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

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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

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Highlights from LUCSUS Annual Report 2024 LUCSUS Annual Report 2024 (PDF) Words from the DirectorReflecting on my first year as LUCSUS Director, we must first acknowledge the urgent societal and environmental challenges and conflicts confronting us. Academia faces increasing political pressure to be more societally relevant and impactful, while societal trust in higher education institutions conti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/about-lucsus/annual-report-2024 - 2025-07-25

LUMES student from Germany What is your background?I hold a bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Design Management and gained professional experience in the cosmetics industry. Before starting LUMES, I worked as a project manager in research & development, where I had the opportunity to contribute to a corporate sustainability strategy.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?The interdisciplinary natur

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Ida Hartwig Abhishek Reddy Kandadi Mila Danklefsen Hamidakhanim Huseynova Sophie Peck Laura Ciamei

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LUMES student from Azerbaijan What is your background?I am a master's student specialising in “Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science” at Lund University, where I am deeply engaged in exploring innovative solutions for a more sustainable future.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?With an academic background in Geography from my bachelor's studies, I’ve always been fascinated by the id

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LUMES student from India What is your background?I have a background in textile studies and technology and then did a year of business studies with sustainability and that’s how i ended up in the LUMES programme in Sweden. Why did you choose the LUMES programme?I loved researching on sustainability and various aspects of it and I kept working on it. I bumped into the LUMES master programme due to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lumes-environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science/lumes-student-portraits/abhishek-reddy-kandadi - 2025-07-25

LUMES student from Poland What is your background?I have a bachelor’s degree in Oceanography, where I focused on environmental chemistry. My thesis explored the presence of organic pollutants in polar organisms. After graduating, I took an unexpected but exciting step into public relations, where I spent nearly three years working on national environmental campaigns in Poland. This gave me the cha

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LUMES student from Germany What is your background?I have a background in Global Studies, a bachelor I did at Maastricht University.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?I chose LUMES because I was looking for an interdisciplinary master's degree in sustainability and thought that this programme covered many interesting topics such as Earth System Sciences, Geography of Sustainability and Social

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26 September 2025 13:15 to 17:00 | Conference To mark the 25th anniversary of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, we invite you to an event where we both reflect on what has shaped LUCSUS and sustainability science over the years and look towards the future. How will the next 25 years of sustainability research unfold against societal and environmental changes? 13.15 – Welco

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/celebrating-25-years-lucsus - 2025-07-25

LUMES student from Italy/Philippines What is your background?I’m Italian-Filipina and grew up in Hong Kong. I hold a BA in Media and Information from the University of Amsterdam, and shortly after graduating moved to Copenhagen to pursue my studies at LUMES.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?My international upbringing meant I was exposed to different perspectives on the same issues. I got to

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Full project titleFlood Resilience in Slums: Community-Responsive Adaptation in Kibera, Nairobi. Funding organisationThe research is funded under the research programme “Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental changes”, which is is jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Sida and Formas. Project timeline2016–2019. Project leaderAt LUCSUS, the pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/inclusive-resilience-building-floods-informal-settlements - 2025-07-25

Climate Adaptation, Risk Reduction and Empowerment  Funding organisationsLund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID)The Swedish Research Council FormasSwedish Environmental Protection AgencyTimelineSince 2015ParticipantsChad BodaChristine WamslerDavid O’Byrne,Ebba BrinkStephen WoronieckiDescriptionCoastal cities are increasingly e

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/sustainable-coastal-planning-and-management - 2025-07-25

What About? – Features LUCSUS researchers comments on current issues, events and projects.  What About the LUMES Podcast Do You Even Nature? Do You Even Nature is a podcast exploring the tricky relationship between people and the environment. It was started by LUMES students Cecilia Jaques, Georgia Verkuylen, Tim Bauer and Judith Petra Mühlbacher as part of their Knowledge to Action-project. We ta

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Sustainability research in close collaboration with society 25 years of sustainability research For 25 years, LUCSUS has been at the forefront of sustainability research. We tackle complex issues of governance, equity, and social justice, in relation to climate, land, urban, energy and biodiversity. We collaborate and co-design our research together with actors outside of academia, both locally, n

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LUCSUS, together with the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, is a partner in the European project Naturvation, which stands for nature-based urban innovation. The project has three main objectives: advance assessment approaches, enable innovations, and realise the potential of nature-based solutions. We ask LUCSUS

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DEVRES 2024 Helen Avery, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Environment and Climate Science, LU  Jonas Ewald, Senior Lecturer, Linneus University & SWEDEV Steering Committee  Sara Gabrielsson, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUTobias Herder, Researcher, Division of Social Medicine and Global Health, LU  Kristina Jönsson, Professor and Dean of Department of Political Science, LUJohanna

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  BINUCOM Full project title Building Inclusive Urban Communities Main funding organisation European Union. BInUCom is funded under EU Erasmus+ Program in the field of Capacity Building in Higher Education. Project leader at Lund University Christine Wamsler, Professor at LUCSUS Project timeline 2015–2019 Project summary Rapid urbanization is expected to lead to a housing shortage in Indian cities

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/building-inclusive-urban-communities - 2025-07-25