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Marie Thynell

Marie Thynell (Photo: Göran Olofsson)Peace and Development Research
Ph. D., Research Fellow

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

About

  • Ph. D. (Doctor of Philosophy) in Peace and Development Research, 2003.
  • L. SSc. (Licentiate of Social Sciences) in Peace and Development Research, 2000.

Areas of Interest

Sustainable Development, Global Development Research, Global Motorization, Global Cities, Urban Development, Social Sustainability, Transport systems, Transport policy, Energy Efficiency.

Expert reviewer for: Research Services at The Swedish Parliament, UN IPCC 5th report, The Research Council of Norway, Journal of Transport Policy, World Renewable Energy Congress 2011, Sw. Sida Genderhelpdesk 2003-20010 e t c.

Current research projects

2010-2012, Policy responses and civil mobilization in relation to threats of climate change in Jakarta. Financed by Sw. Research Council.

2010-2012, Transport – Area of Advance together with Business School, GU and Chalmers Technological University. Financed by Vinnova.

2010-2013, Learning for Collaborative Energy Efficiency in Urban Residential Areas. Financed by Sw. Formas.

2009-2013, EcoRegion Baltic Sea Region, Lead Party for Transport. Financed by EU.

Completed research projects

2007-2009, Sustainable transport and social justice. Cases in two rapidly growing cities: Hanoi and Xian in collaboration with the Centre for Global Gender Studies, Göteborg University. Financed by SIDA/SAREK.

2006-2008, Member of research consortium on Sustainable Mobility: Socio-Cultural constructions of sustainable mobility and their role in political and practical initiatives in Sweden. Financed by MISTRA.

2004-2005, Managing Modern Urban Mobility Systems. Financed by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.

2002-2003, Political Actors and Urban Development. The Challenge of Curbing Motorized Mobility. Financed by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.

1998-2000, Automobility in the perspective of International Political Economy of Development illustrated by two case studies: Tehran and Brasília. Financed by the Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board (KFB).

External Expert Commissions (selected)

2011, Reviewer and Presenter of Sustainable Cities – from knowledge to practice. Report commissioned by the Swedish Parliament and Committees on Civil Affairs, Environment and Agriculture and Transport and Communications Stockholm, March.

2005-2010, Advisor to Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA): Sustainable Transport.

2005-ongoing, Expert Member of the World International Advisory Panel supporting the Kyoto World Cities Challenge, EcoPlan International, Paris.

2004-2009, Research Member of the Gender Helpdesk at the Global Center for Gender Studies. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Policy Division and the Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS), University of Gothenburg.

2010, Invited Expert and Presenter at Workshop on Urban Mobility and Health Effects. Reserach Collaboration Workshop under MoU between India Institute of Technology, Delhi and Chalmers University of Technology, and University of Gothenburg, Delhi, November.

2010, Invited Expert and Lecturer at the International seminar International Relations of Municipalities and Final seminar of the Nordic Council of Ministers project City of Petrozavodsk, Russia, December.

2010, Invited Expert at the BAQ 2010 organized by CAI-Asia and ADB, Singapore, November.

2010, Expert Member and Presenter at 5th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia 23-25 August, Bangkok, Thailand.

2010, Expert Member to the United Nations Commission of Sustainable Development UNCSD18. UNDESA UNHQ New York, June.

2010, Invited Expert and Observer at the WHO Western Pacific HQ, World Health Day 2010, Manila, May.

2010, Invited Expert and Lecturer to the City of Petrozavodsk, Russia, February.

2009, Expert Member to the United Nations Commission of Sustainable Development UNCSD 2010/2011. UNDESA UNHQ New York, June.

2009, Invited Expert to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Ahmedabad, November.

2009, Invited Expert and Lecturer to the Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) Summit CAI-Asia. New Delhi, October.

2009, Invited Expert Sustainability Review of the City of Skopje, Skopje, September.

2009, Invited Expert and Moderator at the Workshop-cum-Policy Dialogue in Indonesia and Bangladesh, Presentation: Social Equity and Gender Considerations in Transport. Jakarta and Dhaka, April and May.

2009, Honoured Guest to the President of Indonesia, Jakarta, April.

2009, Invited Expert and Key Note Speaker at Fourth EST-meeting UNCRD, The Ministry of the Environment-Japan and Ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs, Seoul, February.

2008, Invited Expert and Moderator at the Third Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum, UNCRD, the Ministry of the Environment of Government of Japan, South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP). Singapore, March.

2008, Invited Expert at the BAQ 2008 organized by CAI-Asia and ADB, Bangkok, November.

2008, Invited Expert at the Third Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum, Singapore, org. by the UNCRD, the Ministry of the Environment of Government of Japan, South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP). Singapore, March.

2007, Invited Expert by the Ministry of Urban Development of India, the Institute for Urban Transport in Delhi, the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, (CEPT), the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation., UNDP. Ahmedabad, September.

2007, Invited moderator and expert at the Asian Mayors Policy Dialogue organised by UNCRD, ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC), Government of Japan and ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, Kyoto, April.

