Rachael Gould – Alliance for Strategic Sustainable Development

Alliance partner University of Graz wins major grant for interdisciplinary PhD program

June 3, 2014

Doctoral Programme Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies

Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as one of the main areas of concern in the 21st century. Strategies to deal with climate change and its possible consequences are imbued with uncertainty. The doctoral programme (DP) attempts to reach a better understanding of climate change uncertainties and, while doing so, to develop criteria for thresholds, namely critical points where a small change in a system suffices to induce a qualitative change in the system or in different systems. These considerations will be connected with the development and evaluation of possible strategies to cope with climate change. Read more...

Sustainability research at BTH deemed excellent

According to an independent external team of expert reviewers, the sustainability research at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) is excellent and internationally leading.

Most universities in Sweden expose their research to independent external review. In the fall of 2013 a team of external experts assessed the quality of the research performed by BTH’s fourteen research groups. The review team presented their report to the BTH Board of Directors in December 2013. Read more...