Opinion: Max Åhman, Senior researcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University 2014 After 40 years of experimentation, the next 10 years could be the breakthrough for sustainable transport, but more and better understanding of the systemic barriers for a sustainable transition is still needed. Modern society is dependent on...
How can we learn to manage all the opportunities we have within reach in the 21st century? “In the interdisciplinary project ‘Managing overflow’, I work with cultural science and social science researchers to understand how individuals, organisations and companies develop strategies to deal with the flow of information, choice, activities...
Landskrona in Sweden is becoming a greener city this autumn. A battery-driven bus is being introduced with ‘slide-in’ power. The bus will run under the city’s existing trolleybus wires, where it will charge its battery before being disconnected to continue running on batteries only before returning to its route under...
While poverty is a prioritised goal in the EU, in Sweden it is politically dead. The parties are agreed on the work-first principle and no one is pursuing issues of marginalisation – despite the increasing gaps in income. Is this because the climate in society has become less empathic or...
