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13 Jan 2021

LUCSUS Seminars 2021

Join our research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and invited guests online every Thursday.

13 Jan 2021

New study reveals diverse relations to nature in Rio’s favelas

With their new study

12 Jan 2021

New research frames loss and damage from climate change as the failure of sustainable development

New research frames loss and damage as the failure of sustainable development.

21 Dec 2020

The climate researchers' wish list for 2021

What changes for the climate do researchers want to see in 2021? Researchers in climate and sustainability list their wishes for the new year.

18 Dec 2020

LUCSUS is part of a EU-project to support and restore marine coastal ecosystems

LUCSUS is part of the four-year EU funded project Marine Coastal Ecosystem Biodiversity and Services in a Changing world.

8 Dec 2020

Towards a Perennial Revolution in Agriculture

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 perenni...

4 Dec 2020

Researchers are testing new ways to make your beer more sustainable

Researchers from LUCSUS are growing hops at a local brewery in Skåne, Sweden as a way to decrease emissions and contribute to circular economies.

4 Dec 2020

World-renowned scholar Prof. Nancy Fraser visiting professor at LUCSUS in 2020-2021.

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...

5 Nov 2020

New research on relational thinking, leverage points and transformations

A new research article examines how relational approaches might contribute to a paradigm shift in sustainability science, and transformations towards sustainability. Relational app...

2 Nov 2020

New collaboration addresses the human dimension of 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 acti...

1 Nov 2020

Land and Water Access Changes in Colombian Andes during the Post-Conflict

New article by LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause and LUMES Alumni Laura Betancur Alarcón portraits the local dynamics in land and water access in Las Hermosas region southwest Colom...

8 Oct 2020

Environmental claims and social needs clash in Louisiana’s coastal wetlands

New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities. Using Louisiana’s coastal wetlands a...

7 Oct 2020

How will climate movements continue to shape the future?

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...

6 Oct 2020

Lund University Future Week 12-18 October

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 a...

5 Oct 2020

The uncertain future of negative emission technologies

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 ...

29 Sep 2020

LUCSUS receives grant of SEK 20 million to realise the global sustainable development goals

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 ...

8 Sep 2020

PhD Kelly Dorkenoo focuses on negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia

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 pote...

8 Sep 2020

PhD student Sara Ullström studies mobilisation, and voluntary action connected to low-carbon ways of life

Sara Ullström, PhD in Sustainability Science, will present her work at a first seminar on 17th September. We asked her to explain what her research within the project, The takeoff ...

7 Sep 2020

2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance

LUCSUS researchers will be part of the upcoming 2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance, where they will be organising a session on migration and climate change.

4 Sep 2020

LUCSUS researchers analyse how billions of EU farming funding subsidies are being spent

Murray Scown and Kimberly Nicholas, researchers at LUCSUS, have analysed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income su...