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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public-private partnership tackling climate change through innovation, today announces the appointment of Anders Wijkman as Chair of the Governing Board of Association Climate-KIC, with immediate effect.  Wijkman succeeds John Schellnhuber, who is stepping down having successfully served

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-announces-anders-wijkman-new-chair-governing-board - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In early April we were informed that Lund University was awarded no less that two Climate-KIC Pathfinder Projects. Read more about the two awarded Projects here. An Auditing Tool for Climate Effective PackagingAssociate Professor Henrik Pålsson and Associate Professor Daniel Hellström of the Packaging Logistics depart

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/two-climate-kic-pathfinder-projects-awarded-lund-university - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Here is a video from Climate-KICs Ideation Day at DTU 27 January. Look out for dates for a possible second Ideation Day late autumn 2017.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/video-ideation-day-27-january-2017 - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish cities of Malmö, Lund, Oskarshamn and Bjuv are looking for creative partners with innovative solutions that can be involved in a new venture, to convert waste heat into urban food or other biological production through an Open Innovation Competition. Clean residual heat emitted from a diverse range of sour

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-food-residual-heat-open-innovation-competition - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Did you miss the Climate-KIC Workshop 16/5? We gathered most of the presentations so that you can seethem here. Climate-KIC WorkshopProgramme 13.00–16.00:13.00–13.10 Welcome and introduction13.10–13.35 Innovations and climate change – how far can it take us? Helena Tillborg, Kraftringen13.35–14.05 Climate KIC – How to

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-workshop-165 - 2026-05-15

This three-week event will feature 35 different interactive webinars with recruitment staff, programme staff, and current students. You can join our recruitment officers for a presentation and Q&A about how to apply, subject area sessions with an open Q&A with programme staff and students from each faculty, and several live chat events with current students and alumni! Be sure to stop by and join

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/join-us-lund-university-applicant-weeks-28-november-16-december-2022 - 2026-05-15

We are happy to announce 1-2 PhD positions in Human Geography at the department. Click here to read more and to apply.  

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/1-2-doctoral-studentships-human-geography - 2026-05-15

How to Make Money: Histories of Capitalism from Elsewhere The Human Ecology Division proudly presents: A public lecture with Timothy Mitchell: How to Make Money: Histories of Capitalism from Elsewhere On 17 November, at 10 am. In Världen, Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 12. Timothy Mitchell is professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University, a leading political and social theorist and historia

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/public-lecture-timothy-mitchell - 2026-05-15

Amr Khairy Ahmed will defend his PhD dissertation "Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76)." on the 17th of November 2023, 13:00. Amr Khairy Ahmed will defend his PhD dissertation "Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76)." on the 17th of November 2023, 13:00.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/phd-defense-amr-khairy-ahmed - 2026-05-15

The Student Office is now open for the fall semester and you are welcome to visit us between 13.00 - 15.00 on Tuesdays and 09.00 - 12.00 on Wednesdays. Dear students, The Student Office is now open for the fall semester and you are welcome to visit us between 13.00 - 15.00 on Tuesdays and 09.00 - 12.00 on Wednesdays. You can also call us during these hours or e-mail us when the office is closed. 

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/opening-hours-student-office - 2026-05-15

Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to much needed rest, both for students and the department's staff. Between December 23 and January 7, we are therefore closed (this also applies to the Student office). Regular opening hours apply again from 8 January 2024. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/departments-opening-hours-over-christmas-and-new-year - 2026-05-15

Welcome to the first season of the KEG-podcast. In each episode you will meet researchers from the department and learn more about human geography research. In the first episode that will be released on February 19 we will talk to researcher Stine Madsen about Sustainable transition in Danish waste management. The interview is held in English. You can listen to the KEG Podcast here.The podcast is

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coming-soon-keg-podcast - 2026-05-15

The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers.  Such ethical marketing and communication can involve companies using messages that reinforce the image that th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-sheds-light-how-fashion-companies-use-greenwashing-marketing-campaigns-contributes - 2026-05-15

Congratulations to Master's student Alice Petersson from the Department who won the prize for her thesis "Opportunities for Agency in Offshore Wind Power in Skåne, Sweden?". in KEFU Skåne's essay competition in December 2023. This is the 38th time that KEFU awards a prize of SEK 20,000 for the best thesis in municipal and regional management, organisation and economics.Watch the film where Alice P

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-won-prize-competition - 2026-05-15

Martina Angela Caretta, docent at the department, is a co-writer of a newly published article in Carbon Brief. The researchers, in the article, addresses their recent study, published in One Earth, where they’ve investigated how the effectiveness of well-established adaptation options in relation to water changes as the world warms. Their findings show that the effectiveness of water-related adapt

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/climate-adaptation-becomes-less-effective-world-warms - 2026-05-15

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Gunnar Törnqvist on April 7th, 2024. Born in 1933 Professor Törnqvist had a long career, marked by his significant contributions to the study of industrial location, the diffusion of innovation, creativity in time and space, and the evolving economic geography of Europe. Also of note was his public service on expert groups and c

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/memory-gunnar-tornqvist - 2026-05-15

On Friday 24 May, PhD Student Mathilde Martin defended her thesis “Mattering at the periphery – Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents.” Curious about Mathilde’s thesis? Here’s what it’s all about: Amid rising social discontent in the peripheries of Western European democracies, this thesis offers an exploration of “places that don't matter” through the lens of the French Yellow Vests.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mathilde-martin-defended-her-thesis-about-french-yellow-vests - 2026-05-15

Explore this topic in a recently published article (a systematic Scoping Review) by researchers Vasna Ramasar, Martina Angela Caretta and Muriel Côte from the department. This systematic review, which was partially funded by FORMAS grant to Ramasar and Caretta and a internal small grant at the The Department of Human Geography, Lund University, showcases their research interests around extractivis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/resistance-extractivism-induced-water-insecurity-does-gender-have-role-it - 2026-05-15

Johan Miörner, a researcher at the department, has co-authored a report on behalf of the research institute EAWAG. The report looks at how sustainable cities should develop strategies and practices to reduce water consumption and manage wastewater more sustainably to meet the challenges of climate change. The authors have reviewed six global cities that are already actively developing effective pr

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/less-water-consumption-and-sustainable-wastewater-management-new-report-shows-how-cities-should - 2026-05-15

The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affect the shaping of the Storsjöodjuret. The aim of the study

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-human-ecology-thesis-storsjoodjur-cryptid-borderland-between-reality-and-imagined - 2026-05-15