By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 March 2020 Water is essential to all human life on earth. Today, over two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress – risking both health and food security. As populations and the demand for water grow, this situation is likely to worsen.  Emma Johansson’s research focuses on water, agriculture and par

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-water-day-2020-perspectives-water-agriculture-consumption-and-climate-change - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 14 April 2020 Torsten Krause together with a hunter in the Amazon. Photo: Malin Palm. LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause have been researching hunting, forest fauna and wild meat consumption, particularly in the Amazon, for the past three years. He is currently in Colombia, where his fieldwork was cut short due to the current co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-impacts-coronavirus-indigenous-communities-amazon-torsten-krause - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 14 April 2020 Crowded houses and poorly ventilated streets in the favela of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: Ebba Brink. Ebba Brink, postdoctoral researcher at LUCSUS, is doing research about climate change risk and adaptation in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The current coronavirus pandemic has forced her to c

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-what-coronavirus-pandemic-could-mean-favelas-brazil-ebba-brink - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 15 April 2020 Research assistant Prabath Kaushalya in conversation with farmers, who are resting and eating together during the harvest period in Serupitiya village, Sri Lanka. Natural solutions to combat climate change are perceived as beneficial to both nature and people simultaneously. But claims that natural solutions also

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/natural-solutions-combat-climate-change-may-ignore-power-marginalisation-and-local-agency - 2025-04-03

By cecilia [dot] von_Arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 1 June 2020 In our Annual Report for 2019 we share highlights in research, education and impact from the previous year. Read about some of the highlights here and download or read the full report online. Word from Director Emily Boyd 2019 was an unusually busy year for LUCSUS. In January we transitioned into

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-highlights-2019 - 2025-04-03

By ann [dot] akerman [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Ann Åkerman) - published 22 April 2020 Kagamega forest, Kenya On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, LUCSUS and researchers from Political Science at Lund University, in collaboration with Sussex University, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Helsinki University have a new paper accepted with Global Sustainability entitled "Unearthing the myths of global

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/earth-day-2020-time-covid-19-crisis-we-need-be-challenging-entrenched-myths-about-our-forests - 2025-04-03

By Noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 4 May 2020 Poster for awareness about the coronavirus outside of a closed school in Kathmandu. Photo: Hanna Geschewski. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2025-04-03

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 6 May 2020 Pandemic shows the unsustainability and fragility of our current systems and lifestyles. After observing the decrease in economic activities, air pollution and carbon emissions as a result of the lockdown measures during the COVID-19, some academics argue that such down-scaling can be considered a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-degrowth-and-transformative-potential-covid-19 - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 25 May 2020 Photo by Ira Mint on Unsplash. Properly managed, the agricultural sector in Europe can contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by improving food security, reducing poverty and enhancing biodiversity. But new research shows that indicators to measure key SDGs such as health and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-points-out-key-gaps-eus-largest-funding-scheme-common-agricultural-policy - 2025-04-03

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 28 May 2020 Photo: Unsplash/ Dan Smedley Follow Message Colombia is emerging from an internal conflict that lasted more than 50 years. In this process rural land-use is being transformed, generating new conflicts over land use and control with detrimental effects on Colombia's forests. In this article publis

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reducing-deforestation-colombia-while-building-peace-and-pursuing-business-usual-extractivism - 2025-04-03

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 10 June 2020 For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the health care system was strained already before the coronavirus crisis. Lack of intensive care units and respirators and the difficult economic situation in most African countries limit the resources to combat the pandemic. LUCSUS researcher Karin Ste

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/perspectives-corona-pandemic-africa - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 June 2020 Recent patches of deforestation in the Guaviare department. Photo by Torsten Krause, June 2017. New blog post from the Nature of Peace project on Colombia’s environment in the post-conflict transition, and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the Colombian peace transition and for the natural environment. While i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-colombias-environment-post-conflict-transition-new-set-backs-global-pandemic - 2025-04-03

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 11 June 2020 The consolidation report from the Skåne Local Interaction Platform (SKLIP) of the Mistra Urban Futures project has now been released. The report describes four years of transdisciplinary urban sustainability research by the platform partners Lund University, Malmö University, SLU Alnarp and the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-skane-local-interaction-platform-mistra-urban-futures-project - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 10 June 2020 Amazonas sunset. Photo: Torsten Krause. Are financial instruments really the solution to deforestation and degradation? Do states truly manage forests for societal benefit? And to what extent are so-called sustainable forest governance initiatives really including local people in decision-making? These are some of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/five-forest-myths-obscure-path-transformational-and-sustainable-forest-governance - 2025-04-03

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 22 June 2020 New postdoc positions on climate change justice, social movements, social resilience and adaptation to climate change at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Two of the projects are funded by LUCSUS and three are funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences. Postdoctoral resear

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-postdoc-positions - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 23 June 2020 A research initiative at LUCSUS examines how inner dimensions and transformation can support people to live more sustainably and drive change. Addressing (the causes and effects of) climate change is one of the most important societal challenges of our time. The demands for political action are becoming stronger f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/inner-dimensions-and-transformation-can-support-people-live-more-sustainably-and-drive-change - 2025-04-03

Av anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - publicerad 26 januari 2023 Vilda bin och humlor är viktiga pollinatörer. Du kan hjälpa dem i din trädgård, visar ny studie. Foto: Therese Ek Tillhör du dem som har planterat och fixat i din trädgård för att göra det bättre för pollinatörer? Grattis, då har du sannolikt gjort en värdefull insats. En ny studie från Lunds uni

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/ja-det-du-gor-i-tradgarden-att-hjalpa-bina-funkar-visar-ny-lundastudie - 2025-04-03

Av johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - publicerad 6 februari 2023 Talgoxar i staden föredrar inhemska träd för häckning. Foto: Caroline Isaksson Småfåglar som blåmes och talgoxe undviker att häcka, alltså bygga bon och lägga ägg, i stadsmiljöer där det finns många främmande träd. Fågelungar väger också mindre desto fler icke-inhemska träd som finns i närområdet.

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/svenska-trad-battre-urbana-smafaglar - 2025-04-03

Av sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - publicerad 16 februari 2023 Återställda våtmarker, regnbäddar och grönområden i städerna - alla är de exempel på naturbaserade lösningar som kan bidra till att mildra klimatförändringar och skydda biologisk mångfald. Foto: Helena Hanson Naturbaserade lösningar ger stora möjligheter att ta itu med miljö- och samhällsutmaningar. D

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/stora-mojligheter-naturbaserade-losningar-i-norden - 2025-04-03

Av sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - publicerad 1 mars 2023 En drottning av arten Bombus terrestris, mörk jordhumla, som tillhör de humlor som brukar flyga ut tidigast på våren. De har anpassat sig mest efter säsongen som numera infaller cirka 14 dagar tidigare än för ett sekel sedan. Foto: Maria Blasi Romero Vid vårens ankomst tar humledrottningarna säsongens förs

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/klimatforandringar-ger-tidig-flygstart-risk-farre-humlor-och-minskad-pollinering - 2025-04-03