Jørund Aasetre
Background and activities
Jørund Aasetre (PhD.)
Professor at NTNU with experience from teaching and doing research on nature management, as well as teaching social studies education with emphasis on geography for teachers.
Aasetre is associated with both Department of Teacher Education (70%) and Department of Geography (30%). At Geography he teach Environmental Geography, as well as co-ordinate their part of the international master program on nature resources management (MSNARM). At Department for Teacher Education he teaches geography related issues for primary and lover secondary teacher students.
As a researcher Aasetre has worked with several issues on nature management in Norway. Among other issues he has published peer reviewed papers on forest recreation and forest history. He has also worked on nature restoration, conservation management, large predators as well as Salomon fjords etc.
Aasetre also work on projects related to competence building in teacher education in Ethiopia and South Sudan (financed through NORHED programs). In addition, he does research on Environmental Education in cooperation with PhD candidates.
Aasetre tries to apply a Political Ecological framework in both his environmental as well as his educational research.
Courses
- RFEL3081 - Interdisiplinary Project for Environmental Sustainability
- GEOG1013 - Natural Resource Management, Environment and Sustainable Development
- LÆR2002 - Education for sustainable development
- GEOG3091 - Special Syllabus for Master Degree
- GEOG3030 - Natural Resources Management
- GEOG3940 - Master's Thesis - Natural Resources Management - Geography
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Unveiling in-service teachers’ conceptions of ‘environment’ and ‘environmental education’: an Ethiopian perspective. Environmental Education Research.
- (2021) Ecosystem restoration as a boundary object, demonstrated in a large-scale landscape restoration project in the Dovre Mountains, Norway. Ambio. vol. 51.
- (2020) Developing Local Community: Municipal Policies Oriented Towards Place Branding. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. vol. 24 (2).
- (2020) Views of “nature”, the “environment” and the “human-nature” relationships in Ethiopian primary school textbooks. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. vol. 29.
- (2020) Digital storytelling, student engagement and deep learning in Geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
- (2017) Integrering gjennom friluftsliv?. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling.
- (2016) Recreational preferences along a naturalness-development continuum: Results from surveys in two unequal urban forests in Europe. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. vol. 16.
- (2013) Framing the environment - Disputes and developments in the management of Norwegian salmon fjords. Ocean and Coastal Management. vol. 71.
- (2012) Outdoor recreation research: different approaches, different values?. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 66 (4).
- (2012) Preferanser for barskoglandskap i Norge. Tidsskriftet UTMARK.
- (2011) Planlegging for friluftsliv mellom store vyer og strenge standarder. Tidsskriftet UTMARK. vol. 1&2.
- (2010) En rekreativ koloni: Bygdeutvikling på middelklassens premisser. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling. vol. 5.
- (2009) History of forestry in a central Norwegian boreal forest landscape: Examples from Nordli, Nord-Trøndelag. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 63 (4).
- (2006) Perceptions of communication in Norwegian forest management. Forest Policy and Economics. vol. 8 (1).
- (2002) Communicative Approaches to Restoration Ecology: a case study from Dovre Mountain and Svalbard, Norway. Landscape Research. vol. 27 (4).
Books
- (2020) Innføring i miljø- og ressursgeografi. Fagbokforlaget. 2020. ISBN 9788245021585.
Part of book/report
- (2021) Kampen om utmarka: Hytter, beitemark eller urørt natur?. Utmark i endring.
- (2020) Perspektiver på miljø- og ressursgeografi. Innføring i miljø- og ressursgeografi.
- (2013) Nature conservation in Norway. Norway : Nature industry and society.
- (2012) Brudd og kontinuitet? Kultur- og opplevelsesnæringene i Trøndelag. Opplevelser : innhold, verdi, næring og sted.
- (2011) Bruk og vern-brytninger om demokrati. Rurale brytninger.
- (2005) INON - the history of a Norwegian wilderness indicator. Landscape, Law and Justice. Proceedings of a conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- (2004) Naturforvaltningens holdninger til kulturlandskapet. Det levende landskapet. Festskrift til Michael Jones.
- (2000) Norsk Naturforvaltning: Oppfatninger og verdier. Menneskers rom.
Report/dissertation
- (2013) Lokalt utviklingsarbeid. En vurdering av resultater og effekter i Rindal og Rauma kommune. 2013. ISBN 978-82-7732-174-5.
- (2009) Kultur- og opplevelsesnæringene i Trøndelag. Kartlegging og eksempelstudier. 2009. Notat / Trøndelag Forskning og Utvikling (14).
- (2005) Inngrepsfrie naturområder som verktøy for arealforvaltning. 2005. NTF-notat (6).
- (2000) Holdninger og kultur i norsk naturforvaltning. 2000. ISBN 82-471-5024-7.