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What do you explore in your PhD-project?  I explore the role that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) plays in the regulation of Wildlife consumption in the Colombian Amazon. This is quite interesting, and a key topic as there are around 65 indigenous ethnic groups living in the Colombian Amazon forest. Working, and learning with them, about sustainable use of this ecosystem, is without a doubt

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-carlos-velez-explores-role-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-relation-wildlife - 2025-10-13

Just a month after the UN climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world meet again, at COP15 in Montreal, to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. Torsten Krause is a senior lecturer in Sustainability Studies at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. His research focuses on, among other things, Amazon deforestation and policy issues relating to bi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-un-conference-cop15 - 2025-10-13

On 25 November, after two years of intense legal preparations, the youth organsation Aurora, submitted a litigation against the Swedish state for its insufficient climate policies – the very first of its kind in Sweden. Mark Connaughton, research assistant at LUCSUS, and member of the GAMES research project, a collaborative project led by LUCSUS with Copenhagen University and Imperial College Lond

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/aurora-climate-litigation - 2025-10-13

The new Global Biodiversity Framework is seen as an important step towards addressing the nature crisis, not least the ambitious goal to restore, protect and conserve 30 per cent of land and 30 per cent of the water globally by 2030.  Mine Islar, senior lecturer at LUCSUS, and coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), shares her refl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/can-new-post-2020-global-biodiversity-framework-stop-biodiversity-loss-mine-islar-comments-outcomes - 2025-10-13

LUCSUS PhD student Ronald Byaruhanga studies how collective action through farmer groups can be used as a vehicle for food sovereignty in Uganda. In this short interview he shares his goals and research interests. What will you investigate in your research? My PhD is part of a larger project on “Mobilising Farmer Organisations for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/meet-our-phd-student-ronald-byaruhanga - 2025-10-13

Come work at LUCSUS! We are delighted to announce two new PhD positions and one post-doctoral fellow position in Sustainability Science! They are under research projects examining the intersection of climate and biodiversity. Research project: Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation   1 PhD position in Sustain

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-lucsus-two-phd-positions-and-one-post-doc-position-under-projects-intersection-climate - 2025-10-13

In mid-January, protesters and police clashed in the village of Lützerath in Germany after the village was occupied for a long time in an attempt to prevent the extension of a large open-pit coal mine that will swallow the village. The occupation is just one example of the increasingly widespread struggle to defend the environment and prevent greenhouse gas emissions, according to LUCSUS researche

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-are-environmental-human-rights-defenders-new-research-project-lucsus - 2025-10-13

A picture says more than a thousand words. LUCSUS postdoctoral researcher, Emma Johansson, uses art as a research method to create impacts beyond academia among farmers, pastoralists, organisations and policy makers in Tanzania and Sweden. An artist herself, physical geographer, Emma Johansson, has used paintings in her research for more than seven years; since she first visited Tanzania for her P

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-creating-impact-through-art - 2025-10-13

Heatwaves and dry summer seasons have turned the Mediterranean basin into a global wildfire hotspot. In the summers of 2021 and 2022, wildfires raged across all of the Mediterranean, with devastating loss of lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and more than 620,000 ha forest area. LUCSUS researchers have studied barriers for collective action in preventing, responding, and adapting to fires, and ma

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/beyond-flames-effects-wildfires-mediterranean-turkey - 2025-10-13

A new research project led by LUCSUS is exploring how power and politics intersects with climate risk and adaptation at different scales. The aim is to contribute to more resilient, inclusive and just futures by studying adaptation to climate change through a lens of vulnerability, cross-scale risk, and power structures in Skåne, Sweden, and in East Anglia, England. – We know that climate change i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-lucsus-research-project-seeks-shed-light-power-dynamics-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-10-13

2023 is set to be a watershed year for climate litigation cases globally. Also in Sweden, where the youth organisation Aurora is suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action. LUCSUS postdoctoral researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa explains the aims and arguments of the current wave of climate litigation cases, and reflects on their impacts both within and outside the courts. Why are we s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-litigation-cases-explained-what-their-purpose-and-what-their-impact-within-and-outside - 2025-10-13

Join LUCSUS at this year's Sustainability Week. We are organising and participating in events on climate litigation, science and activism, and the role of the arts in the climate crisis. Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaboration

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/join-lucsus-sustainability-week-17-22-april - 2025-10-13

A review of 50 countries' long term climate strategies to reach net zero emissions shows that countries calculate their residual emissions differently, and that current climate strategies include significant levels of residual emissions – making society dependent on unsustainable and unfeasible large-scale carbon removal technologies. In a new article, published in Nature Climate Change, LUCSUS re

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-climate-strategies-include-large-levels-residual-emissions-and-rely-unsustainable-carbon - 2025-10-13

The European Research Council's (ERC) mission is to promote research of the highest quality through extensive and long-term funding. The grants are applied for in international competition with scientific excellence as the only selection criterion. Advanced Grants (AdG) are valid for a maximum of five years, and 2.5 million euros, and will enable the researchers to explore their most innovative an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-lennart-olsson-awarded-prestigious-erc-advanced-grant-visionary-research-perennials - 2025-10-13

LUCSUS’ researcher Torsten Krause reflects on why the study about ocean acidification - of which he is a co-author - was selected to feature in an article in Science for Environment Policy.Science for Environment Policy is a new service published by the European Commission's Environment Directorate-General, and is sent out to over 20,000 policymakers, academics and business people across Europe to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-feature-science-environment-policy - 2025-10-13

On 9 May, we will have the honour to have the Right Livelihood Award Laureate, Marthe Wandou, joining us for a dialogue on human rights education, the environment, and the prevention of violence against children. Jurist Marthe Wandou is a Cameroonian gender and peace activist who has worked to prevent and fight sexual violence against children, particularly girls, as well as care for survivors of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/right-livelihood-award-laureate-marthe-wandou-visits-lucsus - 2025-10-13

29th of May, it will be 70 years since one of the world’s tallest mountains, Mount Everest, was climbed for the very first time. An important moment to bring attention to how glacial melt not only threatens the tourism industry in the region, but the livelihoods of over a billion people depending on the Himalayas for water, according to sustainability researcher Mine Islar. Mine Islar, senior lect

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/70-years-mount-everest-was-climbed-first-time-glacial-melt-now-threatens-more-just-tourism-industry - 2025-10-13

Professor Christine Wamsler is co-coordinating the new Existential Resilience Collaboration Initiative, ERiCi, at Lund University. It aims to explore methods that support meaning-making and strengthen our inner resilience in education and practice - through contemplation, aesthetics and compassion. – Today’s crises result from modern societies’ story of separation, which assumes that our thinking

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-initiative-support-meaning-making-and-inner-resilience-education-and-practice - 2025-10-13

Explore highlights from our research, education and external engagement in 2022, and read about LUCSUS development as a centre in our annual report. LUCSUS’ work during 2022 was positive and productive, but still set against a backdrop of tumultuous global events. We focused on substantial new recruitments, engagement in existing networks, and developed new cross-university and external networks.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-2022 - 2025-10-13

Why do some people oppose interventions meant to protect them from climate hazards, and what forms of resistance are available to those most vulnerable and exposed? These questions are explored in a new literature study from LUCSUS that maps where people resist climate adaptation; how, and in what contexts. It shows that resistance to adaptation occurs overtly and covertly, in both low-income and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-maps-how-and-where-people-resist-climate-adaptation - 2025-10-13