Published 15 March 2019 School students are right to demand more ambitious climate policies on 15 March. The scientific facts are entirely on their side. As researchers working on climate change we support the student movement and share our insights and research-based advice for local and global policymakers. For the past months, school students around the world have taken to the streets to call f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-supports-ongoing-climate-strikes - 2025-04-17

Published 29 March 2019 LUCSUS is part of the annual Sustainability Week in Lund, 8-13 April. This year's theme "Transforming our world" focuses on the global goals and agenda 2030. LUCSUS will participate in, and host, several events about sustainable transformations at different levels. 8 AprilOpening  and guided tour of the exhibition Carbon Ruins. ‘Carbon Ruins’ aims to transport the visitor i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week - 2025-04-17

Published 12 April 2019 In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowledge co-creation might play in realizing the SDGs.What sust

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2025-04-17

By Noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 April 2019 Potato farmer, Okhaldhunga, Eastern Nepal. At least a third of the glaciers in the Himalayan range could melt due to climate change. This will have severe consequences for almost 2 billion people, including the village communities in Nepal, since the glaciers are an important water and energy source. Researcher M

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-are-communities-nepal-managing-locally-produced-renewable-energy-age-climate-change - 2025-04-17

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 26 April 2019 This year’s Association of American Geographers’ conference got me thinking about maps. I’ve been to a fair few geography conferences but, funny enough, have never really come across very many maps. Or, rather, have given them very little thought. This year, wherever I turned there they were. A

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-reflections-years-association-american-geographers-conference-maja-essebo - 2025-04-17

Published 4 June 2019 George Neville works as a post-doctoral researcher within the Misty project, with a special focus on migration and the SDGs. In this interview, he tells us about what sustainability challenge he finds most interesting, what drives him as a researcher, and about what he did before he came to LUCSUS. What do you do at LUCSUS?I have just begun my postdoctoral research here at LU

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-george-neville-researches-migration-transformation-and-sustainability - 2025-04-17

Published 7 May 2019 In October, LUCSUS will host a conference on Loss and Damage (L&D) from climate change. Discussions to advance research on L&D are urgently needed, says LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd, since many challenges remain for the scientific and policy community on how L&D should be conceptualised, how best to measure, quantify and predict future L&D, and what governance arrangements are m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/dates-set-conference-loss-and-damage-ld-will-be-explored-through-five-interrelated-lenses - 2025-04-17

Published 30 April 2019 2018 was a time of change, for sustainability sciences, wider society, as well as within LUCSUS itself. In our annual report, we share insights into our developments and contributions to sustainability science. The report highlights our research, education and capacity building work during 2018.Within LUCSUS, we focused on advancing research within four interrelated themes,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-2018 - 2025-04-17

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 3 May 2019 Amongst the most promising perennial cereals are a wheat-like grass called intermediate wheatgrass named Kernza. Kernza can be used for anything wheat is used for. There is an urgent need for agriculture to drastically reduce its negative environmental impacts, while at the same time responding to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/future-agriculture-perennial - 2025-04-17

Published 6 May 2019 The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at LUCSUS, explains the significance of the report’s findings, which was releas

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mine-islar-comments-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-04-17

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 9 May 2019 Photo: Johan Persson The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University Centre for Sustainability St

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-04-17

Published 16 May 2019 "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong project, Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2025-04-17

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von arnold) - published 16 May 2019 On May 15, LUCSUS successfully kicked off our new mentorship programme for researchers. The purpose of the program is to offer leadership development to selected researchers of the strategic research area Sustainable Development, and to boost career development within academia. Gender, diversity

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-launches-new-mentorship-programme-researchers - 2025-04-17

Published 17 May 2019 From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2025-04-17

Published 21 December 2023 During the PhD Graduation Ceremony held in December 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, Nicole Citeroni received the Best Thesis Award 2023. During the ceremony, she briefly presented the topic of her PhD research titled “Systemic Economic Offences as a New Paradigm of International Crimes - Towards an Evolution or Revolution of International Criminal Law?”. The Thesis

https://www.law.lu.se/article/nicole-citeroni-wins-excellent-thesis-award-university-luxembourg-0 - 2025-04-17

Published 21 December 2023 In December, Alexander Hardenberger  successfully defended his dissertation with the title " Åberopsbörda i dispositiva tvistemål - En civilprocessuell studie i anslutning till 17 kap. 3 § andra meningen RB".Juris doctor Alexander Hardenberger has been awarded a grant for a position as a postdoctoral researcher from Institutet för Rättsvetenskaplig forskning for two year

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alexander-hardenberger-has-been-awarded-grant-postdoctoral-position-institutet-rattsvetenskaplig - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 7 januari 2019 Diabetesportalen har fått ny kostym och lite nya funktioner. Vi vill veta vad du tycker, vad som är bra och vad som kan bli bättre. Mejla dina synpunkter till redaktionen@diabetesportalen.se. Vi är glada att kunna börja året med att presentera nya Diabetesportalen!Förutom ny design har nya Diabetesportalen ny struktur. Vi har flyttat om och lagt till, allt för att göra de

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/valkommen-till-nya-diabetesportalen - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 16 september 2019 Mellan år 2000 och 2017 sjönk den fysiska aktiviteten, mätt i steg per dag, med 24 procent för 14-åriga flickor och med 30 procent för jämnåriga pojkar. Det visar en studie vid Göteborgs universitet som jämfört den vardagliga fysiska aktiviteten bland äldre barn och ungdomar i några kommuner i sydöstra Sverige. Foto: Dreamstime År 2000 ingick 332 barn och ungdomar i un

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/kraftigt-sankt-fysisk-aktivitet-bland-aldre-barn-och-ungdomar - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 26 september 2018 Utvecklingen av autoimmun typ 1-diabetes sker i tre steg. Vad som orsakar sjukdomen är okänt. I en översikt av kunskapsläget beskrivs ärftliga och miljömässiga faktorer samt möjligheterna med en tidig upptäckt. - Om vi kan förstå mekanismerna i sjukdomens tidiga stadier hoppas vi kunna förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut, skriver Simon Regnell, forskare, och Åke Lernmark

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/mojligheter-och-utmaningar-med-tidig-diagnos-av-autoimmun-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 1 februari 2019 Ökningen av antalet barn som insjuknar i typ 1 diabetes fortsätter. Forskare som analyserat data från 22 europeiska länder under de senaste 25 åren konstaterar att den årliga ökningen ligger på drygt tre procent. Forskarna undersökte också det cykliska mönster som uppträder i vissa länder, det vill säga att ökningen är större under återkommande perioder som vara i fyra t

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/typ-1-diabetes-dubbelt-sa-vanligt-om-20-ar - 2025-04-17