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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. General debate under agenda Item: 9 - racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 22 Mar 2021
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Depuis quelques années, les quotas pour femmes ont fait leur apparition dans la vie politique de plusieurs pays arabes. Quel est l’impact ces quotas ont-ils sur les élections législatives dans le monde arabe ? CMES Rola El-Husseini gave a talk (in French) for a think tank in Paris, Centre Arabe de Recherches et d'
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/la-participation-politique-des-femmes-une-decennie-apres-les-revoltes-arabes - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab participated in a Women & Children conference and gave a talk discussing the issues of the Arab entrepreneur woman. Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Amr Ezzat Salama, Secretary-General of the Association of Arab Universities, Swedish Iraqi Studies Network, and the Knowledge Enrichment
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-framing-arab-entrepreneur-woman - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Three fully funded PhD positions on demography, comparative politics and water availability in the Middle East. PhD Student in Economic History: Demography in the Middle East The PhD project and the doctoral dissertation must be focused on the demography of the Middle East, and the PhD candidate will will have double
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-open-phd-positions-cmes-1 - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their w
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. Since 2014, the natural environment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been negatively affected by recurrent conflict that coincided with
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-geopolitics-fire-conflict-and-land-kurdistan-region-iraq - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The series of talks is called "AraBooks: Literature, politics, society and the arts from the Arab world, the Middle East and its diasporas." Thursday 13 May: Maria Frederika Malmström – The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019) More info about t
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-maria-f-malmstrom-gives-talk-university-sydney-may-13 - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This study, published in Journal of Hydrology, shows substantial spatial variation of the negative impacts of water supply and future water security across the watershed. This is further increasing the pressure on its inhabitants, their economic activities and ecological values. Water security, a key policy objective
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspecti
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The research group behind this article in the journal Earth´s future: Ronny Berndtsson, Hossein Hashemi, Sadegh Jamali, Cintia B. Uvo, George J. Huffman, Majid Kazemzadeh Ordinary linear regression models have been widely used for trend analysis in many related studies. This procedure implicitly assumes that precipita
Research group: Hossein Hashemi, Majid Kazemzadeh, Ali Salajegheh, Arash Malekian, Abdolmajid Liaghat Soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land surface temperature are vital variables in water-energy balance, eco-hydrological processes, and water resources management, which can be influenced by watershed management activities. This research focused on the spatial and temporal variability of soil
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of cities in the global North. In the Swedish context, as the demography of the cities is altering, neoliberal urban planning and regeneration
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/negotiating-invisibility-street-making-margins-malmo-laleh-foroughanfar - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Event on 8 April as part of Sustainability Week 2019. On 8 April, Sharing Cities Sweden held an event on the sharing economy in cities focusing on learning about business models and behavioural economics.Sharing Cities Sweden and the Urban Arena at Lund university were co-organisers of the event as part of the Sustain
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-business-models-and-behavioural-economics - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Urban Sharing team has started their first Mobile Research Lab (MRL) in Amsterdam. The trip includes among others visits to ShareNL, Rijkswaterstaat, University of Utrecht, University of Twente, city of Amsterdam as well as meetings with representatives of different urban sharing organisations active in the city of Am
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mobile-research-lab-amsterdam-has-started - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Discussing the role of the universities in connection to travels, food and facilities in the light of the climate issue. On 18 April, Sydsvenskan published an opinion article "Universiteten bör visa vägen i klimatfrågan, halvera sina utsläpp på fem år". The article is co-written by Peter Arnfalk et al. and discusses t
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/opinion-article-sydsvenskan - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Katherine Whalen and Jessika Luth Richter are presenting their Circular Economy research and running In the Loop workshops at the Baltic University Programme’s Annual Student Conference in Estonia 25-28th April. Katherine Whalen and Jessika Luth Richter will be presenting their research about the Circular Economy in l
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-taking-part-baltic-university-programmes-annual-student-conference - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We welcome Prof. Florian Lüdeke-Freund! We are happy to announce that Prof. Florian Lüdeke-Freund from ESCP Europe Business School in Germany has joined the URBAN SHARING advisory group, consisting of Professors: Julian Agyeman, Harriet Bulkeley, Koen Frenken, Renate E. Meyer, Renato Orsato, and Chris Ryan. Prof. Lüde
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-advisory-group-member-urban-sharing-research-project - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers Steven Curtis and Sofie Sandin at the IIIEE have launched a new episode of the podcast ‘Advancing Sustainable Solutions’. In the monthly podcast, Steven and co-host Sofie Sandin discuss sustainability research conducted at the IIIEE. In this month’s episode, Steven and Sofie share insights into the sharing
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-scooters-sharing-sustainability - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Blog post by Lucie Zvolska On 16th April 2019, Lucie Zvolska from the Urban Sharing team attended a Living Mobility Congress in Amsterdam, which brought together over 300 representatives from mobility businesses, urban planners, the city governments and the academia. The aim of to Congress was to (re)imagine the futur
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/update-living-mobility-congress - 2026-09-11
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IIIEE researcher Yuliya Voytenko Palgan presented at the International Spring School and International Scientific-Practitioner Conference “European Dimensions of Sustainable Development”, which was held at the National University of Food Technologies in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 23-24 April 2019. Yuliya welcomed the participa
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/yuliya-voytenko-palgan-presents-her-research-governance-sharing-economy-ukraine - 2026-09-11
