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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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. Guy Jackson, post-doctoral researcher  Guy Jackson is a human g

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-welcomes-four-new-phds-and-postdocs-0 - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A growing movement is fighting to protect the winter pasturelands of indigenous Sámi reindeer herders. At the same time there is an intense debate on trade-offs within forestry. Sustainability scientist David Harnesk is studying social and political movements surrounding reindeer husbandry and how these are affected b

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/historical-perspectives-and-mobilization-important-future-reindeer-winter-pastures - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The yellow vest movement in France brings to the fore growing tensions between implementing global climate policy and social, economic and regional concerns. Nation states could learn a lot from identifying pockets of resistance says LUCSUS researcher Mine Islar who studies just transitions and social movements.  Mine

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/recognizing-resistance-crucial-sustainable-and-just-transition - 2026-09-29

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 instead of putting blame on farmers. Two recent research articles by LUCSUS researchers Elina Andersson and Ellinor Isgren show that while there is still a widespread notion that

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/it-not-farmers-who-drive-pesticide-use-it-lack-alternatives - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 their relation with the knowledge generated by climate science and their engagement with legal framewo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/salvatore-paolo-de-rosa-explores-interactions-climate-movements-science-and-law - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 what sustainability challenges he finds most interesting, what he likes about working at LUCSUS so far, and what he

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/eric-hoddy-studies-everyday-resistance-and-transformational-climate-change-adaptation-urban-poor - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 conference

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/transformations-conference-2021-enabling-positive-tipping-points-sustainability - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a PhD student in the MaCoBios project, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova aims to explore how we can reframe adaptation to climate change in coastal communities towards more sustainable and just pathways. She believes that impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems linked to climate change are not only driven by global warming

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/fabiola-espinoza-cordova-studies-climate-change-adaptation-coastal-communities - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Alicia N'Guetta is a PhD student working across two LUCSUS projects, MaCoBios and DICE. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, livelihood, loss and damage, and gender in Martinique, an overseas department of France situated in the Caribbean Sea. Using a gender lens, she will explore how climate change impa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/alicia-nguetta-uses-gender-lens-study-impacts-climate-change-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) is a world class sustainability centre for research, teaching and impact. During 2021, we welcome an intern with focus on social media, strategic communication and events. About the internship We are looking for an intern with strategic communication skills, i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/event-and-communications-intern-lucsus - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a new study, LUCSUS researcher Maryam Nastar, identifies key knowledge gaps in the evaluation of Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan (HAP), and highlights the need to look at the distribution of policy impacts in cities in more detail - to find out who has benefited or been excluded from the outcomes, and what barriers ne

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/heat-action-plans-urban-cities-risks-excluding-most-vulnerable - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A warmer world affects health, jobs, migration and welfare. We can no longer talk about the climate as a separate issue, says sustainability professor Emily Boyd. – Climate change has long been seen as something separate from society. People often talk about negative effects on our natural environment rather than how

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/time-stop-talking-about-climate - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A unique pilot study from Tanzania, exploring the link between health – economy – well-being for women using menstrual cups, shows that extended menstrual cup use has multiple direct and indirect health outcomes, impacting women's physical and physiological health. Efforts to reduce period poverty for girls and women

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-multiple-health-outcomes-women-using-menstrual-cups-tanzania - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Listen to a dialogue between Nancy Fraser and Andreas Malm on the current ecological crisis as well as on new forms of solidarity and struggle. This dialogue offers thought provoking interventions on the current ecological crisis as well as on new forms of solidarity and struggle. What change must be done in the socie

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/dialogue-between-nancy-fraser-and-andreas-malm - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new collaborative research project led by researchers Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter will investigate the global value chains of cattle (meat / leather), gold, tin and palm oil - commodities that are all imported to the European market, and originally produced in Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia. What is the proj

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-value-chains-meat-gold-tin-and-palm-oil-spotlight-new-research-project - 2026-09-29

A new policy brief offers suggestions of what is needed to report and eventually address loss and damage from climate change in Bangladesh. It is produced within the project, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes (DICE) - which focuses on non-economic loss and damage caused by climate change, and who it affects, how, why and at what scale. The Government of Bangladesh h

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/policy-recommendations-report-and-address-loss-and-damage-climate-change-bangladesh - 2026-09-29

Dealing with heat is about more than implementing technical solutions such as cold rooms, access to water, green areas and communication systems. Equally, if not more, important is to strengthen social networks, reduce income disparities and eliminate social vulnerability. Sustainability researcher Maryam Nastar comments on the heat wave in Canada and North America based on her research on extreme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reduced-inequality-and-better-social-networks-crucial-dealing-heatwaves - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD candidate Alicia N'guetta featured in ECOMAGZINE special issue on Rising Seas. Read the article “Climate Change and Ecosystem Services – Implications for Present and Future Loss and Damage to People and Society” in ecomagazine.com Introduction Alicia N’Guetta is a researcher focusing on climate impacts and action,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-change-and-ecosystem-services-implications-present-and-future-loss-and-damage-people-and - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD candidate Fabiola Espinoza Córdova featured in ECOMAGAZINE special issue on Rising Seas. Read the article “More than Fixed Solutions: Power and Different Worldviews in Framing Coastal Adaptation Actions” on ecomagazine.com     Introduction Fabiola is a doctoral student at Lund University Center for Sustainability

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/more-fixed-solutions-power-and-different-worldviews-framing-coastal-adaptation-actions - 2026-09-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Interview with climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. Read the interview on lunduniversity.lu.se 

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2026-09-29