Research areas at Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research

Research areas at CSPR

Ongoing research projects

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Aiding adaptation

In this project, Swedish aid is examined as a tool to integrate cross-cutting challenges such as environmental, climate, gender, and conflict perspectives into climate adaptation efforts.

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Experiencing personal sustainability and climate transformations – techniques and practices for narrating the interconnected self.

What motivates individuals to engage in personal sustainability transformations? This project asks: what is needed for a transformative change of perspective to take place?

 Irrigation and drainage of arable land.

Decision support for climate change adaptation in Swedish agriculture and forestry

This project aims to contribute to the development of tailored climate indicators for stakeholders in the Swedish agricultural and forestry sector, to create useful support for the work with climate adaptation.

More ongoing projects

  • An integrative systems approach to a carbon neutral industry
    2018-2025, Anders Hansson
  • AgriFoSe203
    2016-2026, Madelene Ostwald, Veronica Brodén Gyberg
  • ClimateLAB
    2024-2025, Madelene Ostwald
  • ClimEQ: Implementering av hållbarhetsmål i en icke-samstämmig värld: Synergier mellan klimatomställning och minskad ojämlikhet
    2021-2026,
  • En starkare röst för forskarsamhället vid SDG Summit 2023: En kampanj för att vetenskapliga insikter ska nå och förstås av beslutsfattare och vägleda accelereringen av Agenda 2030
    May 2023-Dec 2024, Maria Jernäs
  • Opening the portfolio of negative emissions technologies: A comprehensive study of social, techno-economic and ethical dimensions of biomass-based NETs in Sweden and Tanzania
    2019-2025, Anders Hansson
  • Rättvist Vatten: Samverkan för rättvis vattenförvaltning i avrinningsområden - stresstest av torka och höga flöden för hållbar och multifunktionell användning av vatten
    2022-2026, Björn-Ola Linnér

Past research projects

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AI4ClimateAdaptation

AI4ClimateAdaptation explores the capacity of AI-based image processing and text mining to contribute to evaluating the accuracy of the national system for impact-based weather warnings and to contribute to the development of the system.

Stones at the Swedish westcoast.

Just transformation: The places, politics and ethics of fossil free society

In 2017 the Swedish Parliament adopted a new climate policy framework that lays the foundations for an ambitious decarbonization of all sectors in Swedish society. The aim is to turn Sweden into the first fossil-free welfare state by 2045.

NAMAs, support to developing countries to reduce emissions

NAMAs, support to developing countries to reduce emissions

The UN climate politics encourage developing countries to, voluntarily, take on nationally appropriate mitigation actions. If needed, they can apply for international support. This project examines what it takes to improve the process.

More past projects

  • Conflicting ambitions concerning the use of biomass – Sweden, Tanzania and the World
    2016-2022, Anders Hansson
  • Negative carbon dioxide emissions as a feasible transition pathway to sustainability? The uncertainties, barriers, challenges and possibilities of large-scale BECCS implementation in Sweden
    2016-2022, Anders Hansson

Latest publications

2025

Andreas Larsson, Karin Stolpe, Emelie Fälton (2025) Seeing STEM through the lens of visual culture: Proposing an interdisciplinary approach for exploring educational practices
Eva Lövbrand, Cecilia Enberg, Veronica Brodén Gyberg (2025) The Will to Decarbonize: Problematizing European Just Transition Governance Environmental Policy and Governance, Article eet.70019 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anna Bohman, Clifton Evers, Eva Lövbrand, Veronica Brodén Gyberg (2025) Making place. The role of spatial imaginaries in Sweden's transition to a fossil free society 7th Nordic STS conference, Stockholm, June 11-13, 2025: STS in and out of the Laboratory (Konferensbidrag) (Conference paper)
Carolina Natel, Carlo Navarra, Deborah Bassotto, Jim Buffat, Yonghao Xu, Justus Karrlson (2025) Causal Xwildfire: Causality-instilled fire spread modelling for extreme events ARPHA Conference Abstracts (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Malaika Mikaelsson, Victoria Wibeck, Björn-Ola Linnér (2025) Navigating the waves of change: Framing Pacific Small Island Developing States within a geopolitical and climate context Environmental Development, Vol. 56, Article 101270 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Björn-Ola Linnér, Juliana Porsani, Bwalya Chibwe, Alva Linnér, Carlo Navarra, Maria Jernnäs, Marie Francisco, Tina Schmid Neset, Alexandre Antonelli, Victoria Wibeck (2025) Digitalising biodiversity: Exploring perceptions on risks and opportunities Plants, People, Planet (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jennifer Bergman, Alexandra Buylova, James Jacksson, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Lisa Sanderink, Paul Tobin (2025) The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context Environmental Politics, p. 1-21 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Priyatma Singh, Björn-Ola Linnér, Ashneel Ajay Singh (2025) Marine spatial planning and ocean governance in Small Island Developing States Regional Environmental Change, Vol. 25, Article 91 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Simon Haikola, Jonas Anshelm (2025) Winds of change in Swedish energy policy: The limits to neoliberalism as policy paradigm and as political rationality Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 127, Article 104269 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Veronica Brodén Gyberg, Woldeamlak Bewket, Maria Jernnäs, Lotten Wiréhn, Jane Mutheu Mutune, Caroline Muthoni (2025) Governing complexity through integrated approaches. The case of Swedish climate aid 7th Nordic STS conference, Stockholm, June 11-13, 2025: STS in and out of the Laboratory (Conference paper)