The main task of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee (HSE Committee) is to monitor and coordinate the overall health, safety and environment policy of the University and the Faculty.CEC is currently involved in two different HSE committees. One is the joint committee of the Department of Biology and the CEC, and the other is set up at the Geocentre 2.CEC's representatives in the committee

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There are specific procedures and contact routines for work environment-related issues at the Norunda and Hyltemossa research stations. The Director at CEC, Katarina Hedlund, is responsible for the work environment at the CEC, including the research stations in Norunda and Hyltemossa. The Director has delegated parts of these tasks to the station manager at each research station; Irene Lehner in N

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/work-environment/norunda-and-hyltemossa-research-stations - 2025-05-03

CEC's local work on gender equality and equal treatment, as well as the local work environment work, is conducted within the framework of CEC's gender equality and equal treatment group. Everyone at CEC should be treated equally with regard to working conditions, development opportunities, salary and daily treatment, regardless of gender, gender-specific identity or expression, ethnicity, religion

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The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, CEC, is a physical and virtual centre within Lund University's Faculty of Science. You will find CEC in the Ecology Building on the north campus. We offer programmes on undergraduate and postgraduate levels and conduct research and collaboration in a wide range of areas related to environment, climate and sustainable development.Our work is interdi

https://www.cec.lu.se/about-cec - 2025-05-03

ECODEAL stands for Enhancing biodiversity-based ecosystem services to crops through optimized densities of green infrastructure in agricultural landscapes. Green infrastructure are elements of the landscape, or arrangements of elements in the landscape, that support a diversity of species, including those species that support the pollination of crops and wild plants, and the natural control of pes

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/ecodeal-1 - 2025-05-03

Journal articles and reports Badenhausser I., Gross, N., Mornet, V., Roncoroni, M., Saintilan, A., Rusch, A. (2020) Increasing amount and quality of green infrastructures at different scales promotes biological control in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 290, 106735 – sciencedirect.com    Banks HT, Banks JE, Bommarco R, Curtsdotter A, Jonsson T, Laubmeier A (2017) 

https://www.cec.lu.se/ecodeal-publications - 2025-05-03

Find the CEC staff here.

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Letter of intentsABBAffärsverkenBrain Heart EnergyDet Naturliga StegetHedmark University of Applied SciencesKarlskronaMälarenergiNaturvårdsverketRegion BlekingeSics EastTSSEFVolvoScientific Advisory BoardFind the SAB list here 

https://www.cec.lu.se/transform - 2025-05-03

Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate BECC is an interdisciplinary strategic research environment with the main purpose to better understand how changes in land use and in the climate system impact ecosystems and biodiversity. BECC's purpose is to bring together complementary skills for research in order to predict the direct and indirect effects by climate change on biodiversi

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/becc - 2025-05-03

ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system MERGE stands for ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system. It is a strategic research area involving approximately 250 researchers from Lund University, University of Gothenburg, Linnaeus University, Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Rossby Centre). Th

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Lund University Partners Below are the university stakeholders involved in the graduate research school BIOECONOMY. Deniz Koca, Centre of Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) Barry Ness, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) Tina D'Hertefeldt, Department of Biology Cecilia Akselsson, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science Rajni Hatti Kaul, Department of Chem

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Main objectives BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School (GRS) is a transdisciplinary graduate research school at Lund University with an overall aim of developing the competencies necessary for participants to: adopt systems approach in order to identify and assess the full range of technological, economic, social and ecological challenges and opportunities in transition to a circular bioeconomy; lead

https://www.cec.lu.se/education/postgraduate-studies/bioeconomy/about-us - 2025-05-03

ICOS Sweden is the Swedish part of a European research infrastructure, ICOS RI, which aims to provide accessible high-quality data to enhance our understanding of sinks and emissions of greenhouse gases. The project contributes to the long-term strengthening and consolidation of Swedish greenhouse gas-related research. ICOS Sweden currently includes a network of seven field stations and one statio

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BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School is open to all national/international PhD students.  Admission criteria include: the applicant should already be a registered PhD student at a university the PhD student’s research topic is within the scope of the BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School Research topics which are within the scope and have connections to bioeconomy are: Agriculture Forestry Marine sci

https://www.cec.lu.se/education/postgraduate-studies/bioeconomy/activities - 2025-05-03

Past BIOECONOMY events 2019 Katapult Summer School – in collaboration with Climate-KIC The programme consists of three thematic research groups that participate in a two-week residential programme to co-create and develop skills aiming for turning research into practice and develop solutions to tackle climate change. Professionals collaborate in two European cities. The BIOECONOMY graduate researc

https://www.cec.lu.se/education/postgraduate-studies/bioeconomy/calendar - 2025-05-03

Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land-use MULTAGRI (active 2014–2016), was a project within the RURAGRI ERA-NET (EU/FP7) framework with the aim to support the development of a globally competitive and sustainable agricultural sector within the EU.   In a world with rapidly growing demands for food and energy, one of the most important issues for European agricul

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/multagri - 2025-05-03

Call for new proposals for ClimBEco courses 2017 - 2018  ClimBEco financed CoursesA core activity within ClimBEco is to offer relevant courses within and across the participating scientific disciplines. We are interested in both specialized activities, e.g. addressing specific methods or research questions, and activities that represent wider scientific perspectives on one or more thematic area an

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Background, policy relevance and aim   Background A growing human population and higher per-capita consumption rates of food and bio-energy call for a strong increase of agricultural production globally. Maintaining high agricultural production through intensive conventional agriculture with its reliance on agro-chemical inputs, however, threatens the long-term sustainability of agriculture and co

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/multagri/multagri-project - 2025-05-03

NATure-based URban innovation NATURVATION (NATure-based URban innovation) is a Horizon 2020 project, funded by 7.8 million Euros by the European commission, that started in November 2016. Photo: Pixabay Nature-based solutions Nature-based solutions (NBS) are actions which are inspired and supported by nature. They have the potential to address urban challenges, as climate change, in a sustainable

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Nature-based solutions for urban challenges Nature-based solutions (NBS) are defined to be inspired and supported by nature and have recently been proposed by practitioners and policy makers, as solutions to urban challenges such as urbanization and climate change. NBS can be parks with trees that reduce heat stress and provide recreation areas, green roofs, wetlands and ponds that hold storm wate

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/ongoing-research-projects/urban-nature - 2025-05-03