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Welcome to CERE

Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics

Event

CERE Seminar, Åsa Löfgren, University of Gothenburg

Wednesday 09 Sep, 2026

13:15 - 14:15

SAM.A.297 UMU

CERE Seminar, Fissha Asmare, Scotland’s Rural College

Wednesday 23 Sep, 2026

13:15 - 14:15

Kronan, SLU

News

  • CERE member Pedro M. Obregón Santander Defends His PhD Thesis

    We congratulate Pedro M. Obregón Santander on the successful defence of his thesis “Urban Forest and Green Space Management Along the Urban-Rural Continuum: Behavioral Drivers and Spatial Patterns” at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) on September 22nd, 2026. Supervised by Camilla Widmark, Adan Martínez Cruz and Chaitanya Suárez Rojas, with Professor Cecil Konijnendijk…

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  • New publication: Large differences in power outage cost estimates depending on method used

    When the power goes out for an hour at one of Sweden’s electricity-intensive factories, the true bill is far higher than standard economic statistics suggest — and some businesses never fully recover the lost production. That’s the finding of a new study from CERE researchers Lars Persson, Tommy Lundgren and Runar Brännlund, recently published in…

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  • Don’t Cut the Cable: New CERE Study Shows Sweden Gains More by Exporting Electricity

    Sweden has long enjoyed some of Europe’s cheapest electricity, powering its steel, aluminium and paper industries for decades. But as international electricity prices climb and Sweden’s grid grows more tightly linked to Europe, calls to restrict exports and keep domestic prices low have grown louder. A new study from the Centre for Environmental and Resource…

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