Published 30 September 2019 Photo: Ann Åkerman Involving 14 institutions across Europe NATURVATION involves 14 institutions across Europe working in fields as diverse as urban development, innovation studies, geography, ecology, environmental assessment and economics. Our partnership includes city governments, non-governmental organisations and business.We are assessing what nature-based solutions

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Published 30 September 2019 A café discussion about energy and how to heat our homes in a sustainable way in the future. This event is part of the Future Week at Lund University, 14-20 October. During Future Week at Lund University, the IIIEE is organising Walking energy, talking energy, a café discussion, that aims to encourage the participants of the event to share experiences and visions of how

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Published 9 October 2019 Join a game-changing conference and exhibition in Sweden on the emerging sharing economy in cities! Sharing Cities Sweden is organising a conference and exhibition on exploring the role of sharing cities in advancing the sustainable development goals, the Sharing Cities Summit.See more information on the emerging program (updated over time) of the event as well as the prac

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Published 14 October 2019 The institute will be part of a new International Energy Agency (IEA) Task on energy efficiency. The IEA-DSM ‘Hard-to-Reach’ (HTR) project will generate knowledge, approaches and policy recommendations aiming to identify HTR energy users and effectively engage them in energy efficiency programmes.The research will support the development of robust social science-based gui

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Published 21 October 2019 Circular Economy Mini-Series: part 1 of 3 Hear the latest about the Circular Economy in our new podcast episode, now available on all major podcats platforms! 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-out-now - 2025-01-14

Published 21 October 2019 Our Director Per Mickwitz among the new professors honoured On 18 October, Lund University held their inauguration ceremony for 2019 and among the 28 new professors honoured were our Director, Professor Per Mickwitz.Link to the publication of the inauguration of new professors at Lund University 2019

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Published 21 October 2019 Peter Arnfalk interviewed by TV4 news IIIEE's research on virtual meetings has helped public agencies in Sweden reduce up to 50 % of CO2 from business travel. A project involving 80 Swedish public agencies, the REMM project, based on IIIEE research on virtual meetings, has helped the agencies to significantly reduce their CO2 emission from travel with up to 53 %.Swedish d

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Published 21 October 2019 'Urban Sharing in Amsterdam: City report No. 1' The Urban Sharing Team has published their first City Report from their research project. Urban Sharing in Amsterdam City Report is the result of a Mobile Research Lab conducted in Amsterdam in Spring 2019.The research is part of the five-year research programme Urban Sharing, funded by the European Research Council (2018-20

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Published 25 October 2019 Kes McCormick represented the IIIEE for the TRANSFORM project in Toronto, Canada on 23-25 October. The TRANSFORM project integrates innovative academic research with entrepreneurial experimentation and extensive collaboration among the academic, private and public sectors with the development of hubs in Canada, USA, Sweden, Germany and Australia. Associate Professor Kes M

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Published 18 November 2019 IIIEE researchers Jessika Luth Richter and Carl Dalhammar have authored a new book on planned obsolescence (PO), together with staff at the Fores think tank.The book, Planned Obsolescence – Built not to last, is published by the European Liberal Forum and explains what PO is and provides examples of PO. It furthemore outlines the links between Circular Economy and Climat

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Published 21 November 2019 A checklist for creating environmental benefits Julia Nussholz, PhD Candidate at the IIIEE, has created a checklist for environmentally sound circular business model design.It presents 10 key considerations for sustainable circular business model innovation - summarising the most recent contributions in the field and her own work on Circular Business Model (CBM) evaluati

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Published 22 November 2019 New book edited by Professor Oksana Mont A new book that sets a Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing.The book is now available in Open Access, thanks to the Swedish research council for sustainable development, FORMAS.The book contains a wealth of topics from strong sustainable consumption and weak sustainab

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Published 22 November 2019 Co-written by IIIEE researcher Björn Wickenberg Björn Wickenberg at the IIIEE has co-written two new articles on Nature-based Solutions (NBS):1. Working on the boundaries—How do science use and interpret the nature-based solution concept?2. Environmental and climate policy integration: Targeted strategies for overcoming barriers to nature-based solutions and climate chan

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Published 26 November 2019 Carl Dalhammar presenting in Yokohama, Japan Showcasing research results of the MISTRA REES project. Associate professor Carl Dalhammar together with colleagues from Linköping University organised the special session ‘Advancing Circular Economy in the Manufacturing Industry: The Importance of Design, Business Models, and Policies’ showcasing research results of the MISTR

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Published 2 December 2019 New article released in connection to the opening of COP25 in Madrid On 2 December the article 'Recalibrating climate prospects' is released in connection to the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25, 2 – 13 December 2019, in Madrid.Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE has co-written the article together with IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Published 4 December 2019 South Swedish collaborations towards a Horizon Europe mission on climateneutral and smart cities event in Brussels. On 4 December, Lärosäten Syd – the network of Universities in South Sweden – have teamed up with the other south Swedish Brussels offices – Skåne European Office, Småland Blekinge Halland South Sweden, Skåne Association of Local Authorities and City of Malmö

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Published 5 December 2019 Photo: Shutterstock An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate climate science to consequences, c

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Published 6 December 2019 Anders Persson, Karolina Södergren (IIIEE), Jenny Palm (IIIEE) och Georgina Brennan, från Lunds universitet. Foto: Malin Thelin/Sveriges Radio Researchers Jenny Palm and Karolina Södergren from the IIIEE talk about their research project Smart Symbiosis. On 4 December, the Swedish Radio P4 Kristianstad published a radio feature on the environment in the Hanö bay area. Fro

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Published 6 December 2019 Associate Professor Yuliya Voytenko Palgan has produced six videos to showcase the role of cities in regulating the Sharing Economy. Associate Professor Yuliya Voytenko Palgan at the IIIEE has worked to understand the role of cities in regulating the Sharing Economy. She has produced six videos to describe several roles and she shares this process in her new blogpost: Mak

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Published 11 December 2019 Client exercise report 2019 by batch 25 of the IIIEE Master's Programme in Environmental Management and Policy The capstone course of the EMP programme at the IIIEE is the SSC course that leads student teams to client exercise projects all over the world. The students work for professional clients, assisting organisations and governmental institutions in finding solution

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