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The consolidation report from the Skåne Local Interaction Platform (SKLIP) of the Mistra Urban Futures project has now been released. The report describes four years of transdisciplinary urban sustainability research by the platform partners Lund University, Malmö University, SLU Alnarp and the Municipality of Malmö and looks to the future of collaborative research for sustainable urban developmen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-skane-local-interaction-platform-mistra-urban-futures-project - 2025-11-10

Are financial instruments really the solution to deforestation and degradation? Do states truly manage forests for societal benefit? And to what extent are so-called sustainable forest governance initiatives really including local people in decision-making? These are some of the questionable myths that currently obscure the path to sustainable forest governance according to a new publication in th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/five-forest-myths-obscure-path-transformational-and-sustainable-forest-governance - 2025-11-10

New postdoc positions on climate change justice, social movements, social resilience and adaptation to climate change at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Two of the projects are funded by LUCSUS and three are funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences. Postdoctoral researcher in social movements and climate change LUCSUS is recruiting for an exciting new two year postdoc po

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-postdoc-positions - 2025-11-10

A research initiative at LUCSUS examines how inner dimensions and transformation can support people to live more sustainably and drive change. Addressing (the causes and effects of) climate change is one of the most important societal challenges of our time. The demands for political action are becoming stronger from all levels of society, including individuals, social movements, businesses, and g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/inner-dimensions-and-transformation-can-support-people-live-more-sustainably-and-drive-change - 2025-11-10

Uppsala university announces 3 PhD student positions in peace and conflict research with focus on international water cooperation. Apply by November 3. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-positions-uppsala - 2025-11-10

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Mi Lennhag lectures on the EU, bureaucracy, transparency and anti-corruption work, as part of the Swedish Institute’s Summer Academy for Young Professionals (aimed at post-Soviet country residents). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lecture-eu-bureaucracy-transparency-and-anti-corruption-work - 2025-11-10

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Jens Bartelson discusses David Armitages’s book "Foundations of Modern International Thought", in a special review article in "Contemporary Political Theory". Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/review-foundations-modern-international-thought - 2025-11-10

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Fariborz Zelli organises a side event at the UN climate change conference in Lima (December 4). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zellis-event-beside-climate-change-conference - 2025-11-10

STUDENT NEWS: EU External Action welcomes application for international internships in 2015. Apply no later than December 5. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/international-internships - 2025-11-10

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written the chapter Leader, Bridge-builder or ‘Hobbled Giant’? Perceptions of the EU in Climate-Change Negotiations that is included in the recently published anthology Communicating Europe in Time of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union (Palgrave). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/leader-bridge-builder-or-hobbled-giant - 2025-11-10

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen was recently included in an international group of researchers that prepared a report for the Nordic Council of Ministers working group for global climate negotiations ahead of the current COP20 UN negotiations. Tobias Nielsen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/preparing-report-global-climate-negotiations - 2025-11-10

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen talks about Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? at a UN climate conference side-event (Dec. 4).  REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criticism to it, a number of fu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-talks-about-south-american-role-models - 2025-11-10

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article Coalitions and Compensation. The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration which has recently been published in Comparative Political Studies. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-and-lindvall-comparative-political-studies - 2025-11-10

Varieties of Democracy Institute (University of Gothenburg) announces a call for postdocs and research fellows. Apply by January 23. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/announced-position-gothenburg - 2025-11-10

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: International Politics of Recognition, a book co-edited by Erik Ringmar, is the subject of a book symposium in the latest issue of the Global Discourse journal Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-discussed-global-discourse-journal - 2025-11-10

Dear students and other visitors: be advised that the department building Eden closes at 5 PM on Thursday, 11 December. Learn more about Eden's opening hours over the holiday and New Year.  

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eden-closes-early-11-december - 2025-11-10

On December 18, the department’s new site will launch. The incoming webmaster welcomes you back then! New web – new webmasterOn December 18, the department’s new web site will be launched. On that date, Emma Lord will succeed Mikael Sundström as webmaster (Mikael returns to his full time duties as Senior Lecturer after a stint extending back to the inception of our site), and will be in charge of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2025-11-10

On December 18, the department’s new site will launch. The outgoing webmaster wishes his successor the best of luck! On December 18, the department’s new web site will be launched. On that date, Emma Lord will succeed Mikael Sundström as webmaster (Mikael returns to his full time duties as Senior Lecturer after a stint extending back to the inception of our site), and will be in charge of our web

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/goodbye-outgoing-webmaster - 2025-11-10

Karin Aggestam has been promoted to full professor at the department! We extend our congratulations to her (and us)! Karin Aggestam.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-new-professor - 2025-11-10

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Magdalena Bexell has edited the recently published book Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation (Routledge), and herself contributes a chapter entitled Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-edits-global-governance-legitimacy-and-legitimation - 2025-11-10