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5 Sep 2024
PhD student Stefan Schüller explores the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture
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 add...
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19 Jun 2024
The IPCC pathways run the risk of reproducing historical injustices, according to a new thesis
A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in the global mitigation pathways assessed by the IPCC for staying with...
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17 Jun 2024
Moral resistance to green transitions focuses on unfairness, inefficiency and ineffectiveness
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 a...
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13 Jun 2024
Reflections from POLLEN2024 - What makes 29 researchers from three continents join forces to create a 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 ec...
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12 Jun 2024
A new thesis advances the understanding of disproportionate climate-related loss with a focus on land in Cambodia
What is climate-related loss and when can it be considered disproportionate? This question is at the heart of Kelly Dorkenoo’s thesis which explores loss associated with land in sm...
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5 Jun 2024
A musical tribute featuring Christine Wamsler's work and vision for a sustainable future
Professor Christine Wamsler's research and extraordinary work on integrated inner-outer transformation for sustainability has made it into a musical!
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24 May 2024
Associate Professor Kimberly Nicholas is a recipient of the 2024 Planet Earth Award
Kimberly Nicholas, Asssociate Professor at LUCSUS, is one of six recipients of the 2024 Planet Earth Award, a prestigous prize which acknowledges individuals who champion life on E...
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20 May 2024
The loss of Venezuela’s last glacier points to a future where loss as opposed to damage is the new reality
Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being...
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23 Apr 2024
Emily Boyd on her hopes for the new Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes
Professor Emily Boyd is Co-Director of CLIMES, the recently established Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes. Led by Uppsala University in collaboration with LUCSUS and R...
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16 Apr 2024
The silencing of social leaders in Colombia leads to historical erasure of social struggle
The silencing of social leaders in Colombia who are defending their territories leads to a historical erasure of social struggles, a decreased capacity to progress environmental an...
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