UNDER, is a transdisciplinary project funded by FORMAS that has the overall goal of developing a framework for systematic and structured consideration of geosystem services in Swedish planning practices that can support the transformation to sustainable cities and communities. Specific objectives are to: i) advance the concept of geosystem services by identifying and mapping associated societal values (social, environmental and economic), ii) identify methods to assess societal values and investigate possibilities for integration in existing tools, iii) identify structures of governance and develop a broader and practice-informed understanding of the different societal actors in subsurface planning, and iv) create a participative learning environment, extended beyond the project implementation period leading to transformative processes in planning practice.

Participants:

• Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita– University of New South Wales, Sydney.
• Lorena Melgaço – Lund University
• Jenny Norrman – Chalmers University of Technology
• Emrik Lundin Frisk – Chalmers University of Technology
• Yevheniya Volchko – Chalmers University of Technology
• Tore Söderqvist – Holmboe & Skarp AB
• Olof Taromi Sandström – Geological Survey of Sweden
• Victoria Svahn – City Planning Authority, City of Göteborg,
• Paula Lindgren – Geological Survey of Sweden
• Fredrik Mossmark– Geological Survey of Sweden