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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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

- 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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

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 - 2025-11-19

Why do some people strongly back climate action while others do not? A new international study by LUCSUS researcher Felix Schulz and Christian Bretter, University of Queensland, finds that the answer may be simpler than previously thought. The researchers analysed survey data from nearly 12,000 people across six countries. They discovered that three well-known explanations of environmental behavio

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-reveals-key-drivers-climate-policy-support - 2025-11-19

PhD student Tilde Krusberg is using creative future visioning methods to transition the Swedish food system to fossil-free energy as part of the AgroDrive project. She is motivated by how these methods allow for more radical imaginations of the future and for rethinking our present society. What attracted you to the position and to LUCSUS?I had been curious about LUCSUS for a long time and even co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-tilde-krusberg-using-creative-future-visioning-methods-transition-swedish-food-system - 2025-11-19

Read Barry Ness, associate professor at LUCSUS’ travel reflection:Can place attachment be fostered through local food traditions? Can regional food dishes and cooking traditions in Japan be used to foster social sustainability in a steadily urbanizing and aging society?These were a few of the questions that a group from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School in Sustainability Science – Global L

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/japan-through-lens-food-place-and-sustainability - 2025-11-19

With panels, tastings, workshops, and exhibitions, LUCSUS researchers will contribute to the Agroecology Forum 2025 across multiple formats. The conference takes place in Malmö, Sweden, from October 2 to 4. The Agroecology Europe Forum 2025 aims to shape the future of food systems through agroecology. This year’s theme will highlight collaboration, integration and action to accelerate agroecologic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-bring-food-futures-focus-upcoming-conference - 2025-11-19

How regional, local and national governments decide to develop coastal regions affects 21st century flood exposure more than climate threats according to a new study, focusing on China. The research, which for the first time integrates projected land use change under different policies, sea-level rise, extreme events, and land subsidence, identifies that strategic coastal planning can have huge ef

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/coastal-development-planning-matters-more-21st-century-flood-risk-climate-change - 2025-11-19

LUCSUS researchers continue to feature in the Stanford–Elsevier World’s Top Scientist Ranking! Professor Christine Wamsler is ranked 1st in Sweden, and the 6th most influential scholar in the world in Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences. Also featuring in the ranking apart from Christine Wamsler are professors Lennart Olsson, and Emily Boyd, senior lecturer Wim Ca

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanford-elsevier-worlds-top-2-scientists-ranking-2025 - 2025-11-19

Renewable and affordable energy is key for societal and economic growth, and for achieving national and global climate goals. Research from LUCSUS is mapping the energy transition in Nepal and has identified how increasing energy access is closely linked to a new political awakening in the country.  "Nepal is a very interesting case study since it has been held up as a case for how a country can t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/double-transition-energy-nepal - 2025-11-19