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Ebba Brink, postdoctoral researcher at LUCSUS, is doing research about climate change risk and adaptation in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The current coronavirus pandemic has forced her to come back to Sweden, and move her research online. She reflects on how the outbreak has made the right-wing Bolsonaro government’s polarizing politics and disregard for science even more obvious, and o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-what-coronavirus-pandemic-could-mean-favelas-brazil-ebba-brink - 2026-01-10

Natural solutions to combat climate change are perceived as beneficial to both nature and people simultaneously. But claims that natural solutions also bring about empowerment, gender equality and inclusion are problematic, especially when issues of power, agency and marginalisation are ignored. This is according to new research from LUCSUS. In his PhD thesis from Lund University Centre for Sustai

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/natural-solutions-combat-climate-change-may-ignore-power-marginalisation-and-local-agency - 2026-01-10

In our Annual Report for 2019 we share highlights in research, education and impact from the previous year. Read about some of the highlights here and download or read the full report online. Word from Director Emily Boyd 2019 was an unusually busy year for LUCSUS. In January we transitioned into the Faculty of Social Sciences after a two-year transition process. This shift poses new and interesti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-highlights-2019 - 2026-01-10

On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, LUCSUS and researchers from Political Science at Lund University, in collaboration with Sussex University, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Helsinki University have a new paper accepted with Global Sustainability entitled "Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance". Despite efforts to address the global forest crisis, deforestation and degradation

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/earth-day-2020-time-covid-19-crisis-we-need-be-challenging-entrenched-myths-about-our-forests - 2026-01-10

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.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2026-01-10

After observing the decrease in economic activities, air pollution and carbon emissions as a result of the lockdown measures during the COVID-19, some academics argue that such down-scaling can be considered as degrowth. Although the sudden, unplanned and chaotic downscaling of social and economic activities due to Covid-19 has some similarities with degrowth, this is not what degrowth advocates f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-degrowth-and-transformative-potential-covid-19 - 2026-01-10

Properly managed, the agricultural sector in Europe can contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by improving food security, reducing poverty and enhancing biodiversity. But new research shows that indicators to measure key SDGs such as health and equality are entirely missing from the EU’s most expensive funding scheme. – What gets measured, gets managed. Fro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-points-out-key-gaps-eus-largest-funding-scheme-common-agricultural-policy - 2026-01-10

Colombia is emerging from an internal conflict that lasted more than 50 years. In this process rural land-use is being transformed, generating new conflicts over land use and control with detrimental effects on Colombia's forests. In this article published in the Journal of Political Ecology, Torsten Krause analyze the ways in which peace-building and post-conflict transition have led to increased

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reducing-deforestation-colombia-while-building-peace-and-pursuing-business-usual-extractivism - 2026-01-10

For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the health care system was strained already before the coronavirus crisis. Lack of intensive care units and respirators and the difficult economic situation in most African countries limit the resources to combat the pandemic. LUCSUS researcher Karin Steen, who returned from a teaching sabbatical in Zimbabwe when the corona pandemic broke out, share her re

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/perspectives-corona-pandemic-africa - 2026-01-10

New blog post from the Nature of Peace project on Colombia’s environment in the post-conflict transition, and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the Colombian peace transition and for the natural environment. While it might seem from an outsider’s perspective that the Colombian armed conflict has come to an end, the life of many people in rural areas is in reality marked by ruthless violence a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-colombias-environment-post-conflict-transition-new-set-backs-global-pandemic - 2026-01-10

The consolidation report from the Skåne Local Interaction Platform (SKLIP) of the Mistra Urban Futures project has now been released. The report describes four years of transdisciplinary urban sustainability research by the platform partners Lund University, Malmö University, SLU Alnarp and the Municipality of Malmö and looks to the future of collaborative research for sustainable urban developmen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-skane-local-interaction-platform-mistra-urban-futures-project - 2026-01-10

Are financial instruments really the solution to deforestation and degradation? Do states truly manage forests for societal benefit? And to what extent are so-called sustainable forest governance initiatives really including local people in decision-making? These are some of the questionable myths that currently obscure the path to sustainable forest governance according to a new publication in th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/five-forest-myths-obscure-path-transformational-and-sustainable-forest-governance - 2026-01-10

