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What roles do the forest and other ecosystems play on the greenhouse gas balance? How is this measured? Researchers and engineers from our department, engaged in ICOS, are featured in Vetandets Värld in Swedish Radio. Listen to the audio clip to find out about this research. Throughout Euope, ICOS - Integrated Carbon Observation system -  is building a network, an infrastructure of measurement sta

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/greenhouse-gas-measurements-and-ecosystem-monitoring-changing-climate - 2025-11-29

Researcher Cecilia Akselsson recently received funding for research projects in the announcement "Perspektiv på de globala hållbarhetsmålen" (Swedish for "Perspective on Global Sustainability Goals"). She will do research on sustainable land use and develop approaches to landscapes to achieve global sustainability goals. Hi Cecilia! What kind of research will you be doing?The purpose is to develop

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/research-sustainability - 2025-11-29

Actic expeditions - very expensive as well as time consuming and sometimes dangerous. Researchers Hakim Abdi and Daniel Metcalfe about unevenly distributed research. The Arctic is a remote and hard to reach area, which affects where research expeditions go and where climate scientists set up their field experiments. "The result is an extremely uneven concentration of research effort", states Hakim

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/what-we-do-not-know-about-arctic - 2025-11-29

VIDEO: Researchers from our department are measuring terpene particles emitted by spruce/fir forests, which are believed to have a cooling effect on the climate. They believe that planting more of this type of forest could help offset global warming. – Planting spruce forests could increase the carbon uptake. They would release aerosol particles which have a cooling effect on the earth, Janne Rinn

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/could-spruce-forests-help-offset-climate-change - 2025-11-29

A pioneering permafrost study has just been released in the online journal Nature Communications, showing that in all permafrost regions, soil temperatures rose by an average of 0,3 degrees Celsius between 2007 and 2016. Margareta Johansson, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, is one of the co-authors of this study. The new study shows that

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/permafrost-soils-warming-global-scale - 2025-11-29

Climate change causes an amplified warming of the Arctic, which may lead to the release of methane from previously frozen soils. Since it’s a strong greenhouse gas, arctic methane release can act as a positive feedback on climate change. However, anthropogenic efforts to reduce methane emissions may be more important for the direction of future climate warming. Torben R. Christensen and Frans-Jan

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reductions-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-outweigh-most-likely-scenarios-arctic-methane-release - 2025-11-29

...Henrik Hagelin, physical geographer who was awarded ’Innovationspriset 2019’, in the category for students, by Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne bank, for his wildfire spread modelling tool. Why were you awarded the Innovationspriset 2019?I am developing a modelling system called WISE-FASS (Wildfire Spread Estimator and Fire Attack Support System). The system is being developed for the emerg

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hello-there - 2025-11-29

- The closing party with polonaise and night walks together with all promovendi who sang various songs for the statues in one of the Helsinki parks was a special experience. Our Professor emeritus Anders Lindroth, was conferred an honorary doctorate at the Univeristy of Helsinki last week. The following motivation is stated:"Honorary doctorates in science will be conferred on Professor Emeritus An

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/professor-anders-lindroth-honorary-doctor-univeristy-helsinki - 2025-11-29

A warming experiment in a subarctic birch forest resulted many times higher release of BVOCs. Not to be neglected in the climate discussions, says one of the researchers behind the study. Ecosystems and the climate change response, as well as the feedbacks of these, are complicated to fully understand and to map out. As the currently ongoing climate change amplifies the temperature, plants respond

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/warming-simulation-increased-plant-volatile-defence - 2025-11-29

On August 29th, Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department, was interviewed in SVT news program Aktuellt. The topic was how ongoing climate changes are affecting alpine regions in Sweden. Climate changes are occurring with twice the speed in northern Sweden, compared with the rest of the country. When compared to pre-industrial times, the world has been warmed with +0,8 degrees Celsius betw

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-interviewed-svt-aktuellt-how-climate-change-affecting-alpine-regions-sweden - 2025-11-29

Treasure hunt, clouds, food and much more. The department opened its doors during the cultural night in Lund on September 21, 2019. During "Kulturnatten", a yearly cultural event taking place in Lund, our department opened its doors, inviting the public to take part in a varity of activites. The aim was to show some of the themes that the department works with, including the carbon portal and ICOS

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-house-during-lund-kulturnatten - 2025-11-29

Several coworkers have been interviewed in different media outlets because of their expertise. Markku Rummukainen, professor at CEC and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, was interviewed in several media channels about the latest report from the UN’s climate panel, IPCC. “The report provides a focused examination of climate change and its impact on oceans, sea ice, glacier

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/coworkers-featured-media - 2025-11-29

The local news media "Lokaltidningen" reported about a new library on Svalbard which is now hosting Jonas Åkerman's collection of books, satellite images and maps. The local newspaper reports on the opening of a library in a former radio station on Svalbard.Read the full article here (Google translated)"Jonas Åkerman has done research on permafrost and climate change for 46 years. [...] His observ

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-library-offers-jonas-akermans-literature - 2025-11-29

Few bachelor theses make it to publication. But a student currently in the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law recently managed the unusual feat when an international journal published a reworked version of her bachelor's project. Occasionally, a master's student with an aptitude for academic work will see an abbreviated version of their thesis published in a scientific journal. But the thresho

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-publishes-bachelor-thesis-international-academic-journal - 2025-11-29

The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off migrant workers, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are preparing to receive high numbers of newly unemployed men. The fall of the  Russian rouble in March - as a consequence of Western sancti

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-11-29

Welfare policies across the continent are becoming increasingly nationalistic and exclusive toward racialised and poor non-citizens. A socio-legal paper published in Critical Social Policy finds that social services in Sweden and Italy are increasingly ignoring asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants, and internal European migrants when reporting cases of homelessness. The practice bars poor, racial

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/racist-and-classist-politics-behind-increased-homelessness-among-asylum-seekers-europe - 2025-11-29

The two new professors are Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, who have been guest professors at the Sociology of Law Department since the summer of 2021. On 1 September, Anna Lundberg, Associate Professor of Human Rights, will leave her professorship in Welfare Law at Linköping University and become a Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University. At the Sociology of Law Department, she works wi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-has-recruited-two-professors-sociology-law - 2025-11-29

On Friday, June 17, Cansu Bostan successfully defended her dissertation Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan. She is now a Doctor in Sociology of Law for all eternity. Bostan's PhD project sprung from her master's thesis in sociology of law, a gender perspective analysis of the conflict between the Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-committee-passed-cansu-bostan-doctorhood - 2025-11-29

On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the 59th PhD student to complete doctoral studies at the Sociology of Law Department. Serrano Cardona's dissertation aims to better understand the constraints and possibilities of mun

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2025-11-29

The research publisher Frontiers has appointed Senior Professor Håkan Hydén as Special Chief Editor for the sociology of law section of Frontiers in Sociology. Hydén became a professor of sociology of law in 1988. His main research interest relates to norms and what motivates people to act. He has also done comparative studies of legal norms, cyber norms, and social norms. He published his most re

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appointed-special-chief-editor-sociological-journal - 2025-11-29