By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 September 2020 In her first year seminar on 17th September, Kelly Dorkenoo, PhD at LUCSUS, will highlight her research on negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia. She aims to identify potential pathways to address disproportionate losses and damages from climate change at different levels in society.  What is your res

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-kelly-dorkenoo-focuses-negative-impacts-climate-change-cambodia - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 October 2020 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. Negative emission technologies, or large scale carbon dioxide removal, are increasingly seen as key to slow or halt climate change. Researchers now warn that they are fraught with uncertainties, and raise questions about land use, justice and power. Wim Carton, researcher at Lund

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/uncertain-future-negative-emission-technologies - 2025-04-23

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 6 October 2020 LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00:  The future

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2025-04-23

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 29 September 2020 LUCSUS has been awarded SEK 20 million for a new research project aimed at mobilising farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is one of eleven new research projects, with a focus on Agenda 2030, that have been awarded funding in one of Formas’ big

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-receives-grant-sek-20-million-realise-global-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-04-23

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 7 October 2020 How can the climate movement continue its struggle and be a force for change in the light of other current crises such as social and economic injustices, inequalities and pandemics? Mine Islar, researcher at LUCSUS, says that joining forces with other causes and movements are one way forward,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-movements-continue-shape-future - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 October 2020 New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities in Louisiana, USA. New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities. Using L

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/environmental-claims-and-social-needs-clash-louisianas-coastal-wetlands - 2025-04-23

By Cecolia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 2 November 2020 Podcast: What role do mindsets play in sustainability and climate action? LUCSUS has established new cooperation in the context of the Inner Green Deal Initiative. The aim is to research and support personal qualities and methods that can enable the activation of sustainable climate action. T

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-addresses-human-dimension-climate-action - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 1 November 2020 The ethnographic study highlights how peasants without legal land titles experience less access to land and water after the FARC’s retreat due to the return of landowners, the legal arrangements about ownership of the land. Photo: Laura Betancur Alarcón. New article by LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause and LUMES

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/land-and-water-access-changes-colombian-andes-during-post-conflict - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 November 2020 Relational thinking in sustainability science can shed new light on human nature connections argues the authors of a new research article. Photo: Sanna Stålhammar. A new research article examines how relational approaches might contribute to a paradigm shift in sustainability science, and transformations toward

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-relational-thinking-leverage-points-and-transformations - 2025-04-23

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von arnold) - published 4 December 2020 For developing further research activities in line with our diversity goals, LUCSUS has secured a stimulus funding in the name of Hedda Andersson and invited world-renowned scholar Prof. Nancy Fraser for the spring term 2021.  For developing further research activities in line with diversity

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-renowned-scholar-prof-nancy-fraser-visiting-professor-lucsus-2020-2021 - 2025-04-23

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 4 December 2020 How do you make the regional craft beer industry more sustainable? Through direct collaboration with the sector to create “hyperlocal” solutions say researchers from LUCSUS who are growing hops at a local brewery in Skåne, Sweden. The aim is to test ways to decrease greenhouse gas emissions a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researchers-are-testing-new-ways-make-your-beer-more-sustainable - 2025-04-23

Published 8 December 2020 A Swedish consortium will help building a new international research network – New Roots International – with the aim of promoting research, development and policies for a perennial revolution in agriculture. The consortium will be one of six institutional pillars, coordinated by The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, USA. When the idea of radically reinventing agriculture

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/towards-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 December 2020 Marine coastal ecosystems are severely threatened by the negative effects of climate change. At the same time, they are very important for climate change mitigation since they can store large amounts of carbon, and help sustain both life under water, and people’s livelihoods. LUCSUS is part of the four-year EU

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-part-eu-project-support-and-restore-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2025-04-23

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 21 December 2020 2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do resea

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 January 2021 Consistency in identifying, measuring and addressing loss and damage is essential if practitioners are to be able to learn what works best over time, and to share best practices with other practitioners at different levels of governance. Photo: Chad Boda. A new research article from the project DICE, Recasting

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-frames-loss-and-damage-climate-change-failure-sustainable-development - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 13 January 2021 The image of what constitutes nature in urban environments, and how it is valued, needs to be broadened, according to researchers Sanna Stålhammar and Ebba Brink. Photo: Ebba Brink. Rich in animals and plants, a refuge to calm anxiety, and a source of new energy. A place for recreation and cultivation. This is

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-diverse-relations-nature-rios-favelas - 2025-04-23

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 13 January 2021 Join our research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and invited guests online every Thursday. Programme, Spring 2021 21 January 2021 10:15 to 12:00  Participatory scenario development in the African context 28 January 2021 15:00 to 17:00 PhD Mid seminar with Darin Wahl 4 February 2021 11:00 to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-seminars-2021 - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 January 2021 Mixed-reality project “Breathe” by Diego Galafassi and collaboration with Phi-Centre (Canada) and Crimes of Curiosity (U.S.A.)). Photo: Diego Galafassi. Diego Galafassi, researcher at LUCSUS, is leading a new research project on emerging media practices. Using co-creation, and a practice-led approach, the aim i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-project-will-analyse-how-emerging-media-practices-and-art-can-support-sdgs - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 22 January 2021 Forests are a really important ecosystem and their health depends on their biodiversity. Forests are not just a bunch of trees on a given piece of land, but they are complex systems, particularly in the tropics says Torsten Krause. A recent report by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) identifies 24 places across

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-wwf-report-deforestation-fronts - 2025-04-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 29 January 2021 We are delighted to welcome four new PhDs and post-docs to LUCSUS. They will work on climate change, loss and damage, disaster risk reduction, and socio-ecological systems, across three research projects. In this article, we present our new staff members. Inge-Merete Hougaard, Guy Jackson, Fabiola Espinoza Cord

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-welcomes-four-new-phds-and-postdocs-0 - 2025-04-23