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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Wim Carton discusses why tree planting is not a panacea for the climate. According to him, too many studies and stakeholders fail to see that the method is inherently fraught and can take away focus from the need to drastically reduce emissions to meet our climate targets. "Tree planting is seen as an easy method that

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tree-planting-no-panacea-climate - 2026-07-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In LUMES, LUCSUS international master programme in environmental studies and sustainability science, students take on real world sustainability problems in their course module, Knowledge-to-Action. This year, students tackled overconsumption through setting up a centre for borrowing household items; devised an action

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-students-take-real-world-sustainability-problems - 2026-07-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New research from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies shows that children’s relationships with nature are not only important for their wellbeing but also for future sustainable forest management. The study also shows that different socioeconomic factors affect children’s experiences of and relationships

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/childrens-relationship-nature-key-future-sustainable-forest-management - 2026-07-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We need new ways of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature to protect and preserve our environment. Research from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) strives to diversify ways of measuring and evaluating ecosystem services to take into account people’s place-based, varied a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/current-frameworks-assess-human-nature-relationships-are-too-simplified-and-risk-compromise-human - 2026-07-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever. At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2026-07-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Water is essential to all human life on earth. Today, over two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress – risking both health and food security. As populations and the demand for water grow, this situation is likely to worsen.  Emma Johansson’s research focuses on water, agriculture and particip

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-water-day-2020-perspectives-water-agriculture-consumption-and-climate-change - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

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 - 2026-07-27

Den 4 maj hölls den första gemensamma forskningskonferensen om hållbar utveckling vid Lunds universitet. Under dagen presenterades över 70 forskningsbidrag för forskare, studenter och internationella deltagare. Konferensen synliggjorde den stora repertoar av hållbarhetsrelaterad forskning som finns på universitetet, samtidigt som potential för mer samarbete och utmaningar med kunskap om hållbar ut

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-skapar-vi-kunskap-om-hallbar-utveckling - 2026-07-27

Under våren har det hänt mycket nytt inom universitetets arbete med jämställdhet, lika villkor, trakasserier, sexuella trakasserier och kränkande särbehandling. - Nu har vi börjat skapa de förutsättningar som krävs för att bedriva arbetet med de här frågorna på ett tydligt och bra sätt, säger Jimmie Kristensson som är vicerektor för frågor som rör kommunikation, kurage och karaktär.I början av åre

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/nu-starker-vi-det-forebyggande-arbetet-mot-diskriminering-och-jamstalldhet-och-lika-villkor - 2026-07-27

Tre forskningsprojekt med sammanlagt 10 postdoktorer får anslag i den första omgången av Lunds universitets forskningsprogram för excellens med fokus på Agenda 2030 och hållbar utveckling. Totalt inkom 33 ansökningar och av dessa har 28 granskats av en extern, internationell panel. - Det här är första gången som Lunds universitet lanserar ett så här omfattande excellensprogram inom forskning och d

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tio-postdoktorer-forst-ut-i-excellensprogrammet-hallbar-utveckling-p - 2026-07-27

Höstens fokus kommer att vara att utreda framtidens forskningsinfrastruktur utifrån Krantz-rapporten, att följa upp resultatet från universitetets e-infrastrukturutredning och att belysa informations- och IT-säkerheten vid universitetet. Att gå från dekan/rektor på LTH till vicerektor för forskningsinfrastruktur och digitalisering har varit en spännande upplevelse. Spännande, utmanande men också f

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/oversyn-av-var-forskningsinfrastruktur-och-informationssakerhet - 2026-07-27

Inför hösten vill jag utveckla arbetet med så kallade kompletta miljöer där både utbildning och forskning samverkar, arbeta med det livslånga lärandet och lyfta den mångsidiga innovationsverksamheten. Samverkan och innovation är de huvudsakliga områdena som ingår i min portfölj som vicerektor. Båda är områden inom vilka det händer mycket nytt för oss alla. Inte minst så efterfrågas alltmer förmåga

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/fokus-pa-mangsidig-innovationsverksamhet-och-det-livslanga-larandet - 2026-07-27

I slutet av juni fattade rektor beslut om vilka frågor som vi inom LU nu ska arbeta gemensamt med på basen av RQ20. Dessa frågor är: rekrytering och karriärvägar; forskningsinfrastruktur; tvärvetenskaplig forskning; profilering och starka forskningsmiljöer samt uppföljning. Nu är det dags för oss att kavla upp ärmarna och ta tag i utmaningarna. I vissa fall har vi redan organisationen på plats för

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hosten-borjar-dar-varen-slutade-med-rq20 - 2026-07-27