Published 12 March 2018 Professor Alexandra-Maria Klein, from the University of Freiburg, will be the holder of a Hedda Andersson visiting professorship during 2019 and 2020. The Centre of Environmental and Climate research, CEC, and the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem in a Changing Climate, BECC, will act as professor Klein´s hosts during her stay at Lund University. Alexandra-

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/hedda-andersson-visiting-professorship-cec - 2025-04-04

Published 21 March 2018 Photo: Gunnar Svensson Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding. The Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) has appointed Hampus Nilsson's master thesis from LTH and Lund University's GIS Center to be the best master thesis within hydrology in 2017. Hampus began studying technical mathemati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/master-thesis-awarded-world-water-day - 2025-04-04

Published 21 March 2018 Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson and Ida Nordin from CEC and AgriFood have, at the invitation of the European Commission, participated in a Civil Dialogue Group meeting in Brussels. On the agenda was the European Commission's first draft for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, The Future of Food and Farming, which was published in November. The background to AgriFood’s and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participated-dialogue-brussels - 2025-04-04

Published 26 March 2018 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 Sweden. The southern Baltic Sea and the Hanö Bay are locate

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-research-initiative-will-address-environmental-problems-baltic-sea-region-hano-bay - 2025-04-04

Published 5 April 2018 Photo: Albin Andersson 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 implementation of ecological focus a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/report-about-ecological-focus-areas - 2025-04-04

Published 13 April 2018 Sown flower strips of clover. Photo: Maj Rundlöf. 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 assumed to be

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-swedish-national-radio - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

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 - 2025-04-04

Publicerad 9 januari 2017 Ullrika Sahlin, forskare vid Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning, CEC, har fått Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award för sitt arbete inom fältet riskanalys. Ullrika Sahlin, forskare vid Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning CEC, har fått Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award för sitt arbete inom fältet riskanalys. Utmärkelsen tillsammans med USD 500 delades u

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/forskare-far-pris-av-society-risk-analysis - 2025-04-04

Publicerad 18 januari 2017 Avsikten med Dr. Pejchars besök är att utveckla forskningen i intersektionen mellan biodiversitet, ekosystemtjänster och jordbruk i samarbete med BECC:s forskare. Dr. Liba Pejchar brings expertise in several emerging topics in BECC at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Her lively research program explores innovative strategies for

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/valkommen-till-becc-gastforskaren-liba-pejchar-associate-professor-fran-department-fish-wildlife-and - 2025-04-04

Publicerad 1 februari 2017 • Do you get your Friday emails from Research professional with the latest funding opportunities? • Is your profile in LUCRIS, ORCID-ID and PRISMA in order? • What happens with your articles once they are published? How do you get them in all these databases? Warmly welcome to a workshop on tools for researchers at LU on 9 February 10–12. This event is open to both CEC F

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/workshop-tools-researchers-lu - 2025-04-04

Publicerad 3 februari 2017 I januari 2017 signerade Lunds universitet ett Memorandum of Understanding med Stockholm Environmental Institute, SEI. Samarbetet mellan Lunds universitet och SEI har pågått en längre tid inom områden som klimatanpassning, anpassningar till fossilfri ekonomi i Sverige, jordbruk och livsmedelssäkerhet och senast med ett gemensamt 58 MSEK Mistra Geopolitik och Hållbar Utve

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/lunds-universitet-och-sei-signerar-mou - 2025-04-04

Publicerad 6 februari 2017 Johanna Alkan Olsson från CEC, Lunds Universitet lyckades med hjälp av en lysande presentation ta hem 5.000 euro för sitt projekt om algoritmisk potatisodling på Climate-KIC Nordics Ideation Day 27/1. Projektet ska skapa en metod för lantbrukare för att bättre kunna hantera utbrott av bladmögel på potatisplantor, ett problem som kommer att bli mer vanligt med ett förändr

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/potatisprojekt-far-finansiering - 2025-04-04