Lina Eklund
Researcher
Lina Eklund has a PhD in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis from Lund University. She finished her PhD in 2015 with her dissertation “No Friends but the Mountains: Understanding Population Mobility and Land Dynamics in Iraqi Kurdistan”, for which she received an award from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2016. Her current research is focused on land systems and conflict, more specifically on the links between drought, land use change, migration and conflict in Syria and Iraq. Another research interest of hers is the environmental dimensions of conflict, and mainly how conflicts affect land and agricultural systems, through e.g. the political context, fires, and migration.
Lina Eklund teaches GIS and remote sensing at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science. She is interested in science communication and making science more accessible to non-academic audiences.
Land use, conflict, remote sensing, GIS, science communication
Publications
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”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
Anna Lundberg, Emma Eleonorasdotter, Dalia Abdelhady, David Bowling, Karin Zackari, et al.
(2024) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleCropland abandonment in the context of drought, economic restructuring, and migration in northeast Syria
Lina Eklund, Berit Mohr, Pinar Dinc
(2024) Environmental Research Letters, 19
Journal articleSpatiotemporal variability of dust storm source susceptibility during wet and dry periods: The Tigris-Euphrates River Basin
Seyed Amir Naghibi, Hossein Hashemi, Pengxiang Zhao, Sara Brogaard, Lina Eklund, et al.
(2024) Atmospheric Pollution Research, 15
Journal articlePolitikerna struntar i klimatforskningen : 420 forskare: Regeringens politik är katastrofal – nu måste fler svenskar kräva en omställning
Glenn Bark, Karin Gerhardt, Jeannette Eggers, Paul Glantz, Maria Wolrath Söderberg, et al.
(2023) Aftonbladet Debatt
Newspaper articleSyrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: the causes, patterns, and aftermath of land abandonment and migration
Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund
(2023) Climate and Development
Journal articleUnderstanding the spatial non-stationarity in the relationships between malaria incidence and environmental risk factors using Geographically Weighted Random Forest : A case study in Rwanda
Gilbert Nduwayezu, Pengxiang Zhao, Clarisse Kagoyire, Lina Eklund, Jean Pierre Bizimana, et al.
(2023) Geospatial health, 18
Journal articleSveriges utsläpp måste minska nu, regeringen : 531 forskare: Annars är sveket monumentalt – ni kan inte säga att ni inte visste
Alasdair Skelton, Kimberly Nicholas, Lennart Olsson, David Alcer, Tomas Persson, et al.
(2023) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleReturning to traditional solutions in the face of climate challenges
Lina Eklund, Hossein Hashemi
(2023) Near East Policy Forum (NEPF)
Journal articleKlimat och konflikt i Syrien: Ett rumsligt perspektiv på torka, jordbruk och sårbarhet i Syrien under perioden 2000–2022 : Climate and conflict in Syria: a spatial perspective of drought, agriculture and vulerability in Syria during the period 2000–2022
Lina Eklund
(2023) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 125
Journal articleSocietal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology
Lina Eklund, Ole Magnus Theisen, Matthias Baumann, Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al.
(2022) Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 3
Journal articleWater
Martina Angela Caretta, Aditi Mukherji, Md Arfanuzzaman, Richard A. Betts, Alexander Gelfan, et al.
(2022) Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability : Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Report chapterThe Syrian Climate-Migration-Conflict Nexus: : An Annotated Bibliography
Gianna Angermayr, Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund
(2022)
ReportDrought, war and rural livelihoods in Syria’s northeast : a spatiotemporal perspective
Lina Eklund, Pinar Dinc
(2022)
Conference paper: abstractOn the Geopolitics of Fire, Conflict and Land in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Aiman Shahpurwala, Pinar Dinc
(2021) Remote Sensing, 13 p.1575-1575
Journal articleFighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment : the Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey
Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund, Aiman Shahpurwala, Ali Mansourian, Augustus Aturinde, et al.
(2021) Human Ecology, 49 p.481-493
Journal articleNature of Peace: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Research at the Intersection of Nature, Peace and Post-Conflict
Maria Andrea Nardi, Torsten Krause, Lina Eklund, Maria Ericson, Alejandro Fuentes, et al.
(2019)
Conference paper: abstractDebattinlägg: ”En nyanserad debatt om klimatflyktingar måste baseras på vetenskapligt grundad fakta.”
