Dr. Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen

Senior Research Scientist

Sustainability Governance Impact Area

Phone
+41 31 684 69 30
E-Mail
lara.lundsgaard@unibe.ch
Office
242
Postal Address
Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
University of Bern
Mittelstrasse 43
CH-3012 Bern

Areas of professional focus at CDE

  • Land governance: actor networks, institutions, land use changes in relation to war- and state-making
  • Mega-infrastructure projects: impacts and local community-based initiatives
  • Multi-stakeholder processes and social learning
  • Fair and conflict-sensitive South-North collaboration
  • Regional focus: Myanmar, China, Caucasus-South

​Projects

Further professional interests

  • Gender equality
  • International development cooperation
  • China and its influence in the world – The challenges and possibilities for sustainable development
  • Organisational development (processes, structure & quality management, change management, project management etc.)
  • Teaching and “Education for Sustainable Development” at Universities

Field experience

  • Several years based Myanmar
  • Short field stays (under 3 months): Tanzania, Thailand, China, Russia

Languages

German, English, French, Spanish

Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014

2024

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M.; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Htun, Aung Myin; Myint, Win; Schneider, Flurina (2024). Participatory Visioning and Future Planning. Backcasting with Myanmar Farmers for a more Sustainable Future. Methodological Report Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

2023

Allheilig, Gaby; Gugushvili, Temur; Salukvadze, Gvantsa; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara (August 2023). New transit routes are reshaping Georgia. In: CDE Spotlight. Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

Oberlack, Christoph; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Kearney, Norman Michael; Hurni, Kaspar (June 2023). Community-based collective action and sustainable development around infrastructure mega-projects (Unpublished). In: IASC Global Conference. Nairobi, Kenya. 17-22 June 2023.

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Frey, Sara; Wiesmann, Urs (May 2023). Decolonizing Research Projects (Unpublished). In: KFPE annual conference 2023 on Decolonizing Swiss Research Collaborations. Bern. 5 May 2023.

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Kearney, Norman; Hurni, Kaspar; Oberlack, Christoph (March 2023). Mega-infrastructure projects: Engaging with the giant – (im)possible? (Unpublished). In: IfL research workshop #8: Spatially related research practice in challenging environments: Authoritarianism, conflicts and war. Leipzig. March 23–24.

Haller, Tobias; Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka; Oberlack, Christoph; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M.; Hurni, Kaspar; Weissman, Samuel (2023). The new global connect: Mega-infrastructure projects and their local impacts (Swiss Academies Factsheets 18 (1)). Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT)

Frey, Sara; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Wiesmann, Urs (2023). Striving for Fair and Conflict-Sensitive Research: Frameworks, Approaches and Tools. Joint reflection on insights from the IfL‐workshop. (Unpublished). In: IfL research workshop #8: Spatially related research practice in challenging environments: Authoritarianism, conflicts and war. Leipzig. March 23–24.

2022

Schneider, Flurina; Llanque-Zonta, Aymara; Andriamihaja, Onintsoa Ravaka; Andriatsitohaina, R. Ntsiva N.; Tun, Aung Myin; Kiteme, Boniface; Jacobi, Johanna; Celio, Enrico; Diebold, Clara Léonie; Patrick, Laby; Latthachack, Phokham; Llopis, Jorge Claudio; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Messerli, Peter; Mukhovi, Stellah; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Rabemananjara, Zo Hasina; Ramamonjisoa, Bruno Salomon; Thongmanivong, Sithong; Vongvisouk, Thoumthone; ... (2022). How context affects transdisciplinary research: insights from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Sustainability science, 17(6), pp. 2331-2345. Springer 10.1007/s11625-022-01201-3

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M.; Oberlack, Christoph; Hunt, Glenn; Schneider, Flurina (2022). The (In)Ability of a Multi-Stakeholder Platform to Address Land Conflicts—Lessons Learnt from an Oil Palm Landscape in Myanmar. Land, 11(8), p. 1348. MDPI 10.3390/land11081348

Karrer, Laurenzia; Zabel, Astrid; Hammer, Thomas; Herweg, Karl; Hirschbuehl, Tina; Illien, Patrick; Lemann, Tatenda; Lewis, Anna; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Mathez-Stiefel, Sarah-Lan; Ming, Eva; Moser, Stephanie; Providoli, Isabelle; Rueff, Henri; Solar Alvarez, Jimena; Trechsel, Lilian; Zeleke, Gete; Zimmermann, Anne (2022). Good Practice Guidelines. Digital Tools for Transdisciplinary and Transformative Research and Learning Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, with Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

