Profile Area: Nature-Based Future Solutions
The profile area Nature-Based Future Solutions brings together researchers from different disciplines to address three interconnected challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, and the need for sustainable societal development.
These crises affect people, ecosystems, and societies worldwide and require solutions that are both innovative and fair.
The research builds on nature’s own processes and ecosystem services—such as carbon storage, water purification, and habitat creation—to develop strategies that support biodiversity, mitigate climate change, and promote human health and well-being. The work ranges from detailed studies of species interactions and human experiences of nature to global climate models and policy development.
The profile area focuses on:
- Developing knowledge about the links between biodiversity, climate, and society
- Identifying synergies and avoiding conflicts between environment, climate, and well-being
- Analysing issues of justice in climate and nature policy
- Developing tools to harness big data on biodiversity and climate
- Creating innovative, sustainable, and fair solutions based on ecosystem processes
The results are used to improve climate models, create more diverse land-use practices, develop environments that promote public health, and provide better decision-making support for policy. The profile area brings together leading researchers in ecology, social sciences, economics, and technology, in close collaboration with industry, the public sector, and international actors.
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the profile area Nature-Based Future Solutions. Read more on the profile area’s website via the link below.
Contact
Cerina Rydälv
Research Coordinator
E-mail: cerina [dot] rydalv [at] mgeo [dot] lu [dot] se (cerina[dot]rydalv[at]mgeo[dot]lu[dot]se)
More information about Nature-based Future solutions
Find out more about the profile area and access further contact details on the Lund University website.
Nature-based future solutions in the Research Portal
You can find research projects and publications for Nature-based Future Solutions in Lund University’s Research Portal.