Published 20 April 2018 Agriculture and forestry are two sectors that are often considered separately. In fact, they are closely connected. Both from an ecological and an economic perspective, they must be considered together”, says Professor Yann Clough. Photo: Kennet Ruona Research and society in close cooperation: that is the basis for Farm2Forest, a project aiming to produce evidence guiding S

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/farm2forest-sustainable-agriculture-biobased-future - 2024-12-26

Published 27 April 2018 The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This ban on three main neonicotinoids has widespread public as

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2024-12-26

Published 25 May 2018 CEC's Hampus Nilsson describes his journey towards doing research on nature-based solutions and multiple ecosystem services in cities. Hampus Nilsson was honored by the Swedish Hydrological Council with the award of best master thesis within hydrology. In a blog post at the Swedish Water House, SIWI, he describes his journey from being a student in technical mathematics at th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-become-researcher - 2024-12-26

Published 30 May 2018 Researchers from the CEC comments climate change and risk management on Swedish national radio. Johanna Alkan Olsson answers questions regarding if there is a connection between climate change and the nice spring weather in Sweden this year.Listen to the interview with Johanna on sverigesradio.se.Ullrika Sahlin answers questions about risk management in research.Listen to the

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Published 4 June 2018 The CEC and Lund University is part of the core team for Climate-KIC's latest Flagship programme, eCircular, aiming to crack down on plastic waste and radically reduce the use of plastic materials. The project eCircular aims to explore and use innovative digital tools to improve plastics waste prevention. This can, for example, include blockchain solutions for improved market

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/catalysing-switch-circular-economy-through-plastic-waste-prevention - 2024-12-26

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 19 June 2018 While attending the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology organized by the Society for Conservation Biology last week in Jyväskylä, Finland, CEC's Lovisa Nilsson was awarded First Place for her outstanding student poster. Lovisa has studied annual flower strips used to compensate for biodiversity losses in

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lovisa-nilsson-awarded-outstanding-student-poster - 2024-12-26

Published 10 August 2018 Photo: Johan Ekroos The COST project has been studying if there is any difference in biodiversity found at organic and conventional farms. Some of our colleagues at the CEC have spent summer doing fieldwork studying bumblebees. Romain Carrié and others from the COST project have collected pollen from bumblebees and surveyed flower resources at 19 different farms in Skåne.–

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/field-study-biodiversity - 2024-12-26

Published 16 August 2018 The CEC has produced a new report evaluating analyses and data collection of winter loss in honeybees in Sweden. Swedish beekeeping rely on the health of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Loss of colonies during winter is an indicator of poor honey bee health.This report evaluates current data collection of winter loss in honey bees in Sweden, with the purpose to give recommen

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/winter-loss-honey-bees-sweden - 2024-12-26

Published 5 September 2018 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. The annual summer meeting was held August 29–30 in Höllviken, with the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, Lund University), Åsa Kasimir

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eye-opening-discussions-phd-students - 2024-12-26

Published 11 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter ’Humanitarian Relief Worker Sean Penn – A Contextual Story’ in the edited collection Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations. Politics, Place and Power (Lisa Ann Richey, editor), published by Routledge. Learn more at tandf.netMore information on Celebnorthsouth: Research Network

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-sean-penn-and-celebrity-humanitarianism - 2024-12-26

Published 22 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Hanna Bäck has co-authored the article "Partisanship, Ministers, and Biotechnology Policy" (with Marc Debus and Jale Tosun), which has been published in the journal Review of Policy Research. Learn more. Hanna BäckAbstractResearch in public policy and political economy has provided many insights in the evolution of public resistance against gen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/chances-biotech-ban-increase-christian-democrats-government - 2024-12-26

Published 24 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article ”A Quality of Government Peace? Explaining the Onset of Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1985–2001” in the journal International Interactions: Empirical and Theoretical Research in International Relations. AbstractThat democracies do not wage wars against each other is one of the most widely accepted claims

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/quality-government-well-influence-democracy-prevents-war - 2024-12-26

Published 24 September 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Erik Ringmar is giving a public lecture at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm on the topic of ''Liberal Barbarism'' Shock and Awe in History and Today." The public lecture will be held on 29th September 2015.For more information and to register go to ui.se Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-speaks-about-liberal-barbarism - 2024-12-26

Published 23 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter "The Kingdom of Denmark and the Arctic" in the edited collection Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic (Leif Christian Jensen and Geir Hønneland, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, editors), published by Edward Edgar Publishing. More information about the book on www.e-elgar.comThe official online

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-denmark-and-arctic - 2024-12-26

Published 30 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam, Fabio Cristiano and Lisa Strömbom have written the article "Towards agonistic peacebuilding? Exploring the antagonism- agonism nexus in the Middle East Peace Process "published in Third World Quarterly. Abstract:Many contemporary conflicts are framed as antagonistic and difficult to resolve because of their zero-sum framing amon

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-cristiano-and-strombom-about-agonistic-peacebuilding - 2024-12-26

Published 1 October 2015 STUDENT NEWS: To better understand how the politics of climate change play out across the social realm, a new research methodology has been developed called the Low Carbon Mobile Lab. City planner Christian Wilke, took students from the Bachelor course ‘The Politics of Climate Change’ on three hour “Future Walk”- from the Bulls on the hill to Max IV and ESS and into the em

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/students-three-hour-future-walk-see-politics-are-everywhere - 2024-12-26

Published 1 October 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter "Civil Society and Policy Reforms in the Asian Development Bank” in Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks, edited by Susan Park and Jonathan Strand, published by Routledge. Anders UhlinAbout the book on routledge.com 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-new-book-multilateral-development-banks - 2024-12-26

Published 5 October 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Hanna Bäck and Niklas Altermark are co-applicants in a project, together with Emma Bäck (Gothenburg University), which has been granted 4 million (SEK) from FORTE. The project is titled ”The Political Psychology of Radicalization” and aims to study the psychological mechanisms leading an individual to become radicalized, and investigate how the cu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/4-million-project-radicalization - 2024-12-26

Published 5 October 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has, together with Sarah Delputte, a post-doc at the University of Ghent, written the article ”An end to Nordic Exceptionalism? Europeanisation and Nordic development policies”, for European Politics and Society, now published online and to appear in the journal’s printed version later this year. The article will be part of a special

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eus-influence-development-policies - 2024-12-26

Published 9 October 2015 More than 2 250 participants have signed up for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Climate Change: a question of justice?" run by Hagen University in collaboration with Department of Political Science at Lund University. Dr. Angela Oels, visiting professor in the Department of Political Science, says it is not too late to join the course. The first nine lectures out of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mooc-reaches-over-2000-participants - 2024-12-26