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On May 15, LUCSUS successfully kicked off our new mentorship programme for researchers. The purpose of the program is to offer leadership development to selected researchers of the strategic research area Sustainable Development, and to boost career development within academia. Gender, diversity and intersectionality are focus areas of the program. The target group is postdocs and early or mid-car

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-launches-new-mentorship-programme-researchers - 2025-12-14

From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past three years,with inputs

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2025-12-14

Improved and sustainable Menstrual Health Management has great impact on several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Quality education, Sustainable cities and communities, and Clean water and sanitation. On the 28th of May we join the commemoration of the Menstrual Hygiene day to highlight the importance of improved and sustainable MHM. Dur

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2025-12-14

LUCSUS researchers are developing an Urban Living Lab approach to adress sustainability in the food, water, energy nexus through the case of craft beer sector in Sweden (Scania). The LUCSUS researchers, Barry Ness, Darin Wahl and Christine Wamsler are working in a large transdisciplinary research project called GLOCULL, trying to build a link between global and local sustainability innovations, ty

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/promoting-sustainability-swedish-craft-beer-sector-through-urban-living-labs - 2025-12-14

At this year's Almedalen, LUCSUS researchers will discuss climate variability and its impact on water, sustainable land use, flying, and the Greta effect on today's youth. Here is the full list of LUCSUS related events taking place in Visby, Gotland. Almedalen is a week long democratic meeting place for seminars and dialogue. Monday, 1st JulySka man skaffa färre barn – för klimatet?Arrangör: Svens

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2025-12-14

In June, LUCSUS researchers Genesis Yengoh, Sara Gabrielsson and Ann Åkerman kicked off the capacity building programme Land is Life. During two intense weeks, 13 future leaders from Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda participated in i lecturers, field trips, group work and discussions in Kisumu, Kenya.  The capacity building programme is lead by LUCSUS and Lund University Commissioned Education (

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2025-12-14

A complex web of legislation, a lack of awareness about the benefits of seagrass meadows, and powerful interests all combine to make the governance, protection and maintainance of seagrass meadows difficult according to new research from LUCSUS. Meanwhile segrasses have a hugely important ecological and economic role in maintaining ecosystems and the tourism industry. In a new paper, Torsten Kraus

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/segrasses-have-hugely-important-ecological-and-economic-role-new-research-publication - 2025-12-14

Instead of betting big on bioenergy, governments need to focus on the hard medicine of cutting fossil fuel use. There is no shortcut to climate change mitigation, says Lennart Olsson, professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and lead author of the IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land, in a news article in Science regarding the "negative emissions strategy" BECCS . I

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2025-12-14

LUCSUS researchers present new guidelines and principles on how to improve climate change adaptation collaboration between, and for, citizens and municipalities. Municipalities and their residents are facing increasing challenges as a result of a changing climate. Floods, heat waves and storms are expected to increase in number and strength, while sea level rise and erosion threaten local communit

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/guidelines-and-principles-improved-city-citizen-cooperation-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-12-14

“Better communication between different waste actors is paramount”. LUCSUS researchers present policy brief on how to address challenges linked to urban solid waste management in Kisumu, Kenya. The collection and handling of municipal solid waste pose a significant challenge in urban Kisumu. The demand for more sustainable waste handling and treatment strategies in the city has become more acute b

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/four-ways-address-challenges-urban-solid-waste-new-policy-brief-developed-city-kisumu-kenya - 2025-12-14

Today, on August 21, LUCSUS kicked off its new mentorship programme for researchers with a first meeting between the programme leader Katarina Billing and the mentors.  During the day the mentors got a crash course in mentoring and opportunity to network with some of the other mentors. They also met program staff and got an introduction to the program. The purpose of the program is to offer leader

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/kick-lucsus-new-mentorship-programme - 2025-12-14

The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate. LUCSUS researcher and Amazon expert, Torsten Krause, explains how they started and what can we do about it. Read the full article with Torsten Krause in Swedish hereMånga orsaker bakom förstörelsen av Amazonas Selected media articles:Brändernas effekter når långt bortom Amazonas (SVT Nyheter)Bränderna i Amazonas påverkar hela världen (Svenska dagb

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-amazon-fires - 2025-12-14

The small town, Akureyri, in northern Iceland has gone almost CO2-neutral. LUCSUS vising researcher Henner Busch, and LUMES Alumni (Batch 19) Rakel Kristjandottir, went there to find out how they did it and what we can learn from them. Nowadays cities are quite unsustainable places. They consume a lot of the world’s resources and account for more than half of the world’s emissions of greenhouse ga

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-can-world-can-learn-small-town-iceland - 2025-12-14

Hunting has a bad reputation and is rarely considered in forest governance and conservation strategies. But what if, instead, we tried to learn from it? Blog post by researcher Torsten Krause. In his blog post for The Revelator, Torsten Krause argues that subsistence hunting, and the traditional ecological knowledge that guides and regulates it, must be recognised as a key forest-management strate

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-hunting-can-contribute-forest-governance - 2025-12-14

How do we manage and cope with the change that the climate requires? One can easily feel a sense of hopelessness when you are overwhelmed by information and facts about the situation and you may feel disconnected, rather than feeling ready to act. LUCSUS researcher Sara Brogaard believes that art and music can make a difference and spur to more reflection, dedication, and action. Together with the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/music-climate - 2025-12-14

Wim Carton discusses why tree planting is not a panacea for the climate. According to him, too many studies and stakeholders fail to see that the method is inherently fraught and can take away focus from the need to drastically reduce emissions to meet our climate targets. "Tree planting is seen as an easy method that can be scaled up. But that is not the case. There are many probems with the meth

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tree-planting-no-panacea-climate - 2025-12-14

In LUMES, LUCSUS international master programme in environmental studies and sustainability science, students take on real world sustainability problems in their course module, Knowledge-to-Action. This year, students tackled overconsumption through setting up a centre for borrowing household items; devised an action plan to ensure that our universities become more sustainable, and explored the po

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-students-take-real-world-sustainability-problems - 2025-12-14

"My research interests spiral around ideas of change in core beliefs, and in embedded behavior patterns and practices." What do you do at LUCSUS? My PhD is part of a project called GLOCULL - exploring innovation experiments in Urban Living Labs in the Food, Water, and Energy nexus. LUCSUS is one of seven partner organisations in cities around the world.What sustainability challenge do you find mos

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-darin-wahl-excited-about-idea-cultural-narratives-connection-sustainability - 2025-12-14

More than 100 researchers from all over the world will gather at LUCSUS for the very first international conference on loss and damage from climate-related events. The extensive conference programme explores loss and damage from mutiple perspectives:Defining L&D from a climate change perspective – what do we know?Defining L&D from an ecological perspective – what do we know?Defining L&D from a sus

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/programme-conference-loss-and-damage-2019 - 2025-12-14

Throughout Future Week at Lund University, we got a chance to look into the Future. During a range of events, researchers and students across Lund University discussed different issues on the theme 'Transitions'. What are the transitions we have to make? What are the ones we want to make? And which transitions do we preferably want to avoid? Several LUCSUS researchers participated in the week, sha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainable-transitions-focus-during-lund-university-future-week - 2025-12-14