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Join LUCSUS staff of engaged and innovative researchers! We are looking for a PhD candidate to work with us on a research project exploring power dynamics in cross-scale adaptation for more resilient and just futures. The focus of the research will be on Skåne, Sweden! The successful candidate will work within LUCSUS’ new, four-year project, ICARUS – Illuminating power dynamics in cross-scale adap

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/come-work-lucsus-phd-position-sustainability-science-open - 2025-11-05

Join LUCSUS staff of engaged and innovative researchers! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work with us on a research project exploring power dynamics in cross-scale adaptation for more resilient and just futures. The project, ICARUS - Illuminating power dynamics in cross-scale adaptation for more resilient and just futures, aims to develop a better understanding of the power and pol

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-institutional-analysis-climate-change-adaptation-open-lucsus - 2025-11-05

LUCSUS is part of organising next year's Political Ecology Network conference (POLLEN24) in Lund. The unfolding and entwined social-ecological crises make the challenge of how to move towards more plural and just futures more pressing than ever. Political ecology provides an important toolbox to explore the unjust and colonial power relations that condition global flows of material resources, mone

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/next-pollen-conference-lund - 2025-11-05

Emily Boyd, LUCSUS and Colin McQuistan, Practical Action hosted a side event on the first day of the COP22 in Marrakech on the emerging critical issue of Loss and Damage. In recent years, Loss and Damage (L&D) has gained enormous traction in international climate policy, and there is now an emerging body of insight from research and practice helping to better understand and manage L&D. On the firs

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-and-practical-actions-cop22-marrakech - 2025-11-05

– working with action research and film in sustainability scienceThe short film  – “Making research matter – from knowledge to action with farmers in Uganda” – builds on a PhD project in sustainability science (Andersson 2014) and is part of our research outreach efforts at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. It represents one attempt to explore and pursue the use of the film medium

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/make-research-matter-more-working-action-research-and-film - 2025-11-05

There has been a recent proliferation of research and practice on the interior dimensions of sustainability, such as values, beliefs, worldviews and inner capacities. In a new article published in Sustainability Science, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and colleagues systematise the core contributions of this emerging field for supporting sustainability and climate work. – In recent years, the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/key-characteristics-and-contribution-emerging-field-inner-transformation-sustainability - 2025-11-05

PhD student Lina Lefstad is passionate about working towards just climate change mitigation. She is excited about how we as a society can use CCS technology in the most just and effective way for the technology to genuinely contribute to decarbonisation and emissions reductions. What do you explore in your PhD-project?  My PhD is part of a broader project called “Burying problems? Carbon capture a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-lina-lefstad-studies-how-carbon-capture-and-storage-technology-used-and-envisioned - 2025-11-05

A new study from LUCSUS shows that the UN's sustainable development goals as a whole do not contribute to making us more resilient to cope with disruptive changes, such as climate change. The researchers behind the study believe that the next global agenda should put the relationship between ecosystems and humans in focus and start from flexible goals that promote transformative leadership and are

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/scientists-critical-uns-sustainable-development-goals-do-not-make-us-resilient-withstand-changing - 2025-11-05

PhD student Juan Antonio Samper hopes that his research some day can play a role in emancipatory causes currently happening in the territory of Putumayo, and make a difference for social life in specific places. He explores the relationship between collective identity and place, and the ways in which this relation is mobilised by different groups in the Colombian Andean-Amazonia to resist extracti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-juan-antonio-samper-explores-relationship-between-collective-identity-and-place - 2025-11-05

How can aquathermal energy systems support a sustainable energy transition in the European Union? This will be explored in a new EU Interreg North Sea Region project, WaterWarmth, which seeks to raise awareness about the possibilities of sustainable heating and cooling solutions based on aquathermal energy and integrate them into existing renewable energy systems across the North Sea region. Aquat

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-eu-project-aims-pave-way-sustainable-heating-and-cooling-solutions - 2025-11-05

