By Noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 25 September 2017 The recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria highlight the potential for the climate system to cause loss and damage. “Loss and damage” is a phrase used in different ways by people who work on climate policy, negotiation and adaptation/resilience. A new study clarifies these different perspectives which is a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/clarifying-perspectives-promote-action-loss-and-damage-climate-change - 2025-07-15

Published 27 September 2017 Today, LUCSUS Professor Lennart Olsson will give a lecture for the very poplar 350th University Jubilee Course. The aim the course, which features guest lectures from all the university faculties, is to give an insight into current research and to highlight scientific facts in an engaging way. In this short interview, he explains why he chose this specific topic, and wh

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/jubilee-course-lennart-olsson-climate-change-needs-be-taken-seriously - 2025-07-15

Published 28 September 2017 Ahead of the upcoming Lund 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, Professor Emily Boyd discusses the motivations for LUCSUS to host the ESG International Project Office and highlights some of the programme points she finds especially interesting. Professor Emily Boyd on the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-why-lucsus-supporting-esg-conference-and-project-office - 2025-07-15

Published 13 October 2017 LUCSUS recently featured the research and recent article on perspectives on loss and damage by Director Emily Boyd. This week, Stephen Woroniecki, follows up with a comment on a contribution by Dr Koko Warner, Manager of the Climate Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Risks subprogramme, which includes the loss and damage workstream at the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Cl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/human-mobility-and-paris-agreement-continuing-conversation-loss-and-damage - 2025-07-15

Published 18 October 2017 Professor Emily Boyd comments on the event on the theme of “sustainability in education”, on 18th October organised by Sustainability Forum and LUCSUS. The aim is to discuss how Lund University can become more sustainable – and all staff and students are encouraged to join.She says that a sustainable university – where sustainability in education is one piece of the puzzl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/there-are-many-areas-which-university-could-show-leadership-emily-boyd-creating-sustainable - 2025-07-15

Published 20 October 2017 Sustainability in education should be an issue for the University leadership, as well as researchers and teachers, according to Anne Jerneck and Kim Nicholas, both researchers at LUCSUS.Reflecting on Wednesday’s event for students and staff, on the theme “sustainability in education”, organised by Sustainability Forum and LUCSUS, they highlight that the role of the resear

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainability-education-should-be-issue-university-leadership-say-lucsus-researchers - 2025-07-15

Published 27 October 2017 Reflecting on the IPCC author meeting for the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C in Malmö this week, Professor Lennart Olsson highlights that LUCSUS’ unique research integration of social and natural sciences very much align with ongoing and future work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.– There has been an increasing realisation within the IPCC, and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/increasing-social-science-focus-work-ipcc-align-lucsus-research - 2025-07-15

Published 6 November 2017 LUCSUS Professor Lennart Olsson is one of the participants in the upcoming seminar: Land: a Common Good, or a Good Investment? organised 9th November by LUCSUS, Latinamerikagrupperna, Svalorna Indien Bangladesh and Lund Inter Faculty Sustainability Network.Ahead of his participation, he discusses the most important issues surrounding land today, and reflects on why land i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/find-ways-harnessing-increasing-interest-land-sustainable-development-lennart-olsson-reflects-ahead - 2025-07-15

Published 14 November 2017 Three female researchers at LUCSUS have secured funding from Formas for two research projects, one on myths and environmental policy in America, and one on pest management and environmental justice in Uganda. The projects will start in 2018 and run for three years.Researcher Maja Essebo will lead on the first project, entitled: ‘Alternative facts’: a long-term analysis o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-myths-environmental-policy-america-and-exploration-pest-management-uganda-three-female - 2025-07-15

Published 15 November 2017 LUCSUS researcher Barry Ness has become the new Director of the Skåne Local Interaction Platform (SKLIP) for the Mistra Urban Futures Project. The platform brings together a consortium of the three universities located in the region: Lund University, Malmö University, and the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (SLU) along with different societal actors. Barry’s

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/barry-ness-director-skane-local-interaction-platform-mistra-urban-futures-project - 2025-07-15

