Chronicle by Jamil Khan Associate Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems, Lund University “A smart city is a city with open senses. With its sensors it can see, hear, feel, smell and taste digital information that contributes to a more considerate, efficient, safe and sustainable society.” This may sound as...
“Sustainability is a long-term issue. A journey, rather than a goal. You can always take steps along the way – but the work is never done. It is about continuous improvement”, says Erik Lindroth, Environment Director at Tetra Pak and now also new doctoral student at the School of Economics...
Opinion by Marcus Klasson, consumer researcher at School of Economics and Management. Food fuels humanity, but in today’s Western society, food is so much more. Food and the culture associated with food, is about lifestyle and status, economy and livelihood, individuals’ origins and, of course, about health. What we eat...
‟Swedish companies have done a lot of good work on the environment, but they are only beginning to address human rights abuses. For a long time they have not considered that issue to be of their concern and that it was the sole responsibility of states and governments. In this...
Can we already see the effects of a warmer climate? By studying changes in the presence of various plants and animals, we can get signals about what is happening in our environment. In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote about her fears that birdsong would be silenced when birds...
“Sustainability is often studied from a large-scale, political or institutional perspective. I was interested in looking at sustainability from the other end, how individual inner transition could impact on global sustainability”, says Professor Christine Wamsler from the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. This interest led her to conduct a...
The disposal or combustion of leftover crops or edible products that have not been sold is a waste of the Earth’s resources. It is also bad economics for farmers. A circular economy in agriculture means utilising the value of a product or raw material by, for example, turning it into...
Climate change, a growing population and increased urbanisation place great demands on our cities. Meeting these challenges requires collaboration to develop smart cities. But what does a smart city really mean and how do we create one? A smart city is a sustainable city. A city in which people want...
“We cannot cultivate crops the way we do today if we want to create truly sustainable agriculture. We must be open to using other types of crops than annual crops and we must move away from the narrow use of monocultures”, says Lennart Olsson from the Lund University Centre for...
