Rewarding work. For Brita Bohman, senior lecturer in environmental law, the work within C2B2 is highly interesting. – Not least of all, the interaction with all the stakeholders involved in the program is exciting, she says.
A number of different professions are involved in the work within C2B2. Marine biologists, engineers, researchers in social sciences and more. Law also plays an important role, and Brita Bohman, lecturer in environmental law at Stockholm University, is associated with the program.
– What I will contribute is knowledge of environmental law and Swedish, EU and international regulations, she says.
Within C2B2’s LivingLabs, a wide range of stakeholders meet, everything from fishermen and tour boat skippers to representatives of wind power companies. They all have a focus on the sea, and a need to operate in the Swedish sea basins. Legal expertise can come in handy in this work on several different levels.
– The problem for an actor does not always have to be that they are not allowed to do enough of what they want to do. It can also be that there are conflicts in the legal system that cause problems. Like some rules pushing in a certain direction and others in the opposite direction, she says.
Back in Stockholm
Environmental law is home ground for Brita Bohman. She received her doctorate in 2017 with a thesis on how law can represent social-ecological resilience in the Baltic Sea.
– Since then I have done a few different things. I have been a visiting researcher at Åbo Akademi, and I did my postdoc in marine administrative law at the University of Gothenburg.
Today she is back at Stockholm University where she is employed as a senior lecturer.
– In addition to teaching, I dedicate myself to my own and others’ research articles, I am currently writing an article that deals with the regulation of fishing, wind power and the ecosystem. As part of her service, she also contributes as an expert to the work within C2B2’s workpackage 3: Ocean governance and adaptive management. Among other things, Brita Bohman is responsible for one of the deliverables that the workpackage has on its table: Exploring the governance and legal framework for multifunctional ocean governance.
The focus of the delivery is on legal approaches and perspectives on how ocean management should be done in a good way when more and more actors want to be involved and have the ocean basins as their workplaces. How can the multifunctionality that is required be managed?
– How should conflicts be resolved, and how should it be made easier for different activities to use the same ocean areas? Perhaps it is possible to create incentives for coexistence with legislation?
Interested also privately
For Brita Bohman, who in addition to the right environmental law expertise also has a private interest in both the ocean and sustainability, the work within C2B2 is like a hand in a glove.
– It is very rewarding. It is also exciting with the active dialogue that we have with the stakeholders within C2B2’s LivingLabs. Our work has a direct connection to what they do in practice, and what challenges they face. We get to work on these issues that are important for society, and try to find ways to move forward, she says.
She likes the interdisciplinary approach in the program, with several different points of view that need to be reconciled.
– With our different scientific perspectives, it is important to succeed in doing something that is also scientifically intact.
How is the work going?
– In 2024, there was a lot in the starting blocks, but now we see how things are starting to move and a lot is underway. It looks like it will be an eventful year.
Facts: Brita Bohman
Age: 45.
Occupation:
University lecturer in environmental law at Stockholm University.
Lives: Stockholm.
Family: Son, dog and separated home.
Interests: Nature experiences.
Listens to: Solen – a Swedish indie band.
Drives: Volvo V60 hybrid, but mostly takes public transport.