2021

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M.; Metz, Florence; Fischer, Manuel; Schneider, Flurina; Myint, Win; Messerli, Peter (2021). The making of land use decisions, war, and state. Journal of land use science, 16(4), pp. 359-381. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/1747423X.2021.1961897

Oberlack, Christoph; Andriamihaja, Onintsoa Ravaka Niaina; Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne; Llopis Sendino, Jorge Claudio; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Messerli, Peter; Myint, Win; Rabemananjara, Zo Hasina; Ramamonjisoa, Bruno; Schneider, Flurina; Thongmanivong, Sithong; Vongvisouk, Thoumthone; Zähringer, Julie (2021). Telecouplings in forest frontier regions: An archetype analysis (Unpublished). In: 4th Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research.

2020

Zaehringer, Julie G.; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Thein, Tun Tun; Llopis, Jorge C.; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Myint, Win; Schneider, Flurina (2020). The cash crop boom in southern Myanmar: tracing land use regime shifts through participatory mapping. Ecosystems and people, 16(1), pp. 36-49. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/26395916.2019.1699164

Schneider, Flurina; Feurer, Mélanie; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara Maria; Myint, Win; Nuam, Cing Don; Nydegger, Katharina; Oberlack, Christoph; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin; Tun, Aung Myin; Messerli, Peter (2020). Sustainable Development Under Competing Claims on Land: Three Pathways Between Land-Use Changes, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being. The European journal of development research, 32(2), pp. 316-337. Springer 10.1057/s41287-020-00268-x

Bächtold, Stefan; Bastide, Joan; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara (2020). Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar. The European journal of development research, 32(2), pp. 359-378. Springer 10.1057/s41287-020-00267-y

Schneider, Flurina; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M.; Myint, Win; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Zaehringer, Julie Gwendolin; Htun, Aung Myin (2020). The 2030 Agenda: Land is central to Myanmar’s future.

Bächtold, Stefan; Bastide, Joan; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara (2020). About drones, activists, and oil palms – power and inclusion in multi-stakeholder land platforms. PK Forum Myanmar

2019

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara Maria (2019). Chinas Engagement in Afrika: Die andere Art von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. In: Specker, Manuela (ed.) Afrika zwischen Aufbruch und Armut. Almanach Entwicklungspolitik: Vol. 2020 (pp. 151-170). Luzern, Schweiz: Caritas-Verlag

Schneider, Flurina; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara Maria; Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin; Myint, Win; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Oberlack, Christoph; Feurer, Melanie; Nydegger, Katharina Barbara; Messerli, Peter (2019). Sustainable and Just Development in Myanmar: Land disputes in Tanintharyi Region between commercial interests, nature conservation and human well-being (Unpublished). In: Global Land Project 4th Open Science Meeting (GLP-OSM). Bern, Switzerland. 24-26 April 2019.

Oberlack, Christoph; Lundsgaard, Lara; Bastide, Joan (2019). Governance innovations for sustainability transformations: the case of multi-stakeholder platforms on oil palm in Myanmar (Unpublished). In: Leverage Points 2019: International Conference on Sustainability Research and Transformation. Lüneburg, Germany. 06-08 February 2019.

Hunt, Glenn; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara Maria; von der Mühlen, Manuel; Bastide, Joan; Heinimann, Andreas (2019). Chasing tenure rights in the ‘new’ Myanmar - Opportunities and challenges to the recognition of land and forest tenure rights on the indigenous frontier (Unpublished). In: 4th Open Science Meeting of Global Land Programme. Bern, Switzerland. 24 April 2019.

Lundsgaard, Lara; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Hunt, Glenn; Bastide, Joan; Myint, Win; Schneider, Flurina; Messerli, Peter (2019). Does it really contribute to peace- and state-building? Land governance and land use changes during the civil war in southern Myanmar (Unpublished). In: Global Land Project 4th Open Science Meeting (GLP-OSM). Bern, Switzerland. 24-26 April 2019.

