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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause have been researching hunting, forest fauna and wild meat consumption, particularly in the Amazon, for the past three years. He is currently in Colombia, where his fieldwork was cut short due to the current coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, he reflects on the impacts of the coro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-impacts-coronavirus-indigenous-communities-amazon-torsten-krause - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ebba Brink, postdoctoral researcher at LUCSUS, is doing research about climate change risk and adaptation in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The current coronavirus pandemic has forced her to come back to Sweden, and move her research online. She reflects on how the outbreak has made the right-wing Bolsonaro go

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-what-coronavirus-pandemic-could-mean-favelas-brazil-ebba-brink - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Natural solutions to combat climate change are perceived as beneficial to both nature and people simultaneously. But claims that natural solutions also bring about empowerment, gender equality and inclusion are problematic, especially when issues of power, agency and marginalisation are ignored. This is according to n

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/natural-solutions-combat-climate-change-may-ignore-power-marginalisation-and-local-agency - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In our Annual Report for 2019 we share highlights in research, education and impact from the previous year. Read about some of the highlights here and download or read the full report online. Word from Director Emily Boyd 2019 was an unusually busy year for LUCSUS. In January we transitioned into the Faculty of Social

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-highlights-2019 - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, LUCSUS and researchers from Political Science at Lund University, in collaboration with Sussex University, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Helsinki University have a new paper accepted with Global Sustainability entitled "Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance". D

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/earth-day-2020-time-covid-19-crisis-we-need-be-challenging-entrenched-myths-about-our-forests - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After observing the decrease in economic activities, air pollution and carbon emissions as a result of the lockdown measures during the COVID-19, some academics argue that such down-scaling can be considered as degrowth. Although the sudden, unplanned and chaotic downscaling of social and economic activities due to Co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-degrowth-and-transformative-potential-covid-19 - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Properly managed, the agricultural sector in Europe can contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by improving food security, reducing poverty and enhancing biodiversity. But new research shows that indicators to measure key SDGs such as health and equality are entirely missing fro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-points-out-key-gaps-eus-largest-funding-scheme-common-agricultural-policy - 2026-06-25

Colombia is emerging from an internal conflict that lasted more than 50 years. In this process rural land-use is being transformed, generating new conflicts over land use and control with detrimental effects on Colombia's forests. In this article published in the Journal of Political Ecology, Torsten Krause analyze the ways in which peace-building and post-conflict transition have led to increased

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reducing-deforestation-colombia-while-building-peace-and-pursuing-business-usual-extractivism - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the health care system was strained already before the coronavirus crisis. Lack of intensive care units and respirators and the difficult economic situation in most African countries limit the resources to combat the pandemic. LUCSUS researcher Karin Steen, who returned from a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/perspectives-corona-pandemic-africa - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New blog post from the Nature of Peace project on Colombia’s environment in the post-conflict transition, and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the Colombian peace transition and for the natural environment. While it might seem from an outsider’s perspective that the Colombian armed conflict has come to an end, t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-colombias-environment-post-conflict-transition-new-set-backs-global-pandemic - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The consolidation report from the Skåne Local Interaction Platform (SKLIP) of the Mistra Urban Futures project has now been released. The report describes four years of transdisciplinary urban sustainability research by the platform partners Lund University, Malmö University, SLU Alnarp and the Municipality of Malmö a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-skane-local-interaction-platform-mistra-urban-futures-project - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Are financial instruments really the solution to deforestation and degradation? Do states truly manage forests for societal benefit? And to what extent are so-called sustainable forest governance initiatives really including local people in decision-making? These are some of the questionable myths that currently obscu

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/five-forest-myths-obscure-path-transformational-and-sustainable-forest-governance - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New postdoc positions on climate change justice, social movements, social resilience and adaptation to climate change at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Two of the projects are funded by LUCSUS and three are funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences. Postdoctoral researcher in social movement

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-postdoc-positions - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research initiative at LUCSUS examines how inner dimensions and transformation can support people to live more sustainably and drive change. Addressing (the causes and effects of) climate change is one of the most important societal challenges of our time. The demands for political action are becoming stronger from

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/inner-dimensions-and-transformation-can-support-people-live-more-sustainably-and-drive-change - 2026-06-25

På torsdag deltar Ann-Christine Hartzén, docent i handelsrätt på Ekonomihögskolan, i Arbetsmarknadsutskottets årliga forskningsseminarium i riksdagen. Ann-Christine ska presentera och diskutera EU-domstolens dom om minimilönedirektivet – och vad den betyder för Sverige och EU-samarbetet. Vi ställde några frågor om sammanhanget, domen och hur den relaterar till hennes forskning.Du är inbjuden till

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/inbjuden-till-riksdagen-att-tala-om-eus-minimilonedirektiv - 2026-06-25

Arbetslinjen har varit gynnsam för svensk tillväxt, men på längre sikt kan den visa sig skadlig. Färre barn föds och om det håller i sig riskerar landets ekonomi att minska. Utredningen för en framtid med barn som leds av Åsa Hansson, docent i nationalekonomi vid Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet har precis lanserat sin tredje rapport. I denna studerar Mattias Ossowicki, kansliråd vid Sociald

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomin-avgor-om-vi-skaffar-barn - 2026-06-25

Sverige har varit medlem i EU under trettio års tid, men hållit sig utanför eurosamarbetet. Fredrik NG Andersson, docent i nationalekonomi, ger en översikt och diskuterar möjligheter och troligheter kopplat till ett framtida euromedlemskap. Efter trettio års EU-medlemskap håller sig Sverige fortfarande med sin egen valuta. Vid en folkomröstning 2003 vann sidan som ville hålla Sverige utanför samar

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/sverige-och-euron - 2026-06-25

Ekonomihögskolan arbetar långsiktigt med att stärka kopplingen mellan akademi och näringsliv. Genom olika initiativ skapas mötesplatser där företag får möjlighet att möta framtidens kompetens och bidra med sina erfarenheter, samtidigt som studenter får en tydligare bild av arbetslivets möjligheter. Ett nära och långsiktigt samarbete gynnar alla parter och bidrar till att skapa en naturlig väg från

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/fran-studier-till-arbetsliv-deloitte-i-partnerskap-med-ekonomihogskolan - 2026-06-25

Att välja utbildning kan kännas överväldigande – särskilt om man inte är helt säker på vad man vill göra i framtiden. För Liza, som läser International Business på Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet, blev valet enklare efter att hon lärt sig mer om Lund och besökt staden. Hennes första kontakt med Lunds universitet kom via hennes pappa.– Det var min pappas affärspartners, vars barn studerade i

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ett-besok-rackte-varfor-liza-valde-ekonomihogskolan - 2026-06-25