Opinion by Alexander Paulsson, senior lecturer in Business Administration, who runs the research group Sustainability, Ecology and Economy (SEE) at the School of Economics and Management in Lund and also works at K2, Sweden’s national centre for research and education on public transport. What is required for us to have...
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...
The camera in an ordinary mobile phone could be used as a microscope for early, easy and cheap detection of common parasitical and bacterial diseases. The organisms are first identified in a portable nanotechnological detector, developed at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering, which is then plugged in to the phone...
Column by Pål Börjesson, Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems As we all know, throughout human history we have lived off renewable resources until little more than a century ago when we began using fossil fuels, such as coal and later oil, at an increasingly rapid speed. We are now...
As a child, Sara Thorin dreamed of becoming a physicist. As a project leader for one of MAX IV Laboratory’s most central components – the linear accelerator – she has a great responsibility for ensuring the world’s best synchrotron radiation facility delivers light of exactly the right quality to reveal...
Think of trains – take the bus. This is how the concept will be launched when Skåne switches to superbus routes on the stretches currently covered by the Skåne express. These superbus routes are to compensate for the lack of railways and will be quick and comfortable. “The goal for...