2018

Trechsel, Lilian Julia; Zimmermann, Anne; Graf, David; Herweg, Karl Günter; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Rufer, Lydia; Tribelhorn, Thomas; Wastl-Walter, Doris (2018). Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development at a Swiss University: Navigating the Traps of Institutionalization. Higher education policy, 31(4), pp. 471-490. Springer 10.1057/s41307-018-0102-z

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Schneider, Flurina; Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin; Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin; Oberlack, Christoph; Myint, Win; Messerli, Peter (2018). Whose Agency Counts in Land Use Decision-Making in Myanmar? A Comparative Analysis of Three Cases in Tanintharyi Region. Sustainability, 10(10), p. 3823. MDPI 10.3390/su10103823

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Don Nuam, Cing; Nydegger, Katharina Barbara; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Tun, Aung Myin; Myint, Win; Schneider, Flurina (2018). Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar: Hein Ze - A Rural Village in Yebyu Township about Land Use Change and Wellbeing (Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar 1). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara Maria; Nuam, Cing Don; Nydegger, Katharina Barbara; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Tun, Aung Myin; Myint, Win; Schneider, Flurina (2018). Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar: Ein Da Rar Zar – A Karen Village in Yebyu Township about Land Use Change and Wellbeing (Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar 2). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Tun, Nwe Nwe (2018). Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar: Kanpauk Oil Palm Estate and Palm Oil Mill Project of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar 3). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

2017

Schneider, Flurina; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Vongvisouk, Thoumthone; Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin (15 May 2017). Impacts of Social Learning in Transformative Research. In: Blog: Integration and Implementation Insights.

Herweg, Karl Günter; Zimmermann, Anne; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Tribelhorn, Thomas; Hammer, Thomas; Tanner, Rolf Peter; Trechsel, Lilian Julia; Bieri, Sabin; Kläy, Andreas (2017). Integrating Sustainable Development into higher education — Guidelines with in-depth modules for the University of Bern. Foundations. [Textbook] . Bern, Switzerland: University of Bern, Vice-Rectorate Quality, Vice-Rectorate Teaching, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Educational Development Unit (ZUW), and Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M.; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Schneider, Flurina; Bastide, Joan; Thein, U Shwe; Mynt, Win; Oberlack, Christoph; Fischer, Manuel; Messerli, Peter (2017). The potential of social learning for a land governance transformation in Southern Myanmar: Multi-stakeholder platform for the review of oil palm concessions (Unpublished). In: Resilience Conference. Stockholm, Sweden. 21-23 August 2017.

Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara Maria; Tun, Nwe Nwe; Bastide, Joan; Mynt, Win; Schneider, Flurina; Oberlack, Christoph (2017). How political evidence seeking can affect data collection - Experiences from Myanmar (Unpublished). In: ICRD Conference. Bern, Switzerland. 05-08 September 2017.

2016

Herweg, Karl Günter; Zimmermann, Anne; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Tribelhorn, Thomas; Rufer, Lydia; Hammer, Thomas; Tanner, Rolf Peter; Trechsel, Lilian Julia; Bieri, Sabin; Kläy, Andreas (2016). Nachhaltige Entwicklung in die Hochschullehre integrieren — Ein Leitfaden mit Vertiefungen für die Universität Bern. Vertiefung 1: Konzepte, Instrumente, Anleitungen, Hinweise und Beispiele. [Textbook] . Bern, Switzerland: Universität Bern, Vizerektorat Qualität, Vizerektorat Lehre, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Bereich Hochschuldidaktik & Lehrentwicklung und Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

Herweg, Karl Günter; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Zimmermann, Anne; Camenzind, Ephraim Joseph; Tribelhorn, Thomas; Hammer, Thomas; Tanner, Rolf Peter; Trechsel, Lilian Julia; Kläy, Andreas (2016). Nachhaltige Entwicklung in die Hochschullehre integrieren — Ein Leitfaden mit Vertiefungen für die Universität Bern. Vertiefung 3: Weiterführende Hilfen. [Textbook] . Bern, Switzerland: Universität Bern, Vizerektorat Qualität, Vizerektorat Lehre, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Bereich Hochschuldidaktik & Lehrentwicklung und Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

Herweg, Karl Günter; Zimmermann, Anne; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Tribelhorn, Thomas; Hammer, Thomas; Tanner, Rolf Peter; Trechsel, Lilian Julia; Bieri, Sabin; Kläy, Andreas (2016). Nachhaltige Entwicklung in die Hochschullehre integrieren – Ein Leitfaden mit Vertiefungen für die Universität Bern. Grundlagen. [Textbook] . Bern, Switzerland: Universität Bern, Vizerektorat Qualität, Vizerektorat Lehre, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Bereich Hochschuldidaktik & Lehrentwicklung und Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

2014

Herweg, Karl Günter; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Zimmermann, Anne (15 October 2014). Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung an der Universität Bern: Tools and Guidelines for Sustainable Development in Tertiary Education : Projekt im Rahmen des SUK-Programms «Sustainable Development at Universities»: sd-universities.ch (Unpublished). In: Workshop, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE). Bern. 15.10.2014.