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KNOWLEDGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - LUND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CONFERENCE

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9.00-10.00 Welcome & Roundtable discussion

10.15-11.00 Thematic parallel session

11.15-12.00 Thematic parallel session

12.00-13.00 Poster session

13.00-14.00 Thematic parallel session

14.10-15.00 Matchmaking & Mingle

15.15-16.30 Panel Debate & Wrap up

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Conference programme

8.30-9.00 Check-in and mingle

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9.00-9.15 Welcome!

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Welcome greetings by Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz, followed by roundtable discussions. 

9.15-10.00 Roundtable discussion

Moderator: 

  • Per Mickwitz, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Sustainability and Campus development

Invited guests

  • Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Senior lecturer of Human Rights Studies, Department of History
  • Mikael Klintman, Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology
  • Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology, Lund University, and at SMHI, Climate Advisor and Sweden's Focal Point for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC 

10.00-10.15 Break

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10.15-11.00 Thematic parallel sessions             

Overarching Theme: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 

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Chair: Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, Office director at Inter Arts Center

Research presentations

  • Art, hacking & parasitic critique: Discussing the potentials and limits of international political design through Jacob Remin’s “Harvesting the Rare Earth”, Daniel Møller Ølgaard, Department of Political Science
  • Implicit sustainable development theories obscure disproportionate impacts from climate-related extreme events: example from Hurricane Michael and housing losses on Florida’s Forgotten Coast, Chad S. Boda, LUCSUS
  • Sustainable transformation through universal design, Charlotte Magnusson, Certec, Department of Design Sciences

Theme I: Knowledge on crisis and resilience in the sustainability context

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Chair: Lars J Nilsson, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies

Research presentations

  • Circular business models – are they attractive for households? Jessica Lagerstedt Wadin, Innovation engineering, Design Sciences, LTH
  • Effects of Covid-19: from mobility to digital accessibility, Peter Arnfalk, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Conceptualizing and Researching Resilience: Need for Theoretical and Methodological Triangulation, Azher Hameed Qamar, School of Social Work

Theme II: Knowledge on communicating uncertainty and ambiguity in sustainability research

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Chair: Johannes Persson, Theoretical Philosophy 

Research presentations

  • Mediatisation and social sustainability – an ambivalent relationship, Cecilia Cassinger, Department of Strategic Communication
  • Value incommensurability and complex trade-offs, Henrik Andersson, Practical Philosophy
  • Health impact of pesticide exposure in relation to climate change among
    populations in low- and middle income countries, Christian Lindh, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Theme III: Knowledge about justice and equity in a sustainable world

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Chair: Britta Sjöstedt, Department of Law

Research presentations

  • Understanding air pollution and health impact in Ethiopia, Ebba Malmqvist, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Inclusive urbanization and the urban transition – a research agenda for lower level urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Department of Human Geography
  • The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals. Legitimacy, Responsibility,
    and Accountability, Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science

11.00-11.15 Break

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11.15-12.00 Thematic parallel sessions     

Overarching Theme: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 

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Chair: Kristina Jönsson, Department of Political Science

Research presentations

  • Distribution of responsibility for climate change adaptation - Is the global discussion relevant on the local level? Erik Persson, Practical Philosophy
  • Environmental Psychology Perspectives on People and nature, Ann Eklund, Environmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment
  • Sustainable and resilient economic development in peripheral regions: a theoretical framework, Rhiannon Pugh, CIRCLE

Theme I: Knowledge on crisis and resilience in the sustainability context

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Chair: Helle Rydström, Department of Gender Studies 

Research presentations

  • Supply and Demand of Ecosystem Services - African Geography of Sustainability, Jonas Ardö, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • Refining Resilience Discourses in Development: resilience of, for and as, Billy Jones, Agenda 2030 Graduate School, Division of Ethnology
  • What can we learn about impacts and responses to the pandemic from sharing organisations in three sectors? Oksana Mont, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics

Theme II: Knowledge on communicating uncertainty and ambiguity in sustainability research

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Chair: Ebba Malmqvist, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Research presentations

  • How policy-makers deal with scientific uncertainty – What scientists can learn from climate and covid-19 policy-making, Åsa Knaggård, Deptartment of Political Science 
  • Confronting the certainty-first-action-second misconception, Mikael Klintman, Sociology
  • Uncertainty in Science and Decision-making, Henrik Thorén, Theoretical Philosophy

Theme III: Knowledge about justice and equity in a sustainable world

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Chair: Ulrika Andersson, Department of Law

