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In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia.Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and international c

Lime-cement mixing is a method used for ground improvement of clay soils. Before mixing at a field site, laboratory samples are prepared and tested to decide the amount of lime-cement binder needed to reach the desired material strength. Strength measurements are not possible before a sample hardens, and the test process to predict final strength takes 30 days. Resistivity measurements are possibl

Does the level of attention that politicians direct toward complex environmental problems impact how frontline bureaucrats in municipal settings form relationships? The collaborative interactions among civil servants are a defining feature of environmental governance, drastically shaping how issues are addressed. In this article, the authors incorporate political attention, or the priority status

Wildfires are a natural disturbance shaping boreal forests, but their effects on soil microbial communities and biogeochemical cycling remain unclear, particularly in Fennoscandia. We investigated the impact of fire severity and post-fire management on the soil microbial community two years after a boreal wildfire in Sweden. We quantified growth rates of bacteria, saprotrophic fungi (SF), ectomyco

Ideally a flux tower should be installed on a homogeneous and flat terrain. The surface should be physically homogeneous (same forest height and thermal properties) as well as be covered by same tree species, or in the case of the mixed forest, the distribution of the different species should be even (“well-mixed”). The fetch, the outreach of the homogeneous surface, should be longer than the exte

Critical infrastructure networks are susceptible to disruptions, and an imbalanced distribution of component importance can significantly amplify their vulnerability to cascading failures or targeted attacks. This study introduces a novel bi-objective optimization framework designed to enhance network resilience by strategically balancing component importance in multi-commodity spatial networks. T

Spatial compositional data with exact zeros arise in many applicationsbut remain challenging for models that often assume strictly positivecomponents. We develop a Bayesian spatial model that combines theDirichlet Composition Distribution, which accommodates exact zeros throughcomponent-specific zero probabilities, with a Gaussian Markov random field representationof the latent compositional field

Climate change is intensifying short-duration rainfall extremes, increasing urban pluvial flood risk across Swedish municipalities. This study develops a novel spatial statistical framework for basement flood risk assessment using Log-Gaussian Cox Process (LGCP) models on metric graphs, applied to 17 years of flood records from Trelleborg, southern Sweden.Unlike conventional approaches that treat

Inclination-dependent grain boundary (GB) energy and shear-coupled motion are studied for and tilt GBs in face-centered cubic materials using three-dimensional (3D) phase field crystal (PFC) simulations. A large dataset spanning misorientation and inclination space is systematically generated to evaluate trends in GB energy and shear-coupling. GB energy variations broadly follow ideal faceting a

Urban pluvial flooding is a growing climate-related risk in Nordic cities, where short-duration rainfall extremes interact with aging drainage infrastructure and urban form. This study analyses 17 years (2006–2023) of property-level basement flooding reports from Trelleborg, a coastal municipality in southern Sweden, to identify empirical rainfall thresholds and infrastructural conditions associat

Reconstructions and simulations disagree on whether the Holocene exhibited a long-term cooling or warming signal. Anthropogenic land-use could be an important forcing regionally, but available population-based estimates differ widely. We examine transient Holocene climate model simulations forced with three population-based disturbed-land reconstructions and compare this with a fourth scenario der

Foraminifera are single-celled eukaryotes; most possess a perforated calcite test (shell) that fossilizes in marine sediments. During calcification, morphological features reflect environmental conditions, particularly, foraminiferal porosity is a promising proxy for reconstructing past ocean oxygenation.However, traditional analysis relies on averages from small parts of the shell in 2D slices du

Nanoplastics are increasingly being recognized as a global pollutant. However, relatively few studies report directly measured concentrations of nano- and microplastics in environmental samples, although available data suggest levels of up to 0.5 mg L−1 in lake water, which is surprisingly high. Their degradation in the environment, particularly under UV irradiation, is still poorly understood. He