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Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets This project deals with the principle formulated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency that sustainable waste policy should be oriented toward waste prevention and not only waste management. National authorities can steer through decisions and legislation, and introduce incitements and control mechanisms. But practical responsibi

https://www.ses.lu.se/fran-avfallshantering-till-avfallsforebyggande-0/waste-management-waste-prevention - 2026-07-03

This presentation focuses the emotional dilemmas of social workers who recruit and assess foster parents, in a context increasingly defined by market dynamics. Following privatization paralleled with increasing need for childcare, private and public actors today compete to contract potential foster parents in Sweden. For this paper, 43 interviews (with social workers and managers), 21 observation

This thesis will treat the subject of constrained statistical inference and will have its focus on isotonic regression, which is the problem of estimating functions that are assumed to be monotone. A characterisation of isotonic regression and a solution to this problem will be given. The PAVA algorithm to compute the isotonic regres- sion estimator will be introduced along with asymptotic distrib

This article offers a moral and logical critique of human rights minimalism, by which is meant an account that restricts human rights to a level of sufficiency above or beyond which inequalities have no moral relevance, and which makes duties prior to rights, such that rights are dependent on assumed or actual institutional capacities. The argument is that human rights minimalism fails by its own This article offers a moral and logical critique of human rights minimalism, by which is meant an account that restricts human rights to a level of sufficiency above or beyond which inequalities have no moral relevance, and which makes duties prior to rights, such that rights are dependent on assumed or actual institutional capacities. The argument is that human rights minimalism fails by its own

17 februari 2026 17:30 | Event Ellen Bjerborn: FIELD STUDIES: Film screening | talk | get-together17 February 2026, at 17:30 Location: Black Room A humming landscape of snow and fells is surveilled, its flowing processes quantified and visualized into datasets. The datasets are passed on to a global information network, a pulsating cloud of numbers surrounding the Earth. Its goal being: "To create

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/ellen-bjerborn-field-studies-film-screening - 2026-07-04

28 april 2026 10:00 till 15:00 | Workshop Are you a researcher or a PhD student interested in reaching a global audience with your work? Lund University offers all its researchers the opportunity to share their research with the world through the international news platform, The Conversation. In this interactive workshop, The Conversation's science editor, Miriam Frankel, will guide you through Th

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/evenemang/workshop-turn-your-ideas-articles-conversation - 2026-07-04

In Swedish law, the notion of ‘science and proven experience’ (in Swedish, vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet) defines the gold standard for public decision-making and practice, especially in medicine. The notion is notoriously vague but nevertheless plays an important role in the distribution of rights and duties of patients and healthcare workers. For example, failure to provide care in accordanc

What a syllable can tell us on language Joana Rosselló joana.rossello@ub.edu University of Barcelona Language is a system of discrete infinity (DI). Any human being can cope with an infinite number of sentences (syntax) and chunks of well-formed sound/gesture sequences (phonology). Any human has also at his/her disposal an open-ended lexicon. In this paper I put forward the proposal that DI relies

https://konferens.ht.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/sol/ovrigt/konferens_glow36/Biolinguistics/What_a_syllable_can_tell_us_on_language.pdf - 2026-07-02

Den allmänna studieplanen för forskarutbildning i biologi (NABIOL01) (naturvetenskap.lu.se) beskriver de ramar som gäller för samtliga doktorander i biologi vid Lunds universitet och innehåller bland annat information om utbildningens innehåll och examenskrav.Den individuella studieplanen (ISP) är planen för den enskilde doktorandens forskarutbildning och den specificerar institutionens och doktor

https://www.biologi.lu.se/internt/forska-och-utbilda/forskarutbildning/studieplaner - 2026-07-03

This article provides an overview of some of the complex issues involved in reconstructing and visualizing past landscapes. It discusses the importance of empirical data and introduces some of the terminology necessary for understanding methods which are often considered more in the domain of the natural sciences than humanities. Current methods and practices are put in the context of environmenta

The implementation of iris scan technology in the context of humanitarian financial assistance in UNHCR-run refugee camps raises an array of legal questions. While the collection and storage of biometrical data in other contexts is often accompanied by a critical discussion about data protection and privacy concerns, the use of such data in humanitarian settings is often left uncontested. The in-d

The ambition to be recognized as a 'World City' or 'Global City' is rapidly increasing not the least among cities in the global south such as Hyderabad in India and Johannesburg in South Africa. While such a status seems promising for attracting foreign capital and for expanding the economic potential of urban areas, it may have adverse impacts on the hinterland and contribute to growing urban ine

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the increasing pace and intensity of climate-related shocks have driven the emergence of international interest around the role of national social protection systems for shock-responsiveness. An increasing number of already vulnerable people is in need of humanitarian assistance, risking to fall into poverty and malnutrition. In this context, predictable n

Purpose: This article explores how public librarians understand and perform the democratic mission of public libraries in times of political and social turbulence, and critically discusses the idea of public libraries as meeting places.Methodology: Five group interviews conducted with public librarians in southern Sweden are analyzed using a typology of four perspectives on democracy.Findings: TwoPurposeThis article explores how public librarians understand and perform the democratic mission of public libraries in times of political and social turbulence and critically discusses the idea of public libraries as meeting places.Design/methodology/approachFive group interviews conducted with public librarians in southern Sweden are analyzed using a typology of four perspectives on democracy.Fi