Interview with Per Becker on Swedish national radio
Professor Per Becker was interviewed on Swedish national radio (P1 Morgon) concerning climate-related risk and how society is adapted to manage it. Interview on the website of Swedish national radio (in Swedish)
Seminar about land-use planning around large industrial sites
On September 26th, Johan Ingvarson from the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety will participate at a seminar on the topic of managing risk in land-use planning in the vicinity of industries with large quantities of dangerous substances. Johan will contribute with new perspectives from risk science and current trends from how risks are [...]
Wish you a great summer!
We are now taking a summer break with our news feed. We will be back with more news in the autumn again!
SRA Europe’s Annual conference was arranged in Lund!
Between June 18 and 21, the annual SRA conference was arranged in Lund at AF borgen. Representatives from the Division of risk management and societal safety were part of the local organising committee and serveral of us presented our latest research. In addition, professor Per Becker was part of a panel discussion. Overall, the conference was a [...]
Lund Study visit in the 1Future project
During 13-16 June, 25-30 participants from eight countries visited Lund as part of the 1Future-project which aims to support Western Balkan higher education institutions to build capacity in the area of sustainability, resilience and climate action. The Division of risk management and societal safety was the host and the idea of the study visit was [...]
Process safety for the industry – time for a new batch!
In August we start batch 2 of the commissioned education course Process safety for the industry. The course is, as indicated by the title, aiming at process safety practitioners who wants to develop in the field of risk of risk analysis and risk management. The course runs over two semesters (autumn 2023 and spring 2024) at 25% speed. Course [...]
Our colleague Mo Hamza has been granted funding for a new interdisciplinary MECW-project!
The new interdisciplinary MECW-project "ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict-Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation" has been granted founding for three years. Over a decade has passed since the onset of the Syrian conflict, which continues to have dire humanitarian consequences in the region. Syria, with a population of [...]
Congratulations to Sofia Ritthammer and Minja Sillanpää to the award for the best Master Thesis 2022!
Our students Sofia Ritthammer and Minja Sillanpää from the DRMCCA-program (Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation), wrote last year a Master Thesis on Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions in Sweden. The thesis was awarded with the best Master Thesis from Svensk Vatten at Vattenstämman in Umeå. If you want to read more about the [...]
Misse Wester have submitted Lund Municipality's Climate Policy to the City Council.
Our colleguage Misse Wester is the vice-chair of Lund Municipality's Climate Policy Council. This Wednsday she submitted the Council's report for 2023 to the City Council. In the report, we focus on improvements in the circular economy and transport, in particular cycling. The article and report is in Swedish and if you want to read more about it, [...]
Welcome to join our Master thesis presentations that are coming up!
Our Master thesis presentations will be on May 31st, June 1st and June 2nd. You are very welcome to join, and you find all the information about the presentations in the schedule.