The research area BECC
BECC – Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate – is an interdisciplinary strategic research area. BECC’s research focuses on identifying solutions to three overarching challenges: emissions from human activities, changes in land use and climate change, and their combined effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
BECC Grand Challenges
- To develop a scientific basis for effective and biologically meaningful conservation strategies under ongoing and future global change in socio-ecological land-use systems.
- To reduce the substantial uncertainties in the components of the carbon cycle, its responses to anthropogenic drivers linked to human activities and biophysical drivers, as well as the effects of slow processes in vegetation and soils.
- To integrate the private and public values of ecosystem services into management and policy, taking account of the expected impacts of climate, land-use change and other drivers of change.
By bringing together researchers from several disciplines within the natural sciences with researchers in political science and economics, the relationships between climate, ecosystems and biodiversity can be studied from multiple perspectives. BECC encompasses both basic and applied research, as well as scientific evaluations of policy instruments and management measures.
Collaboration with Swedish authorities and organisations, for example within the agricultural and forestry sectors, is an important part of BECC’s activities.
BECC comprises approximately 350 researchers from Lund University and the University of Gothenburg and is organisationally based at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Link to the BECC website - becc.lu.se
More information about Lund University’s strategic research areas can be found via the link below.
Contact
Josefin Madjidian
Reseach Coordinator
E-mail: josefin [dot] madjidian [at] mgeo [dot] lu [dot] se (josefin[dot]madjidian[at]mgeo[dot]lu[dot]se)
Therese Ek
Communications Officer
E-mail: therese [dot] ek [at] mgeo [dot] lu [dot] se (therese[dot]ek[at]mgeo[dot]lu[dot]se)
Lina Nikoleris
Research Administrator
E-mail: lina [dot] nikoleris [at] mgeo [dot] lu [dot] se (lina[dot]nikoleris[at]mgeo[dot]lu[dot]se)
More information about BECC
On BECC's website, you can find more information and contact details.
BECC in the Research Portal
You can find BECC's research projects and publications in the Lund University Research Portal.