2006, Expert member at the Second Regional Environmental Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum, Ministries of Environment and Ministries of Transport from the ASEAN 4 countries, Yogyakarta, December.

2006, Invited discussant at First Governmental Meeting on Urban Air Quality in Asia organised by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), the State Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Indonesia, United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Yogyakarta, December.

2005, Invited discussant at a meeting organized by the State Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Indonesia, and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) organized by the Asian-European Foundation (ASEF), Jakarta.

2006-2007, Advisor to the Government Offices of Sweden (Regeringskansliet) regarding the Swedish Strategy for Environmental Work part of the Global Environmental Efforts. Part of the Swedish Delegation at the UN-CSD 15 New York City, May.

2005, Co-writer of the AICHI statement regarded environmentally sustainable transport adopted August 2005 by the ASEAN countries Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

2006, SIDA Evaluation 06/38 Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) Bus Project in Dhaka.

2005, Expert member of the First Regional Environmental Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum, Ministries of Environment and Ministries of Transport from the ASEAN 3.

2005, Expert Member at the ASEAN Inter-governmental meeting organized by the Japanese Ministries of the Environment (MOE), of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) at the World Expo, Nagoya, Japan 2005.

2005-2006, Expert Member of the Task force on Integrating Transport at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Integrating Europe's Transport System Practical Proposals for the Mid-Term Review of the Transport White Paper Brussels.

2004, Expert Member of in the World Resources Institute (WRI) Center for Transport and Environment (EMBARQ) in Hanoi, September.

2004, Discussant on the Strategic Framework for Sustainable Transport in Asia elaborated by the Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA) organised by the CAI-Asia at the Asian Development Bank, Hanoi, September.

2004, Contributor to The Future Urban Transport: A second step towards a worldwide survey of interesting analysts and actors by E. Tengström, The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.

Publications

2011

  • Marie Thynell (2011).
    A window of opportunity: integrating transport into socio-economic and spatial planning 1029-7790, GUP 154207

  • Marie Thynell (2011).
    Final Chair's Summary UMI 2011 and 6th Regional EST Forum, New Delhi 2011 , GUP 154341

  • Marie Thynell (2011).
    Lessons Learned: Sectors Transport , GUP 154330

  • Marie Thynell (2011).
    Recommendations: Access and Mobility , GUP 154329

  • Marie Thynell (2011).
    Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems , GUP 154211

2010

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Fundamentals in urban transport , GUP 134127

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    A window of opportunity: integrating transport into socio-economic and spatial planning ISSN 1029-7790, GUP 133952

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Bangkok Declaration , GUP 135212

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Expert Consultation on Transport Methodology Social indicators for public transport , GUP 125804

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Gender and Development - no political will? , GUP 134150

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Resandet i en återvändsgränd - vad händer med den globala massbilismen? , GUP 133938

  • Marie Thynell; Anvita Arora; Sophie Punte (2010).
    Social Impact Assessment of Public Transport in Cities: An approach for people involved in the planning, design, and implementation of public transport systems , GUP 125803

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Social aspects of urban transport – politics and planning , GUP 134148

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Social change and Urban Transport , GUP 133947

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Social equity and gender The benefits of NMT , GUP 133957

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Social equity and gender considerations in transport , GUP 134111

  • Marie Thynell; Dinesh Mohan; Geetam Tiwari (2010).
    Sustainable Transport and the modernisation of urban transport in Delhi and Stockholm , GUP 100734

  • Marie Thynell; Ann Schlyter; Hoai Anh Tran (2010).
    Sustainable urban transport and social justice: Case studies in Ha Noi and Xi’an , GUP 133935

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Transport Futures in the first EcoRegion , GUP 133950

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Transport futures for a liveable city Access and mobility in modern cities , GUP 133951

  • Marie Thynell (2010).
    Доступ и мобильность в современном городе с точки зрения пользователей транспортных услуг , GUP 134119

2009

  • Marie Thynell (2009).
    Asien växer – nya utmaningar för klimat- och transportpolitik , GUP 134131

  • Marie Thynell (2009).
    Social Change and Urban Transport , GUP 100733

2008

  • Marie Thynell (2008).
    Gender aspects of transport policies in Asia , GUP 134114

2007

  • Marie Thynell (2007).
    30 borgmästare skriver under Kyotodeklarationen om hållbara transporter , GUP 45290

  • Marie Thynell; Gerd Johnsson-Latham (2007).
    A study on gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development , GUP 87265

  • Marie Thynell (2007).
    Den politiska processen förhållbara transporter inom det asiatiska samarbetet för EST (Environmental Sustainable Transport) , GUP 45280

  • Marie Thynell (2007).
    Gender Equality and Sustainable Development , GUP 134937

  • Marie Thynell (2007).
    Political actors and urban development: The challenge of managing motorized mobiltiy in Santiago de Chile, Tehran, and Copenhagen 1020-3060, GUP 86762

  • Marie Thynell (2007).
    Social equity and gender considerations in development , GUP 134939

