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PhD student Carmen Margiotta will explore how diverse cosmological worldviews influence individuals' connections with glaciers, as part of the project NaturICE. Her specific focus revolves around the intersection of environmental and epistemic justice, emphasizing the subjective experiences of climate change. Read more about her research focus and her background in this short interview. What do yo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-carmen-margiotta-studies-how-individuals-worldviews-influcence-connections-glaciers - 2025-11-23

Farming practices have the potential to slow climate change by pulling carbon from the air and store it in the soil. A new study from LUCSUS has identified seven ways in which farmers can increase carbon sequestration. It also found that woody perennials took up more than annual crops, suggesting that winegrowing could be particularly favorable for carbon soil storage. – What can farmers do to hel

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/study-identifies-seven-ways-which-farmers-can-help-increase-carbon-storage-soil - 2025-11-23

Join LUCSUS, Lund University and Lund municipality for this year's Sustainability week. We are organising many different events, and hope to see you there! Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/join-lucsus-years-sustainability-week-lund-8-13-april-2024 - 2025-11-23

A new research project aims to enhance educators' skills for nurturing inner resilience and reducing climate anxiety of learners through trauma-informed and creative approaches that link inner and outer dimensions of transformation. It is led by Lund University in collaboration with many partners. The motivation for the project is based on the fact that much sustainability and climate education te

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-lucsus-research-project-aims-address-climate-anxiety-youth-and-enhance-skills-educators-and - 2025-11-23

To strenghten the visibility of LUCSUS, and LUCSUS research, a number of key research areas have been added to the LUCSUS website. The aim is to make it easier for external researchers, funders and other actors to locate and familiarise themselves with the different research areas in which LUCSUS has many publications, projects and people connected to. The key research areas represent particular s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/key-research-areas-lucsus - 2025-11-23

Do you want to work with climate change transitions and sustainability? Then the LUCAS programme is for you! It offers potential and vital ways of addressing climate change in collaboration with society. We are delighted to announce that we are launching a new 2-years Master of Science programme in Climate Change and Society, LUCAS!Building on 20 years of successful education at LUCSUS, the LUCAS

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-master-science-programme-climate-change-and-society - 2025-11-23

The inclusion of biochar as a method to remove carbon in Denmark's short term climate targets can lead to mitigation deterrence. This is according to a policy brief written by Inge-Merete Hougaard. She undertook the research during her time as postdoctoral researcher at LUCSUS. Policy Brief: Biokuls rolle i dansk klimapolitik Download the policy brief (PDF, in Danish)  Enacting biochar as a climat

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/use-biochar-method-remove-carbon-can-lead-mitigation-deterrence - 2025-11-23

In our Annual Report for 2023, we have gathered highlights from the year from research, policy and engagement. We also outline key events within our PhD programme and our Education. Read the Word from our Director Barry Ness, and download our Annual Report 2023. LUCSUS Annual Report 2023Read about our development as a centre, and highlights within research, policy and impact during the year.Read t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/read-lucsus-annual-report-2023 - 2025-11-23

Kimberly Nicholas, Asssociate Professor at LUCSUS, is one of six recipients of the 2024 Planet Earth Award, a prestigous prize which acknowledges individuals who champion life on Earth. These individuals received the prize because they demonstrate exceptional creativity or contributions in their work in science-based advocacy with the public, policymakers, or other non-scientist groups seeking sol

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/associate-professor-kimberly-nicholas-recipient-2024-planet-earth-award - 2025-11-23

The silencing of social leaders in Colombia who are defending their territories leads to a historical erasure of social struggles, a decreased capacity to progress environmental and human rights, and risks jeopardizing the goal of a stable and durable peace. This is according to a new study from LUCSUS. – The fight for land and the environment is also a fight for human rights, traditions, shared m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/silencing-social-leaders-colombia-leads-historical-erasure-social-struggle - 2025-11-23

Follow us live on the World Water Day, March 22, 8:30-12:15World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of fresh water and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.During 2017, in connection with the Lund University 350-year anniversary, we would like to take the opportunity to pay extra attention to World Water Day

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-water-day-march-22 - 2025-11-23

Professor Emily Boyd is Co-Director of CLIMES, the recently established Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes. Led by Uppsala University in collaboration with LUCSUS and RISE, it aims to be an interdisciplinary platform for research and training to promote scientific progress in the study of climate extremes and support societal resilience. The centre will bridge the physical, medical, so

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-her-hopes-new-swedish-centre-impacts-climate-extremes - 2025-11-23

Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being reclassified as an ice field, is extremely worrying. The speed of change is crazy. When something so visible is lost, it also brings home the scale of global climate change, says Emily Boyd, professor at Lund University

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-venezuelas-last-glacier-points-future-where-loss-opposed-damage-new-reality - 2025-11-23

Professor Christine Wamsler's research and extraordinary work on integrated inner-outer transformation for sustainability has made it into a musical! The musical is entitled ‘Pärlornas Sånger’. It is based on the latest book of the well-known bishop Martin Lönnebo. After his death in 2023, musician Helena Ritzén converted the book and its lyrics into a musical. Since a line in the book was referen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/musical-tribute-featuring-christine-wamslers-work-and-vision-sustainable-future - 2025-11-23

What is climate-related loss and when can it be considered disproportionate? This question is at the heart of Kelly Dorkenoo’s thesis which explores loss associated with land in smallholder farming communities in Cambodia. Her motivation was to deepen our understanding of – and to find ways to mitigate – loss arising from climate change impacts, focusing on communities whose livelihoods are closel

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-thesis-advances-understanding-disproportionate-climate-related-loss-focus-land-cambodia - 2025-11-23

Unfair, ineffective, and inefficient. These are some of the moral objections to increasing fuel prices in Sweden. A new study from Lund University identifies how social movements are resisting green transition policies through moral reasoning and argues that their concerns must be both recognised and responded to, in order to achieve a low-carbon future. – If politicians want different climate pol

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/moral-resistance-green-transitions-focuses-unfairness-inefficiency-and-ineffectiveness - 2025-11-23

The POLLEN2024 conference in June gathered hundreds of researchers across three sites Dodoma (Tanzania), Lima (Peru) and Lund (Sweden) in 200 special panels to discuss political ecology for just and plural futures. Some of the organisers at Lund University and University of Copenhagen: Jens Friis Lund, Wim Carton, Mine Islar, Lina Lefstad and Torsten Krause, reflect on the outcomes of the conferen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-pollen2024-what-makes-29-researchers-three-continents-join-forces-create-conference - 2025-11-23

A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in the global mitigation pathways assessed by the IPCC for staying within climate policy targets such as the 1.5-degree target. It shows how value-laden assumptions inform many of the pathways, representing a tangible risk to reproduce historical injustices. – Modelled mitigation scenarios

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-pathways-run-risk-reproducing-historical-injustices-according-new-thesis - 2025-11-23

PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can address many of the problems connected to agriculture, and hopes to challenge incumbent power structures and spur radical transformations in food and farming in his research. What attracted you to LUCSUS and this PhD?Workin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-stefan-schuller-explores-prospects-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-11-23

LUCSUS is incredibly proud to announce that several of the centre's researchers are recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist ranking 2024! Professor Christine Wamsler was rated the number 1 scientist in Sweden for her contribution to environmental science, ecology, and earth and environmental science – and number 8 in the world. Professors Lennart Olsson and Emily Boyd are also among t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanfordelsevier-top-2-scientist-2024-ranking - 2025-11-23