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10 Oct 2024
LUCSUS researchers included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist 2024 ranking
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 w...
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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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8 Apr 2024
Read LUCSUS Annual Report 2023!
In our Annual Report for 2023, we have gathered highlights from the year from research, policy and engagement. We also outline key events within our PhD programme and our Education...
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25 Mar 2024
The use of biochar as a method to remove carbon can lead to mitigation deterrence
The inclusion of biochar as a method to remove carbon in Denmark's short term climate targets can lead to mitigation deterrence. This is according to a policy brief written by Inge...
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22 Mar 2024
New Master of Science programme in Climate Change and Society
Do you want to work with climate change transitions and sustainability? Then the LUCAS programme is for you! It offers potential and vital ways of addressing climate change in coll...
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19 Mar 2024
Key research areas at LUCSUS
To strenghten the visibility of LUCSUS, and LUCSUS research, a number of key research areas have been added to the LUCSUS website. The aim is to make it easier for external researc...
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11 Mar 2024
New LUCSUS research project aims to address climate anxiety in youth and enhance skills of educators and learners
A new research project aims to enhance educators' skills for nurturing inner resilience and reducing climate anxiety of learners through trauma-informed and creative approaches tha...
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11 Mar 2024
Join LUCSUS at this year's Sustainability week in Lund, 8–13 april 2024
Join LUCSUS, Lund University and Lund municipality for this year's Sustainability week. We are organising many different events, and hope to see you there!
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1 Mar 2024
Study identifies seven ways in which farmers can help increase carbon storage in soil
Farming practices have the potential to slow climate change by pulling carbon from the air and store it in the soil. A new study from LUCSUS has identified seven ways in which farm...
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30 Jan 2024
PhD student Carmen Margiotta studies how individuals' worldviews influcence connections to glaciers
PhD student Carmen Margiotta will explore how diverse cosmological worldviews influence individuals' connections with glaciers, as part of the project NaturICE. Her specific focus ...
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30 Jan 2024
Save the date for the DevRes Conference, 21-23 October
We’re happy to announce that this year’s Development Research Conference (DevRes) will be held at Lund University on October 21-23. The conference aims to gather Swedish affiliated...