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25 May 2018
How to become a researcher
CEC's Hampus Nilsson describes his journey towards doing research on nature-based solutions and multiple ecosystem services in cities.
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27 Apr 2018
EU agrees on a ban on the use of neonicotinoids
The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees.
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20 Apr 2018
Farm2Forest – on sustainable agriculture in a biobased future
Research and society in close cooperation: that is the basis for Farm2Forest, a project aiming to produce evidence guiding Swedish and European agricultural and forestry policymaki...
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13 Apr 2018
Sowing strips of flowering plants has limited effect on pollination
Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they la...
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5 Apr 2018
Report about ecological focus areas
The report "Collective implementation of ecological focus areas" evaluating effects on ecosystem services, agriculture and administration is now available in English.
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26 Mar 2018
New research initiative will address environmental problems of the Baltic Sea region Hanö Bay
Lund University and the Simrishamn Municipality have received funding from Region Skåne to start a new research and innovation environment at the Marine Centre in Simrishamn. The a...
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21 Mar 2018
CEC participated in dialogue in Brussels
Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson and Ida Nordin from CEC and AgriFood have, at the invitation of the European Commission, participated in a Civil Dialogue Group meeting in Brussels.
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21 Mar 2018
Master thesis awarded on World Water Day
Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding.
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12 Mar 2018
Hedda Andersson visiting professorship at the CEC
Professor Alexandra-Maria Klein, from the University of Freiburg, will be the holder of a Hedda Andersson visiting professorship during 2019 and 2020. The Centre of Environmental a...
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5 Mar 2018
Human and nature in symbiosis
In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In sim...
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5 Mar 2018
Climate models point the way towards the future
The climate issue is one of the biggest global societal challenges of our time. Research on where the climate is heading is an important part of that work, both to monitor the impa...
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8 Jan 2018
Intensified irrigation threatens agricultural productivity
High concentrations of salt in agricultural soil is an environmental problem that has plagued human civilization from its very beginning. Also in modern times, salinization of soil...
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22 Dec 2017
Christmas gift to practice your skills in guessing
This game is a blessing, to practice your skills in guessing. Accuracy and precision, are good for a decision. Although being uncertain might seem less, it can lead to success.
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19 Dec 2017
KSLA-Wallenberg Professorship at the CEC
Professor Tobias Kuemmerle, from the Humboldt University in Berlin, will be the holder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, KSLA-Wallenberg Professorship 2018....
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14 Dec 2017
Film from workshop about ecosystem services in agricultural production
The workshop was organized by the CEC and the strategic research area BECC, November 21–22 2017.
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5 Dec 2017
To plow a lot, a little or not at all
Reduced tillage before sowing benefits symbiotic fungi, this is shown in Sofia Hydbom's dissertation Tillage practices and their impact on soil organic carbon and the microbial com...
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9 Nov 2017
Rich pollination improves strawberry harvesting
Pollination is more important for strawberry growth than previously thought. A rich pollination gives better strawberry harvesting with strawberries that grow faster and weigh more...
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22 Oct 2017
Aerosol particles impact on the climate
Emilie Öström has written a thesis that increases our knowledge of how airborne particles, so-called aerosols, affect the climate.
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12 Oct 2017
Climate change – the state of knowledge, politics and innovations as a solution
In conjunction with the IPCC authors’ meeting in Malmö in October Sustainability Forum and Climate-KIC, both operating from the CEC, are co-organizers of three arrangements concern...
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29 Aug 2017
Cultivating oilseed rape can affect later flowering plants
Increasing cultivation of oilseed rape may have consequences for pollinators and wild plant pollination. A recently published study from CEC suggests that oilseed rape can affect l...