Published 14 November 2016 Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith

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Published 17 November 2016 Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Sah

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Published 1 February 2017 Kobbefjord, Greenland. Photo: Katrine Raundrup The Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme has produced a special issue of the journal AMBIO: Synthesis of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme. The special issue presents 13 papers based on Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (GEM) data. They describe chosen results and analyses of the past 10 and 20 years tha

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Published 14 February 2017 A population projection dataset of Africa was generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. The publication of this dataset also led to the accreditation of DataGURU as a Nature data repository. A population projection dataset of African population spanning over the rest of this century has been generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. It is the first of its k

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Published 11 April 2017 A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detai

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Published 4 May 2017 Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" org

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 22 May 2017 EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing o

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 June 2017 By Chrisrosenk (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Hakim Abdi, who recently defended his PhD thesis at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. Hakim Abdi recently finished his PhD studies the depa

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Published 9 January 2024 Gustav Agneman and Lisa Strömbom has co-authored a new article in Journal of Conflict Resolution (open access). It presents results from a conjoint field-experiment in Meta, Colombia. Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, Lund University. Associate Professor Gustav Agneman, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The article helps increase und

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Published 11 January 2024 Anders Uhlin has together with Malin Arvidsson authored the chapter “Civil Society Boundary Crossing and Elite Integration” published in Civil Society Elites: Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top, edited by Håkan Johansson & Anna Meeuwisse. Professor Anders Uhlin, Department of Political Sciences, Lund U

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Published 11 January 2024 Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has published a paper in Geopolitics: “Room to grow and the right to say no: theorizing the liberatory power of peace in the Global South”. How do we make space for peace in the Global South, in a context of rising economic and political inequalities as well as environmental and climate change impacts?AbstractThis article builds on feminist and

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Published 12 January 2024 Karin Aggestam and Constance Duncombe have co-authored the article and edited the special issue “Advancing a New Research Agenda on Digital Disruption in Diplomacy”. Abstract:This article introduces the special issue on digital disruption in diplomacy. We propose a new research agenda, advancing novel conceptualisations and empirical insights into the hybrid nature of con

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Published 2 February 2024 On Wednesday, Georgia de Leeuw nailed her thesis, "The Comfort of Alignment: Mining, Green Steel, and Killjoy Desires in Sweden/Sápmi" at the Department of Political Science, Eden. Georgia de Leeuw nails her thesis to the wall in Eden, surrounded by her colleagues. In the background is the Assistant Head of Department for Doctoral studies, Ted Svensson. The public defense

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Published 8 February 2024 Professor Karin Aggestam, Lund University and Jacqui True, Monash University (Karin's photo: Johan Persson). Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the contribution ”Foreign Policy Analysis and Feminism” published in the The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis. Read more about The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis here:https://global.oup.com/acade

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Published 12 February 2024 We would like to congratulate Ketevan Bolkvadze for receiving funding as a partner in a Europe-wide consortium. The project "Re-ENGAGE: Re-Engaging with Neighbours in a State of War and Geopolitical Tensions" received EUR 3 million in funding through the Horizon Europe framework. Associate Senior Lecturer Ketevan Bolkvadze, Lund University. (Photo: DAVIS) Lund is one of

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Published 15 February 2024 Associate Professor Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Magdalena Bexell has published the article "Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the Sustainable Development Goals" in the journal Global Policy. The article suggests the notion of a global indicator reporting trajectory that is sha

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Published 16 February 2024 Although there is no clear connection between attractiveness and generosity, we often expect attractive people to be more generous than less attractive people. This study explores the bi-directional relationship between (expectations of) prosocial behavior and attractiveness. In a pre-registered behavioral experiment, we examined the causal effect of attractiveness on ex

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/beauty-prosocial-behavior-how-prosocial-behavior-affect-attractiveness - 2025-03-14

Published 20 February 2024 Based on a review of the correspondence between Swedish diplomats in the Baltic States and the Swedish Foreign Ministry for the years 1938–1940, the purpose of this article is, firstly, to elaborate a framework for the analysis of intelligence reporting in times of crisis, secondly, to investigate how the Swedish diplomats in the Baltic States went about to report intell

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Published 29 February 2024 Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. In November 2023, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake, and experts from the University of Cambridge and the International Institute for Sustainable Development organised a workshop in Paris titled 'Strengthening International Commitments to Shift Public Fi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/workshop-highlights-challenges-redirecting-public-finance-fossil-fuels-sustainable-development - 2025-03-14

Published 29 February 2024 Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the chapter "Foreign Policy Analysis and Securitization" which has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis (eds. Juliet Kaarbo & Cameron Thies). The chapter explores to what extent securitization theory can be linked to the issues raised within the field of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and argues that these seemingl

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