Publicerad 12 april 2016 Annika Björkdahl är en av redaktörerna till boken ”Peacebuilding and Friction: Global and Local Encounters in Post-Conflict Societies” publicerad med Routledge, 2016. Boken syftar till att förstå de processer och resultat som uppkommer från friktionen när globala och lokala aktörer möts i fredsbyggande. Annika Björkdahls personliga sida 

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Publicerad 13 april 2016 Karin Aggestam modererar samtal om Israel med Göran Rosenberg, författare, journalist, och professor Avi Shlaim, Oxfords universitet torsdagen den 14 april kl. 19.00, AF-borgen, Café Athen. Läs mer på lu.seKarin Aggestams personliga sida 

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Publicerad 4 maj 2016 Tobias Nielsen försvarade sin avhandling ”Words Matter in the Woods. Discourses on Deforestation in Global Climate Politics” idag den 4 maj kl 10 i Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Fakultetsopponent var professor Peter Feindt, Wageningen University and Research Centre.Words Matter in the Woods. Discourses on Deforestation in Global Climate PoliticsTobias Nielsens personli

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Publicerad 13 maj 2016 Tony Ingesson försvarade sin avhandling ”The Politics of Combat: The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995” idag den 13 maj kl 10.15 i Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Fakultetsopponent var professor Jan Ångström, Försvarshögskolan.The Politics of Combat: The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995Tony Ing

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Publicerad 26 april 2016 Spikningen av Tobias Nielsens avhandling "Words Matter in the Woods. Discourses on Deforestation in Global Climate Politics" ägde rum fredagen 22 april, kl. 15.00 i Edens foajé. Tobias Nielsens disputation äger rum den 4 maj kl 10.00 i Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Lund (opponent: Professor Peter Feindt, Wageningen University and Research Centre).Tobias Nielsens personliga

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Publicerad 29 april 2016 Vår tidigare student Sandra Buijsses magisteruppsats har fått spridning. Hon har blivit inbjuden av London School of Economics and Chatham House att bidra till diskussionen kring hur internflyktingkriser kan hanteras i “icke-stater” såsom irakiska Kurdistan. Hon kommer även att delta i en konferens i Kurdistan i maj. Under båda dessa konferenser representerar hon Lunds uni

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Publicerad 2 maj 2016 Spikningen av Tony Ingessons avhandling "The Politics of Combat: the Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995" och av Niklas Altermarks avhandling "After Inclusion: Intellectual Disability as Biopolitics" ägde rum fredagen 29 april, kl. 15.00 i Edens foajé. Tony Ingessons disputation äger rum den 13 maj kl 10.15 i Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, L

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Publicerad 3 maj 2016 Den 5 maj vid European University Institute i Florens kommer Karin Aggestam under konferensen "The State of the Union: Women in Europe and the World” att tala om kvinnors roll i fredsmäkling. Läs mer om konferensen på The State of the Unions webbplats (på engelska)Karin Aggestams personliga sida 

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/aggestam-om-kvinnors-roll-i-fredsmakling-vid-eui - 2025-07-05

Publicerad 4 maj 2016 Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren och Moira Nelson har bidragit till ett kapitel i boken “Aiming High: Progressive Politics in a High-Risk, High-Opportunity Era” som är sammanställd av Policy Network. Mukhtar-Landgren och Nelsons kapitel beskriver de hinder som finns för kvinnors ekonomiska välbefinnande i Sverige.Läs mer på rowmaninternational.com (på engelska)Dalia Mukhtar-Landgrens p

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Published 28 February 2018 Flagler Beach. Florida, USA. US cities facing sea level rise need to look beyond traditional strategies for managing issues such as critical erosion and coastal squeeze, according to new research from LUCSUS. Civil society initiatives must now play a crucial role in adapting society to climate change, researcher Chad Boda argues in his dissertation. Watch: Sea level rise

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Published 5 March 2018 In her research, Maryam Nastar will look into cities representing the Asia regional climate change trend (in the East, Central and West), where both observed and predicted daytime temperature extremes are likely to increase. Maryam Nastar, researcher at LUCSUS, is interested in resource mobilisation at the neighborhood-level since she believes that the solutions to sustainab

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-maryam-nastar-resource-mobilisation-neighborhood-level - 2025-07-05

Published 5 March 2018 What causes social entrepreneurship to thrive in some places while not in others? What are some of the important factors in place to foster social entrepreneurship in rural areas? These are this a few of the questions explored by a group of international students in Gojome and Kazuno towns in the wintery, mountainous paradise of Akita, Japan, a region faced with a declining

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Published 12 March 2018 Collaborations between the public sector and academia are increasingly common, and are often highlighted as the way forward for strategic climate planning. But how are practitioners and academics to work together to achieve results? Researchers at LUCSUS are investigating how a model can benefit transdisciplinary sustainability projects.  – Nowadays, many universities and m

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Published 8 March 2018 International Women’s Day: Director Emily Boyd reflects that discussions of gender equality are of special importance to a centre such as LUCSUS which conducts research on sustainability issues worldwide. Research is conducted in sectors where women predominantly work such as agriculture, or in places where vulnerable groups are exposed to various environmental challenges– A

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Published 20 March 2018 Wim Carton and Lennart Olsson in discussion with researcher colleagues in Uganda. Research on land and sustainable agriculture is at the core of LUCSUS’ work as a centre. In this interview, Wim Carton highlights work on perennial agriculture as a means to meet some of the challenges facing small-holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and gives advice to researchers going in

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Published 4 April 2018 LUCSUS' Director Emily Boyd and Professor Christine Wamsler, along with six other experts, argue in an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter that climate change is not the only reason for floods in Sweden. The opinion piece highlights the need to reform current water management and governance in Sweden since the current approach is contributing to increasing risk of flood and drou

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-write-opinion-piece-about-water-dagens-nyheter - 2025-07-05

Published 4 April 2018 Bigert & Bergström, Reverse Osmosis Plant, 2013. Foto: Jean-Baptiste Beranger © Bigert & Bergström. LUCSUS, in collaboration with Skissernas Museum, is organising the event Arts Meet Science, 27th April, during Lund University Sustainability Week.  Director Emily Boyd says that one of the reasons LUCSUS initiated this event is that there is a lot of focus on the negative eff

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/art-can-evoke-interplay-between-analytic-thinking-facts-about-what-we-know-and-toward-where-we - 2025-07-05

Published 10 April 2018 Kimberly Nicholas and former LUMES student Seth Wynes' article on the four most effective personal lifestyle choices to reduce your carbon footprint has received the prestigous prize 'Best Article of 2017' from the journal Environmental Research Letters. Their paper, 'The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual act

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Published 24 April 2018 A village in the East of Sri Lanka that was spared the worst of the Asian Tsunami through protection by coastal forest. Such 'green infrastructure' is increasingly being recognised as a more sustainable alternative. © Stephen Woroniecki, 2017. "Empowerment of vulnerable groups is unlikely to arise through interventions from climate adaptation projects only. Yet, often these

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/nature-based-solutions-climate-change-what-scope-empowerment-vulnerable-groups - 2025-07-05

Published 4 May 2018 Agroecology is a better alternative than large-scale agriculture - both for the climate and for small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to LUCSUS researcher Ellinor Isgren. This agricultural model preserves biodiversity and safeguards food supply while avoiding soil depletion.  – We must consider other, alternative models for developing agriculture, particularly in coun

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/agroecology-better-alternative-sub-saharan-africa - 2025-07-05