Research presentations

  • Data-Center infrastructure and Energy Gentrification: Perspectives from Sweden, Frans Libertson, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Developing sustainable and responsible research and innovation, Yahia Mahmoud, Department of Human Geography, Linda Paxling, CIRCLE, Lena Trojer, CIRCLE
  • Seeds, Sustainability, and Intellectual Property Rights: Modes of Showing Compliance with Plant Variety Protection Regimes in Asia, Erik Mobrand, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Hyejin Kim, National University of Singapore

12.00-13.00 Lunch break & poster presentation

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13.00-14.00 Thematic parallel sessions     

Overarching Theme: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 

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Chair: Lena Neij, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Research presentations

  • Have a look at Plants: Looking as techne, Lisa Källström, Rhetoric
  • How Resources Become: The 2021 Lund Resourcification Manifesto, Hervé Corvellec, Department of Service Studies
  • Go Massive or Go Home? The rise of online courses for spreading knowledge on sustainable development, Kes McCormick, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics
  • New perspectives on the design of the buildings, Pimkamol Mattsson, Envrionmental Psychology research group, Dept. of Architecture and Built Environment

Theme I: Knowledge on crisis and resilience in the sustainability context

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Chair: Susanne Arvidsson, Accounting and Corporate Finance 

Research presentations

  • Facilitating sustainable consumption through innovative business models, Heather Schoonover, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Good lighting promotes energy efficient behaviour, Thorbjörn Laike, Envrionmental Psychology research group, Dept. Of Architecture and Built Environment
  • A strategic communication approach to resilience in tourism regions, Maria Månsson, Department of Strategic Communication, Jörgen Eksell, Department of Strategic Communication
  • Does Scarcity Reduce Cooperation? Gustav Agneman, Department of Political Science

Theme II: Knowledge on communicating uncertainty and ambiguity in sustainability research

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Chair: Per Becker, Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety

Research presentations

  • The impacts of massive solar farms in the Sahara Desert on global climate and terrestrial ecosystem, Zhengyao Lu, Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science & Center for Environmental and Climate Science
  • Car sharing as a strategy to address GHG emissions in the transport system: Evaluation of effects of car sharing in  Amsterdam, Ana María Arbeláez Vélez, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics
  • The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge, David Larsson Heidenblad, Department of History
  • The shift from organic to more sustainable food consumption in Sweden, Vasiliki Simaki, Centre for Languages and Literature

Theme III: Knowledge about justice and equity in a sustainable world

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Chair: Daria Davitti, Department of Law

Research presentations

  • Small-scale farmers, municipalities and local food systems in Sweden, Annika Pissin, Center for East and South-East Asian Studies
  • The tragedy of recurrence/a recurring tragedy: How socially shared memories of past economic disasters inform experiences of Argentina’s current macroeconomic crisis, Sara Kauko, Department of Gender Studies
  • Post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East – strategies from international, national and local perspectives, Helen Avery, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and Centre for Environmental and Climate Sciences 
  • Welfare-Improving Bubbles in Green Capital Markets? Danial Ali Akbari, Department of Economics

14.00-14.10 Break

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14.10-15.00 Matchmaking & Mingle

Theme I: Knowledge on crisis and resilience in the sustainability context

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Pitch chair: Melissa Ilsley, Postdoc, Department of Laboratory Medicine

Matchmaking pitches

  • Are we solving the right problem? – prototyping as a way for deeper understand of wicked problems – a call for cross-disciplinary collaboration, Jessica Lagerstedt Wadin, Innovation engineering, Design Sciences, LTH
  • Challenges and Opportunities to a Sustainable Bioenergy System in Sweden, Jagdeep Singh, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
  • Climate change and health impact assessment, Anna Oudin, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • A human rights-based approach to evacuation and managed retreat in Sweden, Matthew Scott, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  • Exploration focused learning for resilient and antifragile systems, Patric Nordbeck, Department of Psychology

Theme II: Knowledge on communicating uncertainty and ambiguity in sustainability research

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Pitch chair: Lina Van Dooren, PhD student, Malmö Academy of Music

