Linn M. Persson

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Linn Mikaela Persson (born March 19, 1972 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish environmental chemist . She heads the Governance and Institutions department at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) .

Career

Persson received his PhD in environmental chemistry from Stockholm University in 2003 with a dissertation on the topic of Methods for the study of dissolved organic matter as an environmental actor (dt. "Methods for the investigation of dissolved organic matter as an environmental actor "). She worked for the Chemicals Division of the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, the Swedish Embassy in Kenya and the Department of Applied Environmental Science at Stockholm University before joining SEI in 2005 as a research fellow.

Act

Her work focuses on environmental pollution with chemical substances, chemical management and international environmental agreements . Her research interests also include studies on the transfer of chemical risks along complex supply chains and ways of reducing chemical risks in global manufacturing. Persson's work has repeatedly addressed planetary boundaries .

In addition to the concept of Planetary Boundaries developed by Johan Rockström in 2009 , which identified nine limits, in 2013 she was the first author to publish an article dealing with the threat to planetary boundaries from chemical pollution and a strategy for proactive hazard identification outlined. She co- authored the scientific publication Planetary Boundaries. Guiding human development on a changing planet in the journal Science was quickly cited a thousand times, it is one of the most cited articles in its field of study in 2015 and has had a significant influence on the environmental policy discussion and the international sustainability discourse. Eighteen international researchers try to estimate the fractures in the natural world and come to the conclusion that the earth could not be a safe habitat for humans in the coming years if ecological growth, technology and consumption continue to develop as before .

Publications (selection)

  • Linn M. Persson et al .: Confronting unknown planetary boundary threats from chemical pollution. In: Environmental Science & Technology , 47 (22), 12619-12622, 2013 doi: 10.1021 / es402501c .
  • With Björn Nykvist et al .: National Environmental Performance on Planetary Boundaries. A study for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm 2013, ISBN 978-91-620-6576-8 .
  • With Matthew MacLeod et al .: Identifying chemicals that are planetary boundary threats. In: Environmental Science & Technology , 48 (19), 11057-11063, 2014. doi: 10.1021 / es501893m .
  • With Will Steffen et al .: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. In: Science , 347 (6223), 1259855, 2015 doi: 10.1126 / science.1259855 .
  • Linn Persson et al .: Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management in Cambodia: effects of regime design. In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics , February 2016, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 1–20, doi: 10.1007 / s10784-014-9254-5 .
  • Linn Persson et al .: The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals — Explaining the Legal Implementation Gap. In: Sustainability 2017, 9 (12), 2176; doi: 10.3390 / su9122176 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile at SEI Stockholm , accessed December 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Persson, LM, M. Breitholtz, IT Cousins, CA de Wit, M. MacLeod, and MS McLachlan. (2013). Confronting Unknown Planetary Boundary Threats from Chemical Pollution . Environ. Sci. Technol., Article ASAP. Publication Date (Web): August 27, 2013
  3. ↑ Christer Gummeson: KTH's highest impact research of 2015 , Campi, January 25, 2016
  4. ↑ Joel Achenbach: Scientists: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine 'planetary boundaries' , The Washington Post, January 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Persson, Linn M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Persson, Linn Mikaela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish environmental chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm