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It is not easy to make ends meet for many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Everyday life is a complex management of many activities, especially for women, such as providing, preparing and cooking food; provide water and energy for cooking; manage farm activities; rearing children; and not least ensure that the family is healthy. Ill-health can easily tip families into abject poverty. Imp

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-building-capacity-and-improving-everyday-life-sub-saharan-africa - 2025-09-29

International sustainability policies set out clear goals for protecting ecosystems and biodiversity, but how to actually achieve these goals remains elusive in practice, as biodiversity loss continues at an alarming rate. A new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability by an international team of 32 scientists identifies key knowledge gaps that need to be answered to tackle the root ca

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/clear-goals-murky-path-ecosystem-sustainability-key-knowledge-gaps-identified - 2025-09-29

Four LUCSUS researchers argue in an article in the journal Nature, Ecology & Evolution that the most important, powerful and unique contribution science can make to social movements is to share arduously accumulated knowledge about processes of social and political change.  – We wrote this article because we saw a debate emerge around how researchers can and should contribute to stop climate chang

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/science-has-much-offer-social-movements-face-planetary-emergencies - 2025-09-29

Few research publications reach outside the realm of academia and even fewer make an impact on sustainability debates and societal issues. Kimberly Nicholas’ research on lifestyle choices to reduce your carbon footprint is unique in its reach and impact on society. Her research started with a question, asked by friends and students: what can I do for the climate that really makes a difference? Kim

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-increasing-understanding-and-awareness-how-individuals-can-make-most-effective-choices - 2025-09-29

On the 2nd of December, on the grand opening of the COP25, LUCSUS will organise an event on whether attribution science and new legal frameworks can refuel the climate movement in the context of climate emergency. The event is part of the Nordic Climate Weeks in Stockholm 2nd to 13th of December, organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers  to higihlight the UN climate negotiations – the COP25. A

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-science-climate-extremes-can-help-refuel-climate-movement-cop25-side-event - 2025-09-29

“The Tokyo Forum was a great opportunity to discuss the opportunities and challenges of sustainable social change, especially processes that involve local actors, into a high-level arena." LUCSUS researcher, Barry Ness participated in the Tokyo Forum held at the University of Tokyo place December 6-8, 2019.The forum was a joint initiative between the University of Tokyo and the Chey Institute for

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researcher-co-chairs-session-local-values-and-interests-relation-global-goals-tokyo-forum - 2025-09-29

Agroforestry combines agricultural and silvicultural practices to produce food, wood, and other products. Agroforestry systems have been increasingly promoted as land-use systems that can support nature conservation, especially in the tropics, where it has also been gaining recognition as a tool for reducing poverty, improving food self-sufficiency for farmers, and increasing the productivity and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-motivations-and-limitations-small-scale-farmers-implement-agroforestry-systems-north - 2025-09-29

Increasing impacts from hazards worldwide, including Sweden, have prompted international efforts to promote the development of national strategies for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience to reduce associated impacts and support sustainable development. An increasing understanding of the need to address the underlying causes of risk has led to demands for more coherence in strategies that

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-developing-national-strategy-disaster-risk-reduction-and-resilience-sweden - 2025-09-29

LUCSUS has been awarded funding to develop the first ever Africa network on loss and damage from climate change. Such a network is urgently needed as many African nations will or are already experiencing negative impacts from climate change which will exacerbate existing sustainable development challenges such as poverty and food insecurity. The network project is directly related to the LUCSUS pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-funding-lucsus-will-develop-first-ever-africa-network-loss-and-damage-climate-change - 2025-09-29

Just as climate change threatens homes, food and livelihoods, so does it threaten the world's supply of wine. If temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius, the regions of the world that are suitable for growing wine grapes could shrink by as much as 56 percent, according to a new study. And with 4 degrees of warming, 85 percent of those lands would no longer be able to produce good wines. Fortunately

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/wine-regions-could-shrink-dramatically-climate-change-unless-growers-swap-varieties - 2025-09-29

New study explores the integration of nature-based approaches for climate change adaptation into municipalities’ daily planning practices and associated governance in Sweden. In a new article in the Cleaner Production Journal, LUCSUS researcher professor Christine Wamsler (et al) explores the integration of nature-based approaches for climate change adaptation into municipalities’ daily planning p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/targeted-strategies-overcoming-barriers-nature-based-solutions-and-climate-action - 2025-09-29

Adapting cities is key for increasing the resilience of citizens, communities, organisations and wider systems to deal with the effects of climate change. For more than 20 years Professor Christine Wamsler has collaborated with national authorities, municipalities and citizens to implement sustainable climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and long-term sustainability projects to supp

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-sustainable-climate-change-adaptation-and-disaster-risk-reduction-local-national-and - 2025-09-29

Chad Boda is a post-doctoral researcher at LUCSUS. He has a passion for researching and teaching on issues of environmental conservation and sustainable development. In this interivew, he explains what he is working on in the project, DICE, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes, and highlights what he wants to achieve during the project. Why are you interested in the fi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-we-aim-make-major-advances-methodology-measuring-loss-and-damage-way-builds-yet - 2025-09-29

Around the world, coastal communities are exposed to the impacts of climate change, for example sea level rise and coastal erosion. But local governments are often politically and economically constrained in their abilities to implement timely and needed adaptation measures. These constraints can restrict adaptation options to practices that are too little and too late, or even result in measures

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-connecting-theory-and-practice-overcome-barriers-adaptation - 2025-09-29

Kelly Dorkenoo is a PhD student in the project DICE, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes. In this interview, she talk about her interest in the field of loss and damage, and her views on sustainability research. Why are you interested in the field of loss and damage? There is a need to improve our understanding of the type of severe impacts from climate change that af

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-my-work-focuses-issues-disproportionality-and-inequalities-relation-loss-and - 2025-09-29

New research from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies shows that children’s relationships with nature are not only important for their wellbeing but also for future sustainable forest management. The study also shows that different socioeconomic factors affect children’s experiences of and relationships with the forest. Currently, young people are at risk of having less and less cont

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/childrens-relationship-nature-key-future-sustainable-forest-management - 2025-09-29

We need new ways of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature to protect and preserve our environment. Research from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) strives to diversify ways of measuring and evaluating ecosystem services to take into account people’s place-based, varied and often emotional relationships with nature. – An important question is to what

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/current-frameworks-assess-human-nature-relationships-are-too-simplified-and-risk-compromise-human - 2025-09-29

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 trans

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-09-29

Water is essential to all human life on earth. Today, over two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress – risking both health and food security. As populations and the demand for water grow, this situation is likely to worsen.  Emma Johansson’s research focuses on water, agriculture and participatory practices. To mark World Water Day 2020, she highlights some key research a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-water-day-2020-perspectives-water-agriculture-consumption-and-climate-change - 2025-09-29

LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause have been researching hunting, forest fauna and wild meat consumption, particularly in the Amazon, for the past three years. He is currently in Colombia, where his fieldwork was cut short due to the current coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, he reflects on the impacts of the coronavirus on vulnerable indigenous communities, and on the link between humanity's

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-impacts-coronavirus-indigenous-communities-amazon-torsten-krause - 2025-09-29