Sustainable development in research
The School of Business, Economics and Law's activities will contribute to a positive development of society and explicit ambition is to be at the international forefront among peers when it comes to sustainability in all dimensions of our work. The tradition of addressing sustainability in research and education goes back a long way and today the School has research related to all the Global Goals in Agenda 2030.
New knowledge for a sustainable world
Informed by the United Nations Agenda 2030, the School shall be at the international forefront of providing high-quality research and education, resulting in knowledge and competence that can contribute to policymaking and assist businesses in their handling of fundamental societal challenges.
In both research and education, these societal challenges should be approached with the most appropriate academic tools available, often including cross-disciplinary collaboration. Thus, two important assets for us are that our School includes a broad set of academic disciplines, and that we are part of a comprehensive university.
The School's research from a sustainability perspective
The School shall act on challenges facing the world today, such as climate change, the decline of biodiversity, migratory flows, social exclusion, the effects of demographic changes, the vulnerability of political and financial systems, the erosion of multilateral structures for international cooperation, the distribution and redistribution of resources, or transformative structural changes resulting from technological developments.
To clarify our knowledge contribution to sustainable development, we have mapped all research at the School based on relevance to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in the Agenda 2030. The inventory shows that the School has research relating to all of the Global Goals, and that we have research of particular importance linked to several goals, see figure below.
Research related to the Global Goals
The School of Business, Economics and Law has research related to all 17 Global Goals. Here we have gathered information about some of this research.