Swedish Projects
Before joining Western University, Canada, Dr. Metson spent time at Linköping University, Sweden as an Associate Professor, and has on-going projects based there.
Urban agriculture as blue-green infrastructure
A project monitoring nutrient cycling in real-world food gardens in Linköping Sweden and comparing findings with a sister project in Minneapolis USA.
See our art science collaboration with touring exhibit. Download an exhibit brochure here.
We are now examining connections to peri-urban farms and direct sales to urban consumers as part of urban regional food systems.
The Retail for Sustainability (ReSus)
A project that explores the sustainable food production and consumption potential that supermarkets hold, with a focus on Swedish actors.
Capture, Recycling, and Societal Management of Environmental Phosphorus (RecaP)
An ambitious training program for 15 PhD students, with the goal of assembling a team of phosphorus specialists that will create change and explore solutions for phosphorus governance and sustainability in the EU.
Mistra Geopolitics
A Sweden-based research programme that examines the dynamics of geopolitics, human security, and environmental change.
Future land use and organic waste logistics
A set of projects aimed at valuing and modeling the need to manage for multiple resources at once, and that transport logistics are a major barrier to effective circularity with organic waste. We focus on nutrient and energy recovery through biogas for future sustainable food systems.