In Tanzania, girls on their period avoid going to school, something that affects their opportunities for education. A new study from LUCSUS shows that the menstrual cup could be a step towards better school attendance, and a life with more freedom. It could also play a part in reducing waste in the country. As a young woman in Tanzania, having your period is associated with great challenges, myths

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-cups-could-help-girls-attend-school-tanzania - 2025-09-13

Wine connoisseur with a taste for Pinot noir? You probably need to rethink your position. Wines made from the most popular grapes could disappear because of climate change, according to LUCSUS researcher Kimberly Nicholas. “As a society, we must drastically reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in order to ensure the future of our vineyards. Winegrowers must also adapt their cultivation to a changi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-change-uncertain-future-favourite-wines - 2025-09-13

Photo: Genesis Tambang Yengoh. “On a smaller scale, biofuels can be a good alternative for public transport, but we cannot solve the climate issue by simply replacing fossil fuels with biofuels. Instead, we must reduce our energy consumption, as the total energy consumption within road transports is not decreasing”, explains David Harnesk, researcher at the LUCSUS. In his thesis, David Harnesk stu

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/eu-biofuel-regulation-not-sustainable-long-term - 2025-09-13

Christine Wamsler, Professor at LUCSUS, has been commissioned by The Swedish Civil Contingency Agency (MSB) to conduct a research project on the potential of developing a Swedish national strategy for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience. – The research project is very timely. Wide-spread impacts and losses from hazards, such as floods, heat waves, drought and landslides have triggered a n

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/developing-swedish-national-strategy-disaster-risk-reduction-new-lucsus-research-project - 2025-09-13

LUCSUS researcher Vasna Ramasar has been appointed as fellow to the SIGHT Fellow Programme in Global Health Leadership.  The programme aims to promote an emerging generation of global health leaders, based at research institutions in Sweden, by focusing on the gaps in relation to leadership skills and international networks. The SIGHT Fellows were identified as upcoming leaders in global health wi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tackling-agenda-2030-through-sight-fellows-programme-global-health-leadership - 2025-09-13

LUCSUS and Lund University Staff Holding up the SDG:s – The SDG:s can help us as a sustainability centre to reflect around impact and how we are contributing to the goals. Where does our research sit in this context, and how can we make it more relevant to stakeholders and communities?, says Emily Boyd. This is important she notes, because today the SDG.s are becoming increasingly recognized world

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-lucsus-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-09-13

Photo: Mostphotos. A changing climate means that citizens will have to take more action to safeguard their lives and property from extreme weather events. At the same time, there are great differences in people’s capacities and resources to do so. In a new PhD dissertation from LUCSUS, researcher Ebba Brink asserts that it is about time that the Swedish climate debate considers the role of individ

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/swedish-citizens-need-more-support-handle-effects-climate-change - 2025-09-13

Karolina Skog, Minister of the Environment handed out the prize to LUMES Alumnus Benedikt John in Stadshallen in Lund on the 7th of September LUMES alumni Benedikt John (Batch 20) received The Global Goal Prize (hållbarhetspriset) 2018 from Miljöpartiet Skåne for his master thesis “Time to walk the talk: investigating the incorporation ofsustainability at Lund University School of Economics and Ma

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-received-global-goal-prize - 2025-09-13

Photo: Marc Lozano/CC BY-SA 2.0 (the photo is cropped). By adopting methods used by activist citizen movements, municipal level politics can become more inclusive and even pave the way for sustainable transformations. Mine Islar, from LUCSUS, has studied the politics of Barcelona en Comú, an activist citizen platform that came to power in the municipality of Barcelona in 2015. Mine Islar, has foll

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/citizen-activist-movements-can-invigorate-local-politics - 2025-09-13

LUCSUS' researchers Lennart Olsson, Anne Jerneck, and Mine Islar will lead a work package in the new research project, Migration Governance and Crises, MAGYC. The project will explore how European policies are influenced by political crises triggered by migration. It gathers 13 partners from different European countries, as well as from Lebanon and Turkey.  MAGYC runs from 2018 – 2022 and is coord

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-part-new-international-research-project-migration - 2025-09-13

A locked toilet station in the Gazdar Bandh informal settlement in Mumbai. – Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Her research foc

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2025-09-13

LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd has received a grant from Formas to organise an international conference on loss and damage in spring/summer 2019. The planned 2,5 conference will be hosted at LUCSUS and bring together leading scientists from across sustainability, ecology and climate science under a framework of loss and damage to examine definitions of extreme climate related events from a climate cha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conference-loss-and-damage-receives-formas-grant - 2025-09-13

Climate networks aim to strengthen municipalities’ efforts to combat climate change. But membership benefits need to be much clearer communicated in order to utilise the networks’ full potential; and should highlight the importance of network membership to drive local climate politics forward, argues researcher Henner Busch. Today, there exist a number of different transnational climate networks.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-municipal-climate-networks-can-improve-their-impact-new-research-article - 2025-09-13

In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition must be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from PhD Emma Johansson. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by large-scale land acquisition, also referred to as land grabbing, mainly in Tanzania. The lan

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/large-scale-land-acquisition-affects-farmers-ability-produce-their-own-food-africa - 2025-09-13

Monastery Het Pand in Belgium, one of the locations for the Summer Institute in Economic Geography. Chad Boda recently attended the highly competitive 9th Summer School in Economic Geography. This is a brief reflection on his experience. What is the Summer Institute in Economic Geography?The Summer Institute in Economic Geography (SIEG) represents a unique approach to advanced training, mentoring,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/chad-boda-9th-summer-institute-economic-geography-reflections-self-critical-disciplinary-development - 2025-09-13

LUCSUS researcher Emma Johansson is currently in Cambodia to study linkages between land, water and food. The field trip marks the start of a new post doctoral research project aiming to investigate changes in water use and food production linked to land grabbing. The post doctoral studies are funded by the Crafoord Foundation.  What is the purpose of your trip?I have about 10 months research fund

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-challenges-surrounding-land-are-facing-population-emma-johansson-sets-out-field-trip-cambodia - 2025-09-13

Gazdar Bandh, an informal settlement in Mumbai, India. In this interview, Ebba Brink reflects on the specific set of sustainability challenges facing informal settlements in India, and how they can be addressed. She is part of the project BInUCom which focuses on how Indian planning and architecture schools can develop their curricula to better address the complex challenges of informality, enviro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/urban-dynamics-such-shortage-affordable-land-and-housing-force-urban-poor-settle-hazardous-marginal - 2025-09-13

In their recently published paper, Wim Carton and Lennart Olsson argue that perennial polycultures informed by natural ecosystems promise more sustainable agroecosystems – that has the potential to revitalize the economic foundation of farming and hence rural societies. The paper was published together with the Land Institute in Kansas, USA. Modern agriculture is associated with numerous environme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-article-perennial-agriculture - 2025-09-13

Iceland features many spectacular waterfalls and river canyons, which have been subject to renewable energy development for decades. (Photo: Henner Busch) In times of runaway climate change, phasing out fossil fuels and increasing the share of renewables is imperative. But this transition is not without pitfalls as shown by a recent study of two large renewable projects in Iceland by LUCSUS resear

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hidden-price-icelands-green-energy - 2025-09-13

The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas.  Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an exploration of love in relation to land and place in Zimbabwe. An especially large gra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2025-09-13