Published 16 December 2024 The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies. Foto: Kennet Rouna. The board of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies has decided to accept a new Advanced Study Group (ASG) coordinated by the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. An ASG gathers researchers from different disciplines around a shared research issue, and provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and pe

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/creative-data-lab-new-advanced-study-group-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2025-04-21

Published 8 January 2025 The 1, 2, 3 Playtime publication with the collected reports and reflections from the 1, 2, 3 Playtime project is now available online!The workshop and lecture series, initiated by IAC and Region Skåne, culminated in the Malmö Gallery Weekend 2024 exhibition at IAC. We are happy to share insights into the processes, ideas, and possibilities that emerged during 1, 2, 3 Playt

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/1-2-3-playtime-lab-report-available-online - 2025-04-21

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 21 December 2021 LUCSUS office buildings LUCSUS announces three new Associate senior lectureship (tenure track) positions in Sustainability Science Associate senior lecturer in Sustainability Science: Geographies of Sustainability  (link to the announcement at lu.varbi.com) The applicant should have an inter

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-associate-senior-lecturers - 2025-04-21

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 24 January 2022 The first session of outdoor pedagogics, to stimulate the children’s reflections and questions around their local environment, facilitated by the artist and pedagogue Jasmine Cederqvist. A unique collaboration between school children and researchers and students at LUCSUS, focusing on childre

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-school-children-focuses-childrens-ideas-and-questions-sustainable-development - 2025-04-21

Published 28 February 2022 Boy cycling to school through smog in Indonesia (Photo: Aulia Erlangga) How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the final rep

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-how-vulnerable-are-we-and-how-can-we-adapt - 2025-04-21

By stina [dot] lundkvist [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Lundkvist) - published 10 March 2022 Next to the Swedish craft beer brewery Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers have built a greenhouse where they test the possibility to grow all year-round hops. In a collaboration with the Swedish local brewery, Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers are working toward finding ways of improving sustainabili

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-collaboration-local-brewery-improve-sustainability-craft-beer-industry - 2025-04-21

Published 11 March 2022 How to source inner qualities and capacities for life-long learning and transformation? In the new book, “Revolutionizing sustainability education”, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and LUMES alumni Iris Maria Hertog and Lucia Di Paola, reflect on the importance of nourishing inner qualities and capacities for supporting sustainability across individual, collective and sy

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-book-revolutionizing-sustainability-education - 2025-04-21

Published 22 April 2022 LUCSUS researchers Barbara Schröter and Torsten Krause are studying how we can achieve more sustainable value chains for e.g. gold and cattle in Colombia. The Caquetá River in Putumayo, Colombia. Photo: Barbara Schröter The increasing demand of minerals, oil, and agricultural goods have severe negative social and environmental impacts. The extraction of resources leads to l

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/achieving-more-sustainable-value-chains-are-crucial-preventing-deforestation-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 26 April 2022 New study quantifies how well 12 measures reduce car use, drawing from real-world experience in cities across Europe. Researchers have identified the top 12 ways European cities have been able to curb car use. The most effective measure was applying a congestion charge, with the notable case of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/most-effective-ways-reducing-car-traffic - 2025-04-21

By stina [dot] lundkvist [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Lundkvist) - published 13 May 2022 With a focus on justice and transformative change, PhD candidate Natalia Rubiano wants to contribute to fill some of the knowledge gaps in the space of Carbon Removal and Negative Emissions. Read more about her research, which sustainability challenges she finds most interesting and how she as a researche

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-natalia-rubiano-studies-social-and-ecological-implications-negative-emissions - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 18 May 2022 To meet the climate crisis, we urgently need more integrative policy approaches that link inner and outer dimensions of climate change, states a newly released report co-authored by LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler. – Climate change is a physical reality, demanding urgent political, structural

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-about-meeting-climate-crisis-inside-out - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia on Arnold) - published 13 June 2022 Image by Svensk kolinlagring from the farm Måttgårds regenerativa, in Halland, Sweden. The agricultural sector and industrial food system is a major contributor to climate change, and biodiversity loss, and particularly vulnerable to its impacts. It is therefore essential to re-think how the agri

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-envisioning-sustainable-carbon-sequestration-swedish-farmland - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 9 September 2022 A new report written by LUCSUS researchers Kimberly Nicholas and Wim Carton, together with other researchers from the network Researchers' Desk, analyzes the Swedish political parties' climate policies prior to the election. Find out who is listening to the climate science and who is not. –

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-analyzes-swedish-political-parties-climate-policies-prior-election - 2025-04-21

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 22 September 2022 Kelly Dorkenoo argues that research on loss and damage could benefit from engaging more meaningfully, both methodologically and empirically, with the concept of disproportionality. In a new research article, PhD student Kelly Dorkenoo, together with researcher Murray Scown, and Director Emily Boyd, examines d

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-disproportionality-loss-and-damage-climate-change - 2025-04-21

Published 30 September 2022 LUCSUS warmly congratulates the recently announced 2022 Right Livelihood Award laureates: Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman (Somalia), Oleksandra Matviichuk/Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), Cecosesola; Central de Cooperativas de Lara (Venezuela) and the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (Uganda). Since 1980, the Right Livelihood has recognized individuals and organ

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/congratulations-2022-right-livelihood-award-laureates - 2025-04-21

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 6 October 2022 Barry Ness and Darin Wahl hope that their insights can both enhance other ongoing research in the field, as well as deepen comprehensions of transdisciplinary processes. Sustainability science is about making impact for societal transformations. Building transdisciplinary relationships for the co-creation of kno

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-build-transdisciplinary-and-trusting-relationships-societal-transformations - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 26 October 2022 Michaelin Sibanda explores how agroecology has become a social agency, and form a space for organizing for women. What do you explore in your PhD? In my PhD-project, I am exploring gender and women´s mobilization strategies for sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, how

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-michaelin-sibanda-studies-gender-and-womens-mobilization-strategies-sustainable - 2025-04-21

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 26 October 2022 Bernard's research is part of the project, "Mobilizing farmer organisations for sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. What is your research about? My research is part of a larger project, "Mobilizing farmer organisations for sustainable agricultural development in sub-Sa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-bernard-ekumah-studies-smallholder-farmers-organisations-and-large-scale-land - 2025-04-21

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 26 October 2022 Rising temperatures of the Indian Ocean are killing the seaweed, and threatening the livelihoods and traditions of women seaweed farmers in Zanzibar. Photo credit: Natalija Gormalova / Climate Visuals Countdown Guy Jackson, post-doctoral researcher at LUCSUS, has co-written a new explainer on

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-contributes-new-explainer-non-economic-loss-and-damage - 2025-04-21

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold and Noomi Egan) - published 31 October 2022 An increased number of floods is considered the major reason for migration in the context of climate change in Bangladeshl. Photo: Moniruzzaman Sazal / Climate Visuals Countdown. The UNFCCC climate meeting COP27 is less than a week away. With evidence growing that green house g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-and-damage-most-critical-question-cop27 - 2025-04-21