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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

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 - 2025-06-29

Published 4 June 2019 George Neville works as a post-doctoral researcher within the Misty project, with a special focus on migration and the SDGs. In this interview, he tells us about what sustainability challenge he finds most interesting, what drives him as a researcher, and about what he did before he came to LUCSUS. What do you do at LUCSUS?I have just begun my postdoctoral research here at LU

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-george-neville-researches-migration-transformation-and-sustainability - 2025-06-29

By carys [dot] egan-wyer [at] fek [dot] lu [dot] se (Carys Egan-Wyer) - published 3 December 2020 Photo by Simon Bak on Unsplash In the dynamic world of retail, the relationship between retailers and customers relies heavily on trust and confidence. As we witness a digital revolution in retail, fuelled by the vast possibilities of data analytics, it becomes crucial to ensure that data collection a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/building-customer-trust-retail-data-practices - 2025-06-29

Published 20 December 2023 Martha Bailey (to the left) and Anna Breman will both attend the doctoral ceremony in Lund on 31 May 2024. (Photo sources: UCLA and Riksbanken/Sandra Birgersdotter Ek). Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American econo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2025-06-29

Published 7 December 2020 Photo: Johan Persson For the first time, Lund University School of Economics and Management secures a spot on the ‘Financial Times European Business Schools 2020 ranking’. In strong competition, the School ranks number 75. On Monday 7 December the newspaper Financial Times (FT) once again put the business schools in the spotlight. Lund University School of Economics and M

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-ranked-among-europes-best-business-schools-financial-times - 2025-06-29

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 March 2025 The conference was opened and closed by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, a representative of the Resguardo Indígena, Condagua, Putumayo, Colombia. Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-06-29

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 21 March 2025 Kimberly Nicholas was appointed professor in Sustainability Science at Lund University in June 2024. Kimberly Nicholas was appointed professor in Sustainability Science in June 2024. After more than 15 years at Lund University, her commitment to stopping climate change is stronger than ever. “W

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-kimberly-nicholas-mission-combat-climate-change - 2025-06-29

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 27 March 2025 Kurdish migrant farmworker hoeing sugarbeet fields in Central Turkey. Photo by: Sinem Kavak A new LUCSUS study sheds light on the challenging lives of seasonal migrant farmworkers in Turkey. The workers, who are predominantly Kurds, Arabs, and Syrian refugees, face multiple layers of marginaliz

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/exploited-and-invisible-harsh-realities-seasonal-migrant-farmworkers-turkey - 2025-06-29

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 April 2025 LUCSUS is participating in several events during this year's Sustainability Week! It is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. Sustainability Week is an important occasion for LUCSUS as a centre to engage with our local community in Lund, and share research f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week-2025 - 2025-06-29

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 10 April 2025 Lina Lefstad is a PhD student at LUCSUS. Her research objective is to contribute to equity and justice in socio-ecological transformations. Photo: Sara Håkansson. Congratulations Lina Lefstad, PhD student at LUCSUS, for receiving an honorable Mention in the The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award - for her research

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lina-lefstad-receives-honourable-mention-lund-university-agenda-2030-award - 2025-06-29