Key research area at LUCSUS There is an urgent need for agriculture to drastically reduce its negative environmental impacts, while at the same time responding to increasing demand and adapting to a changing climate. For this to be possible, radical change in how we grow our major staple crops is essential. At LUCSUS researchers  are studying both ecological, social and economic aspects of what a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-themes/land-use-governance-and-development/perennial-agriculture - 2025-07-19

Key research area The current climate and biodiversity crises are deeply intertwined with complex social, cultural and economic processes that also cause injustices around the world. Protecting ecosystems and the diversity of species that live in them cannot be separated from an understanding of the underlying factors driving climate change, biodiversity loss and the social injustices people exper

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-themes/biodiversity-and-natural-resource-management/biocultural-diversity-and-environmental-justice - 2025-07-19

Go to our staff page and click on each person’s profile for contact details, publications and biographical information.See all Staff at LUCSUS  Barry Ness Director Email: barry [dot] ness [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se Telephone: +46 46 222 48 09 Mobile: +46 70 259 02 57 Personal webpage Torsten Krause Deputy Director Email: torsten [dot] krause [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se Bregje van Veelen Direc

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/contact - 2025-07-19

Development Research Conference, Lund University, 21-23 October 2024 DevRes is a bi-annual conference gathering Swedish development and sustainability researchers from different academic disciplines to exchange ideas and network as well as promote collaboration with practitioners, organizations and policy makers. DevRes 2024 was hosted by Lund University and the conference theme was “Reaching the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/devres2024 - 2025-07-19

Key research area at LUCSUS Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. Billions of people are dependent on glaciers for their survival, and glaciers and mountain ecosystems support societies in many ways: providing water for drinking and agriculture, generating hydroelectric energy, driving tourism and other types of livelihoods, and as places of spirit

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-themes/biodiversity-and-natural-resource-management/glacierized-ecosystems-and-societies - 2025-07-19

Key research area at LUCSUS Rural landscapes and communities across the world are impacted by significant changes and shifts related to broader trends, including urbanisation, agricultural intensification and climate change. Such transformations shape, and are shaped by, different actors and processes across scales and often involve contestations related to land use, resource allocation and decisi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-themes/land-use-governance-and-development/rural-transformations - 2025-07-19

key research area at LUCSUS Agriculture provides most of the food we eat and the fibers we wear while at the same time contributing up to 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and consuming around 70% of global freshwater withdrawals. Navigating this tension between the societal necessity of agriculture and its environmental impacts is therefore at the heart of sustainable development. Within the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-themes/land-use-governance-and-development/sustainable-european-agriculture - 2025-07-19

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The event will take place both onsite in Lund at Edens hörsal with limited number of participants AND online (live streamed)If you wish to attend the event at Eden, please register here. Registration will close when we have reached the limited number of particpants, but you are of course free to join the event online. About the event in the LU calendar Name (required) Email Leave this field blank

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Climate change, soil pollution, land use changes, and biodiversity loss are causing major challenges to agriculture, with negative impacts on food production, land and water resources, livelihoods and communities’ quality of life. LUCSUS research contributes towards strategies for sustainable agriculture, food security and sustainable development. We study the societal and environmental dimensions

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-themes/land-use-governance-and-development - 2025-07-19

At LUCSUS we create theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous knowledge to understand and explain pressing sustainability challenges. We take an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to tackle complex sustainability challenges. We combine critical perspectives with problem-solving approaches - in collaboration with society, to make a difference for sustainable development.How we do itWe ar

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/research-framework - 2025-07-19

Discover highlights of how LUCSUS researchers work to make an impact from the global to the local in our impact stories. We work closely with partners from civil society and the private and public sectors to make an impact beyond academia. We work with three main pathways to achieve long-lasting impact beyond academia: Societal dialogue Policy work Capacity building Learn more about how our resear

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/impact/impact-stories - 2025-07-19

LUCSUS has an extensive and active network with over 60 global research collaborations. We also work closely with partners and stakeholders outside academia - ranging from small-scale farmers, social movements and high schools to non-governmental organisations, municipalities and high-level policy organisations. Research environments and collaborations   Academic collaborations across the Globe As

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/collaborations - 2025-07-19

We equip change agents with tools to address and tackle complex sustainability challenges. Educating agents for sustainable change LUCSUS offers education at masters level as well as doctoral studies, commissioned education and freestanding courses. Our international master's programmes focuses on sustainability challenges from a local to global level through combining both social and natural scie

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education - 2025-07-19

Courses open for exchange students Sustainability studies: concepts, challenges and approaches (Level: introductory/first cycle)PhD coursesCourses for PhD students can be found under PhD programme MOOC: Working for a sustainable future: concepts and approaches Contact Amanda Elgh Student Coordinator LUCSUSamanda [dot] elgh [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (amanda[dot]elgh[at]lucsus[dot]lu[dot]se) +46

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/courses - 2025-07-19

SASI03. Open to exchange students only. Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Concepts, Challenges and Approaches in Sustainability Studies (SASI03) is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainability studies. This course gives you an introduction to some of the approaches, theoretical concepts and tools used in sustainability studies. The course uses problem solving an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/courses/environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science-concepts-challenges-and-approaches-sustainability - 2025-07-19

A guest PhD is someone who is enrolled in a PhD program at another institution, but wishes to spend time (generally 1-6 months) physically based at LUCSUS. Guest PhDs can contribute to and benefit from the intellectual environment at LUCSUS, and LUCSUS can offer to host Guest PhDs under the following guidelines. Guest PhDs  A PhD who wishes to visit LUCSUS for a guest position should directly cont

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/phd-programme/phd-admission-and-funding/phd-guest-researchers-lucsus - 2025-07-19

Stefan Schüller Meet PhD student Stefan Schüller Emilia Ganslandt Meet PhD student Emilia Ganslandt Fabiola Espinoza Córdova Interview with PhD student Fabiola Espinoza Córdova Juan Antonio Samper Meet PhD Student Juan Antonio Samper Bernard Ekumah Meet PhD student Bernard Ekumah Valentina Lomanto Meet PhD student Valentina Lomanto Carmen Margiotta Meet Phd student Carmen Margiotta Jonas Allesson

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/phd-programme/meet-our-phd-students - 2025-07-19

Read LUCSUS Annual Report for 2024 Understanding and explaining pressing sustainability challenges and driving social change. Welcome to Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching and impact. Research that matters Lund University ranked third in the world in QS Sustainability Ranking Making an impact for sustainability beyond academia 25 y

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7 December 2020 to 17 February 2021 The ‘Red Room Project’ explores the displacement between a live performance and the echo thereof, in the performance ‘Red Room Institute’ and the sound installation ‘Use It Well’ (working titles). Inspired by the social phenomenon of ‘dancing epidemics’ in which groups of people were said to contaminate each other with compulsive dancing, the ‘Red Room Project’

https://www.iac.lu.se/red-room-project-make-sound-residency-julie-nymann-signe-raunkjaer-holm - 2025-07-19