By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 3 May 2019 Amongst the most promising perennial cereals are a wheat-like grass called intermediate wheatgrass named Kernza. Kernza can be used for anything wheat is used for. There is an urgent need for agriculture to drastically reduce its negative environmental impacts, while at the same time responding to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/future-agriculture-perennial - 2025-07-11

Published 6 May 2019 The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at LUCSUS, explains the significance of the report’s findings, which was releas

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mine-islar-comments-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-07-11

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 9 May 2019 Photo: Johan Persson The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University Centre for Sustainability St

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-07-11

Published 16 May 2019 "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong project, Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2025-07-11

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von arnold) - published 16 May 2019 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

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-launches-new-mentorship-programme-researchers - 2025-07-11

Published 17 May 2019 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 t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2025-07-11

Published 28 May 2019 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 an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2025-07-11

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 17 June 2019 A selection of craft beer from breweries in Skåne, Sweden 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 Christin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/promoting-sustainability-swedish-craft-beer-sector-through-urban-living-labs - 2025-07-11

Published 20 June 2019 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 k

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2025-07-11

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 27 June 2019 Participants from the training in Kisumu, Kenya. 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,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2025-07-11

By Noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 3 July 2019 Photo: A Lorente. 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 ecologic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/segrasses-have-hugely-important-ecological-and-economic-role-new-research-publication - 2025-07-11

Published 14 August 2019 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 emis

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2025-07-11

Published 19 August 2019 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 erosio

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/guidelines-and-principles-improved-city-citizen-cooperation-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-07-11

Published 20 August 2019 Initiatives such as the Kisumu Waste Actors Network (KIWAN) must be encouraged to ensure the engagement and inclusion of waste collectors, recyclers, community organizations and entrepreneurs. Photo: Michael Oloko. “Better communication between different waste actors is paramount”. LUCSUS researchers present policy brief on how to address challenges linked to urban solid w

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/four-ways-address-challenges-urban-solid-waste-new-policy-brief-developed-city-kisumu-kenya - 2025-07-11

Published 21 August 2019 Mentors in the mentorship programme at LUCSUS. From the top left: Cintia Bertacchi Uvo, Helle Rydström, Kristina Jönsson, Jamil Khan, Mo Hamza, Susanne Arvidsson, Ellen Hillbom 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 go

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/kick-lucsus-new-mentorship-programme - 2025-07-11

Published 26 August 2019 Photo: markhillary/flickr 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)Bränd

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-amazon-fires - 2025-07-11

Published 6 September 2019 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

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-can-world-can-learn-small-town-iceland - 2025-07-11

Published 11 September 2019 Loretoyacu River in Colombia in March 2019. Photo:Torsten Krause. 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 ecologica

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-hunting-can-contribute-forest-governance - 2025-07-11

Published 19 September 2019 Researcher Sara Brogaard and composter Claus Sörensen 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

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/music-climate - 2025-07-11

Published 26 September 2019 Tree plantations. Mostphotos. 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

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tree-planting-no-panacea-climate - 2025-07-11