Climate Change and Resilience

Our world is facing serious societal and environmental challenges due to climate change. Research on mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage (resilience) is needed to tackle these complex challenges. Exploring and identifying new questions on the linkages between sustainability transformations and climate change are also of key importance.

Illustration of climate demonstrations for LUCSUS climate theme. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson.

At LUCSUS, we have a long-standing focus on adressing the societal dimensions of climate change, such as food security, greenhouse gas emission reductions, and transformation of energy and urban and rural land use systems. We adress these dimensions from the perspectives of poverty, inequality, gender, governance, consumption patterns, economy, justice and responsibility.

Through a variety of projects, on both a local and global level, our researchers examine drivers of environmental change. For example, impacts on and engagement by governmental and non-governmental actors, how change is happening: at which scale, who does it affect, and who directs change?

At LUCSUS, we drill into issues of values, beliefs and needs that underpin responses to climate change, issues of justice and responsibility, and forms of adaptive and anticipatory governance in decision-making.

Keywords: mitigation, adaptation, loss and damages, resilience, justice, governance, food security, energy

Ongoing research projects

MAGYC

Migration Governance and Asylum Crises

Earth globe, with large trees attached to the side of the globe. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson.

Negative emissions and the politics of a projected future

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, political economy, and the responsibilisation of climate research

Sámi social movements

Indigenous mobilization around the ecological conditions of reindeer husbandry under climate emergency

Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries (CliCNord)

CliCNord examines how the small rural communities understand their own situation, how they handle adverse events and build capacity, and under what circumstances they need help from the established system and civil society organisations.

Negative emissions and the politics of a projected future

Research to advance a more interdisciplinary research agenda on emission reduction pathways.

Illustration of factory emitting carbon dioxide. Illustration.

Burying problems? Imaginaries of carbon capture and storage in Scandinavia

This research examines imaginaries of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Scandinavian energy systems.

A woman with her hand raised up. Photo: Unsplash.

ICARUS

Research on how power and politics intersects with cross-cutting adaptation at multiple scales to contribute towards producing more resilient and just futures.

Contemplative Sustainable Futures

The role of individual inner dimensions and transformations in sustainability

A hand holding a flower by congerdesign from Pixabay.

Mind4Change

Agents of Change - Mind, Cognitive Bias and Decision-Making in a Context of Social and Climate Change

A city with a factory blowing smoke. Photo: Unsplash.

Tradeoffs between negative emissions and near-term emission reductions?

Integrating the discursive and material dimensions of mitigation deterrence

Mountain in Nepal. Photo: Sergey Pesterev, Unsplash.

NaturICE

Research to explore plural values of human-nature relationships in glacierized environments.

We Can Fix It

Research on how leading the way on climate action can influence others.

person holding a bubble in the nature. Photo

TransVision

Transition Visions: Coupling Society, Well-being and Energy Systems for Transitioning to a Fossil-free Society

Wildfires in the Mediterranean

Research on the consequences of the wildfires in the Mediterranean.

ActivateChange

Activating transformation: Meeting the climate crisis inside-out

The takeoff of staying on the ground

Changing political and personal narratives of aviation, climate, and the good life in Sweden

MISTY

Migration, Transformation and Sustainability

Narrating Climate Futures

Exploring the narratives and stories of alternative climate futures.

People on a flooded street in a city. Photo.

DICE

Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change extremes

(Mal) Adaptation to extreme urban heat: At what cost, to whom?

Research on how inequality interacts with adaptation responses to extreme urban heat and aims to identify the institutional conditions required for building socially sound and climate-resilient cities.