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This year, LUCSUS is happy to host the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project.The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice in earth system governance, Conceptual understandings a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-vasna-ramasar-reflects-years-vision - 2025-10-01

At LUCSUS, we have two articles released today, 25th September 2017, in Nature Climate Change.LUCSUS Director Professor Emily Boyd and Dr. Rachel James (ECI, Oxford University) and Dr. Richard Jones (UK Met Office) with colleagues Otto (Oxford) and Young (Reading) present the first academic empirical study of expert opinions on loss and damage.The string of Atlantic hurricanes that has devastated

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/two-articles-nature-climate-change-social-scientists-prof-emily-boyd-and-visiting-prof-dana-fisher - 2025-10-01

The recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria highlight the potential for the climate system to cause loss and damage. “Loss and damage” is a phrase used in different ways by people who work on climate policy, negotiation and adaptation/resilience. A new study clarifies these different perspectives which is a key issue now that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, is e

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/clarifying-perspectives-promote-action-loss-and-damage-climate-change - 2025-10-01

Today, LUCSUS Professor Lennart Olsson will give a lecture for the very poplar 350th University Jubilee Course. The aim the course, which features guest lectures from all the university faculties, is to give an insight into current research and to highlight scientific facts in an engaging way. In this short interview, he explains why he chose this specific topic, and what he wants the audience to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/jubilee-course-lennart-olsson-climate-change-needs-be-taken-seriously - 2025-10-01

Ahead of the upcoming Lund 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, Professor Emily Boyd discusses the motivations for LUCSUS to host the ESG International Project Office and highlights some of the programme points she finds especially interesting.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-why-lucsus-supporting-esg-conference-and-project-office - 2025-10-01

LUCSUS recently featured the research and recent article on perspectives on loss and damage by Director Emily Boyd. This week, Stephen Woroniecki, follows up with a comment on a contribution by Dr Koko Warner, Manager of the Climate Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Risks subprogramme, which includes the loss and damage workstream at the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).– Th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/human-mobility-and-paris-agreement-continuing-conversation-loss-and-damage - 2025-10-01

Professor Emily Boyd comments on the event on the theme of “sustainability in education”, on 18th October organised by Sustainability Forum and LUCSUS. The aim is to discuss how Lund University can become more sustainable – and all staff and students are encouraged to join.She says that a sustainable university – where sustainability in education is one piece of the puzzle - is closely linked to q

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/there-are-many-areas-which-university-could-show-leadership-emily-boyd-creating-sustainable - 2025-10-01

Sustainability in education should be an issue for the University leadership, as well as researchers and teachers, according to Anne Jerneck and Kim Nicholas, both researchers at LUCSUS.Reflecting on Wednesday’s event for students and staff, on the theme “sustainability in education”, organised by Sustainability Forum and LUCSUS, they highlight that the role of the researcher and teacher is becomi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainability-education-should-be-issue-university-leadership-say-lucsus-researchers - 2025-10-01

Reflecting on the IPCC author meeting for the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C in Malmö this week, Professor Lennart Olsson highlights that LUCSUS’ unique research integration of social and natural sciences very much align with ongoing and future work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.– There has been an increasing realisation within the IPCC, and amongst policy makers, th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/increasing-social-science-focus-work-ipcc-align-lucsus-research - 2025-10-01

LUCSUS Professor Lennart Olsson is one of the participants in the upcoming seminar: Land: a Common Good, or a Good Investment? organised 9th November by LUCSUS, Latinamerikagrupperna, Svalorna Indien Bangladesh and Lund Inter Faculty Sustainability Network.Ahead of his participation, he discusses the most important issues surrounding land today, and reflects on why land is such a political subject

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/find-ways-harnessing-increasing-interest-land-sustainable-development-lennart-olsson-reflects-ahead - 2025-10-01

Three female researchers at LUCSUS have secured funding from Formas for two research projects, one on myths and environmental policy in America, and one on pest management and environmental justice in Uganda. The projects will start in 2018 and run for three years.Researcher Maja Essebo will lead on the first project, entitled: ‘Alternative facts’: a long-term analysis of the impact of myth on Ame

