The seminar on urban nature attracted a lot of people An exhibition, a seminar on urban nature and a climate crash course – that's how CEC contributed to the Sustainability week 2019. Markku Rummukainen and Maria von Post gave a crash course in climate change and biological diversity together with colleagues at Lund University. A summary is published (in Swedish) on Facebook and Lund University's

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-during-sustainability-week - 2025-09-01

The CEC PhD students and some of the supervisors at the spring meeting. How do micro-plastics affect our soil? What's the impact of urbanization on biodiversity? And how can drones be used for measuring carbon fluxes from Swedish peatlands? These were a few of the questions raised at the initial PhD student spring meeting at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC). The first ever i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-makers-focus-environmental-and-climate-effects - 2025-09-01

Photo: Anna Maria Erling The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and Caroline Isaksson. In many countries, factors such as large-scale agriculture and forestry, pesti

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-09-01

The researchers in Lund are investigating the interaction between a vegetation in change and the climate. For example, what will happen to tundra when it gets warmer? In the picture: volcano Korjakskaja Sopka in northeastern Russia. Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a new, updated version of a global climate model that will increase understanding of global warming. Throug

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unique-climate-modeling-vegetation-focus - 2025-09-01

Summer days bring relaxing breaks in parks for many city dwellers. But how often do you look up from your picnic blanket and reflect on the surrounding wildlife and on how it would affect you if the birds went silent for good? Johan K. Jensen’s doctoral studies compares the wellbeing of some of our most common small birds living in the city compared to the countryside. “Blue Tits are quite jumpy.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-life-urban-birds - 2025-09-01

When it comes to meeting sustainability goals, the current reform proposal of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) falls well short at the mark, accordning to a group of international researchers writing in the journal Science. The proposed amendments to the CAP will not improve the environmental protection – rather the opposite, says Dagmar Clough, ecologist at Lund Universit

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-reject-eu-reform-plans-cap-not-viable-future - 2025-09-01

Roberto Scaramuzzino spoke at a seminar organized by the Centre for Municipality Studies at Linköping University and gave an interview about the role of civil society in the establishment of new immigrants, focusing on social integration and interaction between public and non-profit organisations. Voluntary forces should be used, especially when the municipalities are under pressure and in many ca

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/roberto-scaramuzzino-civil-society-and-integration - 2025-09-01

Professor Håkan Johansson, School of Social Work, has received more than SEK 35 million from Riksbankens jubileumsfond to lead a research programme about elites in civil society. The progammer is titled "Civil Society Elites" A comparative study of the composition, reproduction, integration and questioning of elites in European Civil Society." Read an interview with Håkan in Swedish here.

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/35-million-research-civil-society-elites - 2025-09-01

During a whole day in April the researchers discussed the relevance of central theoretical and empirical knowledge about elite research for studying civil society elites. The research seminar was filled with discussions about ”shadow elites” in America influencing important geopolitical decisions without visible political leadership, and the power decline of bureaucratic elite groups in the Europe

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/seminar-brings-together-several-international-researchers - 2025-09-01

Roberto Scaramuzzino and Håkan Johansson participated in the yearly conference on civil society arranged by the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF). The main theme this year was on elitism in civil society. On the 22nd of October, civil society researchers, politicians, civil servants and civil society organizations gathered in Stockholm to discuss the question of elitism in Swedish

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/elitism-swedish-civil-society - 2025-09-01

Professor Carlo Ruzza, University of Trento. The growing populist movements in many European countries affect not only the EU's institutional actors but also EU-based civil society organizations. Professor Carlo Ruzza, a prominent scholar in political sociology based at the University of Trento, has been invited to our program as a guest researcher this autumn. His research is focused on civil soc

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/guest-professor-carlo-ruzza-populist-turn-and-its-impact-eu-and-civil-society - 2025-09-01

A new thematic issue on Civil Society Elites is published in Politics and Governance. A new thematic issue on Civil Society Elites, edited by Håkan Johansson and Anders Uhlin and published by an open access journal Politics & Governance is now available. Several researchers in the project as well as other prominent researchers have contributed to the volume. The issue covers a wide range of empiri

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/new-thematic-issue-civil-society-elites - 2025-09-01

The inter-disciplinary research program Civil Society Elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, interaction and contestation in European civil societies cordially invites researchers working on civil society studies to Lund University, Sweden, for a mini conference 15-16th of April 2020. The goal is to provide an inspiring arena for academic discussions on contemporary civil society in Eu

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/conference-civil-society-studies-2020-postponed-january-2021 - 2025-09-01

Håkan Johansson spoke to a full venue with members of the public, civil society organsiaitons and academics at a breakfast seminar hosted by Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, a local adult education association in Lund. The filmed lecture is avalaible here (in Swedish.)

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/hakan-johansson-spoke-breakfast-seminar - 2025-09-01

Mikael Calner berättar om skånes berggrund. Foto Kerstin Ekström http://www.skd.se/2018/04/22/pa-spaning-efter-fossiler/

https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/naturskydsforeningen-pa-utflykt-i-bjarsjolagard - 2025-09-01

Svante Björck med fler har skrivit en artikel i Nature med nya rön om senaste istidens köldperiod, Yngre Dryas, med titeln: "Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal"

https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/forsvagning-av-golfstrommen-kan-leda-till-mycket-varma-somrar-i-europa - 2025-09-01

Fem nya doktorer från Geologiska institutionen promoverades den 25e maj: Victoria Beckman, Martin Bernhardson, Laurie Charrieau, Elisabeth Einarsson och Johan Gren.Doktorspromotionen

https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/fem-nya-doktorer-fran-geologiska-institutionen-promoverade - 2025-09-01

Vi gratulerar Helena Alexanderson som återigen har tilldelats Lunds naturvetarkårs pedagogiska pris. Priset presenterades under Naturvetenskapliga fakultetens examensceremoni den 3 juni, där även sex studenter från Geologiska institutionen mottog sina examensdiplom.

https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/helena-alexanderson-har-ater-tilldelats-lunds-naturvetarkars-pedagogiska-pris - 2025-09-01

Vi firar våra duktiga kandidatarbetare som höll sina posterpresentationer 1 juni 2018, hoppas vi ses till hösten!

https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/vi-firar-vara-duktiga-kandidatarbetare-som-holl-sina-posterpresentationer-1-juni-2018-hoppas-vi-ses - 2025-09-01

Martin Bernhardson är från 1 juli anställd som forskare här på institutionen för att i fyra månader jobba med att kartera Skånes glaciala landformer med hjälp av LiDAR-data. Projektet är finansierat av Crafoordska stiftelsen och han kommer att arbeta tillsammans med Helena Alexanderson, Lena Adrielsson, Johanna Anjar (Universitetet i Sørøst Norge) och Per Möller.

https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/martin-bernhardson-anstalld-som-forskare - 2025-09-01