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A new mini LUCSUS documentary, The Beans Of/For Change, introduces the challenges and opportunities around specialty coffee in Colombia. It is based on research results from field visits to Antioquia and Quindío in Colombia, as part of the FORMAS-supported project, Unravelling climate change impacts on migrant farmworkers in agrifood production. Dianne Kok has produced and edited the documentary.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/documentary-beans-offor-change-shines-light-challenges-and-opportunities-around-specialty-coffee - 2025-12-07

What happens when scientists, municipal actors, and private sector stakeholders from six European countries come together to question the future of aquathermal energy? At LUCSUS, we just found out. June 17 to 19, the Interreg North Sea WaterWarmth partner meeting took place in Lund, hosting partners from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. LUCSUS’s researchers Sara Broo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ideas-action-shaping-aquathermal-futures - 2025-12-07

Why do some people strongly back climate action while others do not? A new international study by LUCSUS researcher Felix Schulz and Christian Bretter, University of Queensland, finds that the answer may be simpler than previously thought. The researchers analysed survey data from nearly 12,000 people across six countries. They discovered that three well-known explanations of environmental behavio

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-key-drivers-climate-policy-support - 2025-12-07

PhD student Tilde Krusberg is using creative future visioning methods to transition the Swedish food system to fossil-free energy as part of the AgroDrive project. She is motivated by how these methods allow for more radical imaginations of the future and for rethinking our present society. What attracted you to the position and to LUCSUS?I had been curious about LUCSUS for a long time and even co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-tilde-krusberg-using-creative-future-visioning-methods-transition-swedish-food-system - 2025-12-07

Read Barry Ness, associate professor at LUCSUS’ travel reflection:Can place attachment be fostered through local food traditions? Can regional food dishes and cooking traditions in Japan be used to foster social sustainability in a steadily urbanizing and aging society?These were a few of the questions that a group from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School in Sustainability Science – Global L

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/japan-through-lens-food-place-and-sustainability - 2025-12-07

With panels, tastings, workshops, and exhibitions, LUCSUS researchers will contribute to the Agroecology Forum 2025 across multiple formats. The conference takes place in Malmö, Sweden, from October 2 to 4. The Agroecology Europe Forum 2025 aims to shape the future of food systems through agroecology. This year’s theme will highlight collaboration, integration and action to accelerate agroecologic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-bring-food-futures-focus-upcoming-conference - 2025-12-07

How regional, local and national governments decide to develop coastal regions affects 21st century flood exposure more than climate threats according to a new study, focusing on China. The research, which for the first time integrates projected land use change under different policies, sea-level rise, extreme events, and land subsidence, identifies that strategic coastal planning can have huge ef

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/coastal-development-planning-matters-more-21st-century-flood-risk-climate-change - 2025-12-07

LUCSUS researchers continue to feature in the Stanford–Elsevier World’s Top Scientist Ranking! Professor Christine Wamsler is ranked 1st in Sweden, and the 6th most influential scholar in the world in Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences. Also featuring in the ranking apart from Christine Wamsler are professors Lennart Olsson, and Emily Boyd, senior lecturer Wim Ca

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanford-elsevier-worlds-top-2-scientists-ranking-2025 - 2025-12-07

Renewable and affordable energy is key for societal and economic growth, and for achieving national and global climate goals. Research from LUCSUS is mapping the energy transition in Nepal and has identified how increasing energy access is closely linked to a new political awakening in the country.  "Nepal is a very interesting case study since it has been held up as a case for how a country can t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/double-transition-energy-nepal - 2025-12-07

This week, Kim Nicholas and Ann Åkerman of LUCSUS, led a workshop on how start-up businesses in Somalia can meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a roadmap agreed by nearly 200 countries for achieving a world of zero poverty, zero hunger, and zero greenhouse gas emissions.– We wanted to encourage discussion and participation. We brought up relevant issues for Somalia and in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rebuilding-somalia-lucsus-leads-workshop - 2025-12-07

