CSPR

Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR) has rapidly established itself as a prominent reference point for studies related to climate science and policy research. The research is interdisciplinary and puts problems related to climate change in context with other measures for sustainable development, such as limiting environmental impact and responsible management of natural resources. CSPR’s mission is to develop knowledge, templates and methods for climate research in Sweden and internationally. In order to do this CSPR gathers researchers in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and in technology.

Climate research in four key areas:

News and updates

Naghmeh and Mathias in place in Bonn

At the moment Naghmeh Nasiritousi and Mathias Friman is in Bonn to follow the climate negotiations taking place there. Naghmeh is there on the behalf of the ”Non-State Actors-project” and Mathias for the new GovNAMAs project.

New research project at CSPR with support from the Swedish Energy Agency

The Swedish Energy Agency has decided to support the project GovNAMAs with 3.8 million sek. The project focuses on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and consist of three case studies conducted in Brazil.

Annual meeting for Nord-Star in Helsinki.

Anna Jonsson, Anna Bohman, Tina Neset and Björn-Ola Linnér will participate in the annual meeting of the Nordic Centre of Excellence NORD-STAR, May 23-25 at Aalto University, Helsinki. For more information please visit www.nord-star.info.

Eva Lövbrand invited to speak at seminar.

On May 15 Eva Lövbrand participates as invited speaker at the seminar ‘Questioning Geo-engineering. Historical Emergence, Contemporary Governmentality and Public Controversies’ held at Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris. Eva’s talk is entitled ‘Making climate change governable: carbon accounting as geo-engineering or self-engineering?’

I-Days on Visualization of Climate and Sustainability

SMHI in collaboration with CSPR are hosting iDays on May 2nd at the Norrköping Visualization Centre-C. SMHI’s Director General Lena Häll Eriksson participates and amongst the speakers will be meteorogist Pär Holmgren.

Roger A. Pielke, Jr. selected as honorary doctor at LiU

Professor Roger A. Pielke, Jr. was selected as one of LiU's 4 honorary doctors in 2012. Pielke was a central collaborating partner when Linköping University established its Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research ten years ago. Since then, he has collaborated on several articles with CSPR researchers.

Several CSPR researchers at major conference in London

Several CSPR researchers are attending the conference Planet under Pressure in London. Julie Wilk and Ola Uhrqvist are presenting posters on Designing climate-smart water management strategies in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Stabilising Earth System modelling - tracing the modelling practices in the global analysis and interpretative modelling task force (GAIM). Eva Lövbrand presents the paper Global climate governance at a crossroads: power, knowledge and discourses in post Copenhagen diplomacy and Tina Neset and Björn-Ola Linnér presents Interactive visualization platform for strategic climate adaptation.

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NEW publications

Jonsson, A., Hjerpe, M., Andersson-Sköld, Y., Glass, E., André, K., Simonsson, L. (2012), ""Cities’ capacity to manage climate vulnerability: experiences from participatory vulnerability assessments in the lower Göta Älv Catchment, Sweden", Local Environment, 1-16, iFirst Article.

Linnér, B-O. (2012). The Kyoto Protocol. In Anheier, H.K. and Juergensmeyer, M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousands Oaks and London:SAGE Publications.

Parker, Karlsson, Hjerpe, Linnér. 2012. Fragmented climate change leadership: making sense of the ambiguous outcome of COP-15. Environmental Politics 21(2): 268-286.

Wibeck, V (2012), “Images of environmental management: Competing metaphors in focus group discussions of Swedish environmental quality objectives”. Environmental Management. DOI 10.1007/s00267-012-9816-7

Grennfelt, P., Kjellén, B., Linnér, B-O and Zetterberg, L. (2012). Socio-Economic Research in Support of Climate Policy Development: Mistra’s Research Program Clipore. Ambio: a journal of the Human Environment, 41, S 1, 3-11.

Linnér B-O and Pahuja, N. 2012. A Registry of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Goals, Outcomes, and Institutional Requisites. Ambio: Volume 41, Issue 1:56-67. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0241-6.

Karlsson C, Hjerpe M, Parker, C and Linner B-O. 2012. The Legitimacy of Leadership in International Climate Change Negotiations. Ambio. DOI 10.1007/s13280-011-0240-7.

Henders, S and Ostwald, M. 2012. Forest Carbon Leakage Quantification Methods and Their Suitability for Assessing Leakage in REDD. Forests 3, no. 1: 33-58.

Buhr K, Thörn P and Hjerpe M. 2012. The Clean Development Mechanism in China: Institutional Perspectives on Governance, Environmental Policy and Governance, DOI: 10.1002/eet.597

Isaksson, K and Storbjörk, S. 2012. Strategy makin and power in environmental assessments. Lessons from the establichment of an out-of-town shopping centre in Västerås, Sweden. Environmental Impact Assesment Review 34 (2012) 65-73.

Neset T, Cordell D. 2012. Global phosphorus scarcity: identifying synergies for a sustainable future. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 2012;92(1):2-6.

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