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Petter

Petter Pilesjö

Researcher

Petter
Contact details
Organisation
  • Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre)
  • Room number: 206
  • Service point: 16
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Other affiliations
  • Researcher
    MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Researcher
    Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • Principal investigator
    BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Petter is a senior researcher in the MECW research area Environment and Sustainable Development in the Middle East, and also the director of Lund University GIS Centre (since 1995).

He is a geographer and a spatial modeller. Since 1986 he has been working with research and education in Europe and developing countries (mainly Africa, Asia and Middle East). Petter’s research is focusing on GIS in environment, health studies, implementation of GIS and pedagogic research e.g. in social sciences (regional development and economy), as well as on technical issues (modelling and algorithm development).

GIS; environment; health studies; Iraq

Publications

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Research Projects

Current Projects at CMES

FIRE: Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment (2018-ongoing)

Climate Stress Syria (2020-2023)

Previous Project at CMES

EMME: Environmental Management in the Middle East (2018-2021)

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