My dissertation focuses on ecological compensation and biodiversity offsetting. Negative effects of biodiversity loss and climate change have made ecological compensation one proposed solution to slow down the negative impacts of biodiversity loss and adapt to them. Ecological compensation is used to mitigate the impacts of development on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In practise it means that exploitation and land-use changes that cause adverse effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services are compensated by providing new nature values in another area.

I have been working on the use of natural resources research projects. My dissertation project is funded by the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation.