Environmental Change (TEMAM)

Tema M – Environmental Change is a platform for highly topical, problem-oriented and critical interpretive environmental research and education. At a time when almost the entire nature bears traces of human activity, the state of the environment is strongly linked to the development of society. Today, environmental problems are no longer perceived as ‘problems in nature’ but also as complex social problems that set new standards for scientific breadth, integration and problem-solving.

Environmental Change meets this challenge through a strong combination of analysis traditions and methods for natural science, social sciences, and the humanities. Among these included are analysis of biogeochemical processes and material flows, policy studies developed in close collaboration with user groups, as well as analytical studies of ideas and debates within the environmental and climate field. By promoting interdisciplinary cooperation in the borderland between these different analytical traditions, Tema M ensures that environmental change as a concept, process and political point at issue is not taken for granted but instead subject to constant review and transparency.

Tema M builds on a strong tradition of interdisciplinary environmental studies that have permeated the unit since 1980 and the Center for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR) since 2004. At Tema M, these studies are further developed and profiled in relation to contemporary environmental science and environmental policy development.

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28 November 2025

LiU researchers are looking for solutions for climate transition in agriculture

Changing agriculture to reduce climate and environmental impact can cost money. But farmers wanting to invest and banks who want to lend them money share a problem. In a new project, researchers at LiU want to find solutions.

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12 November 2025

Higher methane emissions from warmer lakes and reservoirs may exacerbate worst-case climate scenario

Emissions of methane from lakes and reservoirs risk doubling by the end of the century due to climate change according to a new study from LiU and NASA. This in turn could raise Earth’s temperature more than suggested by current worst-case scenario.

05 November 2025

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit: “It’s looking really bad.”

Not enough is being done, and not fast enough. That is the harsh assessment made by LiU researchers Mathias Fridahl and Maria Jernnäs ahead of this year’s major international climate summit in Brazil.

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2026

Tim M. Daw, Simon West, Andrea Downing, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Marina Lindell, Thomas Hahn, Mikael Karlsson, Tord Snäll, Daniel Lindvall (2026) What role for deliberative minipublics in sustainability transformations? An emerging topic for sustainability science Sustainability Science (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Helena Oliveira, Giacomo Carraro, Thuane Mendes Anacleto, Luka Safaric, Sepehr Shakeri Yekta, Annika Björn, Fernanda Abreu, Alex Enrich Prast (2026) Unraveling the influence of environmental and operational conditions on the methanogenic pathways in full-scale anaerobic digesters Biomass and Bioenergy, Vol. 209, Article 108994 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Madelene Ostwald, Tina-Simone Neset, Maria Jernnäs, Mathias Fridahl, Cecilia Enberg (2026) Ett klimatsmart Linköpings Universitet: Rekommendationer för stärkt klimatledarskap och minskat klimatavtryck
Daniel Ospina, Paula Mirazo, Richard P. Allan, Smriti Basnett, Ana Bastos, Nishan Bhattarai, Wendy Broadgate, Derik J. Broekhoff, Mercedes Bustamante, Deliang Chen, Yeonju Choi, Peter Cox, Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta, Kristie Ebi, Pierre Friedlingstein, Thomas L. Frolicher, Sabine Fuss, Helge F. Goessling, Nicolas Gruber, Qingyou He, Sophie R. Hebden, Nadja Hedrich, Adrian Heilemann, Marina Hirota, Oivind Hodnebrog, Gustaf Hugelius, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Sirkku Juhola, Fumiko Kasuga, Piyu Ke, Douglas I. Kelley, Siir Kilkis, Maximilian Kotz, Nilushi Kumarasinghe, William F. Lamb, Shih-Yu Lee, Junguo Liu, Cara N. Maesano, Maria A. Martin, Guilherme G. Mazzochini, Christopher J. Merchant, Akira S. Mori, Jennifer Morris, Åsa Persson, Hans-Otto Portner, Benedict S. Probst, Justine Ramage, Estelle Razanatsoa, Aaron Redman, Johan Rockstrom, Regina Rodrigues, Sophie Ruehr, Sadie J. Ryan, Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Schlosser, William A. Scott, Jan C. Semenza, Hansjorg Seybold, Drew T. Shindell, Giles B. Sioen, Kathryn E. Smith, Youba Sokona, Annika H. Stechemesser, Thomas F. Stocker, Sophie H. L. Su, Djiby Thiam, Gregory Trencher, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Lila Warszawski, Sarah Weiskopf, Henry Wu, Shupeng Zhu (2026) Ten new insights in climate science 2025 Global Sustainability, Vol. 9, Article e6 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Gustav Strandberg, August Thomasson, Lars Barring, Erik Kjellstrom, Michael Sahlin, Renate anna irma Wilcke, Grigory Nikulin (2026) Projected climate change in Fennoscandia - and its relation to ensemble spread and global trends Weather and Climate Dynamics, Vol. 7, p. 185-200 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lotten Wiréhn, Gustav Strandberg (2026) Från klimatscenarier till klimatanpassning: Att göra klimatinformation användbar för lantbruket
Melissa A. Barton, Dheaya Alrousan, Luis Fernando Perez-Mercado, Sahar S. Dalahmeh, Anastasija Vasiljev, Jan-Olof Drangert, Prithvi Simha (2026) Clean enough? Acceptance of urine-derived dry fertilizer and water shaped by religious and social norms in a water-scarce Islamic context Desalination, Vol. 623, Article 119804 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Julie Damborg, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Björn-Ola Linnér, Tina-Simone Neset (2026) The EU CBAM and the Global South: a review of the economic and geopolitical implications of unilateral climate and trade measures Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 21, Article 023001 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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