Putting “real change for real people” at the centre of environmental governance
Jenny Iao-Jörgensen, Project Coordinator and PhD candidate from our Division, facilitated an outcome-mapping discussion with multi-sector groups from Kenya and Mozambique at a workshop this week in Kwale, Kenya. The central theme of the workshop is putting policies into practice in strengthening environmental governance for the mining sector. Using [...]
Nytt professional paper från CenCIP
Vårt center för forskning om kritisk infrastruktur har nyligen publicerat ett nytt professional paper på ämnet "Smygande sårbarheter och hot". Du kan läsa den här
“Spikning” of Lexin Lin’s PhD Thesis
On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, Lexin Lin has announced the publication of her PhD thesis, which is entitled “Risk Communication in Multi-Stakeholder Disaster Risk Management Systems: Insights and recommendations from the Swedish system”. The spikning tradition has been followed with some modern touch at the Division of Risk Management and Societal [...]
Årets lärare på riskhanteringsprogrammet utsedd
Utnämningen av "Årets lärare på riskhanteringsprogrammet" från studentorganisationen BIIF tilldelades Alexander Cedergren. Motivationen löd: "Alexander har många egenskaper som kännetecknar en bra lärare. Han är lyhörd, snäll och saklig. Han har ett stort egagemang och driv att utveckla sina kurser efter studenternas önskemål. Han förstår de [...]
PhD Student Lexin (Mona) Lin Receives Prestigious 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
PhD student Lexin (Mona) Lin has been granted “the 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad” by China Scholarship Council. This award was started in 2003 by the Chinese government with the purpose of recognizing academic excellence achieved by overseas Chinese PhD students not financed through the China [...]
PhD Defence, Lexin Lin
Lexin Lin’s public defence will take place on Friday, May 18th, 2018, at 10:15am, at V: D, V-huset, Lund. The thesis is entitled “Risk Communication in Multi-stakeholder Disaster Risk Management Systems: Insights and recommendations from the Swedish system ”. Faculty opponent: Professor David Alexander, University College London, Institute for [...]
Brandforsks forskarskola
Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet deltar i arbetet med Brandforsks nya forskarskola. Forskarskolan, som är ett samarbete mellan MSB och Brandskyddsföreningen, riktar sig till kommunanställda inom området brandsäkerhet och räddningstjänst. Totalt kommer upp till 10 yrkesverksamma personer inom kommunal räddningstjänst antas till [...]
Publication: Why People Live in Flood-Prone Areas in Akuressa, Sri Lanka
Here you find a link to a paper called "Why People Live in Flood-Prone Areas in Akuressa, Sri Lanka”, just published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Science: http://rdcu.be/JXBHAbstract:To investigate why people live in areas at high risk of floods, a qualitative case study was carried out in the areas around Akuressa, in southwest Sri [...]
Letter from the field
My internship experience with community-based disaster risk reduction management in the Philippines
Seminar: Conceptions and Epistemologies of “Crisis” in regard to Disasters, Migration and Refugees
Our professor Mo Hamza have organised a seminar on Conceptions and Epistemologies of “Crisis” in regard to Disasters, Migration and Refugees. The seminar will consist of three half-hour presentations and an open discussion. More information in the abstract and program below. When and where: Wednesday 25 April 2018 09:15 – 12:00 Pufendorf IAS [...]