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NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written a chapter, “External Perceptions of the EU: Obstacle or Asset in the Fight Against Global Imbalances?" in The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances. This volume is an updated version of a book published in Swedish in 2014.Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim och Thomas Persson (eds), The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imb

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu-0 - 2025-11-22

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-conflicts-between-low-carbon-strategies-and-broader-sustainability-goals - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

Maysam Behravesh has got a new position as a "Research Fellow" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, and will start working there in January 2016 while continuing to complete his PhD at the Department. CMES was founded in 2007 in an effort to support and coordinate research on the Middle East and North Africa and has since become an institutional hub in Scandinavia for

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-new-research-fellow - 2025-11-22

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have co-authored the article "A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building", published in Third World. AbstractThis article explores agonistic processes of peace, which are situated within and constitutive of different spaces and places. Three contested cities, Sarajevo, Mostar and Višegrad in Bosnia-Herze

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-mannergren-selimovic-have-co-authored-article-about-peace-building - 2025-11-22

OUTREACH: Angela Oels is a panelist in a big discussion on the outcomes of the Paris climate summit hosted in Lund by the Association of Foreign Affairs. Learn more on facebook.comAngela Oels personal page here at the Department’s website

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/big-discussion-about-paris-climate-summit - 2025-11-22

Annika Fredén defended her dissertation "Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments " on February 5 at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Indridi Indridason, University of California Riverside, USA.Strategic Voting under Coalition GovernmentsAnnika Fredén 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-freden-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-11-22

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “The Postcolonial has Moved into Europe: Bordering, Security and Ethno-Cultural Belonging” AbstractThe legacy of European colonialisms and nationalisms has conditioned immigration and citizenship policies that inform the postcolonial move into Europe. This article questions the assumptions that undergird conceptions of boundary,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-postcolonial-has-moved-europe - 2025-11-22

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Emil Edenborg has published "The secret funerals in Pskov: Spectacles of war and spectres from the past” in the Newsletter of the Institute of East European, Eurasian and Slavic Studies, UC Berkeley. Read the text on iseees.berkeley.edu (pdf, page 11)Emil Edenborg’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/edenborg-secret-funerals-pskov - 2025-11-22

Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. The award and USD 500

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researcher-awarded-price-society-risk-analysis - 2025-11-22

The purpose of Dr. Pejchar's visit is to advance science at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and agriculture in collaboration with BECC researchers. Dr. Liba Pejchar brings expertise in several emerging topics in BECC at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Her lively research program explores innovative strategies for conserving and restor

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/welcome-becc-guest-researcher-liba-pejchar-associate-professor-department-fish-wildlife-and - 2025-11-22

• Do you get your Friday emails from Research professional with the latest funding opportunities? • Is your profile in LUCRIS, ORCID-ID and PRISMA in order? • What happens with your articles once they are published? How do you get them in all these databases? Warmly welcome to a workshop on tools for researchers at LU on 9 February 10–12. This event is open to both CEC Fellows and PhD-students! He

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/workshop-tools-researchers-lu - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22

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 - 2025-11-22