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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 d
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, field trips, group work and discussions in Kisumu, Kenya. The capacity
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 ecological and economic role
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, i
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Better communication between different waste actors is paramount”. LUCSUS researchers present policy brief on how to address challenges linked to urban solid waste management in Kisumu, Kenya. The collection and handling of municipal solid waste pose a significant challenge in urban Kisumu. The demand for more sustai
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 got a crash course in mentoring and opportunity to network with some of the other mentors. They also met program staff and
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/kick-lucsus-new-mentorship-programme - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 bort
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-amazon-fires - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 r
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-can-world-can-learn-small-town-iceland - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 ecological knowledge t
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-hunting-can-contribute-forest-governance - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anna Tengberg and Sandra Valencia at LUCSUS have written a report, Science of Integrated Approaches to Natural Resource Management – commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).The GEF is a partnership of 18 agencies, including United Nations agencies, mu
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-write-report-global-environment-facility - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is water a dangerous substance? Can water scarcity lead to armed conflict? And what does the term shit matters actually mean? These and other issues will be discussed by 350 high school students from Spyken high school when LUCSUS and Lund University is marking World Water Day on 22nd March.A programme of educational
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-celebrates-world-water-day-hundreds-high-school-students-lund - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Finlay MacGregor, LUCID PhD candidate at LUCSUS was one of the participants at our first International Women’s Day event. Finlay reflects on why it is important to highlight gender and diversity in sustainability science – and discuss how to achieve equality in academia.Gender and Diversity in Sustainability ScienceTo
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflection-gender-and-diversity-sustainability-science-and-academia - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Charlotta Kjöllerström, is the network coordinator for the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project. Next week, a group of eight ESG Research Fellows will make a stop at LUCSUS and Lund University as part of a study trip for early career researchers. In this short interview, she explains the aim of the study trip, and wh
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/why-esg-project-study-trip-charlotta-kjollerstrom-explains - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We will add student presentations and vidoeclips over the course of the next few weeks.
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/videos-and-presentations-world-water-day - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS and the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies are organising two seminars to highlight recent debates in climate policy and the leadership role that academic institutions can play.Welcome to the two seminars with Kevin AndersonThe poster for the first event is attached here, please feel free to distribute!1
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/two-seminars-kevin-anderson - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stephen Woroniecki blogs on the issues highlighted in Director Emily Boyd's article in NatureRecently our Director, Professor Emily Boyd, published an article in Nature, Climate Adaptation - Holistic Thinking Beyond Technology, exploring issues emerging in global attempts at climate change adaptation. A central theme
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/comment-issues-highlighted-director-emily-boyds-article-nature - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Read Klara Winkler's blog post on the article she, Joshua Viers, and Kim Nicholas published in Frontiers in Environmental Science. It is no surprise that the natural environment plays a big part in the vocabulary of wine enthusiasts, where “grassy”, “earthy”, and “vegetal” invoke perceptions of vineyards embedded with
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ecosystem-services-uncorked-how-do-vineyards-fit-natures-scheme - 2026-04-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. - We are delighted to host Luiza Saatova (Луиза Саатова) as a visiting PhD candidate for part of her Sverker Åstrom Foundation scholarship, We hope she will enjoy her stay with us, says Barry Ness, LUCSUS.Luiza’s PhD research at the Novosibirsk State University concentrates on understanding and fostering sustainable
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-hosts-visiting-phd-candidate-novosibirsk-state-university - 2026-04-23
