124 – Do Disaster Management Efforts Always Support Sustainable Development?

In this episode of Forskningspodden, we explore the often-overlooked connections between disaster risk management and sustainable development. Mathilde de Goër de Herve gives insights into how incorporating justice-related and temporal considerations can enhance disaster risk management, ensuring long-term resilience and fairness.

We dive into flood risk management, examining how social, ecological, and temporal justice should guide decision-making—not only to address immediate threats but also to protect future generations. Mathilde also introduces a practical framework for practitioners and researchers that integrates these justice dimensions across different time horizons.

Tune in to learn how a focus on justice—especially temporal justice—can shape fairer, more sustainable disaster management strategies. You can read the whole thesis here: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-100999

89 -Business model innovation as sustainability game changer in the construction industry

In this episode of Forskningspodden we meet Andrey Abadzhiev, PhD student in Business administration. Andrey´s research aims to understand how firms within the construction industry  organize for system change towards a more sustainable future. Andrey tells us about his focus area, which is business models and their role in driving such a transition. He explains how changes can come about, which biases we have to pay attention to and why he is reluctant to pressing a magic button in order to speed up things.

If you want to know more about Andrey’s research, you will find his PhD thesis in our publication database DiVA Wood We Change?: Business Model Innovation Towards Sustainability Transitions: Studying the Wood Construction Industry.