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-myths-environmental-policy-america-and-exploration-pest-management-uganda-three-female - 2025-10-01

LUCSUS researcher Barry Ness has become the new Director of the Skåne Local Interaction Platform (SKLIP) for the Mistra Urban Futures Project. The platform brings together a consortium of the three universities located in the region: Lund University, Malmö University, and the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (SLU) along with different societal actors. Barry’s task as Director will be t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/barry-ness-director-skane-local-interaction-platform-mistra-urban-futures-project - 2025-10-01

LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. - Supporting sustainability and resilience is one of the three focus areas of the U

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-giving-deans-lecture-australia-and-creating-wider-debate-urban-adaptation-and - 2025-10-01

Recently, the EU parliament’s environmental committee proposed that crop-based biofuels should not be considered renewable, which would affect Sweden’s strategy for achieving a fossil-free transport fleet, among other things. According to two researchers from LUCSUS, it is a good thing that the EU is reviewing the legislation on biofuels. The far-reaching consequences of biofuels on land use – bot

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-new-proposed-eu-legislation-consequences-biofuels-land-use-must-be-considered-greater - 2025-10-01

20 years ago, the LUMES programme opened up its door to its first batch of students.  A booklet detailing the history of LUMES and interviews with alumni and teachers has now been launched to mark this very special anniversary. – With this booklet, we wanted to capture both the historical development of LUMES, and the programme’s very unique spirit. That is why we have included sections on history

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-booklet-marks-20-years-education-environment-and-sustainability - 2025-10-01

Are there ways in which local communities can benefit from hosting large-scale land investments? This question forms the basis for a project on land in Africa, in which LUCSUS researcher Genesis T. Yengoh is involved.Genesis says that over the last few years, there has been a large increase in the amount of land that has been acquired by investors and converted into crops for biofuel in Africa. Th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mutually-beneficial-engagement-between-local-communities-and-large-scale-investors - 2025-10-01

Under driftstoppet i Primula är det viktigt att alla manuellt dokumenterar de ärenden som man i vanliga fall själv registrerar i Primula, så att uppgifterna ska kunna registreras på rätt sätt i efterhand, när vi åter får tillgång till systemet. Därför har fakultetsledningen kommit fram till att vi på Medicinska fakulteten ska följa den här rutinen så länge stoppet varar. Senast uppdaterad 1 februa

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/viktigt-sa-har-hanterar-du-arenden-nar-primula-ligger-nere - 2025-10-01

Det EU-finansierade forskningsprojektet AMBER, som koordineras av LINXS, har öppnat sin första omgång postdoc-tjänster. Deadline är 18 mars 2024. AMBER-stipendiaterna som avslutar detta program kommer att vara utomordentligt väl rustade för karriärer inom akademin, vid infrastrukturer och inom hälso- och medicintekniksektorerna. AMBER kommer att ha en stor inverkan på tvärvetenskaplig forskning, k

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/ambers-postdoc-utlysning-stor-inverkan-pa-kopplingen-mellan-vetenskap-och-klinik - 2025-10-01

Spring, spring, spring med kollegorna och känn fartvinden smeka era kinder den 4 maj, om tolv veckor (Ni hinner preppa!). Förra året deltog 794 från universitetet. Läs mer om Lundaloppet, universitetes sponsring och anmäl dig på Medarbetarwebben.

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/kollegor-snora-pa-er-pjuxen-universitetet-bjuder-pa-lundaloppet - 2025-10-01

Primula är nu i gång och det ser ut som att inläsningen av de nya lönerna för Saco-S och oorganiserade finns kvar i systemet. Det innebär att nya löner samt retroaktiv lön ser ut att finnas med för utbetalning i februari.    Förhandlingarna med OFR/S och Seko pågår fortfarande inom universitetet. Det innebär att det i dagsläget är oklart när ny lön och retroaktiv lön kommer att kunna betalas ut ti

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/information-om-loneutbetalning-och-pagaende-loneforhandlingar - 2025-10-01