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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Exporting the Swedish welfare model is not a good idea. At least not as a recipe for achieving a more sustainable society, says Professor Max Koch, manager of a research team that links the climate crisis with welfare. Sweden’s relatively low carbon emissions, despite a high gross domestic product, are partly due to t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-success-terms-economic-growth-devastating-our-climate - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The key to increased well-being in Africa lies in improving small scale farming – at least if you want to see improvements within a foreseeable future, according to Göran Djurfeldt. Together with Ola Hall, he has now launched a project using drones to understand why harvests vary so much from one field to the next, de

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/drone-images-could-solve-african-farming-mystery - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowled

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Could green citizen journalism on social media be a way to solve China’s huge environmental problems? “Perhaps. Citizen journalism forces change. However, the authorities still believe that experts and more control from above will solve the problem of climate change. They haven’t understood that the trend cannot be re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-grassroots-journalism-important-tackle-chinas-environmental-problems - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The bad news about malignant melanoma is that the disease is increasing more rapidly than most other types of cancer. The good news is that it is easy to cure, as long as it is detected in time. A research group in Lund has therefore started a project that it is hoped will make it easier to correctly diagnose suspicio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tape-could-simplify-skin-cancer-diagnosis - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Being director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics is about choosing what to do, and what not to do. At the start, Lena Neij travelled a lot, but now she sees representing the institute abroad as a responsibility shared by all the staff. She still supervises doctoral students, but doe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/there-are-lot-duties-role - 2026-05-19

Synchrotron radiation helps vision researcher Emily Baird create three-dimensional images of how insects see the world. In the future, this could lead to sighted drones that navigate through the air like insects, without being remote controlled from the ground. “I enjoy research more than anything, and the most fun part is that I am forced to be creative and make constant progress, says Emily Bair

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studies-bees-can-enable-drones-see - 2026-05-19

En studie som har publicerats i tidskriften The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology förutspår en stor ökning av antalet fall av typ 1-diabetes under de kommande 20 åren. Studien lyfter även fram den stora ojämlikheten inom diabetesvården. År 2021 var det omkring 8,4 miljoner människor världen över som hade typ 1-diabetes. Enligt forskarnas beräkningar kan antalet fall ha ökat till mellan 13 och 17,4 m

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forskare-forutspar-stor-okning-av-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-05-19

Informal networking, panel discussion, and Q&A session. During the forum for LTH's employees last week, Dean Annika Olsson highlighted a selection of recent good news from LTH. The management also discussed some of the key issues for the coming years – including strategic recruitment and the fact that, despite major successes, LTH cannot rest on its laurels in the competition for large grants. Emp

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/best-obtaining-erc-grants-and-40-cent-new-students-are-women - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vi väntar allt längre innan vi planerar för barn. Men vilka samhällsekonomiska och hälsorelaterade konsekvenser kan vi förvänta oss den negativa fertilitetstrenden? Hur gör vi människor i reproduktiv ålder mer medvetna om fertilitet, levnadsvanor och en reproduktiv livsplan? Vad kan politiker göra för att vända samh

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/vad-kan-vi-gora-att-vanda-den-negativa-fertilitetstrenden - 2026-05-19

They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbeing by functioning as social green spaces. Now she strikes a blow for gardens in the urban planning. Green spaces, such as parks and allotment gardens, have a major impact on our physical and mental health and wellbeing –

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/urban-private-gardens-promote-biodiversity - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish cities of Malmö, Lund, Oskarshamn and Bjuv are looking for creative partners with innovative solutions that can be involved in a new venture, to convert waste heat into urban food or other biological production through an Open Innovation Competition. Clean residual heat emitted from a diverse range of sour

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-food-residual-heat-open-innovation-competition - 2026-05-19

Perhaps not, argues Yulia Vakulenko. At least not when it comes to the delivery service needs and preferences of rural versus urban e-consumers in the age of consumer-centric supply chain management. The new age of consumer-centric supply chain management highlights the benefits of placing the consumer at the core of strategy development and operations design. Recent e-commerce shifts translate in

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/does-one-service-fit-all - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Just before Christmas, his department lost out on a top international researcher, an investment worth over SEK 100 million. A month later, his group reported a major breakthrough in pheromone research. Professor Christer Löfstedt, head of the Department of Biology, one of the largest departments at Lund University, fe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rollercoaster-life-head-department - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Går det att lita på folk i allmänhet? Ja, svarar ungefär två av tre svenskar. Nordiska länder ligger högt i det vi kallar mellanmänsklig tillit. I andra länder är det inte lika självklart. Vad händer när perspektiven möts? Nationalekonomen Andreas Bergh har studerat fenomenet närmare. I Sverige har vi tillgång till

https://www.lu.se/artikel/vem-i-hela-varlden-kan-man-lita-pa - 2026-05-19

Alicia N'Guetta is a PhD student working across two LUCSUS projects, MaCoBios and DICE. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, livelihood, loss and damage, and gender in Martinique, an overseas department of France situated in the Caribbean Sea. Using a gender lens, she will explore how climate change impact on marine coastal ecosystems services affect livelihoods and how adaptation st

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/alicia-nguetta-uses-gender-lens-study-impacts-climate-change-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2026-05-19

When the Swedish Research Council announced funding for so-called "centres of excellence" almost three years ago, a total of 15 new initiatives were approved across Sweden. Only one of them was awarded to Lund: COMMONS – Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions.A year has now passed since COMMONS was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Department of Chemistry. What has happened si

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/commons-centre-excellence-focus-common-ground - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Många patienter som söker vård för långvarig höft- och ljumsksmärta blir remitterade till ortopedkirurgen. Sjukgymnasten Anders Pålssons doktorsavhandling från Lunds universitet visar att patienterna upplever låg livskvalitet och har låg fysisk funktion. Om smärtan kan ringas in och diagnosticeras redan på vårdcentr

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tidigare-diagnostik-ger-kortare-koer-till-ortopeden - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Gedea Biotech har beviljats tre miljoner euro från EU-programmet Fast Track to Innovation (FTI), en del av Horizon 2020-programmet, för att utveckla antibiotikafri behandling mot vaginala infektioner. Bidraget kommer att finansiera slutförandet av det kliniska prövningsprogrammet och förberedelser för marknadsintrod

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/portfoljbolaget-gedea-biotech-far-30-miljoner-fran-eus-horizon-2020 - 2026-05-19

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Priser och stipendium faller som årets första höstregn över Lunds universitets forskare. ÅRETS GEOLOG. Daniel Conley, professor vid Geologiska institutionen, har utsetts till Årets geolog 2014 av Geosektionen inom Naturvetarna. Priset på 25.000 kronor får han för sitt hängivna arbete med att förhindra övergödning av

https://www.lu.se/artikel/arets-geolog-och-dubbelprisad-fysiker - 2026-05-19