CURRICULUM VITAE
Eva-Maria Nordström
Date of birth: June 27, 1977
Contact information
Ecosystems Services and Management Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel (office): +43 2236 807 382
Tel (mobile): +46 73 840 71 01
Email: Eva-Maria.Nordstrom@slu.se or nordstr@iiasa.ac.at
Education
2006-2010
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences,
Department of Forest Resource Management
Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry
Doctoral thesis: Nordström E.-M. 2010. Integrating multiple criteria decision
analysis into participatory forest planning. Acta Universitatis agriculturae
Sueciae, Doctoral Thesis No. 2010:77.
1997-2001
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences
Master of Science in Forestry with a major in Biology
1997-2003
Umeå University
Various courses:
- Basic course in Russian, 30 ECTS
- History of ideas, 30 ECTS
- Introductory course to archaeology, environmental archaeology and Sami
studies, 15 ECTS
- Environmental archaeology, 15 ECTS
Professional experience
2011-
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Ecosystems
Services and Management Program
Postdoctoral research scholar (financed by the Kempe Foundations)
2011
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences,
Department of Forest Resource Management
Postdoctoral fellow
2003-2006
Swedish Forest Agency
Advisory officer in Södra Gävleborg’s District
1
2001-2003
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences,
Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology
Research assistant: Mainly pollen analysis, laboratory and field work.
Teaching experience
2011
Course: Participatory planning, 5 ECTS, a NOVA network PhD course at
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences,
Department of Forest Resource Management.
Lectures and exercises about multiple criteria decision analysis, project work
supervision, assisting in planning and implementation of the course.
2011
Course: Sustainable Management of Boreal Forests, 15 ECTS, at Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of
Forest Ecology and Management.
Lecture and exercises about multiple criteria decision analysis and
participatory planning.
2011-2012
Course: Socio-economic Challenges in European Forestry, 5 ECTS, Erasmus IP
at Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences (2011), Finland, and Mendel
University in Brno, Czech Republic (2012).
Lecture and exercises about multiple criteria decision analysis and
participatory planning.
2007-2010
Course: Forest Landscape Multiple Use Management, 7.5 ECTS, at Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of
Forest Resource Management.
Lectures and exercises about multiple criteria decision analysis and
participatory planning, project work supervision.
2010
Course: Forest Management Planning – introduction, 3 ECTS, at Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of
Forest Resource Management.
Lecture on participatory planning.
2008-2009
Course: GIT and Forest Management Planning, 7.5 ECTS, at Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of
Forest Resource Management.
Lecture and exercise on participatory planning.
Publications
Scientific publications
Menzel S., Nordström E.-M., Buchecker M., Marques A., Saarikoski H. & Kangas A. 2012.
Decision support systems in forest management - requirements from a participatory
planning perspective. European Journal of Forest Research (published online, doi:
10.1007/s10342-012-0604-y).
2
Hörnberg G., Staland H., Nordström E.-M., Korsman T. & Segerström U. 2012. Fire as an
important factor for boreal Picea abies swamp forest development in Fennoscandia. The
Holocene 22(2): 204-214.
Ångman E., Hallgren L. & Nordström E.-M. 2011. Managing impressions and forests: the
importance of role confusion in co-creation of a natural resource conflict. Society & Natural
Resources 24(12): 1335-1344.
Nordström E.-M., Eriksson Ljusk O. & Öhman K. 2011. Multiple criteria decision analysis with
consideration to place-specific values in participatory forest planning. Silva Fennica 45(2):
253-265.
Sandström C., Lindkvist A., Öhman K. & Nordström, E.-M. 2011. Governing competing
demands for forest resources in Sweden. Forests 2(1): 218-242.
Nordström E.-M., Eriksson Ljusk O. & Öhman K. 2010. Integrating multiple criteria decision
analysis in participatory forest planning: Experience from a case study in northern Sweden.
Forest Policy and Economics 12(8): 562-574.
Nordström E.-M., Romero C., Eriksson Ljusk O. & Öhman K. 2009. Aggregation of
preferences in participatory forest planning with multiple criteria: an application to the
urban forest in Lycksele, Sweden. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39(10): 1979–1992.
Karlsson H., Hörnberg G., Hannon G. & Nordström E.-M. 2007. Long-term vegetation
changes in the northern Scandinavian forest limit: a human impact-climate synergy?
Holocene 17(1): 37-49.
Manuscripts under review
Nordström E.-M., Öhman K. & Eriksson Ljusk O. Approaches for aggregating preferences in
participatory forest planning – An experimental study. Submitted manuscript.
Kraxner F., Nordström E.-M., Obersteiner M., Havlík P., Gusti M., Mosnier A., Frank S., Valin
H., Fritz S., McCallum I., Kindermann G., See L., Fuss S., Khabarov N., Böttcher H., Aoki K. &
Máthé L. Global bioenergy scenarios – Future forest development, land-use implications and
trade-offs. Submitted manuscript.
Other publications
Nordström E.-M. 2011. Socioekologisk landskapsplanering – för hänsyn till olika värden och
samverkan mellan intressenter. Fakta Skog no. 3. Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences, Umeå. [In Swedish.]
