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Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM

SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre provides new perspectives on the importance of biodiversity for people and communities.

International work

News from CBM

26 June 2020 Nature guides and immigration Guided interactions with nature form part of integration programmes aimed at immigrant groups in Nordic societies. Based on data collected from several Swedish Nature-Based Integration (NBI) projects this article examines the rituals nature guides employ on guided walks. It explores how guides enact taskscapes through structured and improvised ritual activity.
22 May 2020 This happens at CBM 2020 Nothing is as it used to be this year, and so also at CBM. We were planning for a super year for the environment 2020 with, among other things, three conferences. With the corona pandemic, many plans have had to be overthrown and much is still uncertain. But our work for biodiversity continues, although in different forms! Here you can read about some of the events we are planning for, and to keep watch for in our different channels.
31 March 2020 Can natural enemies provide biological control of aphids in a changing climate? Asmita Baral has just started doing her master thesis work at SLU. She wants to find out if a diversity of natural enemies can provide stable biological control of aphids when the climate changes. We took the opportunity to ask her some questions!

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Policy Briefs: the relevance of the research

Read about how our research can be of use for our society and for biodiversity. New publication: "Animal Welfare and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals" on the potential animal Welfare has to make a positive contribution to the achievement of the SDGs.

Published: 04 May 2020 - Page editor: cbm-webmaster@slu.se

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