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

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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 - 2025-01-29

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

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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

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Published 7 May 2019 In October, LUCSUS will host a conference on Loss and Damage (L&D) from climate change. Discussions to advance research on L&D are urgently needed, says LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd, since many challenges remain for the scientific and policy community on how L&D should be conceptualised, how best to measure, quantify and predict future L&D, and what governance arrangements are m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/dates-set-conference-loss-and-damage-ld-will-be-explored-through-five-interrelated-lenses - 2025-01-29

Published 30 April 2019 2018 was a time of change, for sustainability sciences, wider society, as well as within LUCSUS itself. In our annual report, we share insights into our developments and contributions to sustainability science. The report highlights our research, education and capacity building work during 2018.Within LUCSUS, we focused on advancing research within four interrelated themes,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-2018 - 2025-01-29

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 3 May 2019 Amongst the most promising perennial cereals are a wheat-like grass called intermediate wheatgrass named Kernza. Kernza can be used for anything wheat is used for. There is an urgent need for agriculture to drastically reduce its negative environmental impacts, while at the same time responding to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/future-agriculture-perennial - 2025-01-29

Published 6 May 2019 The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at LUCSUS, explains the significance of the report’s findings, which was releas

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mine-islar-comments-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-01-29

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 9 May 2019 Photo: Johan Persson The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University Centre for Sustainability St

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-01-29

Published 16 May 2019 "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong project, Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2025-01-29

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von arnold) - published 16 May 2019 On May 15, LUCSUS successfully kicked off our new mentorship programme for researchers. The purpose of the program is to offer leadership development to selected researchers of the strategic research area Sustainable Development, and to boost career development within academia. Gender, diversity

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-launches-new-mentorship-programme-researchers - 2025-01-29

Published 17 May 2019 From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2025-01-29

Published 28 May 2019 Improved and sustainable Menstrual Health Management has great impact on several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Quality education, Sustainable cities and communities, and Clean water and sanitation. On the 28th of May we join the commemoration of the Menstrual Hygiene day to highlight the importance of improved an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2025-01-29

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 17 June 2019 A selection of craft beer from breweries in Skåne, Sweden LUCSUS researchers are developing an Urban Living Lab approach to adress sustainability in the food, water, energy nexus through the case of craft beer sector in Sweden (Scania). The LUCSUS researchers, Barry Ness, Darin Wahl and Christin

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Published 20 June 2019 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 dialogue. Monday, 1st JulySka man skaffa färre barn – för k

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By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 27 June 2019 Participants from the training in Kisumu, Kenya. 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,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2025-01-29

By Noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 3 July 2019 Photo: A Lorente. 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 ecologic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/segrasses-have-hugely-important-ecological-and-economic-role-new-research-publication - 2025-01-29

Published 14 August 2019 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, in a news article in Science regarding the "negative emis

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2025-01-29

Av annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - publicerad 1 december 2023 Foto: Philip Myrtorp, Unsplash.com. Kan handeln bidra till tryggheten i ett område? I en ny forskningsrapport har forskare från Lunds universitet undersökt handelns betydelse för trygghet i en stadsmiljö. Rapporten som publiceras av Handelsrådet belyser hur dagligvaruhandeln främjar tryggheten både i b

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Publicerad 4 december 2023 Klängväxten som används för att göra den psykedeliska drogen Ayahuasca. Foto: Matheus Pedalino/Shutterstock Psykologprogrammet på Lunds universitet ger nu Sveriges första kurs i psykedelisk vetenskap och terapi. Ny forskning har visat att terapier som stöds av psykedeliska substanser ger goda behandlingsresultat vid ångest, depression och posttraumatiskt stressyndrom. Tr

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/psykologstudenter-i-lund-forst-ut-med-att-studera-psykedelisk-vetenskap-och-terapi - 2025-01-29