Published 3 May 2016 QS World University Rankings for 2016 places Lund University as the world's 16th by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 16 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is the an improvement from last year's position of 20.Lund University as a whole is ranked #70, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 univers

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Published 3 May 2016 ... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2025-03-14

Published 8 June 2016 Margareta Johansson, researcher at the department, has been elected as the new Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change. Here she answers some questions regarding this. What's the purpose of the the Academy's National Committee for Global Environmental Change?– Our mission is to ensure that Swedish scientists find out

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Published 27 June 2016 Ricardo Guillén, IT technician at the department, has been awarded The Science Student Union honorary prize. The honorary prize is awarded to an employee or a group of employees at the Faculty of Science that has made the studies easier for students or works to strengthen the student voice.The prize is partly motivated by the following: "Ricardo consistently provides IT supp

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ricardo-guillen-awarded-luna-honorary-prize - 2025-03-14

Published 19 August 2016 Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during July and August. In July, Markku was featured in Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad and  Aftonbladet, discussing climate change, and how global warming can be mitigated.He was also interviewed about the environmental impact of air travel in Sv

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2025-03-14

Published 27 September 2016 Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three people.Ylva will present her research on BVOC: the comm

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2025-03-14

Published 24 October 2016 Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordinated by Margareta Johansson and began October 1.For more

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Published 26 October 2016 Photo: Janne Rinne The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/niklas-boke-olens-dataset-projected-population-density-published-nature-scientific-data - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/historical-spatio-temporal-dataset-1813-1914-published-nature-scientific-data - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/torben-r-christensen-featured-short-film-about-arctic-climate-and-environment - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-report-easac - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/chad-country-most-vulnerable-climate-change-heres-why - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/arvidsson-and-uhlin-boundary-crossing-civil-society-elites - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magalhaes-teixeira-rethinking-way-peace-and-violence-are-understood-global-south - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/advancing-new-research-agenda-digital-disruption-diplomacy - 2025-03-14