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CEC is in an expansive phase and the number of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and administrative staff increased during 2018. 2018 was the year for celebrating 20 successful years, with more than 1,000 graduates from the study programme in Environmental Science. In October, CEC arranged a jubilee for current and former students and employees. CEC also started an Alumni Network, for anyone
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-annual-report-2018 - 2025-12-19
CEC has been granted funding for a so-called collaborative initiative to find solutions for sustainable land use in Sweden, with emphasis on Skåne. The collaborative initiative called LU Land is to be a platform where different sectors, interests and research topics jointly address the challenges that an increasing need for products from the agricultural sector, ecosystem services and land for inf
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/land-use-sustainable-future - 2025-12-19
The national Swedish radio visited Lund to talk about pollinating insects and study their wintering sites. Pollinating insects are threatened by food shortages, by toxins, by climate change and because environments where insects can seek protection are disappearing. Sara Sällström from the Swedish radio met CEC's Lina Herbertsson and Johan Ekroos in Dalby Söderskog, an environment where pollinatin
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lack-settlements-threatens-biodiversity - 2025-12-19
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 website. Crash course on www.lu.seHelena Hanson, Anna
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-during-sustainability-week - 2025-12-19
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 intergovernmental, global report on biodiversity and ecosystem services,
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-makers-focus-environmental-and-climate-effects - 2025-12-19
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, pesticides and paved urban are
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-12-19
Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a new, updated version of a global climate model that will increase understanding of global warming. Through the new model, one can now look at how land use and changes to vegetation can influence, and be influenced by, climate change. It is the first time that vegetation and land use, and in particular at this level of detail, has been i
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unique-climate-modeling-vegetation-focus - 2025-12-19
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 - 2025-12-19
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 - 2025-12-19
CMES Visiting Olof Palme Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor has authored "Should Liberal Democracy Respect Group Rights that Discriminate against Women and Apostates?" published in the journal Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review. Abstract The paper examines the limits of state interference in proscribing cultural norms by considering gender discrimination, right of people to lea
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/liberal-democracy-group-rights-and-gender-discrimination - 2025-12-19
CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has written a review of a book about Erdoğan's Turkey, the Kurds and Sweden. The reviewed book is called Endast den som är turk är lycklig: Erdoğan, kurderna och Sverige (English translation: Only the Turks Are Happy: Erdoğan, the Kurds and Sweden) and was written by Kurdo Baksi (Kaunitz-Olsson, 2023). Svante's review was published in Ny Tid on 23 May, 2023. In the
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-review-kurds-erdogans-turkey-and-sweden - 2025-12-19
CMES researcher Jayne Svenungsson has authored the article "Religion and secularity as supersessionist categories: contemplating diversity and otherness after 9/11" in the journal Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik. Abstract This article argues that the Christian ambivalence towards the Jews throughout history lies at the heart of the difficulties liberal societies are having today
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/religion-secularism-and-supersessionism-post-911 - 2025-12-19
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift recently published a special issue on the Middle East after twenty years of the war on terror with contributions from CMES researchers Lina Eklund, Isabell Schierenbeck, Karin Aggestam, Linda Eitrem Holmgren, and Lisa Strömbom. The special issue was edited by Anders Persson and includes the following articles written (in Swedish) by CMES researchers and affiliated resea
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-and-20-years-war-terror - 2025-12-19
CMES researcher Lina Eklund has written an article (in Swedish) on climate, drought and conflict in Syria 2000-2022, published in a special issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift focusing on the Middle East. English Title "Climate and conflict in Syria: a spatial perspective of drought, agriculture and vulerability in Syria during the period 2000–2022" Swedish Title "Klimat och konflikt i Syrien: Et
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-drought-and-conflict-syria - 2025-12-19
CMES researcher Yafa Shanneik will be participating in an event organised by Hand i Hand and Ibn Rushid on Friday 16 June in Malmö. Yafa will participate in a conversation about her use of art in her project on Syrian and Iraqi refugees followed by an art exhibition. In the art exhibition, representations of refugees in art are tackled using “body mapping” with the renowned British artist Rachel G
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/art-exhibition-narratives-displacement - 2025-12-19
CMES Director Karin Aggestam and researcher Linda Eitrem Holmgren have written an article (in Swedish) about women, peace and security in the Middle East and North Africa, published in a special issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift focusing on the Middle East. English Title "Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa" Swedish Title "Kvinnor, fred och säkerhet i Mellanöstern och
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-peace-and-security-middle-east-and-north-africa - 2025-12-19
CMES Director Karin Aggestam gave a public lecture on the water-development-security nexus in the Nile and Jordan River Basin. Karin also attended a conference on international negotiations as a member of the steering committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Network on 22-24 May at Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Watch a short video
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-director-karin-aggestam-visits-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-abu-dhabi - 2025-12-19
I juni medverkade sektionen HR:s personalkonsulter Anna Sjösten och Caroline Amarelle i ett webbinarium där de berättade om hur Lunds universitet utvecklar sin rehabiliteringsprocess. Ta del av Partsrådets webbinarium Arbetsanpassning och rehabilitering – roller och ansvar
Information till medarbetare i LU Nytt/LU News den 19 november. Just nu kan man höra och läsa mycket om inflationen i media, och det förekommer en del frågor bland medarbetare om huruvida inflationen påverkar höstens lönerevision. För att ge svar på dessa frågor publiceras en information till universitetets medarbetare i nyhetsbrevet LU Nytt/LU News den 19/11. Nyhetsbrevet mejlas ut till alla ans
https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/inflationen-paverkar-inte-hostens-lonerevision - 2025-12-19
Kursen introducerar dig som chef till de verktyg som finns och ger en praktisk handledning till hur risker i arbetsmiljön ska upptäckas och hanteras. Kursen är lärarledd och genomförs fysiskt. Nästa tillfälle är den 26 oktober. Anmälan sker via Kompetensportalen: Riskhantering – en del av det systematiska arbetsmiljöarbetet
