The global Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 point towards a new way of working with development issues. In their research, Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson from the Department of Political Science at Lund University are studying issues concerning responsibility and legitimacy that arise as...
In her research, Maria Johansson studies how we as individuals experience our environment, but also how we behave. In their latest project, she and a group of researchers want to develop simple methods that can be used in community planning to better capture individuals’ wishes and responses to planned changes...
The Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST) research project is soon coming to an end. It has explored the concept of Urban Living Labs, and has involved four research organisations and cities in Sweden, the UK, Austria and the Netherlands. One outcome from the project will be a handbook full...
Agricultural land in Africa is highly relevant for foreign investors and the number of unreported cases of illegal land acquisitions is suspected to be high. “Deals” are not always reported and it can be difficult to find the buyers behind them. Most cases of these acquisitions occur in African countries with food shortages....
A smart society is starting to emerge around us with new interconnecting requirements for our use of resources not to compromise sustainability in ecosystems. Nowadays, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are an obvious tool within widely diverging fields, such as urban planning, prospecting, research, mapping, etc. Historically, GIS has been associated...
Read the article from LUM where ten researchers give their views on Sweden and where we are heading
How are different societal interests weighed against each other in a situation where we are constantly bombarded by new threats and new knowledge? And how do decision-makers deal with issues for which there is no simple answer to which decisions are the best, and when different interests conflict with one...
A ground-breaking European project aims to help cities make the best, most robust decisions for increased liveability, climate change adaptation, and management of heat, storms, and precipitation. LUND UNIVERSITY is a partner in Naturvation, which is a trans-disciplinary Horizon 2020 project involving many universities, city governments and other stakeholders. The...
As a consequence of climate change, we may need to get used to increasingly extreme weather in the future – periods of drought as well as heavy downpours. In recent years, our cities have proved vulnerable to flooding after intense rain. This problem became very clear in Malmö in 2014...
