By Cecolia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 2 November 2020 Podcast: What role do mindsets play in sustainability and climate action? LUCSUS has established new cooperation in the context of the Inner Green Deal Initiative. The aim is to research and support personal qualities and methods that can enable the activation of sustainable climate action. T

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-addresses-human-dimension-climate-action - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 1 November 2020 The ethnographic study highlights how peasants without legal land titles experience less access to land and water after the FARC’s retreat due to the return of landowners, the legal arrangements about ownership of the land. Photo: Laura Betancur Alarcón. New article by LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause and LUMES

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/land-and-water-access-changes-colombian-andes-during-post-conflict - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 November 2020 Relational thinking in sustainability science can shed new light on human nature connections argues the authors of a new research article. Photo: Sanna Stålhammar. A new research article examines how relational approaches might contribute to a paradigm shift in sustainability science, and transformations toward

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-relational-thinking-leverage-points-and-transformations - 2025-02-07

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von arnold) - published 4 December 2020 For developing further research activities in line with our diversity goals, LUCSUS has secured a stimulus funding in the name of Hedda Andersson and invited world-renowned scholar Prof. Nancy Fraser for the spring term 2021.  For developing further research activities in line with diversity

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-renowned-scholar-prof-nancy-fraser-visiting-professor-lucsus-2020-2021 - 2025-02-07

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 4 December 2020 How do you make the regional craft beer industry more sustainable? Through direct collaboration with the sector to create “hyperlocal” solutions say researchers from LUCSUS who are growing hops at a local brewery in Skåne, Sweden. The aim is to test ways to decrease greenhouse gas emissions a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researchers-are-testing-new-ways-make-your-beer-more-sustainable - 2025-02-07

Published 8 December 2020 A Swedish consortium will help building a new international research network – New Roots International – with the aim of promoting research, development and policies for a perennial revolution in agriculture. The consortium will be one of six institutional pillars, coordinated by The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, USA. When the idea of radically reinventing agriculture

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/towards-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 December 2020 Marine coastal ecosystems are severely threatened by the negative effects of climate change. At the same time, they are very important for climate change mitigation since they can store large amounts of carbon, and help sustain both life under water, and people’s livelihoods. LUCSUS is part of the four-year EU

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-part-eu-project-support-and-restore-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2025-02-07

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 21 December 2020 2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do resea

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 January 2021 Consistency in identifying, measuring and addressing loss and damage is essential if practitioners are to be able to learn what works best over time, and to share best practices with other practitioners at different levels of governance. Photo: Chad Boda. A new research article from the project DICE, Recasting

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-frames-loss-and-damage-climate-change-failure-sustainable-development - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 13 January 2021 The image of what constitutes nature in urban environments, and how it is valued, needs to be broadened, according to researchers Sanna Stålhammar and Ebba Brink. Photo: Ebba Brink. Rich in animals and plants, a refuge to calm anxiety, and a source of new energy. A place for recreation and cultivation. This is

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-diverse-relations-nature-rios-favelas - 2025-02-07

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 13 January 2021 Join our research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and invited guests online every Thursday. Programme, Spring 2021 21 January 2021 10:15 to 12:00  Participatory scenario development in the African context 28 January 2021 15:00 to 17:00 PhD Mid seminar with Darin Wahl 4 February 2021 11:00 to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-seminars-2021 - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 January 2021 Mixed-reality project “Breathe” by Diego Galafassi and collaboration with Phi-Centre (Canada) and Crimes of Curiosity (U.S.A.)). Photo: Diego Galafassi. Diego Galafassi, researcher at LUCSUS, is leading a new research project on emerging media practices. Using co-creation, and a practice-led approach, the aim i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-project-will-analyse-how-emerging-media-practices-and-art-can-support-sdgs - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 22 January 2021 Forests are a really important ecosystem and their health depends on their biodiversity. Forests are not just a bunch of trees on a given piece of land, but they are complex systems, particularly in the tropics says Torsten Krause. A recent report by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) identifies 24 places across

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-wwf-report-deforestation-fronts - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 29 January 2021 We are delighted to welcome four new PhDs and post-docs to LUCSUS. They will work on climate change, loss and damage, disaster risk reduction, and socio-ecological systems, across three research projects. In this article, we present our new staff members. Inge-Merete Hougaard, Guy Jackson, Fabiola Espinoza Cord

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-welcomes-four-new-phds-and-postdocs-0 - 2025-02-07

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 16 February 2021 Sámi pastoralism depends on multi-purpose and continuous landscapes and relies on mobility and flexibility as an adaptive response to uncertain and dynamic environmental and climatic conditions. Photo: David Harnesk. A growing movement is fighting to protect the winter pasturelands of indige

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/historical-perspectives-and-mobilization-important-future-reindeer-winter-pastures - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 February 2021 Just as important as dialogue and consultation is to recognize that social inequality is often at the heart of ongoing resistance says Mine Islar. Photo: Unsplash. The yellow vest movement in France brings to the fore growing tensions between implementing global climate policy and social, economic and regional

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/recognizing-resistance-crucial-sustainable-and-just-transition - 2025-02-07

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 2 March 2021 Young man spraying pesticides, barefoot and without protective clothing Pesticide use in is an urgent concern for human health and the environment. New studies on pesticide practices in Ugandan smallholder agriculture highlight the need to focus on drivers and impacts of unsafe pesticide use ins

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/it-not-farmers-who-drive-pesticide-use-it-lack-alternatives - 2025-02-07

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 31 March 2021 XR demonstration in Malmö on February 29, 2020, photo credit: @knastergast Meet LUCSUS new postdoctoral researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa. Salvatore's research focuses on connecting social and climate movements, civil society organisations and NGOs in Sweden and Europe to better understand the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/salvatore-paolo-de-rosa-explores-interactions-climate-movements-science-and-law - 2025-02-07

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 31 March 2021 Fieldwork in the Transist project will take place in Maputo, Mozambique. Photo: Unsplash LUCSUS new postdoctoral researcher, Eric Hoddy, aims to develop a better understanding of the governance of climate change adaptation in informal urban settlements. In this short interview, he highlights wh

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/eric-hoddy-studies-everyday-resistance-and-transformational-climate-change-adaptation-urban-poor - 2025-02-07

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 19 April 2021 The theme for the first online Transformations Conference (17 – 18th June 2021), co-organised by LUCSUS, is about enabling positive tipping points for sustainability transformations. In this interview, conveners J. David Tàbara (GCF) and Diego Galafassi (LUCSUS), speak on key aims and hopes for the upcoming confe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/transformations-conference-2021-enabling-positive-tipping-points-sustainability - 2025-02-07