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LUCUS today, 11th December, presents a new travel policy for staff and associated researchers. It sets out a number of commitments aimed to reduce work-related emissions and takes effect from January 2019. Reducing flying amongst staff is the number one priority, since flying is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in academia. The commitments are not binding but each staff member

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-presents-new-travel-policy-reduce-work-related-emissions - 2025-09-29

"No matter what happens in real time politics, some damage is already done”. Researcher Torsten Krause comments on the newly elected Brasilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s plans for deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon.  Bolsonaro takes office on the first of January 2019 and has promised to open protected areas and indigenous territories to mining, to relax environmental laws, cut financing

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-exploitation-and-deforestation-brazilian-amazon - 2025-09-29

Many of us have noticed the increasing frequency of climate protests organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR) across Sweden. What do these protests represent? Is this just another group of tree-huggers being a public nuisance? Or is this a needed development in taking our climate goals further? Lund University researchers, Stephen Woroniecki and Tullia Jack argue that there are critical ideas to tak

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-what-can-we-learn-xr-movement - 2025-09-29

The Lund University graduate school on Agenda 2030 is now open for applications. We welcome graduate school applicants from various disciplinary backgrounds who want to take an active role in Agenda 2030 research. The graduate school offers a unique opportunity to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on global challenges and contribute to current research while deepening your subject knowledge.The

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-phd-positions-lund-university-agenda-2030-graduate-school - 2025-09-29

A year ago LUCSUS researcher Sara Gabrielsson went to Tanzania to study the cultural acceptability and management challenges of different menstrual products among adolescent school girls in rural Tanzania. The study, which tested three types of menstrual products: the menstrual cup, disposable sanitary pads and washable fabric pads, found that the menstrual cup was the most preferred menstrual opt

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/she-wants-break-silence-about-menstruation - 2025-09-29

LUCSUS is starting a new capacity building programme to develop knowledge and leadership among leaders and decision makers from across Africa about the Agenda 2030. ‘Land is Life’ is a novel 2 MSEK pilot program on capacity development for Agenda 2030 funded by the Swedish Institute. The programme aims to train future leaders and decision makers from across Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-leads-new-capacity-building-programme-agenda-2030 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

Researcher Karin Steen is leading a new Formas project on love, gender and agriculture in Zimbabwe. – I wanted to pursue research that took a different approach to sustainability, gender, power and agriculture. Usually, you look at things like ownership and access to land. By focusing on immaterial values such as love, I believe that you can gain new insights into existing power structures, and ho

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/whats-love-got-do-it-place-gender-and-agriculture-zimbabwe - 2025-09-29

Take the opportunity and apply for the capacity building programme Land is Life. The programme aims to train future leaders and decision-makers from across Africa to build knowledge, understand measurement and develop leadership on SDG15 – Ecosystem and biodiversity.  Land is at the heart of what makes agriculture function in sub-Saharan Africa, and as such it is also crucial to reducing poverty.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/open-application-capacity-building-programme-agenda-2030-land-life - 2025-09-29

Agriculture is critical to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. New research from Lund University shows that researchers, policymakers, and farmers in Europe currently have different, often conflicting priorities for sustainable agriculture. The researchers propose a way forward built on shared priorities. – We identified precisely where the major gaps between research, policy, and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/identifying-common-ground-sustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-09-29

Last summer's extreme drought hit farmers and horse stables in county Skåne hard. Yields were smaller than normal and the price of fodder has increased.  Now, researchers from LUCSUS and Lund University want to gather farmers’ experiences of the drought to find out more about the major challenges to adapt the Swedish agricultural sector.  – We are interested in how different famers handled the dro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researcher-will-gather-farmers-experiences-extreme-summer-drought - 2025-09-29

While deforestation and forest degradation have gained attention in recent years not least at the UN climate negotiations, defaunation, has to a great extent been overlooked. Human-induced faunal loss does not only reduce tree species diversity, but also significantly erodes key ecosystem services and functions and further disadvantages local communities. In a new article in Sustianability science

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-future-primates-conservation-struggles-forests-cross-river-state-nigeria - 2025-09-29

LUCSUS are recruiting three PhD candidates in Sustainability Science linked to three new research projects. Current vacanciesPhD in Sustainability scienceThe Takeoff of Staying on the GroundLast application date 8 April 2019Read the full announcement and apply here Negative emissionsLast application date 9 April 2019Read the full announcement and apply here Recasting the disproportionate impacts o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/vacant-phd-positions-sustainability-science - 2025-09-29

School students are right to demand more ambitious climate policies on 15 March. The scientific facts are entirely on their side. As researchers working on climate change we support the student movement and share our insights and research-based advice for local and global policymakers. For the past months, school students around the world have taken to the streets to call for increased climate amb

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-supports-ongoing-climate-strikes - 2025-09-29

LUCSUS is part of the annual Sustainability Week in Lund, 8-13 April. This year's theme "Transforming our world" focuses on the global goals and agenda 2030. LUCSUS will participate in, and host, several events about sustainable transformations at different levels. 8 AprilOpening  and guided tour of the exhibition Carbon Ruins. ‘Carbon Ruins’ aims to transport the visitor into a future where trans

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week - 2025-09-29

In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowledge co-creation might play in realizing the SDGs.What sustainability challenge do

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2025-09-29

Why did Trump win? Or more precisely, how did Hillary lose? Why were so many experts so wrong about Trump’s support? How will Trump’s victory affect the lives of ordinary Americans? Steven Sampson discusses this in his recent piece “Angry white males as suffering subjects” published in Focaal blog.Learn more on focaalblog.comSteven Sampson’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-angry-white-males - 2025-09-29

Priscilla Solano defended her dissertation ”Assisting in the Shadows. Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics” today at 10:15 in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of BristolAssisting in the Shadows: Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration PoliticsPriscilla Solano's personal page  

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/priscilla-solano-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-09-29

How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminism and Psychology. Read the article at journals.sagepub.comAbstract: China and Ind

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-bio-politics-population-control - 2025-09-29

Elin Ennerberg defended her thesis "Destination employment? Contradictions and ambiguities in Swedish labour market policy for newly arrived migrants" today at 13:15 in the auditorium at St Algatan 4, Lund. Discussant Professor Sven Hort, Linnéuniversitet.Elin Ennerberg's personal page.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elin-ennerberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-09-29