2006

  • Merritt Polk; Olle Hagman; Marie Thynell (2006).
    En hållbar transportpolitik måste rätta sig efter miljön , GUP 45860

  • Marie Thynell (2006).
    Bättre luft i Asiens städer , GUP 45286

  • Marie Thynell (2006).
    Comment on the "No regret land use - transport strategies to meet the foreseen future stages of economic development, urbanisation and automobilisation by Y. Hayashi 0250-6505, GUP 45274

  • Marie Thynell (2006).
    International neworking , GUP 45862

2005

  • Marie Thynell (2005).
    Modernidad en movimento. Cómo enfrentarse a la movilidad motorizada en Teherán, Santiago y Copenhague 0250-7161, GUP 36465

  • Marie Thynell (2005).
    Social dimensions of sustainable transport , GUP 37156

  • Marie Thynell (2005).
    The Aichi Statement , GUP 135210

  • Marie Thynell (2005).
    The complex relationships between motorised mobility, societal development and sustainability , GUP 36466

2004

  • Marie Thynell (2004).
    Managing modern urban mobility systems , GUP 45281

  • Marie Thynell (2004).
    Managing modern urban mobility systems from the perspective of social science , GUP 37152

  • Marie Thynell (2004).
    Mobilities and cities; sustainability and the politics of mobility , GUP 45284

  • Marie Thynell (2004).
    Motorized mobility in development , GUP 37153

  • Marie Thynell (2004).
    Political actors and urban development: the challenge of curbing motorized mobility in Santiago de Chile, Tehran and Copenhagen , GUP 36813

2003

  • Marie Thynell (2003).
    The politics and economics of our daily moves. Globalisation and urban development in the perspective of physical mobility , GUP 66997

  • Marie Thynell (2003).
    The role of motorized mobility in development , GUP 66998

  • Marie Thynell (2003).
    The unmanageable modernity. An explorative study of motorized mobility in development , GUP 66159

  • Marie Thynell (2003).
    ¿Flexibilidad local versus hegemonia global? Repensando la mobilidad moderna y la percepción predominante , GUP 66135

2002

  • Marie Thynell (2002).
    Global hegemony versus local agency. The globalisation of market and power structures seen in the perspective of social practices in Indian street space , GUP 66999

2001

  • Marie Thynell (2001).
    Cambio social en el grupo transnational latino. La globalización latina , GUP 67000

  • Marie Thynell (2001).
    International Political Economy of automobilization and motorization , GUP 66175

2000

  • Marie Thynell; Elizabet Gajewska (2000).
    Bilismen i fokus. Det polska transportsystemet under övergången från kommunism till marknadsekonomi , GUP 66207

  • Marie Thynell (2000).
    Physical mobility and lifestyle changes. Commenting policies of transport , GUP 66196

  • Marie Thynell (2000).
    Research recommendations, reflections and summaries , GUP 67009

  • Marie Thynell (2000).
    Retando la hegemonía. Etnicidad y cambio social en un grupo global emergente. La globalización latina , GUP 67012

  • Marie Thynell (2000).
    The West and the Rest , GUP 67010

1999

  • Marie Thynell (1999).
    Automobility in the perspective of International Political Economy of development , GUP 67684

  • Marie Thynell (1999).
    Automobility in the perspective of International Political Economy of development , GUP 67671

1998

  • Marie Thynell (1998).
    Automobility in the perspective of international political economy of development illustrated by two case studies: Tehran and Brasilia , GUP 67445

  • Marie Thynell (1998).
    Transporternas modernisering_ett exempel från trafiksystemet i Brasília , GUP 67516

1997

  • Emin Tengström; Marie Thynell (1997).
    Towards Sustainable Mobility. Transporting people and goods in the Baltic Region , GUP 67534

  • Marie Thynell (1997).
    Lifestyle changes , GUP 67533

  • Marie Thynell (1997).
    Trafiksystemet i Brasília: ett exempel på transporternas modernisering i ett utvecklingsperspektiv , GUP 67692

1996

  • Marie Thynell (1996).
    Rörlighets- och livsstilsförändringar. En aspekt av aktuell transportpolitik , GUP 67696

  • Marie Thynell; Emin Tengström; Elizabet Gajewska (1996).
    Sustainable mobility in Europe and the role of the automobile , GUP 67694

1995

  • Emin Tengström; Elizabet Gajewska; Marie Thynell (1995).
    Sustainable Mobility in Europe and the Role of the Automobile: A Critical Inquiry , GUP 67535

  • Marie Thynell (1995).
    Energy, mobility and car use , GUP 67537

  • Marie Thynell (1995).
    European problem-solving strategies in a wider context: the globalization of automobility and the crisis of modernity , GUP 67536

  • Marie Thynell (1995).
    Introduction of cultural and institutional factors into quantative energy modeling , GUP 67697

1994

  • Marie Thynell (1994).
    Bilden av det globala bilsamhället - en spegel av modernitetens kris 1102-3279, GUP 67538

1989

  • Marie Thynell (1989).
    México en la decada de los ochenta , GUP 67539

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