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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 potential for art to affect social norms around flying. The Knowledge to Action, K2A, course is all about bringing your theoretical knowledge to bear on real world sustainability problems. Students get to identi

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/2019-knowledge-action-projects - 2025-11-29

The LUMES Alumni Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer (Batch 21) is the winner of the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019. The Centre for European Studies (CFE) annually awards a prize for a bachelor’s or master’s thesis written on a European topic at Lund University. The winner of the  the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019 is LUMES alumni Cristian Pons-Seres

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-wins-best-thesis-award-2019 - 2025-11-29

Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever.  At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge needs to be integrated in all aspects of society in order to facilitate the tran

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-11-29

LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-11-29

The LUMES elective course, Sustainability and Inner Transformation, examines if personal sustainability can have a bearing on driving change for sustainability. The course is part of a research initative, The Contemplative Sustainable Futures Program, a platform for related research, education and networking activities. Christine Wamsler explains that:- Inner transformation can simply be understoo

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-elective-course-focuses-inner-dimensions-and-transformation-drive-sustainable-change - 2025-11-29

In the LUMES course, political ecology, one of the assignments is to write a blog post on the theme ‘everyday political ecology’. In collaboration with the blog Undisciplined Environments, a mini-series of selected essays are now being published. First out is Lauren Tropeano, with the blog post: There’s more than just dirt beneath the lush lawns Read the blog post "There’s more than just dirt bene

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/blog-post-lumes-student-lauren-tropeano-theres-more-just-dirt-beneath-lush-lawns - 2025-11-29

As part of the Sustainability and Popular culture course in the master programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUMES), students have created a series of videos analysing the representation of sustainability within popular culture. The videos examines issues such as ecofeminism, urban gardening and narratives for a flight free future. The Sustainability and

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/representation-sustainability-within-popular-culture - 2025-11-29

More than 900 students has graduated from the LUMES programme since it started in 1997. We asked some of our current students what they think about the programme, and list the top 10 best things about LUMES. Testimonials from LUMES students (2020) You learn a lot about sustainability, society, human relationships and the environment. You find friends with the same drive and passion towards making

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/top-10-best-things-about-lumes-programme - 2025-11-29

Lucia Di Paola graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she works as Just Transition Officer. In this interview, she shares what she learnt from the LUMES programme and how the path to her current job looked like. She also gives some advice to current and future LUMES students. What do you do today? Where do you work, and what is your position? I am a Just Transition officer at ICLEI Europe, a network

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-lucia-di-paolas-career-path-become-just-transition-officer - 2025-11-29

LUMES alumni Georgia Verkuylen, graduated from the LUMES programme in 2018. Today, she works as a Reporting Analyst in Australia. In this interview, you can read about her career pathway and what skills and experiences from the LUMES progamme she values the most in her current job. What do you do today? Where do you work, and what is your position? I work at GreenCollar. My position is Reporting A

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-georgia-verkuylens-path-become-reporting-analyst - 2025-11-29

Takehiro Kawahara graduated from the LUMES programme in 2012. He works as an Analyst at BloombergNEF, which offers advisory service based on analysis on global commodity markets and the disruptive technologies driving the transition to a low-carbon economy. It covers energy, transport, commodities, materials and agriculture. Takehiro emphasises that the skills he learnt in the LUMES programme have

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-takehiro-kawaharas-path-graduation-research-analyst-tokyo - 2025-11-29

Last week the new batch of LUMES students had their first field day for the course Earth Systems Science in Lund’s botanical garden. We took the opportunity to talk to three of them about the course and their impressions of the LUMES programme, so far. Earth Systems Science is one of the first courses of the LUMES programme. The course focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of t

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/field-day-earth-systems-science-course - 2025-11-29

In the autumn, Sara Törnros from Batch 17, returned to the the LUMES programme – this time as a lecturer at the Resilience and Sustainable Development course. We took the opportunity to talk to her about her job as a climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International - and her best memories from the LUMES programme. Tell us more about your job, what do you do as a climate change and resil

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-sara-tornros-path-climate-change-and-resilience-advisor-plan-international - 2025-11-29

Students within the master’s programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) have created a card came for children about the different sustainability issues connected to the lake Vombsjön and its surroundings. The game was developed within the course, Knowledge to Action (K2A), where students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. – We developed a card game whic

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/student-innovation-teaches-children-about-sustainability - 2025-11-29

Laura Betancur Alarcón graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she is pursuing a PhD at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). For the last nine years she has worked in the environmental sector in various roles as researcher, writer, lecturer, and journalist for different organisations in academia, media, and i

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-laura-betancur-alarcon-now-phd-student-investigating-social-ecological-relations - 2025-11-29

Vi säger grattis till masterstudenten Alice Petersson från Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi som vann pris för sin uppsats "Opportunities for Agency in Offshore Wind Power in Skåne, Sweden?" i KEFU Skånes uppsatstävling i december 2023. Det är 38:e gången som KEFU delar ut ett pris på 20.000 kronor för bästa uppsats inom kommunal och regional ledning, organisation och ekonomi

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/student-fran-keg-vann-pris-uppsats-om-vindkraft - 2025-11-29

Kvinnor möts dagligen av reklambudskap fyllda med ord som conscious, sustainable, care och female empowerment. Modeföretagen vill på detta vis få konsumenterna att känna sig som världsförbättrare genom att handla mer kläder. Marknadsföringsknepet används dock oftast på kvinnor. Det framkommer i en ny avhandling om modebranschens användning av ideologisk marknadsföring. Modebranschens användning av

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/sa-lockas-kvinnor-att-kopa-ohallbart-mode - 2025-11-29

Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen försvarade sin avhandling Political geographies of region work den 8 mars 2024. Hennes avhandlingen undersöker hur olika aktörer utför "regionarbete", dvs. hur de engagerar sig i sociala och diskursiva praktiker som på olika sätt bidrar till att bygga eller förändra en region. Exempel på detta är hur politiska och privata aktörer underlättar regional utveckling genom ide

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/kristin-smette-gulbrandsen-avlade-doktorsexamen-med-avhandling-om-praktiker-vid-regionutveckling - 2025-11-29

Martina Angela Caretta, docent vid institutionen, är medförfattare till en nyligen publicerad artikel i Carbon Brief. I artikeln tar forskarna upp sin senaste studie, publicerad i One Earth, där de har undersökt hur effektiviteten hos väletablerade anpassningsalternativ, i förhållande till vatten, förändras när världen blir varmare. Deras resultat visar att effektiviteten hos vattenrelaterade anpa

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/klimatanpassningar-blir-mindre-effektiva-allteftersom-jordklotet-blir-varmare - 2025-11-29

Det är med sorg som vi meddelar att professor emeritus Gunnar Törnqvist avled den 7 april 2024. Gunnar Törnqvist, född 1933, hade en lång karriär som präglades av hans betydande bidrag till studier av industriell lokalisering, spridning av innovation, kreativitet i tid och rum samt Europas ekonomiska geografi. Han har också varit verksam i expertgrupper och kommittéer i Sverige och Europa, bland a

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/till-minne-av-professor-gunnar-tornqvist - 2025-11-29