By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 25 November 2022 LUCSUS PhD students, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova and Alicia N’Guetta, share their insights from their experience at COP27. The COP27 UN Climate Change Conference came to an end on 20 November. Since then, researchers have analysed the outcomes, highlighting both successes and failures.  LUCSUS

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-cop27-fabiola-espinoza-cordova-and-alicia-nguetta - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 28 November 2022 It is a big problem that culture and education are singled out as obstacles by foresters who want to use continuous cover forestry methods, according to the researchers. It shows how norms impact sustainable transitions. Photo: Torsten Krause. For decades, the Swedish forest have been intensely managed through

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/norms-make-transition-forestry-without-major-clear-cutting-difficult - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 December 2022 In his Phd-project, Carlos Velez wants to collaborate with local communities in strengthening their livelihoods, and when doing so, expand the general knowledge of them to Colombian and worldwide society. What do you explore in your PhD-project?  I explore the role that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) pl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-carlos-velez-explores-role-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-relation-wildlife - 2025-07-05

Published 6 December 2022 Another decade of deforestation means more biodiversity lost, greenhouse gas emissions and forest degradation, fragmentation and conversion to other land-uses. Photo: Unsplash 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 Krau

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-un-conference-cop15 - 2025-07-05

Published 8 December 2022 The organisation, Aurora, and their many supporters, wound their way in demonstration through central Stockholm from the Swedish parliament buildings to Stockholm District Court to waves of encouragement from bystanders and a sizable media contingent. On 25 November, after two years of intense legal preparations, the youth organsation Aurora, submitted a litigation agains

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/aurora-climate-litigation - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 December 2022 Mine Islar, senior lecturer at LUCSUS, reflects that the new Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is more ambitious than previous frameworks, and has aims to address direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity more explicitly. Photo: Pixabay.  The new Global Biodiversity Framework is seen as an important st

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/can-new-post-2020-global-biodiversity-framework-stop-biodiversity-loss-mine-islar-comments-outcomes - 2025-07-05

Published 12 January 2023 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 S

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/meet-our-phd-student-ronald-byaruhanga - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 31 January 2023 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 Crossroa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-lucsus-two-phd-positions-and-one-post-doc-position-under-projects-intersection-climate - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 1 February 2023 Torsten Krause is leading a newly started research project which will shed light on the various moral and legal dilemmas that can arise in the fight to defend and protect nature and human rights. Photo: Pixabay. In mid-January, protesters and police clashed in the village of Lützerath in Germany after the villa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-are-environmental-human-rights-defenders-new-research-project-lucsus - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 21 February 2023 One of the three paintings of agroecological futures, this one representing future pastoralism. Mvomero District, Morogoro Region, March 2022. 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

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-creating-impact-through-art - 2025-07-05

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 28 March 2023 The recent extreme wildfires in Turkey show us that the current last-minute fire suppression policies are not only costly for the government, but also insufficient to respond to disastrous, extreme wildfires. Heatwaves and dry summer seasons have turned the Mediterranean basin into a global wil

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/beyond-flames-effects-wildfires-mediterranean-turkey - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 19 March 2023 Climate risks are cross-boundary, cross-scale, and multi-dimensional, and how we adapt to these risks requires an understanding of who and what is vulnerable, as well as who has the capability to adapt, notes researcher Murray Scown. A new research project led by LUCSUS is exploring how power and politics interse

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-lucsus-research-project-seeks-shed-light-power-dynamics-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 March 2023 The Aurora case is an example of a climate lawsuit playing out both within and beyond the courtroom. Their work aims not only to influence climate policy in Sweden, but also to raise public awareness according to Salvatore Paolo De Rosa. 2023 is set to be a watershed year for climate litigation cases globally. Al

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-litigation-cases-explained-what-their-purpose-and-what-their-impact-within-and-outside - 2025-07-05

By Cecilia [dot] von_Arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 28 March 2023 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 muni

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/join-lucsus-sustainability-week-17-22-april - 2025-07-05

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 28 March 2023 By relying on large scale carbon dioxide removal to compensate for residual emissions there is a risk that mitigation efforts will slow down – making it even more difficult to limit global warming to 1,5°C, says Wim Carton. A review of 50 countries' long term climate strategies to reach net zer

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-climate-strategies-include-large-levels-residual-emissions-and-rely-unsustainable-carbon - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 30 March 2023 Lennart Olsson believes that it was the project's visionary approach that convinced the ERC panel, and that the research can pave the way for a new agricultural revolution. The European Research Council's (ERC) mission is to promote research of the highest quality through extensive and long-term funding. The gran

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-lennart-olsson-awarded-prestigious-erc-advanced-grant-visionary-research-perennials - 2025-07-05

Published 14 February 2017 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 busin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-feature-science-environment-policy - 2025-07-05

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 4 May 2023 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 pre

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/right-livelihood-award-laureate-marthe-wandou-visits-lucsus - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 May 2023 In her research, Mine Islar is mapping social, economic and ecological impacts in relation to glacial change in the region. Photo: Pixabay. 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 g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/70-years-mount-everest-was-climbed-first-time-glacial-melt-now-threatens-more-just-tourism-industry - 2025-07-05

Published 10 May 2023 Christine Wamsler is pictured with the other coordinators of the initiative, Martin Garwicz and Max Liljefors. Photo: Kennet Ruona. 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 practic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-initiative-support-meaning-making-and-inner-resilience-education-and-practice - 2025-07-05