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Professor Helena Nordh

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Professor Helena Nordh examines cemeteries from a landscape architecture perspective, focusing on how they can adapt to evolving burial practices, increasing urbanisation, and the needs of multicultural societies

Nordh, H. & Wingren, C. (2023) ‘”It is the greenness, the nature, it looks as if someone has taken care of the place very well’: Experiences from St Eskil cemetery in Sweden’, Approaching Religion, 13:1, 105-122.

Nordh, H., C. Wingren, T.P. Uteng, and M. Knapskog. (2023). ‘Disrespectful or socially acceptable? – A nordic case study of cemeteries as recreational landscapes’, Landscape and Urban Planning, 231, 104645.

Grabalov, P. & Nordh, H. (2020) ‘The future of urban cemeteries as public spaces: insights from Oslo and Copenhagen’, Planning Theory & Practice, 23:1, 81-98.

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