In a historic decision, Brazil's Supreme Court has voted down the agricultural lobby's attempt to limit Indigenous People's land rights. Sustainability researcher Torsten Krause is cautiously optimistic about the decision, which he believes is positive for both human rights and biodiversity, but fears that it could lead to increased deforestation and mining in Brazil's neighboring countries. – It

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/strengthened-rights-indigenous-people-can-reduce-deforestation-brazil - 2025-11-05

LUCSUS new PhD student, Emilia Gansland, hope to provide new insights on how climate change adaptation and power intersect, and influence the debate about local climate adaptation in Sweden. What do you explore in your PhD-project?  I am part of the “Illuminating power dynamics in cross-scale adaptation for more resilient and just futures (ICARUS)” project. The project as a whole will look at mult

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-emilia-ganslandt-studies-local-climate-adaptation-skane-sweden - 2025-11-05

As part of innovative research on perennial crops, a unique research infrastructure has been developed outside Lund. The infrastructure will measure the exchange of greenhouse gases between the atmosphere and agriculture in real time in two parallel cultivation systems: the newly domesticated Kernza (Intermediate wheatgrass) and conventional crop rotation in Skåne (including wheat, sugar beet, bar

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/unique-research-infrastructure-perennial-crops-lund - 2025-11-05

Worldwide, coastal river deltas are home to more than half a billion people, supporting fisheries, agriculture, cities, and fertile ecosystems. In a unique study covering 49 deltas globally, researchers from LUCSUS and Utrecht University have identified the most critical risks to deltas in the future. The research shows that deltas face multiple risks, and that population growth and poor environme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/coastal-river-deltas-threatened-more-climate-change - 2025-11-05

The COP climate meetings are organised in a way that benefits richer and larger countries at the expense of smaller and poorer countries, according to a new study from LUCSUS and the University of Leeds. The study also labels the participating countries as either Radicals, Opportunists, Hypocrites or Evaders. Every year, the UN organises its global climate change Conference of the Parties, “COP”,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-meetings-organised-way-benefits-richer-larger-countries - 2025-11-05

LUCSUS researchers are participating in several events and activities at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 30 Nov - 12 Dec 2023. Accredited researchers from LUCSUS at COP28 Researchers participating on-site:Emily BoydGuy JacksonResearchers particpating onlineKelly DorkenooAlicia N'guettaKimberly NicholasNatalia RubianoChristine Wamsler Events at

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop28 - 2025-11-05

Is water one of the world’s most dangerous substances? Is climate change a threat to national security? How does turbulence, national and international, affect governance of sustainability? These are some of the topics that will be discussed as part of LUCSUS’ involvement in the Lund University 350th anniversary celebration.LUCSUS’ programme of activities  include both centre specific activities s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-and-lund-university-350th-celebrations - 2025-11-05

On the first day of the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai, a formal decision was taken to establish a loss and damage fund to support developing countries to deal with loss and damage from climate change. A pragmatic success for climate justice, says sustainability professor Emily Boyd, who now hopes that Sweden will follow suit with promises of financial support. Emily Boyd, director and p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/many-questions-remain-new-loss-and-damage-fund-formally-established-cop28 - 2025-11-05

Lisa Eklund har bidragit till artikeln ”Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China”, publicerad i Social Science & Medicine. Bristen på kvinnor i Kina innebär att många kinesiska män har svårt att hitta en partner. Exkluderingen från giftermål leder till att en del män ägnar sig åt potentiellt skadliga bete

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/social-diskriminering-vanligt-bland-kinesiska-man-som-exkluderats-fran-giftermal - 2025-11-05

Sociologiska institutionens prefekt, professor Åsa Lundqvist, blir sakkunnig ledamot i Vetenskapsrådets beredningsgrupp för internationella postdocs. Gruppen bedömer och betygssätter ansökningar om bidrag från forskare som nyligen disputerat vid svenskt universitet och vill forska vid ett utländskt lärosäte. Syftet är att ge forskare i början av sina karriärer möjlighet att utöka sina kompetenser

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/asa-lundqvist-blir-ny-ledamot-i-en-av-vetenskapsradets-beredningsgrupper - 2025-11-05