By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 June 2024 The picture shows the poster for the musical Pärlornas Sånger which was performed in June in 2023 for the first time. Professor Christine Wamsler's research and extraordinary work on integrated inner-outer transformation for sustainability has made it into a musical! The musical is entitled ‘Pärlornas Sånger’. It i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/musical-tribute-featuring-christine-wamslers-work-and-vision-sustainable-future - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 June 2024 A key finding of Kelly Dorkenoo's thesis is that climate-related loss should be understood as occurring when people lose the ability to derive benefits from things that they value, due to climatic and socio-economic drivers. What is climate-related loss and when can it be considered disproportionate? This question

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-thesis-advances-understanding-disproportionate-climate-related-loss-focus-land-cambodia - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 17 June 2024 The illustration highlighs potential reactions to increased fuel prices. Illustration: Saskia Gullstrand. Unfair, ineffective, and inefficient. These are some of the moral objections to increasing fuel prices in Sweden. A new study from Lund University identifies how social movements are resisting green transition

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/moral-resistance-green-transitions-focuses-unfairness-inefficiency-and-ineffectiveness - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 13 June 2024 Participants at the POLLEN2024 conference. The POLLEN2024 conference in June gathered hundreds of researchers across three sites Dodoma (Tanzania), Lima (Peru) and Lund (Sweden) in 200 special panels to discuss political ecology for just and plural futures. Some of the organisers at Lund University and University

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-pollen2024-what-makes-29-researchers-three-continents-join-forces-create-conference - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 19 June 2024 Natalia Rubiiano's thesis presents a number of findings connected to justice. One relates to ideas of land availability and the definition of marginal land, that might be used for afforestation or BECCS. A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-pathways-run-risk-reproducing-historical-injustices-according-new-thesis - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 September 2024 PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can address many of the problems connected to agriculture, and hopes to challenge incumbent power structures and spur radical transformati

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-stefan-schuller-explores-prospects-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 10 October 2024 Pictured from top, left to right: Melissa García-Lamarca, Emily Boyd, Bregje van Veelen, Lennart Olsson and Christine Wamsler. LUCSUS is incredibly proud to announce that several of the centre's researchers are recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist ranking 2024! Professor Christine Wamsler was ra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanfordelsevier-top-2-scientist-2024-ranking - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 October 2024 Vaupes in the Colombian Amazon – a view of forest coverage in an Indigenous managed territory. The photo was taken 2015 by Carlos Alberto Hernandez Veléz. COP16 in Cali, Colombia, is the first Conference of the Parties since the adoption of the landmark Biodiversity Plan in 2022 in which countries pledged to sa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-are-ideal-outcomes-cop16 - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 November 2024 COP29 participants pictured during day one, 11th November, of the climate conference. UN Climate Change - Habib Samadov COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-emily-boyds-expectations-cop29 - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 November 2024 COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenh

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop29-baku-azerbaijan - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 December 2024 Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy, is failing to deliver on its aim to protect rural livelihoods, landscapes and the environme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mapping-hotspots-sustainable-and-unsustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 9 December 2024 Over 40% of the land pledged in the countries' climate plans is envisaged to be converted into forests from other land uses according to the researchers' study. Photo: Pixabay. A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-unrealistic-land-demands-reach-net-zero-area-bit-larger-us - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 11 December 2024 The University House pictured by Kennet Ruona. LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund Univers

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 February 2025 The study shines a light on the need for adaptation laws and policies that empower vulnerable communities, rather than displacing them, say the researchers. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-04-19

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 December 2024 The flight-free movement seems to have paved the way for cultural change in high-carbon norms and practices which is absolutely necessary in the climate transition says Sara Ullström. Illustration: Markus Wendén. Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-dissertation-explores-how-swedens-flight-free-movement-challenges-social-norms-around-flying - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 16 juni 2021 Litteratur genom ett par hörlurar kopplade till en mobiltelefon. Den nya boken "Från Strindberg till Storytel" tar upp ljudbokens framväxt och reflekterar kring sambanden mellan ljud och litteratur i samtiden och det förflutna. Tobias Olofsson, forskare på Sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet och Henrik Fürst, postdoktor på Sociologiska institutionen, Uppsala unive

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/framtidssociologi-tittar-pa-ljudbokens-framvaxt - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 16 juni 2021 Idag presenteras den bästa kandidatuppsatsen i kriminologi på Stockholm Criminology Symposium. Över 500 personer från nästan 40 länder deltar i det årliga eventet som hålls i år den 15 - 16 juni. Varje år väljs den bästa kandidatuppsatsen i kriminologi ut från varje lärosäte för att presenteras. Michaela Hautamäki Bengtsson, student här på Sociologiska institutionen, skrev

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/basta-kandidatuppsatsen-i-kriminologi-skrevs-har-pa-sociologen - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 23 juni 2021 Om EU skulle tvinga Sverige att införa en lag om minimilöner skulle vi få en dubbel uppsättning minimi­löner, en kollektivavtalad och en lagfäst. Anders Kjellberg, professor i sociologi, har nyligen publicerat en ny upplaga av rapporten "Den svenska modellen 2020: pandemi och nytt huvudavtal". I den finns ett nytt kapitel om EU:s förslag till minimilöner och nya avsnitt ang

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/eus-minimiloner-kan-pressa-undan-kollektivavtal - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 5 oktober 2021 Alexandra Franzén utanför AF-borgen i Lund där Jan Guillou och Peter Bratt höll ett anförande om IB kvällen innan de fängslades för sin publicering. Hur kan ett fritt och öppet samhälle som Sverige skydda sig mot demokratins fiender utan att de metoder som används urholkar just friheten och öppenheten? Med denna fråga inledde fakultetsopponent professor Ulf Bjereld presen

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/alexandra-franzen-har-disputerat - 2025-04-19

Publicerad 17 november 2021 Anna Hedlund, forskare i socialantropologi här på Sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, diskuterade de kriminella gängen i en direktsänd paneldiskussion från Göteborgs universitet. Den senaste tidens kamp mot den grova brottsligheten var temat för paneldiskussionen "After work med forskare", inspelad 14 oktober. Medverkade gjorde även Kristina Alstam, doktor i

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/de-flesta-vill-lamna-den-grova-brottsligheten - 2025-04-19