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Av martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - publicerad 20 september 2021 Ansamling av amyloid-beta kanske startar inuti nervcellerna. Nya möjligheter att studera strukturella förändringar före amyloida plack bildas. Fyra olika typer av Alzheimers sjukdom. Ett enkelt diagnosverktyg förutspår risken att utveckla sjukdomen. Och ett tvär-vetenskapligt samarbete mellan Reg
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 9 December 2024 Over 40% of the land pledged in the countries' climate plans is envisaged to be converted into forests from other land uses according to the researchers' study. Photo: Pixabay. A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-unrealistic-land-demands-reach-net-zero-area-bit-larger-us - 2025-02-05
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 11 December 2024 The University House pictured by Kennet Ruona. LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund Univers
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2025-02-05
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 December 2024 The flight-free movement seems to have paved the way for cultural change in high-carbon norms and practices which is absolutely necessary in the climate transition says Sara Ullström. Illustration: Markus Wendén. Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on t
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 27 January 2025 The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st March of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting in 2025. Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United N
By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 3 February 2025 To find sustainable solutions for employees in industries facing decline, I think you need to understand what it is about the job that is important to their identity, Says Felix Schultz. A new research project, led by LUCSUS research fellow Felix Schulz, aims to explore how work identities sh
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/understanding-identity-climate-transition - 2025-02-05
Published 14 February 2017 - I’m expecting interesting and exciting entries, says Ann Åkerman, LUCSUS.On Thursday (16h February), Ann Åkerman and Chad Boda, also from LUCSUS, will travel to the high school ProCivitas in Helsingborg to nominate best student entry for a project called Sustainable Innovations. As part of the project, which runs throughout the spring, first year students have to come
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-will-win-best-innovation-lucsus-procivitas - 2025-02-05
Published 21 February 2017 Read Barry Ness, associate professor at LUCSUS’ travel reflection:Can place attachment be fostered through local food traditions? Can regional food dishes and cooking traditions in Japan be used to foster social sustainability in a steadily urbanizing and aging society?These were a few of the questions that a group from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School in Sustai
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/japan-through-lens-food-place-and-sustainability - 2025-02-05
Published 23 February 2017 This week, Kim Nicholas and Ann Åkerman of LUCSUS, led a workshop on how start-up businesses in Somalia can meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a roadmap agreed by nearly 200 countries for achieving a world of zero poverty, zero hunger, and zero greenhouse gas emissions.– We wanted to encourage discussion and participation. We brought up relevan
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rebuilding-somalia-lucsus-leads-workshop - 2025-02-05
Published 1 March 2017 Last week LUCSUS’ researcher (Assistant Prof.) Mine Islar presented her research about citizen movements in Barcelona at the ‘ecological democracy’ workshop at the University of Sydney, Australia. The aim of the workshop was to critically explore the tensions and synergies between democracy and sustainability on local, national and global levels.Mine Islar’s research focuses
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/can-activist-politicians-be-agents-change - 2025-02-05
Published 15 March 2017 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, multilateral development banks, national entities and inter
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-write-report-global-environment-facility - 2025-02-05
Published 22 March 2017 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 talks, discussions and workshops aimed at high school stu
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-celebrates-world-water-day-hundreds-high-school-students-lund - 2025-02-05
Published 20 March 2017 Henner Busch and Finlay MacGregor, LUCSUS, with Lena Christensen, from the University's specialised centres taking part in the panel discussion at International Women's Day. 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 sust
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflection-gender-and-diversity-sustainability-science-and-academia - 2025-02-05
Published 31 March 2017 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 why the ESG is focusing specifically on young researchers.W
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/why-esg-project-study-trip-charlotta-kjollerstrom-explains - 2025-02-05
Published 31 March 2017 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 - 2025-02-05
Published 5 April 2017 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!10 April 13-15h, Wrangel Library (Biskopsgatan 5)The carbon
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/two-seminars-kevin-anderson - 2025-02-05
Published 5 April 2017 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 of the article was how local implementation of adaptation
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/comment-issues-highlighted-director-emily-boyds-article-nature - 2025-02-05
Published 21 April 2017 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 within nature. Although vineyards have been part of Europe’s
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ecosystem-services-uncorked-how-do-vineyards-fit-natures-scheme - 2025-02-05
Published 24 April 2017 - 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 change in the Russian Arctic with a more specific focus o
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-hosts-visiting-phd-candidate-novosibirsk-state-university - 2025-02-05
Published 26 April 2017 Christine Wamsler has been appointed Professor of Sustainability Science to continue driving forward LUCSUS’ work on urban sustainability, risk reduction and adaptation. How do you build sustainable cities? How can cities respond to increasing disasters and climate change impacts? Who should be involved and how?- The questions are many, and all have one common factor: the a
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-new-professor-sustainability-science - 2025-02-05
