Adjunct Professor
Dr Eva Friman completed her PhD in 2002 with the thesis ‘No Limits: The 20th Century Discourse of Economic Growth’ at Umeå University. From 2004 to 2009, Eva was employed in the School of Economics, Mälardalen University College, as the Director of the Ecological Economics Unit and later as the Senior Lecturer in Ecological Economics. From 2005 to 2014, Eva was the Director of Cemus, Director of and Researcher at CSD Uppsala, and Program Director of Cemus at CSD Uppsala, Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Currently, Eva is the Director of SWEDESD – Swedish International Center of Education for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University, and the Program Director for MISTRA Environmental Communication.
Qualifications
PhD, Umeå University.
Teaching areas
- History of ideas
- Environmental history
- Ecological economics
- Human ecology
- Transdisciplinary sustainability studies
Research areas
- Ecological economics
- Sustainability communication
Memberships
- Member, Editorial Board for the series Studies in the Environmental Humanities, Rodophi
- Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ National Committee for Global Environmental Change (GEC), connected to the International Council for Science (ICSU)
- Member of the official Swedish National Commission at the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, Nagoya, Japan (2014)
Key Research Publications
Friman, E & Naunova, K (2010) ‘The Role of Massive Open Online Courses for Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study on the MOOC in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University’, International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development, 2nd edn, Columbia University.
Hajdu, F, Friman, E, et al (2012) ‘But tractors can’t fly… A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Neoliberal Agricultural Development Interventions in South Africa’, International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, vol. 6(1).
Stoddard, I, Friman, E, et al. (2012) ‘Igniting a Learning Revolution: Student-Run Education for Sustainable Development’, Solutions, vol. 3(5).
Rydberg, T, Friman, E et al. (2011) ‘Emergy Systems Diagramming and Discourse Analysis – The Case of LargeScale Biofuel Production’, Emergy Synthesis, vol. 7.
Gallardo, G & Friman, E (2011) ‘New marine commons along the Chilean coast – Disparate outcomes in the Peñuelas and Chigualoco’s management areas (MAs)’, International Journal of the Commons, vol. 5:2.
Contact Dr Lisa Ryan via email eva.friman@swedesd.uu.se.