Published 3 December 2018 Iceland features many spectacular waterfalls and river canyons, which have been subject to renewable energy development for decades. (Photo: Henner Busch) In times of runaway climate change, phasing out fossil fuels and increasing the share of renewables is imperative. But this transition is not without pitfalls as shown by a recent study of two large renewable projects i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hidden-price-icelands-green-energy - 2025-07-01

Published 5 December 2018 The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas.  Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an exploration of love in relation to land and place in Zimbabw

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2025-07-01

By cecilia [dot] von_Arnold [at] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 11 December 2018 LUCUS today, 11th December, presents a new travel policy for staff and associated researchers. It sets out a number of commitments aimed to reduce work-related emissions and takes effect from January 2019. Reducing flying amongst staff is the number one priority, since flying is the single largest source

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-presents-new-travel-policy-reduce-work-related-emissions - 2025-07-01

Published 11 December 2018 "No matter what happens in real time politics, some damage is already done”. Researcher Torsten Krause comments on the newly elected Brasilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s plans for deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon.  Bolsonaro takes office on the first of January 2019 and has promised to open protected areas and indigenous territories to mining, to relax enviro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-exploitation-and-deforestation-brazilian-amazon - 2025-07-01

By Cecilia von Arnold - published 14 December 2018 Photo by Jesse Jones Many of us have noticed the increasing frequency of climate protests organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR) across Sweden. What do these protests represent? Is this just another group of tree-huggers being a public nuisance? Or is this a needed development in taking our climate goals further? Lund University researchers, Steph

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-what-can-we-learn-xr-movement - 2025-07-01

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 20 December 2018 The Lund University graduate school on Agenda 2030 is now open for applications. We welcome graduate school applicants from various disciplinary backgrounds who want to take an active role in Agenda 2030 research. The graduate school offers a unique opportunity to gain interdisciplinary pers

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-positions-lund-university-agenda-2030-graduate-school - 2025-07-01

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 11 January 2019 Sara Gabrielsson and one of the health educators at the NGO Maji Safi during the film screening of the film "Break the Silence" or "Vunja Ukimya" in Kiswahili. A year ago LUCSUS researcher Sara Gabrielsson went to Tanzania to study the cultural acceptability and management challenges of diffe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/she-wants-break-silence-about-menstruation - 2025-07-01

Published 21 January 2019 LUCSUS is starting a new capacity building programme to develop knowledge and leadership among leaders and decision makers from across Africa about the Agenda 2030. ‘Land is Life’ is a novel 2 MSEK pilot program on capacity development for Agenda 2030 funded by the Swedish Institute. The programme aims to train future leaders and decision makers from across Africa (Kenya,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-leads-new-capacity-building-programme-agenda-2030 - 2025-07-01

Published 5 February 2019 Participants of the IPCC Working Group II AR6 First Lead Author Meeting in Durban, South Africa, January 2019. Photo: Maike Nicolai, IPCC. LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd is lead author for a chapter on poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development in the Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She recently attended the first meeting

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-lead-author-ipccs-sixth-assessment-report - 2025-07-01

Published 13 February 2019 Researcher Karin Steen is leading a new Formas project on love, gender and agriculture in Zimbabwe. – I wanted to pursue research that took a different approach to sustainability, gender, power and agriculture. Usually, you look at things like ownership and access to land. By focusing on immaterial values such as love, I believe that you can gain new insights into existi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/whats-love-got-do-it-place-gender-and-agriculture-zimbabwe - 2025-07-01

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 18 February 2019 Take the opportunity and apply for the capacity building programme Land is Life. The programme aims to train future leaders and decision-makers from across Africa to build knowledge, understand measurement and develop leadership on SDG15 – Ecosystem and biodiversity.  Land is at the heart of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/open-application-capacity-building-programme-agenda-2030-land-life - 2025-07-01

Published 26 February 2019 Agriculture is critical to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. New research from Lund University shows that researchers, policymakers, and farmers in Europe currently have different, often conflicting priorities for sustainable agriculture. The researchers propose a way forward built on shared priorities. – We identified precisely where the major gaps be

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/identifying-common-ground-sustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-07-01

Published 26 February 2019 Last summer's extreme drought hit farmers and horse stables in county Skåne hard. Yields were smaller than normal and the price of fodder has increased.  Now, researchers from LUCSUS and Lund University want to gather farmers’ experiences of the drought to find out more about the major challenges to adapt the Swedish agricultural sector.  – We are interested in how diffe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researcher-will-gather-farmers-experiences-extreme-summer-drought - 2025-07-01

Published 11 March 2019 While deforestation and forest degradation have gained attention in recent years not least at the UN climate negotiations, defaunation, has to a great extent been overlooked. Human-induced faunal loss does not only reduce tree species diversity, but also significantly erodes key ecosystem services and functions and further disadvantages local communities. In a new article i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-future-primates-conservation-struggles-forests-cross-river-state-nigeria - 2025-07-01

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 14 March 2019 LUCSUS are recruiting three PhD candidates in Sustainability Science linked to three new research projects. Current vacanciesPhD in Sustainability scienceThe Takeoff of Staying on the GroundLast application date 8 April 2019Read the full announcement and apply here Negative emissionsLast applic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/vacant-phd-positions-sustainability-science - 2025-07-01

Published 15 March 2019 School students are right to demand more ambitious climate policies on 15 March. The scientific facts are entirely on their side. As researchers working on climate change we support the student movement and share our insights and research-based advice for local and global policymakers. For the past months, school students around the world have taken to the streets to call f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-supports-ongoing-climate-strikes - 2025-07-01

Published 29 March 2019 LUCSUS is part of the annual Sustainability Week in Lund, 8-13 April. This year's theme "Transforming our world" focuses on the global goals and agenda 2030. LUCSUS will participate in, and host, several events about sustainable transformations at different levels. 8 AprilOpening  and guided tour of the exhibition Carbon Ruins. ‘Carbon Ruins’ aims to transport the visitor i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week - 2025-07-01

Published 12 April 2019 In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowledge co-creation might play in realizing the SDGs.What sust

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2025-07-01

By Noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 April 2019 Potato farmer, Okhaldhunga, Eastern Nepal. At least a third of the glaciers in the Himalayan range could melt due to climate change. This will have severe consequences for almost 2 billion people, including the village communities in Nepal, since the glaciers are an important water and energy source. Researcher M

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-are-communities-nepal-managing-locally-produced-renewable-energy-age-climate-change - 2025-07-01

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 26 April 2019 This year’s Association of American Geographers’ conference got me thinking about maps. I’ve been to a fair few geography conferences but, funny enough, have never really come across very many maps. Or, rather, have given them very little thought. This year, wherever I turned there they were. A

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-reflections-years-association-american-geographers-conference-maja-essebo - 2025-07-01