, B., L. Hallgren, and Á. L. Aradóttir. 2013. Cultivating communication: participatory approaches in land restoration in Iceland. Ecology and Society 18(2): 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05516-180235
Managing Impressions and Forests
Social interaction is an important—and often forgotten—aspect of conflicts in natural resource management (NRM). Building on the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction, this article explores how the concept of impression management during social interaction can help understand NRM conflicts. A qualitative study was carried out on a Swedish case involving a conflict over clear-cutting of a forest. To explain why the conflict escalated and d…
Swedish Farmers Talking about Nature - A Study of the Interrelations between Farmers' Values and the Sociocultural Notion ofNaturintresse
Agro-environmental schemes (AES) aim to counteract declining biodiversity on farmland and to improve ecosystem services, such as pollination and pest regulation. Studies show, however, that an involvement in AES does not lead to any substantive cognitive or motivational change in farmers' behaviour. Hermeneutic studies have tried to explain these modest effects by analysing farmers' mentalities and behaviour. This article contributes to these stu…
Communicative Skills Development of Administrators
In 2007, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) asked the authors to design and run a program for communicative skills development of Natural Resource Management (NRM) administrators and managers at SEPA and county administrative boards. This essay is based on our experiences with and reflections on the program. We first discuss basic assumptions about the situation of the administrators and their need for communicative skills develop…
Farmers and nature conservation
Farmers' attitudes towards viability of specific conservation practices or actions strongly impact their decisions on adoption and change. This review of ‘attitude’ information reveals a wide range of perceptions about what conservation means and what the impacts of adoption will mean in economic and environmental terms. Farmers operate in a tight financial situation, and in parts of the world they are highly dependent on government subsidies, an…
Swedish Farmers Talking about Nature - A Study of the Interrelations between Farmers' Values and the Sociocultural Notion ofNaturintresse
Agro-environmental schemes (AES) aim to counteract declining biodiversity on farmland and to improve ecosystem services, such as pollination and pest regulation. Studies show, however, that an involvement in AES does not lead to any substantive cognitive or motivational change in farmers' behaviour. Hermeneutic studies have tried to explain these modest effects by analysing farmers' mentalities and behaviour. This article contributes to these stu…
Managing Impressions and Forests
Social interaction is an important—and often forgotten—aspect of conflicts in natural resource management (NRM). Building on the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction, this article explores how the concept of impression management during social interaction can help understand NRM conflicts. A qualitative study was carried out on a Swedish case involving a conflict over clear-cutting of a forest. To explain why the conflict escalated and d…
Cultivating Communication
Berglund, B., L. Hallgren, and Á. L. Aradóttir. 2013. Cultivating communication: participatory approaches in land restoration in Iceland. Ecology and Society 18(2): 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05516-180235
Farmers and nature conservation
Farmers' attitudes towards viability of specific conservation practices or actions strongly impact their decisions on adoption and change. This review of ‘attitude’ information reveals a wide range of perceptions about what conservation means and what the impacts of adoption will mean in economic and environmental terms. Farmers operate in a tight financial situation, and in parts of the world they are highly dependent on government subsidies, an…
Communicative Skills Development of Administrators
In 2007, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) asked the authors to design and run a program for communicative skills development of Natural Resource Management (NRM) administrators and managers at SEPA and county administrative boards. This essay is based on our experiences with and reflections on the program. We first discuss basic assumptions about the situation of the administrators and their need for communicative skills develop…
Managing Impressions and Forests
Social interaction is an important—and often forgotten—aspect of conflicts in natural resource management (NRM). Building on the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction, this article explores how the concept of impression management during social interaction can help understand NRM conflicts. A qualitative study was carried out on a Swedish case involving a conflict over clear-cutting of a forest. To explain why the conflict escalated and d…
Swedish Farmers Talking about Nature - A Study of the Interrelations between Farmers' Values and the Sociocultural Notion ofNaturintresse
Agro-environmental schemes (AES) aim to counteract declining biodiversity on farmland and to improve ecosystem services, such as pollination and pest regulation. Studies show, however, that an involvement in AES does not lead to any substantive cognitive or motivational change in farmers' behaviour. Hermeneutic studies have tried to explain these modest effects by analysing farmers' mentalities and behaviour. This article contributes to these stu…
Cultivating Communication
Berglund, B., L. Hallgren, and Á. L. Aradóttir. 2013. Cultivating communication: participatory approaches in land restoration in Iceland. Ecology and Society 18(2): 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05516-180235
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
While calls for critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication (EC) abound, few articles discuss what this may practically entail. With this article, we aim to contribute to a discussion in EC about the methodological implications of such scholarship. Based on our combined experience in EC research and drawing from a variety of academic fields, we describe six methodological dilemmas that we encounter in our rese…
“I don’t know if we should have that discussion now”
Collaborative governance within natural resource management relies on dialogical forums where people can negotiate complex issues through conversations. In this paper, we investigate situations where procedural frames around these discussions are negotiated in the conversations between its participants in a corpus from five different natural resource management contexts. We present how frame discussions are initiated, how actors express that acti…
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environments have become increasingly urgent. This special issue directs our attention to the processes and outcomes of such communication and explores what a focus on communication makes visible and accessible for practic…
When hope messages become the discursive norm
Environmental communication research often conceptualises hope as an internal state of mind, suggesting that messages focused on hope can be used in strategic communication to foster environmental engagement.In this paper, we critique this individualising approach and instead explore hope discourse as an emergent social phenomenon, focusing on how it is constructed and managed in inspirational meetings about the circular economy.Using critical di…
Between authority and argumentation
Facilitators of collaborative governance structure communication between stakeholders. They influence the process and, in some instances, also the outcome of collaborative governance. Even so, facilitators are, in the literature and in practice, most often reduced to being neutral or seen merely as power sharers. This reductive understanding obscures facilititators’ use of power. The purpose of this paper is to outline a nuanced understanding of …
Meaning-making in the practice of collaboration
Although communication is considered crucial for collaboration in natural resource management (NRM), its role has so far been superficially studied.In this paper, we present a way to investigate this communication by focusing on its implicit aspects.We observed and examined communication in three processes that aimed to find solutions to predator-reindeer problems through collaboration between reindeer herders and wildlife authorities in northern…
The flipside of hope discourse
Nowadays, environmental scholars and practitioners largely embrace the importance of characterizing environmental communication via messages of hope. Overall, research on hope and communication suggests that strategically designed hope messages can foster pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. However, such research tends to focus solely on the instrumental aspects of communication. Conversely, research emphasizing the social function of hope…
Constructive disagreement and harmful hope in environmental communication for sustainability transition
Political science (10 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (4 works)