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The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas.  Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an exploration of love in relation to land and place in Zimbabwe. An especially large gra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2025-12-19

LUCUS today, 11th December, presents a new travel policy for staff and associated researchers. It sets out a number of commitments aimed to reduce work-related emissions and takes effect from January 2019. Reducing flying amongst staff is the number one priority, since flying is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in academia. The commitments are not binding but each staff member

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-presents-new-travel-policy-reduce-work-related-emissions - 2025-12-19

"No matter what happens in real time politics, some damage is already done”. Researcher Torsten Krause comments on the newly elected Brasilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s plans for deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon.  Bolsonaro takes office on the first of January 2019 and has promised to open protected areas and indigenous territories to mining, to relax environmental laws, cut financing

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-exploitation-and-deforestation-brazilian-amazon - 2025-12-19

Many of us have noticed the increasing frequency of climate protests organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR) across Sweden. What do these protests represent? Is this just another group of tree-huggers being a public nuisance? Or is this a needed development in taking our climate goals further? Lund University researchers, Stephen Woroniecki and Tullia Jack argue that there are critical ideas to tak

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-what-can-we-learn-xr-movement - 2025-12-19

The Lund University graduate school on Agenda 2030 is now open for applications. We welcome graduate school applicants from various disciplinary backgrounds who want to take an active role in Agenda 2030 research. The graduate school offers a unique opportunity to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on global challenges and contribute to current research while deepening your subject knowledge.The

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-positions-lund-university-agenda-2030-graduate-school - 2025-12-19

A year ago LUCSUS researcher Sara Gabrielsson went to Tanzania to study the cultural acceptability and management challenges of different menstrual products among adolescent school girls in rural Tanzania. The study, which tested three types of menstrual products: the menstrual cup, disposable sanitary pads and washable fabric pads, found that the menstrual cup was the most preferred menstrual opt

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/she-wants-break-silence-about-menstruation - 2025-12-19

LUCSUS is starting a new capacity building programme to develop knowledge and leadership among leaders and decision makers from across Africa about the Agenda 2030. ‘Land is Life’ is a novel 2 MSEK pilot program on capacity development for Agenda 2030 funded by the Swedish Institute. The programme aims to train future leaders and decision makers from across Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-leads-new-capacity-building-programme-agenda-2030 - 2025-12-19

LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd is lead author for a chapter on poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development in the Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She recently attended the first meeting of lead authors from Working Group II in Durban, South Africa. Working Group II assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-lead-author-ipccs-sixth-assessment-report - 2025-12-19

A new LUCSUS study sheds light on the challenging lives of seasonal migrant farmworkers in Turkey. The workers, who are predominantly Kurds, Arabs, and Syrian refugees, face multiple layers of marginalization, including racial discrimination, state violence, chronic poverty, and forced displacement. A new study by LUCSUS researcher Sinem Kavak, reveals the harsh realities faced by seasonal migrant

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/exploited-and-invisible-harsh-realities-seasonal-migrant-farmworkers-turkey - 2025-12-19

LUCSUS is participating in several events during this year's Sustainability Week! It is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. Sustainability Week is an important occasion for LUCSUS as a centre to engage with our local community in Lund, and share research findings with the public. It is also a good opportunity for our researchers and studen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week-2025 - 2025-12-19

Congratulations Lina Lefstad, PhD student at LUCSUS, for receiving an honorable Mention in the The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award - for her research on how carbon capture and storage can help limit climate change from a global justice perspective. The award aims to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research on sustainable development by early career researchers at the University.Lina Lef

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lina-lefstad-receives-honourable-mention-lund-university-agenda-2030-award - 2025-12-19

LUCSUS research is global in scope and covers many topics and countries. Last year, in 2024, researchers conducted field work in places such as India, Nepal, Ghana, Colombia, USA and Kenya. Visiting the home of perennial research in Kansa, USALUCSUS researchers Elina Andersson, Lennart Olsson and Stefan Schuller, who are all working in the PERENNIAL project, participated in the project’s annual me

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/read-about-lucsus-fieldwork-2024 - 2025-12-19

LUMES student Carolina Sandoval Marmolejo organised a workshop on how to densify Lund during Lund Sustainability Week together with fellow student Sari Nomura. With their stand in the city centre, they aimed to start a conversation on how the public would like to see their buildings and public spaces used. Passers-by were invited to place sticky notes on a map of Lund on spaces and areas they thin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-students-aim-densify-city-lund-preserve-green-spaces-and-build-community - 2025-12-19

A new research paper by LUCSUS postdoc Felix Schulz examines German labour unions' visions and ideas for social change, and how these visions compare with proposals emerging from the post-growth discourse. German trade unions are deeply embedded in the country’s corporatist political system. They influence not only labour conditions through collective bargaining, but also public policy through ins

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/investigation-german-trade-unions-and-decarbonisation-new-lucsus-study - 2025-12-19

- I’m expecting interesting and exciting entries, says Ann Åkerman, LUCSUS.On Thursday (16h February), Ann Åkerman and Chad Boda, also from LUCSUS, will travel to the high school ProCivitas in Helsingborg to nominate best student entry for a project called Sustainable Innovations. As part of the project, which runs throughout the spring, first year students have to come up with creative innovation

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-will-win-best-innovation-lucsus-procivitas - 2025-12-19

Belief in free markets and individualism may be holding back climate action globally. A new study finds that people who embrace neoliberal values are consistently less likely to support government-led environmental policies, no matter where they live. LUCSUS researcher Felix Schulz and his colleague, Christian Bretter of the University of Queensland, investigated how people's ideologies affect the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/neoliberalism-linked-climate-policy-resistance - 2025-12-19

In its new Report 6.2 the WaterWarmth project identifies key takeaways on how decision-making and rules support the success and growth of aquathermal energy pilot projects. The EU-funded Interreg North Sea Programme Project, WaterWarmth, aims to accelerate the shift to sustainable energy use through collective surface water heat pump systems. The project focuses on heating and cooling buildings us

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/learning-and-networking-essential-aquathermal-energy-initiatives - 2025-12-19

A new thesis explores the effects of loss and damage associated with climate change in small-scale tropical fisheries—a sector at the frontline of climate change impacts and crucial to sustaining livelihoods, way of life, and food security. With Martinique (France) as a case study, the research shows that loss and damage must be understood as a complex and contextual multidimensional issue—one tha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/beyond-economics-rethinking-loss-and-damage-tropical-fisheries-new-phd-thesis - 2025-12-19

A new mini LUCSUS documentary, The Beans Of/For Change, introduces the challenges and opportunities around specialty coffee in Colombia. It is based on research results from field visits to Antioquia and Quindío in Colombia, as part of the FORMAS-supported project, Unravelling climate change impacts on migrant farmworkers in agrifood production. Dianne Kok has produced and edited the documentary.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/documentary-beans-offor-change-shines-light-challenges-and-opportunities-around-specialty-coffee - 2025-12-19

What happens when scientists, municipal actors, and private sector stakeholders from six European countries come together to question the future of aquathermal energy? At LUCSUS, we just found out. June 17 to 19, the Interreg North Sea WaterWarmth partner meeting took place in Lund, hosting partners from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. LUCSUS’s researchers Sara Broo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ideas-action-shaping-aquathermal-futures - 2025-12-19