Published 20 May 2017 Call for papers for publication in Asia in Focus - A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers- Issue 5, Winter 2017. Deadline for paper submission is 21 August 2017. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Asia in Focus was initiated by NIAS to provide Master students and Ph.D. students affi

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Published 21 May 2017 Habib University invites paper and panel submissions for the Questioning South Asia Conference to be hold 22-24 November 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2017. The geopolitical significance of South Asia has been a well-known fact in policy and security studies for the last several decades. In academic circles too, the logic of South Asia

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Published 14 May 2017 On Tuesday 9 May 2017, Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg held a lecture entitled: "Child marriages in India: Human Rights Violations that go unchecked" at LUX B152. The lecture was jointly organized by Human Rights Studies and SASNET at Lund University. The lecture was recorded and has been published at SASNET's Youtube Channel. Abstract: Child marriages even when they have cult

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Published 30 May 2017 The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations based in London (AKU-ISMC) is inviting experienced scholars to join the Institute as a visiting scholar within the 2017-2018 academic year. Deadline to submit application is 15 June 2017. The Institute is looking to host two categories of visiting scholars. Between September and December 2017 the Instit

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Av moa [dot] eriksson [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Eriksson) - publicerad 1 oktober 2021 Från och med höstterminen 2022 gäller en ändrad kursplan i fysik och naturorienterande ämnen (NO). Från höstterminen 2022 börjar en ny kursplan att gälla – Lgr22. Skolverket har sammanställt material som hjälper lärare att använda den nya kursplanen, samt en jämförelse av vilka förändringar som gjorts gen

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Published 11 April 2017 A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detai

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Published 4 May 2017 Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" org

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 22 May 2017 EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing o

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 June 2017 By Chrisrosenk (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Hakim Abdi, who recently defended his PhD thesis at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. Hakim Abdi recently finished his PhD studies the depa

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Published 6 July 2017 Jörgen Olofsson, Markku Rummukainen and Minchao Wu were recently featured or cited in various media. Researcher interviewed about strategies to achieve climate targetsResearcher Jörgen Olofsson, was interviewed in the daily Dagens ETC about a new book containing 100 strategies to achieve climate targets by 2050. “I’ve only skimmed through the list, but I see that, for example

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 28 August 2017 Anders Lindroth Anders Lindroth was interviewed by the magazine Dagens ETC about the climate impact of forests, and about why the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is increasing. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus at the Department, was recently interviewed by Dagens ETC. In one article about abou

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Published 20 September 2017 Photo: Patrik Vestin Swedish forests are important carbon sinks today, despite emissions from deforestration. The choice of management is paramount for the impacts on climate change and some of the concepts used in the climate discussion today needs to be thought over and based on research. This is the essense of an article published by Professor Anders Lindroth and Pro

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Av jonas [dot] andersson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - publicerad 18 januari 2019 Margot Wallström, Per Karsten och Patrick Amsellem. Rektor Torbjörn von Schantz har beslutat om att tilldela Lunds universitets silvermedalj till Patrick Amsellem, museichef vid Skissernas Museum, Per Karsten, museichef vid Historiska museet och Margot Wallström, fd styrelseordförande vid L

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Published 5 March 2018 In her research, Maryam Nastar will look into cities representing the Asia regional climate change trend (in the East, Central and West), where both observed and predicted daytime temperature extremes are likely to increase. Maryam Nastar, researcher at LUCSUS, is interested in resource mobilisation at the neighborhood-level since she believes that the solutions to sustainab

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Published 5 March 2018 What causes social entrepreneurship to thrive in some places while not in others? What are some of the important factors in place to foster social entrepreneurship in rural areas? These are this a few of the questions explored by a group of international students in Gojome and Kazuno towns in the wintery, mountainous paradise of Akita, Japan, a region faced with a declining

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Published 12 March 2018 Collaborations between the public sector and academia are increasingly common, and are often highlighted as the way forward for strategic climate planning. But how are practitioners and academics to work together to achieve results? Researchers at LUCSUS are investigating how a model can benefit transdisciplinary sustainability projects.  – Nowadays, many universities and m

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Published 8 March 2018 International Women’s Day: Director Emily Boyd reflects that discussions of gender equality are of special importance to a centre such as LUCSUS which conducts research on sustainability issues worldwide. Research is conducted in sectors where women predominantly work such as agriculture, or in places where vulnerable groups are exposed to various environmental challenges– A

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Published 20 March 2018 Wim Carton and Lennart Olsson in discussion with researcher colleagues in Uganda. Research on land and sustainable agriculture is at the core of LUCSUS’ work as a centre. In this interview, Wim Carton highlights work on perennial agriculture as a means to meet some of the challenges facing small-holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and gives advice to researchers going in

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Published 4 April 2018 LUCSUS' Director Emily Boyd and Professor Christine Wamsler, along with six other experts, argue in an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter that climate change is not the only reason for floods in Sweden. The opinion piece highlights the need to reform current water management and governance in Sweden since the current approach is contributing to increasing risk of flood and drou

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Published 4 April 2018 Bigert & Bergström, Reverse Osmosis Plant, 2013. Foto: Jean-Baptiste Beranger © Bigert & Bergström. LUCSUS, in collaboration with Skissernas Museum, is organising the event Arts Meet Science, 27th April, during Lund University Sustainability Week.  Director Emily Boyd says that one of the reasons LUCSUS initiated this event is that there is a lot of focus on the negative eff

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