Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson is Professor of Geography at Lund University and the founding director of LUCSUS 2000-2017. He also led the Linnaeus Centre LUCID (Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability) 2008-2018. His research fields include human-nature interactions in the context of agriculture, land degradation, climate change and food security in Africa and globally, and he has a strong interest in theoretical approaches to interdisciplinarity. He is currently associate editor of the journals: Ecology and Society, Global Sustainability, and the new journal Earth System Governance. He has held research positions in Australia, USA and Hong Kong and participated in several international assignments including the IPCC and UNEP-GEO assessments. He was Coordinating Lead Author for the chapter on livelihoods and poverty in IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report 2011-2014, and for the chapter on Land Degradation in the IPCC special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), 2017-19.
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