Researcher and Associate Professor Torsten Krause has spent the last 16 years doing research with a focus on the Colombian and Ecuadorian Amazon region: investigating forest governance, the use of tropical wildlife, traditional ecological knowledges and human and environmental rights. The longer he his active in this region, the more convinced he is of the need for radical and systemic changes to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ahead-cop30-amazon-should-be-out-question-extractivism-it-too-valuable-terms-its-biocultural - 2025-12-07

LUCSUS researchers are participating in this year’s United Nations Climate Change conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil. Three ongoing research areas at LUCSUS will be highlighted at side events at the COP: immobility in climate adaptation, environmental human right defenders in the Amazon and inner-outer transformation for climate action. The associated projects: ITACHA (Immobility in a Changing Cl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop30-belem-brazil - 2025-12-07

Professor Emily Boyd will present immobility as a climate adaptation strategy at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil. “The majority of people want to stay in place. We need to acknowledge and explore that as we adapt societies to climate change.” She explains that she was motivated to start researching the findings she is now presenting at COP30 with international

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/presenting-immobility-climate-adaptation-strategy-cop30 - 2025-12-07

Carbon Capture and Storage, CCS, technologies have been identified as key to reduce harmful emissions and to mitigate the effects of climate change. A new study, focusing on leading CCS countries, Norway and Brazil, identifies how these technologies should be implemented equitably, applied to hard-to -abate industrial sectors, and not used to justify continued fossil fuel dependency. Download the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-next-ccs-technologies-comparative-study-norway-and-brazils-climate-mitigation-strategies - 2025-12-07

Director Barry Ness and Deputy Director Torsten Krause are deeply honoured and proud of Lund University’s remarkable achievement of securing the top position in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. The ranking includes around 2,000 higher education institutions from about 100 countries and measures how universities contribute to a sustainable future – through research, education,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-director-and-deputy-director-reflect-lund-universitys-top-ranking-sustainability - 2025-12-07

Last week LUCSUS’ researcher (Assistant Prof.) Mine Islar presented her research about citizen movements in Barcelona at the ‘ecological democracy’ workshop at the University of Sydney, Australia. The aim of the workshop was to critically explore the tensions and synergies between democracy and sustainability on local, national and global levels.Mine Islar’s research focuses on how social movement

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/can-activist-politicians-be-agents-change - 2025-12-07

Anna Tengberg and Sandra Valencia at LUCSUS have written a report, Science of Integrated Approaches to Natural Resource Management – commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).The GEF is a partnership of 18 agencies, including United Nations agencies, multilateral development banks, national entities and international NGOs, working w

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-write-report-global-environment-facility - 2025-12-07

Is water a dangerous substance? Can water scarcity lead to armed conflict? And what does the term shit matters actually mean? These and other issues will be discussed by 350 high school students from Spyken high school when LUCSUS and Lund University is marking World Water Day on 22nd March.A programme of educational talks, discussions and workshops aimed at high school students and teachers has b

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-celebrates-world-water-day-hundreds-high-school-students-lund - 2025-12-07

Finlay MacGregor, LUCID PhD candidate at LUCSUS was one of the participants at our first International Women’s Day event. Finlay reflects on why it is important to highlight gender and diversity in sustainability science – and discuss how to achieve equality in academia.Gender and Diversity in Sustainability ScienceTo me, a discussion about gender and diversity in sustainability science is ultimat

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflection-gender-and-diversity-sustainability-science-and-academia - 2025-12-07

Charlotta Kjöllerström, is the network coordinator for the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project. Next week, a group of eight ESG Research Fellows will make a stop at LUCSUS and Lund University as part of a study trip for early career researchers. In this short interview, she explains the aim of the study trip, and why the ESG is focusing specifically on young researchers.What is the aim with the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/why-esg-project-study-trip-charlotta-kjollerstrom-explains - 2025-12-07