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About my research

My research focuses on sustainable consumption, alternative forms of organisation, and societal transformation, specifically in the areas of tourism, nature tourism and leisure, mobility and travel, and waste. My research is interdisciplinary, meaning it draws on multiple disciplines to better understand sustainability as well as unsustainability, for example sociology and environmental sociology, human and economic geography, human ecology and sustainability science. Within my research, I work to emphasise the human experience as well as collective action and organisation for sustainability, for example through grassroots innovation, community action, non-profit organisations, initiatives that promote sustainable consumption, and how people and practices are drivers and carriers of potential within these.  

About me

I hold a PhD in environmental (social) science from the University of East Anglia in the UK, where I did my doctoral research on community action on waste. Since then, I have slightly changed sector, and am currently working on (nature) tourism and holidaying at Lund University in Sweden, where I am based, as part of the national Mistra Sustainable Consumption research programme.

 

What drives me in my research is a conviction that hope, possibility, resistance and prefigurative action are vital components for approaching and facilitating change, both personally and societally.

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Here is my curriculum vitae.

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Connect with me

saraskarp.com

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