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PhD candidate Fabiola Espinoza Córdova featured in ECOMAGAZINE special issue on Rising Seas. Read the article “More than Fixed Solutions: Power and Different Worldviews in Framing Coastal Adaptation Actions” on ecomagazine.com Introduction Fabiola is a doctoral student at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). She holds an undergraduate degree in biology with a specializat
Interview with climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. Read the interview on lunduniversity.lu.se
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-12-05
– We have a moral responsibility to document loss of cultural heritage, indigenous and local knowledge, declining ecosystems and eroding sense of place, says LUCSUS post-doctoral fellow Guy Jackson. He has co-authored a literature review on non-economic loss and damage which highlights the need for more research on intangible cultural heritage, and how it connects to our physical surroundings, as
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-literature-review-documents-non-economic-loss-and-damage-due-climate-change - 2025-12-05
Apply for doctoral positions in social resilience for the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University. Applicants can choose Sustainability sciences as their subject area - and come work at LUCSUS! The Faculty of Social Sciences is offering two doctoral student positions in social resilience. Social resilience can be broadly understood as the ability of groups or communities to withstand and re
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/doctoral-positions-now-open-agenda-2030-graduate-school-lund-university - 2025-12-05
LUCSUS researcher, David O’Byrne, who has done extensive research on coastal restoration in Louisiana, USA, comments in the wake of storm Ida. It was one of the strongest to hit the state in terms of wind-speed, and struck on the same day, 16 years later, as Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1800 people. So far, storm Ida has claimed over 40 lives in different parts of the USA, and left m
In a newly published article in Global Environmental Change, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and colleagues map out existing research on internal and external transformations. Drawing upon the results, they propose a model and roadmap for advancing sustainability and climate-related research, policy, and practice. The linkage between internal and external (systems) change for sustainability is
In August, the IPCC published the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6). It summarises the “physical science basis” for climate change. The message was loud and clear: humans are causing climate change. The next instalment of AR6 will focus on concrete solutions, and highlight how societies, especially vulnerable groups, will be impacted by climate change. Ahead of the coming COP26 in Gl
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-report-cop26-emily-boyd-comments-what-science-can-do-climate-action-0 - 2025-12-05
In June 2022, LUCSUS will co-organise a 5-day intensive PhD course focusing on climate change mitigation and the politics of 'Net Zero' and carbon removal. As the climate crisis intensifies, the scientific and political conversation on climate change mitigation is taking novel forms, giving rise to a range of possible new climate futures. An increasingly important aspect of this is the ambition, a
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-course-politics-net-zero-and-carbon-removal - 2025-12-05
On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade. The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use will cover forests totaling more than 13 million square miles. Sustainability researcher and deforestation expert, Torsten Krause, at Lund University for Su
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2025-12-05
LUCSUS PhD candidate Sara Ullström competed in the national popular science competition, Forskar Grand Prix. We took the opportunity to talk to her about the experience and the importance of communicating your research to an audience outside of the scientific community. Forskar Grand Prix is the biggest national competition in presentation technique where researcher present their research in a com
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-candidate-sara-ullstrom-knows-how-pitch-her-research-4-min-these-are-her-tips - 2025-12-05
LUCSUS Director professor Emily Boyd, has recently been appointed Editor-In-Chief for the journal Global Sustainability. Emily Boyd took over the editorship from the previous Editor-in -Chief, professor Johan Rockström. As the new editor-in-chief, Emily Boyd would like to see a new dynamic phase in Global Sustainability. She thinks that Global Sustainability has the potential to be at the forefron
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-new-editor-chief-global-sustainability - 2025-12-05
Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 agreement suggests that markets will play a central role, but there are significant problems with this approach. Carbon removal, also known as “negative emissions”, is the process
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2025-12-05
The “Staying on the ground” movement initiated in Sweden has gained rising influence internationally, indicating the start of an important shift in not just attitudes but also culture regarding travel behaviors and visions of living well under climate change. A recently published paper by LUCSUS PhD candidate Sara Ullström, LUCSUS researcher Kimberly Nicholas and political scientist Johannes Stri
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-did-flying-go-luxury-aspiration-contested-norm-sweden - 2025-12-05
Offshore wind power is presented as one of the solutions to solve the energy crisis in southern Sweden. But the issue has been met with a "not in my backyard” attitude, as many municipalities say no to the government's decision. LUCSUS researcher Henner Busch, shares his thoughts on how to involve local communities and create a more just energy transition. Earlier this autumn, the Swedish governme
Today Ulf Dahlstrand nailed his doctoral thesis. Ulf will defend his thesis on March 20th.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-doctoral-thesis - 2025-12-05
On Friday March 20th, Ulf Dahlstrand successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Diagnostic Tools for Skin and Periorbital Cancer: Exploring Photoacoustic Imaging and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy" The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the faculty opponent associate professor Marcelo Ayala, the examination committee members and the supervisors present.The disse
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/ulf-dahlstrand-have-successfully-defended-his-phd - 2025-12-05
On Friday May 22nd, Linda Thorisdottir successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Visual Screening of Amblyopia, new Techniques and Surgical Solutions for Strabismus." The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the local examination committee members and the supervisors present. The faculty opponent Professor Olav H Haugen, from Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, No
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/linda-thorisdottir-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-12-05
On June 11th and 12th medial students Benjamin Sjögren and Yousef Hamid successfully presented their master thesis.Benjamin's thesis investigated non-invasive hyperspectral imaging in skin cancer diagnostics. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In order to improve patient survival through early diagnosis, and to minimize the risk of non-radical removal of tumors, sever
We welcome two new master thesis student this fall! Medical student Douglas Larsson Albèr will investigate spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for boarders demarkation of melanoma. Medical student Ivan Nikolic will investigate Spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for borders demarkation of non-melanoma skin cancer. The students will be supervised by Professor Malin Malmsjö and the research team.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/we-welcome-new-master-students - 2025-12-05
Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuity, colour vision (tested with Sahlgren's Saturation Test or the Ishihara colour vision test) or t
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-12-05