Nordström E.-M. 2003. Människan i urskogen – vegetationshistoria i Hamra nationalpark
under 2500 år. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 97(1): 46-60. [Man in the virgin forest – vegetation
history in Hamra National Park during 2 500 years. In Swedish with English summary.]
3
Conference proceedings
Nordström E.-M. & Öhman K. (2011). A value-focused approach to combining stakeholder
values and expert knowledge in participatory forest planning. 14th Symposium for System
Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR), March 8-11, 2011, Maitencillo, Chile. Oral
presentation.
Menzel S., Nordström E.-M., Buchecker M., Marques A., Saarikoski H. & Kangas, A. 2010.
Between ethics and technology - evaluation criteria for the development of appropriate DSS
in the context of participatory planning. In Falcao, A. & Rosset, C. (eds) Proceedings of the
workshop on Decision Support Systems in Sustainable Forest Management (DSFM 2010).
Lisbon, April 2010. Oral presentation 14.
http://www.fc.ul.pt/dsfm2010/docs/presentations/paper_28.pdf
Nordström E.-M. 2010. Place-specific criteria in MCDA-based participatory forest planning.
In Falcao, A. & Rosset, C. (eds) Proceedings of the workshop on Decision Support Systems in
Sustainable Forest Management (DSFM 2010). Lisbon, April 2010. Poster presentation 6.
Öhman K. & Nordström E.-M. 2010. Experience from MCDA-based participatory planning –
Implications for a decision support system. In Falcao, A. & Rosset, C. (eds) Proceedings of the
workshop on Decision Support Systems in Sustainable Forest Management (DSFM 2010).
Lisbon, April 2010. Poster presentation 9.
Nordström E.-M., Öhman K. & Eriksson Ljusk O. 2009. Approaches for aggregating
preferences in participatory forest planning: An experiment with university students. In
Anderssen R.S., Braddock R.D. & Newham L.T.H. (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and
MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and
Computers in Simulation, July 2009, pp. 2864-2870.
http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/H2/nordstrom.pdf
Reports
Eriksson Ljusk O., Hallgren L., Nordström E-.M., Ångman E. & Öhman K. 2010. Krav på
beslutsstöd för deltagande och konflikthantering vid skoglig planering. Report 288,
Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU. [Demands on decision support for
participation and conflict management in forest planning. In Swedish.]
Ångman E. & Nordström E.-M. 2010. Skogskonflikter i Sverige: en undersökande studie.
Report 287, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU. [Forest conflicts in Sweden:
an exploratory study. In Swedish.]
Nordström E.-M. & Öhman K. 2010. Mångbruksplan för Lyckseles tätortsnära skog: en
tillämpning av deltagande planering och flermålsanalys. Report 267, Department of Forest
Resource Management, SLU. [Multiple use plan for the urban forest of Lycksele: an
application of participatory planning and multiple criteria decision analysis. In Swedish.]
Nordström E.-M. & Eriksson Ljusk O. 2007. Participatory forest planning and multiple criteria
decision analysis (MCDA). Report 198, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU.
4
Nordström E.-M. 2007. The use of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in participatory
forest planning. Report 163, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU.
Segerström U. & Nordström E.-M. 2001. Vegetationshistoriska perspektiv på
jordbrukets historia vid Hackhemskyrkan i Hjulsjö socken, Västmanland. Report, Department
of Forest Vegetation Ecology, SLU. [The agricultural history of Hackhemskyrkan in Hjulsjö
parish, Västmanland, in a vegetation history perspective. In Swedish.]
Nordström E.-M. 2001. Människan i urskogen – vegetationshistoria i Hamra
nationalpark under 2500 år. Master thesis, SLU/Skrifter från forskningsprojektet Flexibilitet
som tradition nr 2. Umeå. [Man in the virgin forest – vegetation history in Hamra National
Park during 2 500 years. In Swedish with English summary.]
Presentations at conferences
“DSS in forest management: Requirements from a participatory planning perspective”: Oral
presentation at the conference Implementation of DSS into the forestry practice, arranged
by FORSYS COST Action FP0804, Zvolen, Slovakia, May 2012.
”När många vill bruka samma skog. Planering för hållbart skogsbruk med flera värden och
intressenter”: Invited speaker at the annual conference of IALE-Sweden (International
Association for Landscape Ecology), theme ”Miljöövervakning med landskapsperspektiv förändring i fokus", Umeå, Sweden, September 2011.
“Trade-off analysis in planning for sustainable forest management: An example from
Lycksele”: Oral presentation at the SNS conference (SamNordisk Skogsforskning/Nordic
Forest Research Co-operation Committee) in Lycksele, Sweden, August 2011.
“A value-focused approach to combining stakeholder values and expert knowledge in
participatory forest planning”: Oral presentation at the 14th Symposium for System Analysis
in Forest Resources (SSAFR) in Maitencillo, Chile, March 2011.
“Approaches for aggregating preferences in participatory forest planning: An experiment
with university students”: Oral presentation at the 18th World IMACS Congress and
MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation in Cairns, Australia, July
2009.
Stays abroad
Visiting PhD student at the Technical University of Madrid, Forestry School, Department of
Economy and Forest Management, supervised by Professor Carlos Romero, June-July 2008.
Language skills
Swedish: native
English: fluent
French and German: elementary
5