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A new research article from the project DICE, Recasting the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change Extremes, frames loss and damage from climate change as the failure of society's ability to maintain a sustainable development. Chad Boda, researcher at LUCSUS, explains how this framing opens up discussions on what should be sustained, and how. It also highlights how different theories of sustai

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-frames-loss-and-damage-climate-change-failure-sustainable-development - 2025-10-29

Rich in animals and plants, a refuge to calm anxiety, and a source of new energy. A place for recreation and cultivation. This is how residents of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela describe their natural surroundings in interviews. It is a narrative seldom brought to the fore, and one that stands in stark contrast to the common description of favelas as hectic and dangerous places. With their new st

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-diverse-relations-nature-rios-favelas - 2025-10-29

Join our research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and invited guests online every Thursday. Programme, Spring 2021 21 January 2021 10:15 to 12:00  Participatory scenario development in the African context 28 January 2021 15:00 to 17:00 PhD Mid seminar with Darin Wahl 4 February 2021 11:00 to 12:00  Across the Development Divide: A North–South Perspective on Environmental Democracy 11 February 202

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-seminars-2021 - 2025-10-29

Diego Galafassi, researcher at LUCSUS, is leading a new research project on emerging media practices. Using co-creation, and a practice-led approach, the aim is to analyse how emerging media - innovative media forms at the intersection of art, science and technology - can support transformations to realise the sustainable development goals. Key areas to explore are challenges, opportunities, risks

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-project-will-analyse-how-emerging-media-practices-and-art-can-support-sdgs - 2025-10-29

A recent report by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) identifies 24 places across the world that are hotspots for deforestation - and where forests are under threat. A staggering over 43 million of hectares were lost in these areas between 2004 and 2017 - an area roughly the size of Morocco. Torsten Krause, who researches forest hunting, biodiversity and deforestation, comments on the report. What a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-wwf-report-deforestation-fronts - 2025-10-29

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 geographer currently working on the project DICE (Recasting the Disproportionate I

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-welcomes-four-new-phds-and-postdocs-0 - 2025-10-29

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 by economy, ecology, and climate change. The Sámi are a diverse and indigenous peo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/historical-perspectives-and-mobilization-important-future-reindeer-winter-pastures - 2025-10-29

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 Islar, together with Mathilde Martin, PhD-candidate at Human Geography at Lund U

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/recognizing-resistance-crucial-sustainable-and-just-transition - 2025-10-29

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 - 2025-10-29

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 frameworks. What do you do at LUCSUS?  I am postdoc researcher in the project GAMES – Gl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/salvatore-paolo-de-rosa-explores-interactions-climate-movements-science-and-law - 2025-10-29

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 will focus on during his time at the centre. What do you do at LUCSUS?  I’ve rec

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/eric-hoddy-studies-everyday-resistance-and-transformational-climate-change-adaptation-urban-poor - 2025-10-29

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, and emphasise how a positive framing of the future can replace fear, social clo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/transformations-conference-2021-enabling-positive-tipping-points-sustainability - 2025-10-29

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 and human pressures, but are directly embedded in social changes. Read about wha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/fabiola-espinoza-cordova-studies-climate-change-adaptation-coastal-communities - 2025-10-29

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 impact on marine coastal ecosystems services affect livelihoods and how adaptation st

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/alicia-nguetta-uses-gender-lens-study-impacts-climate-change-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2025-10-29

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, innovative ideas and a passion for sustainability who wants to be part of developi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/event-and-communications-intern-lucsus - 2025-10-29

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 need to be tackled for more inclusive and effective results. Climate change is expe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/heat-action-plans-urban-cities-risks-excluding-most-vulnerable - 2025-10-29

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 a changed climate may affect our everyday lives. This means that many people, per

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/time-stop-talking-about-climate - 2025-10-29

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 around the world has increased in the last decade because of growing scientific e

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-multiple-health-outcomes-women-using-menstrual-cups-tanzania - 2025-10-29

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 society? What sort of analytical tools could be of use here? Discussing contemporary t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/dialogue-between-nancy-fraser-and-andreas-malm - 2025-10-29

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 project about? The project EPICC: Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity C

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-value-chains-meat-gold-tin-and-palm-oil-spotlight-new-research-project - 2025-10-29