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UiB researcher Arjan Wardekker was recently admitted to The Young Academy of Europe (YAE).
Today was my fifth Friday working at the Arboretum, assisting the gardeners and learning about the seasonal rhythms of their work.
It is not uncommon to see people in bare feet on the Coromandel in mid-winter. Especially children.
Researcher at the University of Bergen, Mimi E. Lam, has just published a comment about the impacts of emerging Covid-19 behavioural identities.
Take on the transformative challenges of our time together with motivated students from around Europe in the new course "Facing Grand Challenges: A European research program"
The project Meet je Stad (Measure your City), which has links to two UiB research projects, has been named the 3rd most sustainable Dutch initiative.
UiB researchers Scott Bremer and Diana Wildschut have together with Werner Krauss co-edited a special issue about narratives in the journal Climate Risk Management.
Researchers at UiB launch a new book in connection with the completion of the MAGIC project. The publication consists of the project members’ thought-provoking and radical ideas about sustainability.
As part of our local communication and engagement work, we developed a creative exercise centered on the traditional Norwegian calendar stick, the primstav.
In March 2020 most of the world went into lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenging times lay ahead for everyone, including the research community.
Professor emeritus at the University of Bergen, Gunnar Skirbekk, is worried about a new proposal for financing higher education institutions in Norway.
Associate professor at the University of Bergen, Henrik Berg, criticizes evidence-based practice in psychology in a new book.
Inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, UiB researchers present five principles for model quality.
"Covid-19 has shown that we need a new debate about decision-making in crises when the scientific answers are not yet available."
Bruna De Marchi, researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at UiB, has written the editorial in the first special issue of the journal Culture e Studi del Sociale.
In a recent article co-authored with Mario Giampietro, UiB professor Silvio Funtowicz criticizes the circular economy concept and proposes a different approach to sustainable growth.
New research suggests that current models critically underestimate the uncertainties when predicting future irrigated areas.
Below you can read Dr Paul Schneider's reflections on the first six months of the project in Coromandel, New Zealand.

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