Lina Eklund, Mine Islar, Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
(2018) Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Debatt
Newspaper article9 Crisis and Agricultural Change in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1980s–2010s: an Interdisciplinary Approach
Lina Eklund, Katharina Lange
(2018) Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture
Book chapterWhat happens to land use in conflict settings? The case of Syria
Lina Eklund
(2018)
Conference paper: abstractDifferences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
Lina Eklund, Darcy Thompson
(2017) Ecology and Society, 22
Journal articleIs Syria really a ‘climate war’? We examined the links between drought, migration and conflict
Lina Eklund, Darcy Thompson
(2017) The Conversation
Journal articleHow conflict affects land use: agricultural activity in areas seized by the Islamic State
Lina Eklund, Michael Degerald, Martin Brandt, Alexander V Prishchepov, Petter Pilesjö
(2017) Environmental Research Letters
Journal articleFrom Producers to Consumers: The Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Development in Iraqi Kurdistan
Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim Abdi, Mine Islar
(2017) Land, 6
Journal articleFeeding the Caliphate? Agricultural Activity in ISIS Zones of Iraq and Syria
Lina Eklund
(2017) Muftah.org
Newspaper articleDrought Not the Only Environmental Problem in Syria Before 2011
Lina Eklund
(2017) SyriaUntold
Newspaper articleWhat’s in a Name? The Changing Conceptualisations of ‘Drought’ in Syria
Lina Eklund, Darcy Thompson
(2017)
Conference paper: abstractCropland changes in times of conflict, reconstruction, and economic development in Iraqi Kurdistan
Lina Eklund, Andreas Persson, Petter Pilesjö
(2016) Ambio: a Journal of Human Environment, 45 p.78-88
Journal articleOn virtual water and food security in the Middle East and beyond
Lina Eklund
(2016) Your Middle East
Newspaper articleData and methods in the environment-migration nexus : A scale perspective
Lina Eklund, Clemens Romankiewicz, Martin Brandt, Martin Doevenspeck, Cyrus Samimi
(2016) Die Erde, 147 p.139-152
Journal article reviewAgriculture and Food Security in Syria and Iraq: Land Abandonment and the Islamic State
Lina Eklund
(2016)
Conference paper: abstractMeteorological, agricultural and socioeconomic drought in the Duhok Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan
Lina Eklund, Jonathan Seaquist
(2015) Natural Hazards, 76 p.421-441
Journal article“No Friends but the Mountains” Understanding Population Mobility and Land Dynamics in Iraqi Kurdistan
Lina Eklund
(2015)
DissertationA brief guide to Climate Change, COP21 and the Middle East
Lina Eklund
(2015) Your Middle East
Newspaper articleDemography, Land Use and Agricultural Development in the Rural Areas of Duhok Governorate, Iraq
Lina Eklund
(2013)
Conference paper: abstractMigration Patterns in Duhok Governorate, Iraq, 2000-2010
Lina Eklund, Petter Pilesjö
(2012) The Open Geography Journal , p.48-58
Journal articleDealing with drought – Water challenges in Iraqi Kurdistan
Lina Eklund
(2012)
Conference paper: abstractAssessment of Mobility Conditions Using Geographic Information System in the West Bank Territory: The Case of Bethlehem – Ramallah Route
Lina Eklund, Ahmad El-Atrash
(2012) Arab World Geographer, 15 p.127-138
Journal articleDrought in Iraq : Implications for rural population, environment and agriculture in Duhok Governorate - Methodological challenges
Petter Pilesjö, Lina Eklund
(2012)
Conference paper: abstractDrought in Iraq - Severity, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Lina Eklund
(2012)
Conference paper: abstractUsing geographical information systems to analyse accessibility to health services in the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory
Lina Eklund, Ulrik Mårtensson
(2012) Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 18 p.796-802
Journal articleMigration Patterns to and from Rural Villages in Duhok Governorate, Iraq, 2000-2010
Lina Eklund
(2011)
Conference paper
Research Projects
Current Projects at CMES
ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict-Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation (2023-2026), funded by the MECW Research Program
FIRE: Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment (2018-ongoing)
Climate Stress Syria (2020-2023)
Pyrogeography in Conflict Contexts: Satellite Remote Sensing of Vegetation Fires in the Middle East (2023-2027)