Matchmaking pitches

  • Exploring Existential Sustainability: an interdisciplinary perspective, Magali Ljungar-Chapelon, Department of Design Sciences
  • Design as knowledge building process for navigating uncertainty and friction towards sustainability, Despina Christoforidou and Claus-Christian Eckhardt, LUSID, Lund University School of Industrial Design
  • Environmental performance index as a sustainable development goals achievements indicator, case study in Iraq
    Mohamed A.Najemalden, Ministry of environment  Iraq-Kirkuk, Sameer Algburi, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Director of Swedish Iraqi Studies Network  
  • Digitalisation: helping or hindering sustainable consumption? Matthias Lehner, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics 
  • Environments supporting sustainable mobility during dark hours, Johan Rahm, Department of Architecture and Built Environment

Theme III: Knowledge about justice and equity in a sustainable world

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Pitch chair: Claire Lyons, Department of Experimental Medical Science

Matchmaking pitches

  • Sustainable transformation through universal design, Charlotte Magnusson, Certec, Department of Design Sciences
  • Climate change induced water insecurity. A focus on WASH and gender adaptation strategies, Martina Angela Caretta, Human Geography Department, Sara Gabrielsson, LUCSUS
  • Climate change and health impact assessment, Ebba Malmqvist, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Putting Gender Equality back in and on Agenda 2030; Lean in – or ZOOM© out? – About Gender Inequality in the Nordics, Ilse Svensson de Jong, Innovation Engineering, Izabelle Bäckström, Production Management

Theme IV: Future calls

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Pitch chair: Zahida Sarwary, Postdoc, Department of Business Administration

Matchmaking pitches

  • A circular economy in the building sector, Ulla Janson, Building Services
  • Testing the Systematic Framework to Assess Social Impacts of Sharing Platforms, Oksana Mont, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Future Sustainable Mental Healthcare – towards wellbeing and digital availability, Ilse Svensson de Jong, Innovation Engineering, Luisa (Louise) Lupa, Social Work
  • Beyond CSR and Triple Bottom Line: Is B-corps the new business model towards integration of sustainability governance? Ilse Svensson de Jong, Innovation Engineering, Camilla Nyquist Magnusson, Design Sciences
  • Packaging for healthy food, Katrin Molina-Besch, Department of Design Sciences, Division of Packaging Logistics, Giana Carli Lorenzini, Department of Design Sciences, Division of Packaging Logistics

15.00-15.15 Break

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15.15-16.15 Panel Debate

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The panel debate is followed by the summary and wrap up. 

Moderator

  • Emily Boyd, Professor and Director, LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Panel

  • Lizette Gradén, Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
  • Sara Kauko, Postdoc, Department of Gender Studies
  • Henrik Smith, Professor, Centre for Environmental and Climate science, Director of Sustainability Forum
  • Maria Takman, PhD student, Department of Chemical Engineering

Chat moderator:

  • Cheryl Sjöström, Project manager, Centre for Environmental and Climate science

16.15-16.30 Summary and wrap up

Concluding remarks will be given by Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz and Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström.


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  • Green tissue processing for preclinical and clinical histology and immunohistochemistry 
    Iran A.N Silva, Department of Experimental Medical Science
     
  • Black carbon sources, impact and mitigation strategies in Scania 
    Pontus Roldin,  Division of Nuclear Physics
     
  • Constructing sustainable relatings. The case of Acqua Alta in the Venetian lagoon
    Monica Porzionato, Department of Strategic Communication
     
  • Design as knowledge-creating process for navigating uncertainty and friction towards sustainability
    Despina Christoforidou, LUSID Lund University School of Industrial Design
     
  • Decision Support Systems for Real! – Enhancing Sustainability in environmental clean-up action
    Mehran Naseri-Rad, Division of Water Resources Engineering
     
  • Ensuring Social Sustainability: towards a Systematic Framework to Assess Social Impacts of Sharing Platforms
    Oksana Mont, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
     
  • Toxic uncertainty as a matter of care
    Lina Bonde, Department of Gender Studies
     
  • Reasons behind low adoption of non-hydro renewable energy in Central Asia
    Berdymyrat Ovezmyradov, Department of Sociology of Law
     
  • Potential health benefits following the implementation of low emission zones in Malmö, Sweden
    Erin Flanagan, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
     
  • A human rights-based approach to displacement in the context of disasters and climate change
    Matthew Scott, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
     
  • Sustainable Distribution of Responsibility for Climate Change Adaptation
    Erik Persson, Practical Philosophy
     
  • “What’s love got to do with it?” SDGs, gendered power, and place attachment
    Karin Steen, LUCSUS
     
  • A tool for sustainable business model conceptualization and implementation
    Kajsa Ahlgren Ode, Design Sciences
     
  • Podcasting: a powerful communication tool to mobilize sustainability knowledge
    Steven Curtis, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics