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Postal Address:
P.O. Box 170, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Visiting Address:
Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, Lund 4th floor

 

 

 

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LUCSUS presents on a regular basis seminars on sustainable development, LUCSUS Seminars. This successful series of seminars started in September 2005. The idea is to facilitate discussion on environment and development, including issues of global equity and justice. Presenters are from a variety of sustainability related backgrounds,  e.g. scholars from Lund University and other universities, civil servants, politicians and representatives from NGOs. LUCSUS Seminars are open to the public and for all scholars and students at Lund University and the Seminars are well attended by an interested and very competent audience. Students from the International Master programmes LUMES and LUMID are special invited to join the seminars.

See the history of the LUCSUS Workshops/Seminars and Conferences »

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LUCSUS invites you to an open guest lecture

Fumihiko Saito

Professor, Ryukoku University, Japan

Post 3.11 Implications for Japan and the World

When: Thursday August 30, 10h15-12h00
Where: Geocentrum 1, 1st floor, Flygeln, Sölvegatan 10

 

On March 2011, a triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and a severe accident at the nuclear power plant, hit Fukushima and Japan. Putting this 3.11 into perspective would be quite valuable not only for Japan but probably for the world. One of the important causes of the nuclear accident is a fraud decision making process of nuclear energy. Therefore,  3.11 poses a serious question about energy choice in democratic society. 3.11 also raises how to make transitions to green growth/green economy. These questions further relate to our much deeper understanding whether the current liberal democracy and capitalist economy would be good enough for sustainable future.

Dr. Fumihiko Saito is a professor at Ryukoku University, the oldest university in Japan. He was educated at Ryukoku University in Kyoto (PhD in Economics); Yale University (MA in International Relations); Amherst College (BA magna cum laude); and Doshisha University in Kyoto. He previously worked with UNDP in Bangladesh and Uganda. He was until recently co-directing a large research project examining comparative experiences of decentralization in developing countries. One of his books received an award from Japan Society for International Development.

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LUCSUS invites you to a seminar

Astier Mesghenna Almedom

Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health,
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Profiling human resilience as a basis for sustaining lives and livelihoods: essentials of a composite multidimensional human resilience index

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Astier Almedom, PhD., a native of Africa, is an Oxford-trained applied anthropologist with more than 25 years of experience in academic research and interdisciplinary scholarship in human behavioral and environmental sciences, including field work in eastern Africa, Afghanistan, and India. She is currently Director of the International Resilience Program at the Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University.

 

Papers by Astier M. Almegon:
Profiling Resilience: Capturing Complex Realities in One Word (pdf) »
A Call for a Resilience Index for Health and Social Systems in Africa (pdf) »

Read more about Astier M. Almegon »

When: Thursday February 23, 10h15-12h00
Where: Geocentrum 1. LUCSUS, 4th floor, Rio

Contact person: Melissa Hansen, melissa.hansen@lucid.lu.se

 

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University East Anglia

Climate Change:
putting ourselves in the picture

 

Based on his book Why We Disagree about Climate Change, professor Hulme will talk about the cultural meanings of climate change by drawing upon four myths linked to hubris, fear, nostalgia and justice. These different meanings attached to climate change are echoes of recurring human instincts and tropes. Hulme will connect these cultural meanings of climate to questions of urban planning, agriculture and adaptation.

Date: Monday January 30, 2012, 18:00-20:00

Contact person: Lena Christensen, Lena.christensenatblacklucsus.lu.se

 

 

7decLUCSUS proudly presents
The 2011 Right Livelihood Award Laureate

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Land Grabbing

Pathways to resource security or
threats to local livelihoods?

December 7, 2011

Presentations and discussions by
Peter Einarsson and Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and
Barry Ness, LUCSUS

Venue: Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10, 1st floor, Världen

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

Read more about GRAIN »

 

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How We Can Feed a Growing World, While Sustaining the Planet

Dr. Jonathan Foley
University of Minnesota, USA

As we mark the addition of the 7th billion person to our planet, we look ahead to balancing the need to feed eventually 9 billion people, while maintaining the life-support systems of the planet.

Join us for an informative and inspiring presentation highlighting innovative solutions to achieve this goal, from the lead author of a new paper in Nature.

When: Thursday, 3 November 2011, 18:00-19:30
Where: Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, 1st floor, Room Världen

Free and open to the public
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Sustainable Development Skåne (Hållbar Utveckling Skåne, HUT),
County Administration of Scania, (Länsstyrelsen i Skåne) and LUCSUS organised a full day workshop on Education for Sustainable Development

October 18, 2011

Inbjudan till Workshopen

Hållbart lärande
HÅLLBAR UTVECKLING SKÅNE INSPIRATIONS- OCH ARBETSDAG

Hur gör man när man undervisar kring hållbar utveckling? Från och med denna höst gäller den nya läroplanen med gemensamt för alla ämnen och utbildningsnivåer att hållbar utveckling är ett prioriterat område. Många lärare och pedagoger har arbetat med frågorna under flera år redan, är du en av dem? Kanske kan du utvecklas vidare genom att dela med dig av dina idéer och titta på dem tillsammans med andra?

Hållbar Utveckling Skåne bjuder tillsammans med Länsstyrelsen och LUCSUS vid Lunds Universitet in till en inspirations- och arbetsdag för lärande för hållbar utveckling. Vi hoppas att arbetet under dagen ska generera en idébank som kan underlätta ert arbete och komplettera ert undervisningsmaterial med åtgärder och idéer kring lärande för hållbar utveckling. Vi tänker också att arbetet kan vara en idébank för Länsstyrelsen som utvecklar det regionala åtgärdsprogrammet kopplat till de nationella miljömålen där lärande för hållbar utveckling ska vara en del

Utöver att lära nytt för egen del har ni alltså möjlighet att påverka Skånes framtida arbete för att nå miljömålen!

Välkomna till en dag för gemensamt lärande!

Program
10.00  Registrering. Kaffe, te och frukt serveras.

10.15  Klas Nyberg, dagens moderator hälsar välkommen.

10.20  Helen Hasslöf (Malmö Högskola) och Susie Broquist Lundegård (Södertälje Naturskola)
          föreläser.

12:00  Grupparbete och Arbetslunch där vi fokuserar på frågorna:
          Vad är ett bra exempel på lärande för hållbar utveckling?
          Vad är viktigast att eleverna lär sig för att vi ska uppnå hållbar utveckling?

13.30  Presentation av gruppernas gemensamma arbete.

14.10  Vernissage-mingel bland förslagen.

14.40  Fortsatt arbete utifrån material ni arbetat fram.

15.20  Presentation av gruppernas arbete.

16.00  Slut.
HUT

 

The Workshop on Urban Water Governance (Theme 7) U21 Workshop in Lund
Organized by LUCSUS and Pufendorf Institute, Lund, Sweden

The first workshop of the 7th theme of the U21 Water Futures for
Sustainable Cities (WFSC) project was held on 29-30 August in Lund, Sweden.

In exchanging their understanding of the complex water issues in cities
around the world, the participants of the workshop came up with
five cross-cutting themes to better analyze water governance issues.
The themes includeU21 Workshop in Lund

  1. use of science
  2. scale and level
  3. justice and fairness 
  4. institutional arrangements
  5. problem framing

The themes will be the bases of upcoming position paper as a point of
departure for developing methodological approaches and analytical frameworks
in order to identify new and improved modes of urban water governance.

U21 Workshop in LundIn addition, the steering committee was appointed by the participants,
and the possibility of gathering different empirical cases under a edited
volume was discussed.

Summary report from the workshop (pdf) »

More information on the Urban Water Governance project is available at:
http://www.universitas21.com/event/details/6/water-governance-workshop

Contact
Maryam Nastar, maryam.nastaratblacklucsus.lu.se