Lars Hallstrom is the Director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities at the University of Alberta. His research has traditionally focused upon environmental policy making in European and federal systems of governance and is now increasingly concerned with water quality and quantity, industrial vs. domestic water use, watershed management and integrated assessment, conformance vs. performance-based community sustainablility planning and implementation, integrated (intersectional) policy and programming as well as assessment and partnership-based sustainability solutions.
Research Interests: European Environmental Policy, EU Public Policy, European Civil Society, Environment in the New Europe, European Federalism, Public Participation in Policy, Resource Economies and Environmental Sociology.
| Institution: | University of Alberta |
| Fields of Expertise: | Civil Society Democracy and Political Participation Environmental Politics and Policy International Relations and Foreign Policy |
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| Email: | lars.hallstrom@ualberta.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Boom and Bust - A Citizen's Guide w/ K. van Assche et al. (2016) University of Alberta - Faculty of Extension. 188pp. (co-author) Boom and Bust - Local Strategy for Big Events w/ K. van Assche et al. (2017) Cooperatie in Planning UA. 2017 (European edition) 190pp. Taking the Next Steps: Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada (2016) w/ M. Beckie, G. Hvenegaard and K. Mundel (University of Alberta Press) (lead editor) 408 pp. Duggleby W, Pesut B, Warner G, et al. (2020) Sustainability of a rural volunteer program (Nav-CARE): a case study. Rural and Remote Health. 20(4):6112. Duggleby, W., Pesut, B., Warner, G., Ruiz, K. J., Nekolaichuk, C., Ghosh, S., Hallström, L., Fassbender, K., Swindle, J., Holroyd-Leduc, J., Jackman, D., & Woytkiw, T. (2020). A Feasibility Study of a Volunteer Navigation Program in the Palliative Context. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Parkes, M., Allison, S., Harder, H., Hoogeveen, D., Kutzner, D., Aalhus, M., … Vaillancourt, C. (2019). Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenges across Scales, Sectors, and Sites. Challenges, 10(1), 22. Graham, S., Metcalf, A.L., Gill, N., Niemiec, R., Moreno, C., Bach, T., Ikutegbe, V., Hallstrom, L., Ma, Z. and Lubeck, A. (2019), Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management. Conservation Biology, 33: 275-287. Brassolotto, J., Haney, C.‐A., Hallstrom, L. and Scott, D. (2019), Continuing care in rural Alberta: A scoping review. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 63: 159-170. |
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