Maxim Vlasov

My personal interest and the red thread through my current research is human relationship with places of habitation. With the growing experience in creating events and teaching, my other interest is to facilitate engaging learning for sustainability.

The aim of my doctoral project "Ecological embedding of entrepreneur" is to explore the ways ecological entrepreneurs nurture a more intimate physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual relationship with ecosystems in the times when this relationship is increasingly lost. The study focuses on individuals who start and develop small ecological farms as source of their livelihood, so called "new farmers". This study contributes to the growing research on sustainable food systems by lifting the overlooked everyday reality of new farmers. It also makes an important contribution to the discussion on the role of place and spatial environment in entrepreneurship processes by bringing in biophysical environment into this discussion.