General research interest:

• Urban fringe landscapes
• every day landscapes
• historic landscapes
• landscape analysis
• visual landscape analysis
• landscape character assessment
• value assessments
• heritage management and spatial planning
• working on a PhD thesis titled “Approaches for analysing and managing historic landscapes - examples from urban fringe areas in Norway (The PhD will be finished by august 2013)
• assessing and discussing different landscape analytical methods and their applicability for analysing the historic landscape dimension in urban fringe areas

COST UAE research interest:

• the fact that agriculture besides its importance for food production also produces public goods like cultural landscapes, biodiversity and others