

Biography
I am currently an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Division of Human Ecology, Department of Human Geography and a Research affiliate at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Sweden. I am also the Programme Director for the Culture, Power and Sustainability internaitonal Masters. I was born and raised in South Africa, a dynamic country, where I learnt important lessons of freedoms, people’s roles in nature and about inequality. I have 10 years research, consulting and teaching experience across southern and eastern Africa, Asia, Europe and north America. In the past, my work has focused on water governance, environmental assessment and policy, HIV/AIDS and the environment and sustainability but being a generalist at heart, I am most interested trying to understand the big picture of how people and planetary dynamics come together and the complexity of these interactions.
Current Research
My work is framed within the broad field of political ecology and I seek to bring an interdisciplinary perspective to questions of development and sustainability. I have recently focused my research on the politics of scale within development and environmental governance in the areas of the energy crisis, health and the environment and water governance. I am also interested in feminist and decolonail approaches to environment and development.
My currently funded research is focused on social and environmental justice looking at just transitions and alternatives to development.
Key areas of expertise
- Development and sustainability
- Politics of sustainability
- Environmental governance
- Environmental and social justice and human rights
- Energy transition
- Water politics and governance
- Research methods
- Environmental assessment and management
- Health and the environment
- Environmental policy
- Project management
My PhD research focused on the political economy of water and how cross-scalar interactions influence inequitable water allocations.
Teaching
I teach, supervise and examine students at undergraduate, Masters and doctoral levels in courses covering environmental governance, development and sustainability, health, theory of science, and sustainability science. I also have a particular interest in qualitative research methods education, research ethics and theory of science - particularly a feminist and decolonial approach to knowledge. I have been the Director of studies for the Lund University Masters in International Development and am currently the Programme Manager for the Culture, Power and Sustainability Masters programme in Human Ecology. I have supervised and examined over thirty Masters students in Human Ecology and Environmental Management and Sustainability Science as well as co-supervising two doctoral candidates in Human Ecology.
Publikationer
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When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape
Vasna Ramasar, Henner Busch, Eric Brandstedt, Krisjanis Rudus
(2022) Energy Research and Social Science, 94
Artikel i tidskriftHow renewable energy transitions impact power structures in local communities
Maria-Louise Clausen, Ekatherina Zhukova, Vasna Ramasar
(2022) DIIS Policy Briefs
Artikel i tidskriftOm orättvisor i omställningen till en fossilfri framtid
Eric Brandstedt, Henner Busch, Vasna Ramasar
(2022) Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 26
Artikel i tidskriftThe Case for Interdisciplinary Crises Studies
Annika Bergman Rosamond, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Jeff Hearn, Vasna Ramasar, et al.
(2022) Global Discourse: A Developmental Journal of Research in Politics and International Relations, 12 p.465-486
Artikel i tidskriftAtt tillämpa en abolitionistisk politik på klimatkrisen
Vasna Ramasar
(2022) Mana : antirasistisk tidskrift, 2-3 p.30-33
Artikel i tidskriftThe Entanglement of Social Inequality with Climate Change & COVID-19 : What Can We Learn from Intersecting Injustices?
Vasna Ramasar
(2021) Pandemic Resilient Cities , p.47-53
Del av eller Kapitel i bokSelling women the green dream: the paradox of feminism and sustainability in fashion marketing
Mariko Takedomi Karlsson, Vasna Ramasar
(2020) Journal of Political Ecology, 27 p.335-359
Artikel i tidskrift171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
Per Adman, Mats Alvesson, Elina Andersson, Mimmi Maria Barmark, Ebba Brink, et al.
(2019) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
TidningsartikelLinking the Water-Food-Energy Nexus to Sanitation: will it save and improve lives?
Sara Gabrielsson, Jamie Myers, Vasna Ramasar
(2019) Water, Sustainable Development and the Nexus: Response to Climate Change.
Del av eller Kapitel i bokNew directions in earth system governance research
Sarah Burch, Aarti Gupta, Cristina Y.A. Inoue, Agni Kalfagianni, Åsa Persson, et al.
(2019) Earth System Governance , p.100006-100006
Artikel i tidskriftEnergy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems : Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research
Darren McCauley, Vasna Ramasar, Raphael J. Heffron, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Desta Mebratu, et al.
(2019) Applied Energy, 233-234 p.916-921
Artikel i tidskriftModernist dreams and green sagas : The neoliberal politics of Iceland's renewable energy economy
Hrönn Guðmundsdottir, Wim Carton, Henner Busch, Vasna Ramasar
(2018) Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1 p.579-601
Artikel i tidskriftThe hidden price of Iceland’s green energy
Henner Busch, Vasna Ramasar, Wim Carton, Hrönn Guðmundsdottir
(2018) Science Nordic
Artikel i tidskriftIslands grønne energi har store skjulte omkostninger
Henner Busch, Vasna Ramasar, Wim Carton, Hrönn Guðmundsdottir
(2018) Videnskab.dk
Artikel i tidskriftProblems with Firm-Led Voluntary Sustainability Schemes: The Case of Direct Trade Coffee
Finlay Macgregor, Vasna Ramasar, Kimberly Nicholas
(2017) Sustainability, 9
Artikel i tidskriftReversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of "ecological debt" and its value for environmental justice
Rikard Warlenius, Gregory Pierce, Vasna Ramasar
(2015) Global Environmental Change, 30 p.21-30
Artikel i tidskriftGovernance and Politics in the Upper Limpopo River Basin, South Africa
Richard Meissner, Vasna Ramasar
(2015) Geo Journal, 80 p.689-689
Artikel i tidskriftFluid Governance : Scalar politics in the South African waterscape
Vasna Ramasar
(2014) Lund Dissertations in Sustainability Science
DoktorsavhandlingLocalising global environmental governance norms: implications for justice
Melissa Hansen, Vasna Ramasar, Kent Buchanan
(2014) Governance for justice and environmental sustainability : Lessons across natural resource sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. , p.43-62
Del av eller Kapitel i bokWidows: agents of change in a climate of water uncertainty
Sara Gabrielsson, Vasna Ramasar
(2013) Journal of Cleaner Production, 60 p.34-42
Artikel i tidskriftReversing the arrow of arrears: A primer on the concept of “ecological debt” and its value for environmental justice
Rikard Warlenius, Gregory Pierce, Andreas Malm, Alf Hornborg, Martin Oulu, et al.
(2013)
KonferensbidragTransition in South African water governance : insights from a perspective on power
Maryam Nastar, Vasna Ramasar
(2012) Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 4 p.7-24
Artikel i tidskriftReporting on the State of the Environment: South African Experiences
Vasna Ramasar, Elizabeth Muller, Rudi Pretorius, Marian Patrick, Chantal Will, et al.
(2006) Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 8 p.619-619
Artikel i tidskriftHIV/AIDS: Africa’s Development Crisis?
Vasna Ramasar, Susan Erskine
(2002) Rebirth of Science in Africa : A Shared Vision for Life and Environmental Sciences , p.52-84
Del av eller Kapitel i bokWater and HIV/AIDS : Some Strategic Considerations
Peter ashton, Vasna Ramasar
(2002) Hydropolitics in the developing world : A South African Perspective , p.217-217
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