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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

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 - 2025-01-31

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 3 November 2022 Converting land that is currently used for other purposes, such as food production, into tree plantations would have devastating consequences for food production and biodiversity. Photo: Pexels.com Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on inequitable and unsustainable land-b

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-climate-pledges-put-unrealistic-demands-land-ahead-emissions-reductions - 2025-01-31

By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 8 November 2022 Read about our research, engagement and researchers at COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted by Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh. It is held between 6-18 November. Reports launched at COP27 The land Gap report  Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on ineq

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-engagement-during-cop27 - 2025-01-31

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 10 November 2022 The 10 New Insights in Climate Science presents key insights from the latest climate change-related research this year and responds to clear calls for policy guidance during this climate-critical decade. The authors emphasize and unpack the complex interactions between climate change and oth

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-10-new-insights-climate-science - 2025-01-31

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 25 November 2022 LUCSUS PhD students, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova and Alicia N’Guetta, share their insights from their experience at COP27. The COP27 UN Climate Change Conference came to an end on 20 November. Since then, researchers have analysed the outcomes, highlighting both successes and failures.  LUCSUS

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-cop27-fabiola-espinoza-cordova-and-alicia-nguetta - 2025-01-31

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 28 November 2022 It is a big problem that culture and education are singled out as obstacles by foresters who want to use continuous cover forestry methods, according to the researchers. It shows how norms impact sustainable transitions. Photo: Torsten Krause. For decades, the Swedish forest have been intensely managed through

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/norms-make-transition-forestry-without-major-clear-cutting-difficult - 2025-01-31

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 December 2022 In his Phd-project, Carlos Velez wants to collaborate with local communities in strengthening their livelihoods, and when doing so, expand the general knowledge of them to Colombian and worldwide society. What do you explore in your PhD-project?  I explore the role that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) pl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-carlos-velez-explores-role-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-relation-wildlife - 2025-01-31