Publicerad 5 mars 2018 Begreppet ”ekosystemtjänster” har på senare år blivit allt vanligare både i forskarvärlden, bland kommuner och myndigheter och i företag. Förenklat kan det beskrivas som den nytta vi människor har av naturens ekosystem – till exempel för den mat vi äter, luften vi andas, rening av vattnet vi dricker, bioenergi för att värma våra hus, trä till papper och byggnader och så vida

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/manniska-och-natur-i-symbios - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 13 mars 2018 Professor Alexandra-Maria Klein från Freiburgs universitet har beviljats en Hedda Andersson-gästprofessur vid Lunds universitet under 2019 och 2020. Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning, CEC, och det strategiska forskningsområdet Biodiversitet och ekosystemtjänster i ett föränderligt klimat, BECC, kommer att fungera som professor Kleins värdar. Alexandra-Maria Klein stude

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/hedda-andersson-gastprofessur-till-cec - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 21 mars 2018 Lunds universitet och Simrishamns kommun har fått finansiering från Region Skåne för en ny forsknings- och innovationsmiljö på Marint centrum i Simrishamn. Syftet är att studera och lösa miljöproblem och samhällsutmaningar kopplade till hav, vatten och kustbygd i Skåne och södra Sverige. Södra Östersjön och Hanöbukten ligger i ett särskilt utsatt havsområde med stora miljöp

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/ny-forskningssatsning-tar-sig-hanobuktens-miljoproblem - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 21 mars 2018 Foto: Gunnar Svensson Hampus Nilsson, doktorand på CEC, uppmärksammas för sitt examensarbete om hur man kan förutse och förebygga urbana översvämningar. Det svenska hydrologiska rådet (SHR) har utsett Hampus Nilssons examensarbete från LTH och GIS-centrum till det bästa examensarbetet med hydrologisk anknytning. Hampus examensarbete kommer att uppmärksammas i samband med Vä

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/examensarbete-prisas-pa-varldsvattendagen - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 21 mars 2018 Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson och Ida Nordin från CEC och AgriFood har på inbjudan av EU-kommissionen deltagit i en så kallad Civil Dialogue Group i Bryssel. På dialogmötets agenda fanns bland annat EU-kommissionens första utkast till en reformerad jordbrukspolitik, The Future of Food and Farming, som offentliggjordes i november. Bakgrunden till AgriFoods och CEC:s inbjudan a

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/cec-deltar-i-dialog-i-bryssel - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 4 april 2018 Sådd remsa med perserklöver. Foto: Maj Rundlöf. Ett varierat landskap med hagar, ängar och andra oplöjda miljöer gynnar pollinerande insekter. I slättlandskap som domineras av plöjd åkermark saknar de pollinerande insekterna både mat och boplatser. Sådda blomremsor kan förbättra de pollinerande insekternas tillgång till mat och antas därför gynna pollinering. Ny forskning v

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/sadda-blomremsor-har-begransad-effekt-pa-pollinering - 2025-08-09

Published 6 February 2015 A Dutch pilot, a safety manager from Australia, an average-adjuster from Denmark and twelve others who work with safety in high-risk industries came together a week before Christmas in Lund to hone their critical thinking skills. They are all studying the distance-learning MSc in Human Factors and System Safety, and it was now time to meet in real life. Participants on th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scattered-risk-students-gather-lund - 2025-08-09

Published 6 February 2015 Lund University’s MOOCs have now started. First to launch was the Faculty of Law course in European Business Law, closely followed by Greening the Economy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), and later in the spring the Faculty of Medicine’s course in sexual health will take place. The number of people registered for the courses

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mooc-launch-celebrated-fizz-and-folk-dance - 2025-08-09

Published 6 February 2015 … CEO of Lund University’s student consulting company Lunicore, which increased its turnover by 45 per cent last year. As a result, it is now probably the largest student-run consulting company in Scandinavia. Why should students work as consultants during their studies? “Because they get the chance to put their theoretical knowledge into practice while they’re still stud

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-emil-erikssonabout-students-consultants - 2025-08-09

Published 6 February 2015 The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2025-08-09

Published 9 February 2015 Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish labour market works. If we dared to shake up the regula

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 From Jordan to Lund: Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi have got off to a good start as PhD students in architecture at LU. They are the result of a revitalised agreement with Yarmouk University. PhD students in architecture Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi outside LUX, a building they find architecturally interesting. “I love following rules and here there are rules e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jordanian-doctoral-students-appreciate-swedish-order - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 David Gisselsson is a researcher on a roll. In the autumn, he was awarded Lund’s ‘local Fernström Prize’, which goes to a promising young researcher in medicine, and he has recently had an article published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field, Nature Communications. David Gisselsson with two of his research tools – the microscope and the computer. David Giss

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/attention-new-findings-childhood-cancer - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 Doctoral students living on relatively low external scholarships should get terms of employment that are more equal to those on doctoral studentships. This is the hope of the University’s Education Board, which has approved the faculties topping up the income of doctoral students on scholarships. However, the Faculty of Law and the University’s employment lawyers have regist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-conditions-horizon-scholarship-holders - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 Meet Jonas Hafström, a lawyer with a background in the diplomatic service, including as Swedish ambassador to the USA. For the past year he has led government trade delegations around the world and helped to coach Swedish embassy staff in countries with strong economic growth. Jonas Hafström. Foto: Pawel Flato Welcome to Lund University as the new chair of the University Boa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/welcome-jonas-hafstrom-new-chair-university-board - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 Enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft believed that living in hierarchies destroyed and corrupted people deep down in their souls. “For her, inequality was the greatest threat to democracy and liberty. It is still dynamite today, as the gulf between rich and poor widens and the world is divided into lords and servants”, says Professor of Human Rights Studies Lena Hal

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reinterpreting-feminist-pioneer - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 Peter Schurtenberger wants to create specially designed nanoparticles that can instruct themselves. He is a high-level researcher and chemistry professor recruited from Switzerland, and is fascinated by the processes behind nature’s own ability to organise its smallest components. His aim is to mimic them. Peter Schurtenberger wants to create nanoparticles that could build c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mimicking-nature-nanoscale - 2025-08-09

Published 6 March 2015 Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-08-09

Published 13 April 2015 “I am a political activist and want to broaden and deepen the subject of film studies”, says Chris Holmlund, who is spending the spring as a visiting professor at Lund University. She is a prominent figure in the world’s largest organisation for film researchers and in that capacity will represent Lund University at conferences worldwide. Chris Holmlund is a professor of fi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-film-studies-prominent-among-film-researchers - 2025-08-09

Published 13 April 2015 We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierzbicka, who is coordinating an interdisciplinary theme at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2025-08-09