Published 7 October 2015 "We need scientific evidence evaluating the impact of Urban Living Labs. We hope to be able to close this gap", says IIIEE Visiting Researcher James Evans, professor at Manchester University. Urban Living Labs: Visiting researcher James Evans in search of success factors Can urban living labs create more sustainable urban development? Manchester researcher James Evans and

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By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 16 May 2022 Rogier van den Berg, Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and Kes McCormick, IIIEE. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö partnered with the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics and the City Futures Academy to support capacity building and lifelong learni

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-iclei-world-congress-filming-and-podcasting-capacity-building-and-lifelong-learning - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 18 May 2022 Join an online interactive event on May 25, moderated by Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE. A scientific conversation on the green transition with a panel of specialists in the field. Scan the QR code or use this link to read more and register

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/energy-transition-current-crisis-opportunity-reversion - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 19 May 2022 Jenny Palm and Ellen Boije af Gennäs Erre have published a policy brief, providing a summary on the current legislation concerning energy communities in Sweden. Based on the Renewable energy directive (2018/2001) the Energy Market Inspectorate proposed a bill that stated that energy communities should be ec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-brief-energy-communities-sweden - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 30 May 2022 Businesses are an essential driver for sustainability, yet managers struggle to make decisions about their business model that actually improve their sustainability performance. In this episode, we meet Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Henning Breuer, and Lorenzo Massa, authors of the new book called ‘Sustainable Bus

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-sustainable-business-model-design-patterns-make-sustainability-work - 2025-07-07

Published 8 October 2015 Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living L

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 31 May 2022 Stockholm+50 takes place June 2-3, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UN Environmental Programme. The ambition is to commemorate the jubilee and 50 years of global environmental action but also to step up the pace of the transition to a more sustainable future. One paper, written together with research

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/carl-dalhammar-contributes-background-reports-stockholm50-conference - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 3 June 2022 Bumble bee on roof in Malmö. Photo: Björn Wickenberg As part of current efforts to work towards sustainable development, find solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and adapt cities to the effects of climate change, such as floods and extreme heat, there are high hopes that nature-based solutions (NBS)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/implementation-nature-based-solutions-cities-requires-collaboration-learning-and-co-production - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 9 June 2022 Over 280 cities from the entire world participated and Lund was elected winner, together with Bogotá. Lund has ambitious climate goals and programmes and the Climate Policy Council reviews Lund’s work with climate impact. Read more about the award and how Lund is working with climate issues: WWF press relea

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-awarded-first-place-wwf-one-planet-city-challenge - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 9 June 2022 Growing attention is being given to the role of citizens’ political agency in the development of low-carbon transport systems. In a newly published paper, we reveal the complex, intertwined nature of multiple factors explaining this phenomenon, including trust. Using Sweden as a case study, the ‘Behavioural

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/low-carbon-transport-systems-and-public-engagement-should-we-trust-mistrust - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 10 June 2022 The programmes are carried out with financial support from the Swedish Institute, which means they are free of charge for you. They will be conducted part-time and largely online, with either a visit to Sweden or mentoring and/or workshops in the participants’ countries and/or region. Human Rights and Gend

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/open-applications-three-agenda-2030-capacity-development-programmes - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 13 June 2022 On 10 June 2022, Björn Wickenberg successfully defended his thesis “Translation and Implementation of Nature-based Solutions in Cities: Experimentation, Learning and Knowledge Production”. Congratulations Björn! Read more about Björn’s thesis in a previously published news  Björn Wickenberg responding to t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/bjorn-wickenberg-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 14 June 2022 The transition to a low-carbon society requires a deep transformation, enabled by rapid adoption of new energy technologies. A main driver for this will be technology learning, providing cost reductions in low-carbon technologies. Over the past two decades, learning has provided substantial cost reductions

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-accelerating-low-carbon-transition-will-require-policy-enhance-local-learning - 2025-07-07

Published 8 October 2015 Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick Malmö Innovation Platform: Sustainable renovating takes social skills Sustainable renovation of the Swedish Million Homes Programme is a challenge in all aspects – economic, social and ecological. In this platform, IIIEE researchers contribute to the development of joint innovation capacity in the southeast of Malmö.  During the 1960s

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By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 17 June 2022 On June 13 we celebrated the students’ completion of the Master’s programme in Environmental Management and Policy. After two years of pandemic, we could finally have a traditional ceremony in the university assembly hall, with graduates, family and friends gathered. The ceremony started with a procession

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-batch-27 - 2025-07-07

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 8 August 2022 The aim of this course is for students to learn what the Circular Economy (CE) is, and how its emergence can be facilitated as the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers, and all of us as consumers. The course delivers knowledge of where important materials in p

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/online-course-circular-economy-managing-materials-sustainably-75-credits-open-registration - 2025-07-07

Published 25 August 2022 Food and sustainability transformations. New blogpost from Kes McCormick at the IIIEE presenting key points and insights from his research and teaching on sustainability transformations and how food is shaping as a defining force — for better or worse. Read the blog here.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/food-entry-point-sustainability-transformations - 2025-07-07

Published 26 August 2022 Can nature-based solutions (often called NBS) really tackle climate change and advance urban sustainability?Our research shows that nature-based solutions (NBS) can help tackle climate change and advance urban sustainability by using nature to deliver social, ecological and economic benefits. However, their success largely depend on implementation for which several barrier

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/collaboration-and-co-development-knowledge-are-key-elements-nbs-implementation-process - 2025-07-07

Published 31 August 2022 Local learning for low-carbon transition The transition to a low-carbon society requires a deep transformation, enabled by rapid adoption of new energy technologies. Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon society will require more attention to learning in the implementation of technologies. How can local learning contribute to accelerating the low-carbon transition? T

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/low-carbon-transition-requires-local-learning-reduce-implementation-costs - 2025-07-07

Published 1 September 2022 The IIIEE is currently hosting a record high number of 84 students, all participating in the international master programmes EMP & MESPOM. The IIIEE is currently hosting a record high number of 84 students, all participating in the international master programmes EMP & MESPOM. The EMP program is into its 29th class and the MESPOM program its 17th class. The students this

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/record-number-masters-students-iiiee - 2025-07-07