A Platform for Actionable Research
Just Urban Green (JUG) is a platform for multidisciplinary research on the social-ecological dimensions of landscapes at the urban and regional scales, founded by Sara Borgström at KTH Royal Institute of Technology with a widespread network of internal and external collaborators from inside and outside of Sweden. The focus of the lab is on the interactions among environmental justice, resilience thinking, biodiversity, and climate change in urban and peri-urban landscapes. JUG was established preliminary to link multiple knowledge spheres concerned with the role of green and blue spaces in an urbanizing world. The central mission of JUG is to develop more collaborative, integrative, and plausible methods for understanding social-ecological systems in relation to urbanization and the climate crisis. The spatial scope of research in JUG is diverse, on a gradient from small green and blue spaces in city centers to large nature reserves adjacent to metropolitan areas. In JUG, knowledge co-generation in collaboration with researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and local residents is highly valued and supported. JUG is always open to fresh ideas, and welcomes students, visiting researchers, and practitioners who are interested in working and collaborating with the lab in the topics mentioned above. To learn more about Sara Borgstrom’s work, see a short video about the importance of Nature in Urban Planning in Swedish. Information about current research activities is available in Themes. For previous research projects and publications derived from them, see Archive and Publications.
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…and then we return home.”
Australian Aboriginal Proverb