Category: Science & technology

Automobile collage

Long wait for electric cars

Electric cars have been in the pipeline for a long time – but they still represent less than one per cent of all cars sold in Sweden. Why is the electrification of the car market taking such a long time? And what is needed for the electric car to really...

Max Åhman

Slow train coming – understanding the alternatives to fossil fuels

Opinion: Max Åhman, Senior researcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University 2014  After 40 years of experimentation, the next 10 years could be the breakthrough for sustainable transport, but more and better understanding of the systemic barriers for a sustainable transition is still needed. Modern society is dependent on...

Orvar Löfgren, professor emeritus, Division of Ethnology, Lund University

Managing overflow

How can we learn to manage all the opportunities we have within reach in the 21st century?  “In the interdisciplinary project ‘Managing overflow’, I work with cultural science and social science researchers to understand how individuals, organisations and companies develop strategies to deal with the flow of information, choice, activities...