By Ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 11 October 2022 Illustration: Linda Eitrem Holmgren What is most surprising about the demonstrations in Iran, is how young the protesting girls are. So says Rola El-Husseini, researcher in political sociology and expert on women's movements in the Middle East.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leadership-needed-protests-usher-change-iran - 2025-06-29

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 19 October 2022 CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund were part of a group that put together a photo exhibition on forest fires in the garden of the Pufendorf Institute in Lund. Photo: Bodil Malmström Scientists all over the world agree: the earth is getting hotter

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/world-fire-how-do-we-adapt-warmer-planet - 2025-06-29

Published 19 October 2022 CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean will be giving a lecture on Lebanese politics hosted by the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF) in Lund.  Rola's research profile UPF's website UPF's Facebook page

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upf-lecture-lebanon-failed-state - 2025-06-29

Published 26 October 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "How Can Sewage Sludge Use in Sustainable Tunisian Agriculture Be Increased?" together with Nidhal Marzougui (Université de Carthage), Nadia Ounalli (Université de Carthage), Sonia Sabbahi (Université de Carthage), Tarek Fezzani (Université de Carthage), Farah Abidi (Université de Carthage), Sihem Jebari (U

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sewage-sludge-use-sustainable-tunisian-agriculture - 2025-06-29

Published 27 October 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-31 - 2025-06-29

Published 28 October 2022 CMES scholar Seyed Amir Naghibi has co-authored the paper "Optimal Landfill Site Selection for Solid Waste of Three Municipalities Based on Boolean and Fuzzy Methods: A Case Study in Kermanshah Province, Iran" together with Seyed Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Golnaz Darvishi (Shahid Beheshti University) and Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shahid Beheshti Universi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/landfill-site-selection-iran - 2025-06-29

Published 31 October 2022 CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about climate migration in Göteborgs-Posten. The article was written (in Swedish) and published in Göteborgs-Posten on 24 October 2022. Read the article in Swedish: "En miljard människor tvingas fly – på grund av klimatkrisen". Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. In a new report, the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-goteborgs-posten-about-climate-migration - 2025-06-29

Published 5 September 2018 ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. The annual summer meeting was held August 29–30 in Höllviken, with the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, Lund University), Åsa Kasimir

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eye-opening-discussions-phd-students - 2025-06-29

Published 6 February 2017 Johanna Alkan Olsson from CEC, Lund University was awarded 5,000 Euros for her project on algorithmic potato farming at Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day 27 January. The project will create a method for farmers to better handle outbreaks of late blight on crops, a disease expected to become more problematic in a changing climate. This was the second ever Climate-KIC Nordic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/potato-project-awarded-grant - 2025-06-29

Published 10 February 2017 Four different research teams have shared the assignment of evaluating the the Swedish rural programme 2007–2013. One of the groups have been responsible for the second partial report, with the assignment of evaluating the programmes effect when it comes to measures for improving the environment. This research group has worked under the supervision of Henrik Smith who ha

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-evaluation-report-swedish-rural-programme-2007-2013 - 2025-06-29

Published 15 February 2017 Anna Persson, researcher at the CEC is one of the authors of a new publication from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Arguments for more ecosystem services". From the report; Ecosystem services are the foundation of human welfare, yet the services are often invisible in many of society’s decision-making processes. This report contains statistics, studies and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/arguments-more-ecosystem-services - 2025-06-29

Published 6 March 2017 The research project Valuation of ecosystem services in agriculture – a path towards effective decision making (VESA) led by Katarina Hedlund will present their results at the Environmental Protection Agency's final conference March 21 in Stockholm. One of the results of VESA is C-bank, which is a web-based tool that can be used by farmers and advisers to value ecosystem ser

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-conference-value-ecosystem-services - 2025-06-29

Published 4 April 2017 Up-coming deadline for applying to become one of the next generation PhD students in ClimBEco Graduate Research School (2017–2019) will be May 5th. About ClimBEco on cec.lu.seOpen flyer about ClimBEco (PDF, 2.2 MB, new tab)

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climbeco-graduate-research-school-2017-2019 - 2025-06-29

Published 6 April 2017 Professor Kevin Anderson is one of the leading experts in the world on climate change and has written a number of articles on the urgency for action. On April 10 & 11 he is visiting Lund. On Monday April 10, Kevin Anderson will hold a lecture at the public library in Lund from 18.00 to 19.30: Mitigation – but how fast?Politicians and negotiators always seem to use yesterdays

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researcher-kevin-anderson-visits-lund-april-10-and-11 - 2025-06-29

Published 5 May 2017 The first ever Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29–31 August 2017. The first Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29–31 August 2017. Deadline for abstracts is June 15th and for registration is August 1st 2017.  icos-denmark.dk

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/first-nordic-icos-symposium - 2025-06-29

Published 5 May 2017 Photo: Melburnian Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your uncertainty in your running time in which way you want! After the race on May 13th and the actual running times are known, we will evaluate the performances of all predictions. The results will be presented in June, where we will hand out several awards.Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your u

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lundaloppet-predictive-challenge-2017 - 2025-06-29

Published 5 May 2017 Did you miss Ullrika’s Docent lecture? Don’t worry.Have a look at the slides on evidence.blogg.lu.se

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-docent-lecture - 2025-06-29

Published 10 May 2017 During last autumn and winter a team of researchers, PhD students and master students from Lund University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg, joined forces to undertake a student-driven quantitative review on temporal changes in ecosystem services. While the primary outcome of this collaboration will be a review to be published in an international scientific journal, the true

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/student-driven-quantitative-review-temporal-changes-ecosystem-services - 2025-06-29

Published 17 May 2017 BECC researcher Ullrika Sahlin has together with other researchers published a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet today (17/5) arguing that the WWF's advice not to eat the endangered indigenous Swedish crayfish Astacus astacus is confusing and should be changed. Read the article on svd.se (in Swedish)

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/article-crayfish-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-06-29

Published 15 June 2017 Photo: Sune Broman och Inger Ekström. Martin Green and Jens Rydell at the biology department, Lund University, have been awarded Skånes vindkraftspris 2017. Read the full article in Swedish on biologi.lu.se

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/biologists-win-skane-wind-academy-prize - 2025-06-29