CNDS Fellow, Valentin Troll (Uppsala university), co-authored an article on the so-called "spallation bombs" resulted from the 2021 La Palma volcanic eruption with the aim of understanding in which ways these threats to human lives and infrastructure "ought to be accounted for in risk assessment, necessitating awareness of an increased hazard footprint on steep-sided volcanoes with ballistic activity" (Day, Troll et. al., 2022).

CNDS Fellow, Elena Raffetti and her team, composed of, inter alia, Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Gabriele Messori, has been granted a financial support of around 12 mil. SEK for the project "Adapting to temperature extremes in a changing climate: Past trends and future scenarios (ADATES)" by Formas.

The interdisciplinarity of the project is supported also by the unique collaboration and team of co-applicants, including a representative from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Ilias Pechlivanidis), one from Karolinska Institutet (Jette Möller) and one from Barcelona Institute for Global Health (Joan Ballester).

The team plans to unravel the interplay between environmental drivers, socio-economic factors, societal processes and different adaptation strategies on the health impacts of non-optimal and extreme temperatures in Sweden. 

CNDS Fellow, Steffi Burchardt,  was recently interviewed in the Swedish scientific radio programme, Vetenskapsradio regarding the Nyiragongo volcanic eruption in Congo-Kinshasa from 2021, an eruption that left more than 200 people reported dead or missing. An international research team has investigated why there were no clear warning signs, such as vibrations, before the outbreak. 

CNDS Fellow and Research Coordinator, Daniel Nohrstedt (Department of Government, Uppsala University) has recently published an article on transformative policy change as a result of disasters. We have asked him some questions about the article and the need for this topic of research and his answers can be found below. The article is available on Bristol University Press Digital's website.

CNDS Fellow and Board Deputy Chair, Charles Parker (Uppsala university) has co-authored an article on the warning-response problems and missed opportunities during the Covid-19 pandemic under the Trump Administration. The article focuses on the crucial role of executive leadership as an underlying factor and discussing why the head of the state is responsible for ensuring a healthy policy process for response to the COVID-19 crisis.

CNDS Fellows, Elisa Savelli, Hannah Cloke, Giuliano Di Baldassarre (Uppsala university) and Maria Rusca (University of Manchester) have recently published an article on droughts as socioecological phenomena coproduced by the recursive engagement of human and non-human transformations. The article argues that "the narrow pursuit of profits and capital accumulation of the few has produced a fundamental disruption between nature and society which contributed to transform Ladismith’s drought into a socioecological crisis" (Savelli et.al, 2022). 

CNDS Fellow and Student Representative in the CNDS Board, Riccardo Biella (Uppsala university) has recently published an article on exploring the vulnerability and outmigration nexus in the Indian Himalayan Region.

CNDS Fellows, Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan (Uppsala University), have recently co-authored an article on the temporal changes in La Palma's volcano lava chemistry over the 3 months of highly destructive eruption from 2021. 

CNDS Deputy Director, Malin Göteman, co-authored an article (currently only available online) on the procedure of obtaining an environmental design load for the line force of a 1:30 scaled point-absorber wave energy converters (WEC) using an environmental contour with a 50-year return period for the Dowsing site in the North Sea.

CNDS Fellows, Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan (Uppsala university), co-authored a research article regarding the influence of large fracture formation on dome stability and outgassing.

Many of our Fellows (Elisa Savelli, Johanna Mård, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Elena Ridolfi,) contributed to an analysis which was just published in Nature, aimed at better understanding challenges posed by unprecedented #droughts and #floods. The paper's senior author is CNDS Director, Giuliano Di Baldassarre who was one of the coordinators for data collection, study design and analysis. 

CNDS Fellows, Frances Deegan and Valentin Troll, have published an article on the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland, focusing on the diverse mantle components with invariant oxygen isotopes. 

Our Fellow, Elena Raffetti, together with Elena Mondino and Giuliano Di Baldassarre (Uppsala University), has recently published an article on "Epidemic risk perceptions in Italy and Sweden driven by authority responses to COVID-19" in the multidisciplinary Nature journal Scientific reports.

The Borgarfjörður eystri–Loðmundarfjörður area in Eastern Iceland hosts several volcanic centres in a relativelysmall area. CNDS fellow, Steffi Burchardt, together with colleagues,  compiled the first comprehensive geological map of the area and summarise the geology based on more than 40 years of field-work.  

During the spring, the Minister of Education, Anna Ekström will lead a series of research seminars focusing on the government's three priority areas: segregation and crime, climate change and welfare. This Wednesday, the first seminar was organised, in collaboration with Formas. The topic was "A new game plan for the climate" and the speakers were the Minister for Climate and Environment, Annika Strandhäll and Mikael Granberg, professor of political science at Karlstad University and researcher at CNDS, together with five other researchers.

SAGE Publishing and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to understanding environment, climate, security, conflict, and peace linkages. The founding Editor-in-Chief will be our Fellow, Dr. Ashok Swain, professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. 

The paper "A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies" by CNDS Fellows, Sara Lindersson, Johanna Mård and Giuliano Di Baldassarre (UU), together with Luigia Brandimarte has been granted the title of top cited paper in Wires Water. 

A team of CNDS fellows, led by Daniel Nohrstedt (Uppsala university) has recently published a paper called "Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms: Improving the knowledge and practice interface" which is considered to be CNDS manifest, explaining how we can go beyond DRR truisms and better translate knowledge into DRR practice.

CNDS Fellow, Mickael Granberg (Karlstad University) has co-authored an article describing how Swedish multi-level governance and planning have been affected by and reacted upon three simultaneous, ongoing challenges - climate change, migration and the pandemic.

 CNDS' Fellows Frederike Albrecht and Helena Hermansson, inte alia, have recently published  a chapter within the book Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries [by B. Johansson, Ø. Ihlen, J. Lindholm, & M. Blach-Ørsten (Eds.)]

This chapter analyses how Nordic health authorities and prime ministers used social media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic from the health authorities’ Twitter communication and prime ministers’ Instagram posts.

Chapter available in Diva's website.

In this paper, CNDS Fellows, Emma Rhodes, Steffi Burchardt, Abigail Barker and Taylor Witcher (Uppsala University), together with co-authors, use field mapping, geochemistry, 3D pluton reconstruction and a thermal model to investigate the assembly and eruptive history of the shallow Reyðarártindur Pluton, southeast Iceland.

CNDS fellow Gabriele Messori will receive a starting grant of 1.5 M euro for his project "Compound Climate Extremes in North America and Europe: from dynamics to predictability".  

This ERC-granted project aims at unravelling the mutual shaping of society and hydrological extremes by explaining the causal mechanisms underlying this interplay, and uncovering the conditions in which the dynamics described above tend to emerge.

CNDS fellow Steffi Burchardt was awarded a research grant by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for her discovery of a paradoxical property in magma: it can fracture even though it flows. Her aim is to understand how fracture formation in magma influences everything from the prediction of volcanic eruptions to deposits of noble metals and the formation of oil reservoirs.