Eric Clark

Lund University

Professor in the Department of Human Geography

Eric Clark

Eric Clark is Professor of Human Geography at Lund University, elected member of the Royal Society of Letters in Lund, and Vice Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Islands. His research interests include political economy, land rent and land-use change, gentrification, urbanization, and political ecology of small island societies. He is affiliated with the Lund University Centre of Excellence for the Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID), and currently studies financialization of built and natural environments in the EU-FP7 program Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD).

Clark holds BA degree in planning from Stockholm University, PhD in human geography from Lund University, and has previously held positions at Oslo University, Copenhagen University, Uppsala University, and a visiting professorship at National Taiwan University. Clark edited Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography between 1999 and 2008. His recent publications include articles in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, Sustainability Science, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Urban Studies, and guest edited special issues of Cultural Geographies and Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography.