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CMES Visiting Fulbright Professor Dalia Dassa Kaye has been interviewed about the war in Gaza and the need for new leadership as the only way forward. The war in Gaza will end when Israel realises that its two goals are mutually exclusive - it will not be able to both destroy Hamas and free the hostages. This is what the new visiting Fulbright professor at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern St

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-visiting-fulbright-professor-dalia-dassa-kaye-war-gaza - 2026-05-29

The Conversation is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists that in a decade has become the world’s leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. 25% of all articles from Lund University published in the Conversation in 2023 focused on the Middle East, generating about 46,000 reads. Lund University has reached a milestone with over 10 million reads in The Conversation sin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/46000-reads-lund-university-articles-middle-east-conversation-2023 - 2026-05-29

CMES is delighted to welcome 11 part-time project interns for the 2024 spring semester. The interns are all masters students at Lund University and are doing their internships in four different CMES projects:AI in the Service of Socio-Politically Adapted Sustainable Dust-Storm Control in the Middle EastSzebasztián Simic (Disaster Risk Management & Climate Change Adaptation)Boran Zhang (Middle East

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-welcomes-new-interns - 2026-05-29

The workshop focused on the intersections between conflict, environment and policy to explore the politico-environmental dimensions of the war in Syria. There were also discussions on the broader relevance and application of project results beyond the context of Syria. On 20-21 February, CMES hosted the workshop “Just and Equitable Ecological Models in Contested and Conflict Environments”, organiz

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-conflict-and-environment-kurdistan - 2026-05-29

CMES researcher and physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be significant if, once the fighting between Israel and Hamas is over, questions of possible war crimes are raised at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Lina Eklund, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2026-05-29

CMES PhD researcher Behshid Khodaei and researcher Hossein Hashemi have co-authored an article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The article "Can river flow prevent land subsidence in urban areas?" was co-authored by Alireza Sharifi (University of Oulu), Behshid Khodaei (CMES), Amirhossein Ahrari (University of Oulu), Hossein Hashemi (CMES) and Ali Torabi Haghighi (Univers

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/groundwater-depletion-and-land-subsidence-iran - 2026-05-29

CMES researcher Hebatalla Taha has written an article in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. The article, "Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948", was published in December 2023.AbstractThis article examines nuclear imaginaries in the Arabic-speaking Middle East. It situates people from the Arab world into nuclear thought, looking at how the atomic age rap

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nuclear-histories-middle-east - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The International Energy Agency releases a Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation on Thursday, 2 July. Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE Policy analysis team participated in the process.The new report identifies the critical areas where accelerated innovation is urgently needed if countries and companies are to me

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-ieas-special-report-clean-energy-innovation - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE Phd Student Steven Kane Curtis presented at the 5th International (and Virtual) Conference on New Business Models on 1-2 July 2020. The conference was hosted by Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with the theme to explore the role of business models in transition. Among the nearly 100 presenters, S

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/phd-student-steven-curtis-receives-best-presenter-award-new-business-models-conference - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. City Report no. 2: "Urban Sharing in Toronto" The Urban Sharing Team at IIIEE, lead by Principal Investigator Prof. Oksana Mont, has published their second City Report for the Urban Sharing research programme.“Urban Sharing in Toronto” explores the landscape of the sharing economy in the city context. This research is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-urban-sharing-research-team - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE Professor Oksana Mont was interviewed by Kristianstadsbladet about the climate crisis and sustainable consumption management.Read the article here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/prof-oksana-mont-kristianstadsbladet - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "Agency and capacity in the planning and design phase of building renovations" Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl has published a new article in Energy Efficiency.Abstract:The building sector is a large energy consumer and is responsible for high CO2 emissions; hence, improving the energy performance of buildings is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-katharina-reindl - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the IIIEE at Lund University in collaboration with researchers at Linköping University are launching a new project called Massive Urban Missions (MUM) on advancing and delivering climate neutral cities. Associate Professor Kes McCormick and Professor Jenny Palm are the researchers

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-launches-new-project-massive-urban-missions - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New publications, an online summit, best presenter award, and more.Check out our latest Newsletter here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/summer-newsletter-iiiee - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The post-doctoral candidate will work in the area of policy analysis related to the Circular Economy. The post-doctoral candidate will contribute to the development of knowledge, and policy analysis addressing policies to further Circular Economy developments, with a special focus on policies as drivers and barriers f

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-postdoctoral-position - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria Jäppinen awarded by ISWA Young Professionals Group Our MSC graduate Maria Jäppinen participated in the 3rd ISWA YPG Online Conference on the 17th and 18th of July 2020. The theme of the conference was “Transition to a Circular Economy: Innovation and sustainability in waste management systems”. In an abstract co

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/msc-graduate-gains-double-awards - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Read more about the position here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-are-hiring-phd-student-circular-business-value - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE, represented by Professor Jenny Palm, together with the solar cell association Solar Region and the City of Malmö will host a joint online workshop on solar cells.The focus of the workshop is on solar cells and how they are contributing to the realisation of Malmö's vision of a sustainable city district in Sege

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-participates-online-workshop-solar-cells - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Urban Sharing Team at IIIEE, lead by Principal Investigator Prof. Oksana Mont, has published their third snapshot for the Urban Sharing research programme.“Urban Sharing in Shanghai” explores the landscape of the sharing economy in the city context. The snapshot is a first outcome of the data collection conducted 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-output-urban-sharing-research-team - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE Researchers Steven Kane Curtis, Oksana Mont, and Jagdeep Singh published a new article in PLOS ONE, in collaboration with Alexandra Kessler from the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP). The article synthesizes the potential social impacts of sharing platforms and proposes a syst

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-social-impacts-sharing-platforms - 2026-05-29