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June 2026

Applying a mixed-method qualitative research approach, Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Sara Borgström, and their colleagues addressed how goals of multifunctional Urban Green-Blue Infrastructure – and specifically sustainable outdoor recreation – are operationalized in urbanizing landscapes. This work was published by Elsevier in Outdoor Recreation and Tourism.

June 2026

Amin Rastandeh and Sara Borgström suggested a modeling approach to better understand human-wildlife space-use patterns in peri-urban landscapes. This work was published by Elsevier in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.

May 2026

Kristin Malmcrona Friberg successfully defended her licentiate seminar titled From Access to Relationship: How Formal Green Space Planning and Civic Outdoor Organisations Shape Children’s Connections with Nature in Urbanising Landscapes at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

December 2025

In a symposium celebrating the 30^th anniversary of the National City Park in Stockholm, Sara Borgström delivered a speech about the significance of human-nature connections. Stockholm County Administrative Board has recently published a summary of speeches, including Sara’s talk here.

November 2025

Kristin Malmcrona Friberg and Sara Borgström designed and led two workshops on “Reconnecting Children to Nature in Urbanising Landscapes – How, and What Do We Need to Know?” A number of researchers and practitioners who work on urban human-nature relationships participated in these workshops.

November 2025

In collaboration with researchers from eight countries, Amin Rastandeh and Sara Borgström formulated the most pressing priorities for the future of peri-urban recreation ecology. This work was published by Springer Nature in Landscape Ecology.

October 2025

Sara Borgström and her colleagues, ran a session about urban nature stewardship, biodiversity conservation, and outdoor recreation in the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

September 2025

Sara Borgström, in collaboration with Katarina Larsen and Anja Moum Rieser, received a grant for establishing a Swedish Citizen Science Lab for Urban Biodiversity.