Published 15 November 2017 LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler recently visited Australia to give the prestigious Dean’s lecture at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She was also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in order to stimulate their work and open up a wider debate on urban adaptation and resilience. - Supporting sustainability and resilience is one of the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-giving-deans-lecture-australia-and-creating-wider-debate-urban-adaptation-and - 2025-07-15

Published 23 November 2017 Recently, the EU parliament’s environmental committee proposed that crop-based biofuels should not be considered renewable, which would affect Sweden’s strategy for achieving a fossil-free transport fleet, among other things. According to two researchers from LUCSUS, it is a good thing that the EU is reviewing the legislation on biofuels. The far-reaching consequences of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-new-proposed-eu-legislation-consequences-biofuels-land-use-must-be-considered-greater - 2025-07-15

Published 4 December 2017 20 years ago, the LUMES programme opened up its door to its first batch of students.  A booklet detailing the history of LUMES and interviews with alumni and teachers has now been launched to mark this very special anniversary. – With this booklet, we wanted to capture both the historical development of LUMES, and the programme’s very unique spirit. That is why we have in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-booklet-marks-20-years-education-environment-and-sustainability - 2025-07-15

Published 7 December 2017 Are there ways in which local communities can benefit from hosting large-scale land investments? This question forms the basis for a project on land in Africa, in which LUCSUS researcher Genesis T. Yengoh is involved.Genesis says that over the last few years, there has been a large increase in the amount of land that has been acquired by investors and converted into crops

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mutually-beneficial-engagement-between-local-communities-and-large-scale-investors - 2025-07-15

Published 7 December 2017 Timos Karpouzoglou visited LUMES and LUCSUS on 24th November to hold a round table discussion on the ‘elephant in the room – power’. Here is his guest blog on reflecting on the round table discussion:Bringing the Elephants to the table: What is the role of power in sustainability research? We live in a warming and increasingly unequal world. Moving towards safe and just f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/elephants-room-guest-blog-timos-karpouzoglou - 2025-07-15

Published 12 December 2017 Matthew Banks, WWF US Climate and Business Initiative, LUCSUS researchers Torsten Krause and Mine Islar. Mine Islar and Torsten Krause, both assistant professors at LUCSUS represented Lund University during an Alumni event organised by the five biggest Swedish Universities (Lund, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Umeå and Stockholm) at Sweden’s embassy in Washington D.C. – the house

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-there-great-interest-sustainability-and-labour-market-integration-age-migrations-us-blog - 2025-07-15

Published 14 December 2017 Karin Steen, researcher at LUCSUS, was recently in Zimbabwe researching land and land use issues, with particular focus on women. You research women’s rights to soil and land; do you believe the regime change could affect their rights?It is too early to say how much of a change the transfer of power will bring. But everyone I have spoken to during my visit has been incre

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/will-regime-change-zimbabwe-affect-situation-women-karin-steen-womens-rights-soil - 2025-07-15

Published 15 December 2017 It is heartening that people want to talk to scientists about climate change, but very worrying that women’s trust in researchers is declining, says Emily Boyd, Director of LUCSUS, commenting on the results from the yearly VA Barometer, that was released yesterday.She notes that the fact that climate change is a topic which people want to talk to scientist about is a ver

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/va-barometern-201718-vetenskap-and-allmanhet-lets-talk-about-climate-change-comments-emily-boyd - 2025-07-15

Published 31 January 2018 Research in collaboration with vulnerable groups, and scientist and citizen involvement are some of the ways forward to address the environmental risks that experts believe will have the most impact in the next ten years. Emily Boyd, Director at LUCSUS, comments on the recently released Global Risks Report 2018.According to the report, extreme weather events, natural disa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/collaboration-and-scientist-involvement-emily-boyd-comments-global-risks-report-2018 - 2025-07-15

By cecilia-von_arnold [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 12 February 2018 Lennart Olsson Lennart Olsson has been appointed by the Government to Sida’s Scientific Board, who reviews Sida's proposals for projects and cooperation within the research area. Professor Lennart Olsson has been appointed by the Government to Sida’s Scientific Board (SSB).The research council rev

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lennart-olsson-new-member-sidas-scientific-board - 2025-07-15