If the climate continues to be purely an environmental issue, Emily Boyd believes we will see more opposition to political decisions to limit emissions. Photo: Unsplash and Peter Frodin. A warmer world affects health, jobs, migration and welfare. We can no longer talk about the climate as a separate issue, says sustainability professor Emily Boyd. – Climate change has long been seen as something s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/time-stop-talking-about-climate - 2025-08-29

Using menstrual cups can have significant benefits on women’s health and well-being in Tanzania. A unique pilot study from Tanzania, exploring the link between health – economy – well-being for women using menstrual cups, shows that extended menstrual cup use has multiple direct and indirect health outcomes, impacting women's physical and physiological health. Efforts to reduce period poverty for

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-multiple-health-outcomes-women-using-menstrual-cups-tanzania - 2025-08-29

Recording from an online dialogue between Nancy Fraser and Andras Malm at LUCSUS on May 18th 2021 Listen to a dialogue between Nancy Fraser and Andreas Malm on the current ecological crisis as well as on new forms of solidarity and struggle. This dialogue offers thought provoking interventions on the current ecological crisis as well as on new forms of solidarity and struggle. What change must be

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/dialogue-between-nancy-fraser-and-andreas-malm - 2025-08-29

The project can contribute towards making the respective value chains more transparent, in terms of actors and governance structures, as well as documenting justice aspects say Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter. Photo: Torsten Krause. A new collaborative research project led by researchers Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter will investigate the global value chains of cattle (meat / leather), go

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-value-chains-meat-gold-tin-and-palm-oil-spotlight-new-research-project - 2025-08-29

Makher Char, Pirojpur, Bangladesh. Photo by Istiakh Ahmed. A new policy brief offers suggestions of what is needed to report and eventually address loss and damage from climate change in Bangladesh. It is produced within the project, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes (DICE) - which focuses on non-economic loss and damage caused by climate change, and who it affects,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/policy-recommendations-report-and-address-loss-and-damage-climate-change-bangladesh - 2025-08-29

The biggest problems with cities' heat action plans are that vulnerable groups find it difficult to access support, and that there is not enough budget to implement equal measures says Maryam Nastar. Photo: iStock. Dealing with heat is about more than implementing technical solutions such as cold rooms, access to water, green areas and communication systems. Equally, if not more, important is to s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reduced-inequality-and-better-social-networks-crucial-dealing-heatwaves - 2025-08-29

PhD candidate Alicia N'guetta featured in ECOMAGZINE special issue on Rising Seas. Read the article “Climate Change and Ecosystem Services – Implications for Present and Future Loss and Damage to People and Society” in ecomagazine.com Introduction Alicia N’Guetta is a researcher focusing on climate impacts and action, adaptation, and loss and damage. She holds a PhD in Sustainability Science from

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-change-and-ecosystem-services-implications-present-and-future-loss-and-damage-people-and - 2025-08-29

PhD candidate Fabiola Espinoza Córdova featured in ECOMAGAZINE special issue on Rising Seas. Read the article “More than Fixed Solutions: Power and Different Worldviews in Framing Coastal Adaptation Actions” on ecomagazine.com     Introduction Fabiola is a doctoral student at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). She holds an undergraduate degree in biology with a specializat

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/more-fixed-solutions-power-and-different-worldviews-framing-coastal-adaptation-actions - 2025-08-29

Interview with climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. Read the interview on lunduniversity.lu.se 

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-08-29

The photo depicts Indigenous members of the Bedamuni People of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The researchers argue that there is a need to broaden both the focus and the geographical scope of research on loss. Photo: Guy Jackson. – We have a moral responsibility to document loss of cultural heritage, indigenous and local knowledge, declining ecosystems and eroding sense of place, says LUCSUS

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-literature-review-documents-non-economic-loss-and-damage-due-climate-change - 2025-08-29

Apply for doctoral positions in social resilience for the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University. Applicants can choose Sustainability sciences as their subject area - and come work at LUCSUS! The Faculty of Social Sciences is offering two doctoral student positions in social resilience. Social resilience can be broadly understood as the ability of groups or communities to withstand and re

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/doctoral-positions-now-open-agenda-2030-graduate-school-lund-university - 2025-08-29

Grand Isle (where Ida made landfall), when it was flooded by a previous hurricane in 2002. LUCSUS researcher, David O’Byrne, who has done extensive research on coastal restoration in Louisiana, USA, comments in the wake of storm Ida. It was one of the strongest to hit the state in terms of wind-speed, and struck on the same day, 16 years later, as Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1800 peo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/quick-funds-recovery-need-be-combined-long-term-plans-david-obyrne-comments-storm-ida - 2025-08-29

While sustainability challenges, such as climate change, tend to be seen as external problems, a new article by professor Christine Wamsler, helps us to see and address them as  a human relationship crisis. Photo Unsplash In a newly published article in Global Environmental Change, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and colleagues map out existing research on internal and external transformations.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-and-internal-transformation-are-tied-together-new-study-provides-roadmap-advancing-related - 2025-08-29

The recent IPCC report can underpin climate action and the science provides direction to political action on a local and global level. At least, this is what LUCSUS Director, and one of the lead authors of the report, Emily Boyd wish to to see happen. In August, the IPCC published the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6). It summarises the “physical science basis” for climate change. Th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-report-cop26-emily-boyd-comments-what-science-can-do-climate-action-0 - 2025-08-29

Do you want to learn about the promises and pitfalls of ‘net zero’ mitigation pathways and the technologies that are supposed to help bring these about? In June 2022, LUCSUS will co-organise a 5-day intensive PhD course focusing on climate change mitigation and the politics of 'Net Zero' and carbon removal. As the climate crisis intensifies, the scientific and political conversation on climate cha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-course-politics-net-zero-and-carbon-removal - 2025-08-29

Another decade of deforestation means more biodiversity lost, greenhouse gas emissions and forest degradation, fragmentation and conversion to other land-uses. Photo: Unsplash On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade. The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2025-08-29

Sara Ullström says that she learnt a lot by watching the other participants’ presentations and listening to the feedback they got from the jury as well. “Stand still while you are talking, move when you are not talking”, I will remember that. LUCSUS PhD candidate Sara Ullström competed in the national popular science competition, Forskar Grand Prix. We took the opportunity to talk to her about the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-candidate-sara-ullstrom-knows-how-pitch-her-research-4-min-these-are-her-tips - 2025-08-29

LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd. LUCSUS Director professor Emily Boyd, has recently been appointed Editor-In-Chief for the journal Global Sustainability. Emily Boyd took over the editorship from the previous Editor-in -Chief, professor Johan Rockström. As the new editor-in-chief, Emily Boyd would like to see a new dynamic phase in Global Sustainability. She thinks that Global Sustainability has the pot

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-new-editor-chief-global-sustainability - 2025-08-29

We are seeing dramatic growth in forest-based carbon offsets, even though carbon stored in trees cannot compensate for continued fossil fuel emissions. Photo: Marita Kavelashvili Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2025-08-29

While flying is still widely presented as a social norm, the problematization of flying makes visible that other more climate-friendly ways of traveling and vacationing are both possible and desirable. Photo: Unsplash/Ross Parmly The “Staying on the ground” movement initiated in Sweden has gained rising influence internationally, indicating the start of an important shift in not just attitudes but

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-did-flying-go-luxury-aspiration-contested-norm-sweden - 2025-08-29