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Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate change for business. Markku

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2026-10-15

The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sushama.In the thesis Wenxin Zhang presents findings from studies

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2026-10-15

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at Nordic Universities eng

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2026-10-15

DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2026-10-15

The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2026-10-15

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2026-10-15

On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the Department of Physical Ge

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2026-10-15

On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2026-10-15

A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2026-10-15

On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2026-10-15

A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-pages-working-group-will-produce-global-recontructions-anthropogenic-land-cover-change - 2026-10-15

During the 8th - 11 th August 2022, the Development Research School held its first doctoral course in Methodology and Field Studies. It took place in Sogakope, Ghana. The doctoral course was organised by the Institute of Statistical, Economic and Social Research (ISSER), in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana, universities of Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala for doct

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/successful-completion-our-first-course-ghana - 2026-10-15

Take the opportunity to be matched and recieve guidence from a more experienced scholar through an ongoing process of dialogue, learning, advice and skills development. The intention with the mentorship program is to match people for mutual benefit which go beyond one-way advice. We consider mentoring as a (confidential) partnership based on dialogue, mutual trust and joint learning. Yet, it is me

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/apply-our-phd-mentorship-program - 2026-10-15

The Development Research Day is an annual, inter-disciplinary event bringing together researchers and students interested in development research for a full day of activities at Lund University. The 19 October, the event celebrated 20 years - the very same day as we launched our website! The day brough together researchers, students, NGO: s and professionals in the aid sector and took place at the

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/development-research-day-celebrated-20-years-and-we-launched-our-website - 2026-10-15

We are delighted to announce that the application for our second PhD course now is open for the next semester.  Please note that the application has been extended until the 26 January 5 pm. The course provides a critical introduction to the governance of sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. It emphasizes the challenges of implementing the 2030 Agenda w

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/apply-our-phd-course-governance-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-10-15

The call for panel proposals and co-creation workshop themes for the 7th Nordic Development Research Conference 2023 (NorDev) is open. The conference theme is Co-creation for a just transition towards a sustainable society. NorDev2023 welcomes topics related to co-creation between researchers and other stakeholders such as beneficiaries, decision-makers and development practitioners, across the gl

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/call-panel-proposals-and-co-creation-workshop-themes-nordev2023 - 2026-10-15

The inaugural PhD Conference of the Swedish Development Research Network (SweDev) was organized by the School of Global Studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg, on 1-2 December 2022. The conference provided doctoral students with an open and inclusive space to meet and discuss their work with their peers. - As a participant of the SweDev PhD conference in 2022 I was enlightened with new perspectiv

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/swedevs-first-phd-conference-space-critical-and-dynamic-discussion - 2026-10-15

We are very glad to announce that the application is open to the third PhD course of the Development Research School — Making foreign aid work: Managing tensions between top-down and bottom-up approaches. The deadline is the 22 February. The goal of the course is to build knowledge about the essential and longstanding question what makes foreign aid successful in different contexts and circumstanc

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/apply-our-doctoral-course-making-foreign-aid-work-managing-tensions-between-top-down-and-bottom - 2026-10-15

The 7th joint Nordic Development Research Conference (NorDev) is held 21-23 August 2023. It is organized by Uppsala University and the Swedish Development Research Network (SweDev). The thematic focus for the conference is Co-creation for transition towards a sustainable society.  The conference will be held on-site from the 21st of August 12.00 am until the 23rd of August 13.00 pm (CEST) in Uppsa

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/call-papers-nordev2023-uppsala-21-23-august-2023 - 2026-10-15

In February, the PhD course "Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals" was launched. The course brings together more than 20 PhD students from a dozen countries representing three continents - a diversity that benefits the course's discussions according to Thomas Hickmann. Thomas Hickmann, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, held the second

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/thomas-hickmann-phd-course-brings-participants-many-parts-world-together - 2026-10-15