New postdoc positions on climate change justice, social movements, social resilience and adaptation to climate change at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Two of the projects are funded by LUCSUS and three are funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences. Postdoctoral researcher in social movements and climate change LUCSUS is recruiting for an exciting new two year postdoc po

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-postdoc-positions - 2026-01-10

A research initiative at LUCSUS examines how inner dimensions and transformation can support people to live more sustainably and drive change. Addressing (the causes and effects of) climate change is one of the most important societal challenges of our time. The demands for political action are becoming stronger from all levels of society, including individuals, social movements, businesses, and g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/inner-dimensions-and-transformation-can-support-people-live-more-sustainably-and-drive-change - 2026-01-10

I forskningsprojektet "Hemtjänst i äldres vardag" har forskarna Håkan Jönson och Glenn Möllergren intervjuat äldre med hemtjänst, som vittnar om stress under måltiderna och sorg över att alltid hänvisas till mikromat. Professor Håkan Jönson och doktorand Glenn Möllergren berättar i en artikel i Sydsvenskan (5 augusti 2025) att de reagerade på Malmö stads besked i våras, om att sluta med varma matl

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/sorg-och-stress-nar-aldre-hanvisas-till-mikromat - 2026-01-09

Tidningen Chef har intervjuat Håkan Johansson om en jämförande studie som visar att hög utbildning, född i Sverige och ett riktigt bra kontaktnät är kännetecknande för den yttersta eliten i det svenska civilsamhället – liksom en ständig förnekelse av makt. Forskningsresultaten har publicerats i boken Civilsamhällets eliter? En jämförande studie av europeiska civilsamhällen, i projektet Civilsamhäl

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/sa-rekryteras-eliten-till-civilsamhallets-topp - 2026-01-09

För att fira att avhandlingen "Videofeedback som tidig samordnad insats: En undersökning av Marte Meo och samordningssamtal (MOS) som förebyggande arbete i skolan" är tillgänglig för akademi och allmänhet, ställde Socialhögskolan i dag till med spikningsfestligheter. Disputationen äger rum den 3 oktober kl 13:15 i sal 128 på Socialhögskolan. Fakultetsopponent är professor Øyvind Kvello, Norwegian

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/stina-balldins-avhandling-spikad - 2026-01-09

”Varför ska just äldreomsorgen acceptera sämre språkkunskaper?” I en slutreplik i DN Debatt skriver forskare från Socialhögskolan att de äldres behov glöms bort i debatten om språkkunskapskrav i äldreomsorgen. De äldres behov måste vara i fokus i debatten om äldreomsorgen. Det skriver doktorand Glenn Möllergren från Socialhögskolan tillsammans med kollegan doktor Frida Nordeström i en slutreplik i

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/aldres-behov-gloms-bort-i-debatten-om-sprakkunskapskrav-i-aldreomsorgen - 2026-01-09

Det var projektledare Tove Harnett som bjudit in till boksläpp för boken "Sjukt gammal" - en bok i dagboksform, som tillkommit i projektet "Hemtjänst i äldres vardag". Eva-Mari Köhler är över 90 år, leg psykolog, och deltagare i projektet "Hemtjänst i äldres vardag", där hon har fört dagbok över sina upplevelser med hemtjänst.Nästan femtio personer, varav flera från hemtjänsten, var med när boken

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/valbesokt-bokslapp - 2026-01-09

Forskare från flera olika fakulteter vid Lunds universitet träffades en halvdag, för att diskutera forskning kring åldrande och funktionshinder. Det var Sara Hultqvist och Julia Bahner vid Socialhögskolan som tillsammans med kollegerna Anna Axmon och Lisa Ekstam vid medicinska fakulteten hade bjudit in till ett halvdagsseminarium om åldrande och funktionsnedsättning. Måndagen den 22 september saml

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/aldrande-och-funktionsnedsattning-i-fokus - 2026-01-09