BECC Grand Challenges
Grand Challenges are issues where gaps in scientific understanding constrain the ability to make informed decisions on issues of pressing concern for the well-being of people and the environment, in a world affected by continued global change.
BECC revolves around three Grand Challenges that must be tackled to find solutions to the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, land-use and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our researchers develop and bridge together theories and methods from different disciplines - biology, economics, environmental science, geology, political science, and physical geography. The Grand Challenges are:
- Effective and biologically meaningful biodiversity conservation strategies across scales under global change
- The carbon cycle response to anthropogenic and biophysical drivers
- Ecosystem Services under Global Change
Under the umbrella of the Grand Challenges, BECC is organised into platforms that foster scientific coordination, intellectual exchange, and mutual learning. Within these platforms, researchers meet to develop new collaborations, research projects, networks, and outreach and dissemination activities. To fully harness the breadth of expertise within BECC the Challenges cut across disciplines.
Challenges
Biodiversity under Global Change
Challenge leader: Mikael Pontarp (Lund University, Department of Biology)
Mikael Pontarp - Lund University
Carbon cycle & Climate change – 4C
Challenge leader: Kimberly Nicholas (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS)
Kimberly Nicholas - Lund University
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Ecosystem Services under Global Change
Challenge leader: Anna Persson (Lund University, Department Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Anna Persson - Lund University
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