Stockholm University, Sweden

Stockholm University is an internationally leading research institution in climate and environmental sciences. It is home to the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, a multi-disciplinary consortium of over 400 scientists that conduct research related to the Earth’s climate, and to the Stockholm Resilience Centre, a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Department of History at Stockholm University is home to the Climate and Environmental History Seminar and has established climate and environmental history as one of its research profiles. Moreover, the Environmental Humanities Network and the research unit for Archeological Sciences at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Stockholm University has a strong environmental, including climate, focus.

Our institution research node, hosted at the Department of History at Stockholm University, studies the impacts of past climate variability and change – from Neolithic time to the present day – on food production and other key variables of human societies across Scandinavia, rest of Europe as well as other parts of the world. We also study the indirect societal effects, including political, economic, social and cultural ones, of impacts for a changing climate across time-scales and regions. Our research actively bridges the humanities and the natural sciences in studying past climate change–human history links. The research node also benefits from Stockholm University’s strong interdisciplinary environment through collaborations with leading institutions in climate and environmental sciences, resilience research, and environmental humanities.

Special competences: Climate history, Agrarian history, Environmental history, Palaeoclimatology, Historical Geography

Regional special competence: Europe; North Atlantic region; Asia; global

Join the monthly seminar! Contact: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, fredrik.c.l@historia.su.se