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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Guiding authorities how to speed up the transition to digital meetings. Sydsvenskan published an article on Swedish universities' transition from unnecessary flying to digital meetings.Peter Arnfalk at the IIIEE was interviewed for this article: Universiteten släpar efter när flyg ska ersättas av digitala möten
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/peter-arnfalk-sydsvenskan - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 3 April a new climate report was submitted to the municipal executive board of Lund. The report was conducted by the Climate Policy Council of Lund Municipality, a newly established council, with the aim to inspect the climate work of Lund Municipality and guide them towards reaching the goals set.Lena Neij at the
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-climate-report-conducted-climate-policy-council-lund-municipality - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In April 2019, Sharing Cities Sweden (coordinated by IIIEE) published a synthesis report entitled Sharing Cities: Exploring the Emerging Landscape of the Sharing Economy in Cities. It captures the lessons learned and ambitious goals of the test-beds in Stockholm, Malmö, Umeå and Göteborg. The document contains article
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-journeys-and-insights-sharing-economy-cities - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Event on 8 April as part of Sustainability Week 2019. On 8 April, Sharing Cities Sweden held an event on the sharing economy in cities focusing on learning about business models and behavioural economics.Sharing Cities Sweden and the Urban Arena at Lund university were co-organisers of the event as part of the Sustain
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-business-models-and-behavioural-economics - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Urban Sharing team has started their first Mobile Research Lab (MRL) in Amsterdam. The trip includes among others visits to ShareNL, Rijkswaterstaat, University of Utrecht, University of Twente, city of Amsterdam as well as meetings with representatives of different urban sharing organisations active in the city of Am
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mobile-research-lab-amsterdam-has-started - 2026-06-21
Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of individuals who experience negative emotions, such as fear, discomfort, or even disgust, toward nature. The phenomenon, called biophobia, is now highlighted in a new study from Lund University. “Research has long assumed that people fundamentally feel positive emotions towa
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-study-challenges-idea-humans-innately-nature-loving - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University and the Simrishamn Municipality have received funding from Region Skåne to start a new research and innovation environment at the Marine Centre in Simrishamn. The aim is to study and solve environmental problems and societal challenges linked to the sea, water and coastal areas of Skåne and southern Sw
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-research-initiative-will-address-environmental-problems-baltic-sea-region-hano-bay - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The report "Collective implementation of ecological focus areas" evaluating effects on ecosystem services, agriculture and administration is now available in English. Ecosystem services are fundamental to the welfare of mankind, yet these services are often invisible in many social decisions. The report "Collective i
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/report-about-ecological-focus-areas - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they lack both food and nesting places. Sown flower strips can increase the availability of food for pollinating insects, and are therefore assume
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research and society in close cooperation: that is the basis for Farm2Forest, a project aiming to produce evidence guiding Swedish and European agricultural and forestry policymaking. The idea is to combine economic and ecological data and models to evaluate different future scenarios for marginal agriculture in fores
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/farm2forest-sustainable-agriculture-biobased-future - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-become-researcher - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 answer
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-swedish-national-radio - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, fo
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/catalysing-switch-circular-economy-through-plastic-waste-prevention - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 agr
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lovisa-nilsson-awarded-outstanding-student-poster - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 resour
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/field-study-biodiversity - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/winter-loss-honey-bees-sweden - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 talk
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eye-opening-discussions-phd-students - 2026-06-21
Lund University School of Economics and Management has done it again! The school has been ranked #44 in the world in the Financial Times' prestigious annual ranking of 100 Master’s programmes in Management. This marks a climb of 13 spots compared with last year. Lund University's Master’s programme in International Strategic Management has seen a steady rise in the ranking; in 2022 the programme c
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-even-higher-financial-times-ranking - 2026-06-21
Thousands of people could be spared from a hip fracture each year if a new method to identify the risk of osteoporotic fractures were to be introduced in healthcare. This is the view of the researchers at Lund University in Sweden who are behind a new 3D-simulation method. The results were recently published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. Osteoporosis causes 120,000 bone fractures in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-offers-hope-fewer-fractures - 2026-06-21
