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One of the articles in Roger Hildingsson dissertation will be published in the journal "Energy Policy" in January and is already available online. AbstractClimate change is a central sustainability concern, but is often treated separately from other policy areas in environmental governance. In this article we study how low-carbon energy transitions might be governed in line with broader sustainabi
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Oxford University Press has recently published a extensive Handbook of Swedish Politics. The book involves 48 scholars, mostly political scientists, seven of these from Lund: Rikard Bengtsson, Douglas Brommesson, Hanna Bäck, Ole Elgström, Johannes Lindvall, Annika Bergman Rosamond och Malena Rosén Sundström.The book covers a wide range of different aspects of Swedish poli
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seven-political-scientists-lund-extensive-handbook-swedish-politics - 2025-11-08
Kristina Jönsson's (et al.) article Health policy evolution in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: context, processes and agency is one of the top downloaded articles from 2015 in Health Policy and Planning. Health Policy and Planning publishes high quality health policy and systems research that aims to inform policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries.Learn more on oxfordjournals.orgK
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonssons-health-policy-evolution-one-top-downloaded-articles - 2025-11-08
In January 2017, Lund University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Stockholm Environmental Institute, SEI. The relationship between Lund University and SEI has a long history, covering areas such as climate adaptation and low carbon transitions in Sweden, agriculture and food security, and, most recently, with a common 58 MSEK Mistra Geopolitics programme. Future research collaboration is
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-sei-sign-mou - 2025-11-08
Johanna Alkan Olsson from CEC, Lund University was awarded 5,000 Euros for her project on algorithmic potato farming at Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day 27 January. The project will create a method for farmers to better handle outbreaks of late blight on crops, a disease expected to become more problematic in a changing climate. This was the second ever Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day and it was he
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/potato-project-awarded-grant - 2025-11-08
Four different research teams have shared the assignment of evaluating the the Swedish rural programme 2007–2013. One of the groups have been responsible for the second partial report, with the assignment of evaluating the programmes effect when it comes to measures for improving the environment. This research group has worked under the supervision of Henrik Smith who has also been the editor of t
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-evaluation-report-swedish-rural-programme-2007-2013 - 2025-11-08
Anna Persson, researcher at the CEC is one of the authors of a new publication from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Arguments for more ecosystem services". From the report; Ecosystem services are the foundation of human welfare, yet the services are often invisible in many of society’s decision-making processes. This report contains statistics, studies and research that shows how eco
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/arguments-more-ecosystem-services - 2025-11-08
The research project Valuation of ecosystem services in agriculture – a path towards effective decision making (VESA) led by Katarina Hedlund will present their results at the Environmental Protection Agency's final conference March 21 in Stockholm. One of the results of VESA is C-bank, which is a web-based tool that can be used by farmers and advisers to value ecosystem services as part of the na
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-conference-value-ecosystem-services - 2025-11-08
Up-coming deadline for applying to become one of the next generation PhD students in ClimBEco Graduate Research School (2017–2019) will be May 5th. About ClimBEco on cec.lu.seOpen flyer about ClimBEco (PDF, 2.2 MB, new tab)
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climbeco-graduate-research-school-2017-2019 - 2025-11-08
Professor Kevin Anderson is one of the leading experts in the world on climate change and has written a number of articles on the urgency for action. On April 10 & 11 he is visiting Lund. On Monday April 10, Kevin Anderson will hold a lecture at the public library in Lund from 18.00 to 19.30: Mitigation – but how fast?Politicians and negotiators always seem to use yesterdays requirements for the r
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researcher-kevin-anderson-visits-lund-april-10-and-11 - 2025-11-08
The first ever Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29–31 August 2017. The first Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29–31 August 2017. Deadline for abstracts is June 15th and for registration is August 1st 2017. icos-denmark.dk
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/first-nordic-icos-symposium - 2025-11-08
Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your uncertainty in your running time in which way you want! After the race on May 13th and the actual running times are known, we will evaluate the performances of all predictions. The results will be presented in June, where we will hand out several awards.Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your uncertainty in your running time in whic
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lundaloppet-predictive-challenge-2017 - 2025-11-08
Did you miss Ullrika’s Docent lecture? Don’t worry.Have a look at the slides on evidence.blogg.lu.se
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-docent-lecture - 2025-11-08
During last autumn and winter a team of researchers, PhD students and master students from Lund University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg, joined forces to undertake a student-driven quantitative review on temporal changes in ecosystem services. While the primary outcome of this collaboration will be a review to be published in an international scientific journal, the true added value of the st
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/student-driven-quantitative-review-temporal-changes-ecosystem-services - 2025-11-08
BECC researcher Ullrika Sahlin has together with other researchers published a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet today (17/5) arguing that the WWF's advice not to eat the endangered indigenous Swedish crayfish Astacus astacus is confusing and should be changed. Read the article on svd.se (in Swedish)
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/article-crayfish-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-11-08
Martin Green and Jens Rydell at the biology department, Lund University, have been awarded Skånes vindkraftspris 2017. Read the full article in Swedish on biologi.lu.se
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/biologists-win-skane-wind-academy-prize - 2025-11-08
To what use is the Swedish rural programme and what can be done to increase its effects? The CEC researchers Juliana Dänhardt and Henrik Smith have contributed with two chapters to the newly published book “Så här ligger landet – tankar om landsbygdsprogram och landsbygdsutveckling” (in Swedish). The book has been published by the Swedish Board of Agriculture and consists of short visionary texts
The Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has employed two new professors with research focus on human impact on environmental changes. Natascha Kljun and Yann Clough are new professors at CEC with the assignment to establish two research programmes of a high international standard in environmental science. From a starting point in science, the research programmes will be interdisciplinary
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lunds-first-professors-environmental-science - 2025-11-08
During summer the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) are announcing six new research positions within the Strategic Research Area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC). Associate Senior University Lecturer in Ecological-Economic ModellingThe appointee will be expected to play a key role in CEC’s modelling team, leading the development and use of ecologic
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/six-open-research-positions-cec - 2025-11-08
Ullrika Sahlin has been appointed Reader in Environmental Science at the Faculty of Science. Her research focus on the management of uncertainty in risk analysis and evidence-based decisionmaking. Have you ever missed a train or been stunned by a surprise you did not expect to happen? In retrospect, could you have done something to prevent bad things from happening and still get the good bits? The
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-new-reader-environmental-science - 2025-11-08
