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

Emelie Fälton, Polina Ignatova (2025) Staying Away from Cthulhu Rather than Embracing the Cthulhucene: Human and Non-Human Relations in Netflix's The Sea Beast Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication (Chapter in book)
Carlo Navarra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Tina-Simone Neset, Clara Greve Villaro, Fredrik Schück, Jonas Unger, Katerina Vrotsou (2025) Leveraging Visual Analytics of Volunteered Geographic Information to Support Impact-Based Weather Warning Systems International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Article 105562 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
S. Magaya, M. Reimer, G.S. Metson, Tina-Simone Neset, M. Torralba, C.J.E. Schulp (2025) Use of recycled phosphorus products in organic farming in EU member states: Theoretically supported but practically restricted Food Policy, Vol. 134, p. 102881-102881, Article 102881 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jens Marquardt, Frederik Pfeiffer, Mareike Blum, Tim M. Daw, Frank Akowuge Dugasseh, Jobst Heitzig, Erik Hysing, Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen, Katariina Kulha, Frederik Langkjær, Daniel Lindvall, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, David Schlosberg, Arho Toikka, Lars Tønder (2025) Reconciling democracy and sustainability: three political challenges and the role of democratic innovations Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, Vol. 21 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anna Holzscheiter, Jonathan Josefsson, Eva Lövbrand, Laura Pantzerhielm (2025) In-between worlds: the unsettled politics of child and youth representation in international institutions Globalizations, Vol. 22, p. 343-357 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mattias Hjerpe, Erik Glaas, Sofie Storbjörk (2025) Introducing a severe impacts approach to guide adaptation to pluvial floods in residential and public buildings Building Research & Information (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mattias Hjerpe, Erik Glaas, Sofie Storbjörk (2025) The Patronization of Pluvial Flood Risk and Adaptation Among Tenant-Owned Housing Associations in Sweden Buildings, Vol. 15, p. 300-300 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Erik Glaas, Sofie Storbjörk, Mattias Hjerpe (2025) Municipality-Property Owner Collaboration for Climate-Robust Stormwater Management: Experiences and Perspectives from Swedish Actors Water, Vol. 17, Article 925 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sara Gottenhuber, Henrik Carlsen, Björn-Ola Linnér, Nina Weitz (2025) Operationalizing Indivisibility-Synergies and Trade‐Offs in Six Swedish Municipalities' Work With the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Julianne Oliveira, Martin Karlson, Abraham Sotongo Ouédraogo, Hugues Roméo Bazié, Madelene Ostwald (2025) Towards a framework for monitoring crop productivity in agroforestry parklands of the Sudano-Sahel using Sentinel-1 and 2 time series Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Vol. 37, Article 101494 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI