Agenda 2030 PhD courses

Admission priority will be given to the PhD students within the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. There is a possibility for PhD students from other universities and master students to participate in courses - please contact the course coordinator of the specific course for further information. Below you find information about currently offered courses, course registration and course coordinators.

PhD courses, Autumn 2025

Whose world? Resource (ab)use in the longue durée

1 December 2025 - 16 January 2026 (7,5 ECTS)

Who has the authority to shape the world—and at whose expense? Whose World? Resource (Ab)use in the Longue Durée is a doctoral course that invites participants to examine the historical foundations of environmental and social injustice. Bridging history, human rights, environmental studies, and legal scholarship, the course investigates how both natural and human resources have been defined, exploited, governed, and contested over time. This course offers insights about sustainability issues from a historical perspective by covering early modern and modern periods. Focusing on theoretical, yet empirically anchored themes such as mining industry, forestry, family law, time and temporality and rights tradition, both from indigenous/minority and majority population perspectives, the course unfolds resource abuse and use related to these themes and how this knowledge can be used as an integrated part of work on sustainability issues. 

• Course description (PDF, 179 kB, new tab).
• Course schedule: A specific schedule will be added shortly, but scheduled dates are 1/12, 5/12, 12/12, 19/12, 5/1, 9/1, 12/1 and 16/1.
• Course literature (PDF, 78 kB, new tab).
• Course registration: Send an e-mail to Joachim Östlund (Joachim [dot] ostlund [at] hist [dot] lu [dot] se (Joachim[dot]ostlund[at]hist[dot]lu[dot]se)).
• Registration deadline: 21 November 2025.
• Course convener: Joachim Östlund
• Joachim [dot] ostlund [at] hist [dot] lu [dot] se (Joachim[dot]ostlund[at]hist[dot]lu[dot]se)

PhD courses, Spring 2026

Nature-based solutions at the Climate-Biodiversity-Health Nexus: Social and Natural Science Perspectives

2-6 March 2026, Lund University (3 ECTS)

This course incorporates social and natural science perspectives on nature-based solutions (e.g., environmental psychology, ecology, physical geography, epidemiology, human rights and governance). It thereby aims at broadening disciplinary boundaries and provides a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the climate-biodiversity-health nexus and proposed solutions within it (i.e., nature-based solutions). It aims at evaluating these solutions critically and fostering an understanding of challenges, trade-offs, and synergies when trying to solve complex global issues.

Minimum 5 and maximum 20 participants.

• Course syllabus (fukurser.lth.se)
• Host: Environmental Phychology, Dept of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH
• Register to the course through the webform page (cec.lu.se)
• Register by 10 February
• Course coordinators: Maria Johansson and Marlis Wullenkord
• maria [dot] johansson [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se (maria[dot]johansson[at]abm[dot]lth[dot]se) and marlis [dot] wullenkord [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se (marlis[dot]wullenkord[at]abm[dot]lth[dot]se)