Published 21 December 2016 Jessika Luth Richter defends her thesis for the licentiate degree on 21 December 2016 Licentiate thesis defence On 21 December 2016, Jessika Luth Richter at the IIIEE will present her thesis for the licentiate degree in Industrial Environmental Economics (120 credits) at a public seminar, with the title: Extended Producer Responsibility for Closing Material Loops – Lesso

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/extended-producer-responsibility-closing-material-loops-lessons-energy-efficient-lighting-products - 2025-07-07

Published 22 December 2016 "Green Wave for Zabrze - A sustainable Mobility Strategy" is now published in Polish! The report was originally published in English, as a result of the research conducted in the city of Zabrze last spring, by the IIIEE MSc students. Historically known as one of the most polluted cities in Europe, Zabrze is presently undergoing a rapid transition "from black to green". D

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/green-wave-zabrze-sustainable-mobility-strategy - 2025-07-07

Published 22 December 2016 Photo: Pixabay Expert insight by Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij On 14 December 2016, Associate Professor Luis Mundaca and Professor Lena Neij, at the IIIEE, published an ‘expert insight’ in the ‘Insights Blog’ of GGKP - Green Growth Knowledge Platform. Read the full blog post here: Towards a Green Energy Economy? Steering an Effective Transition 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/towards-green-energy-economy-steering-effective-transition - 2025-07-07

Published 13 January 2017 THESIS DEFENCE On 13 January at 13.00 - 15:00, Thomas Parker at the IIIEE will defend his doctoral dissertation in Industrial Environmental Economics, with the title: The Meaning of Environmental Management: An Interpretive Study of Managing Emergent or Evolutionary Environmental and Energy Strategy.Appointed opponent is Associate Professor Thomas Zobel at Luleå Universit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meaning-environmental-management - 2025-07-07

Published 13 January 2017 Professor Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE Photo: Kennet Ruona Climate change, a growing population and increased urbanisation place great demands on our cities. Meeting these challenges requires collaboration to develop smart cities. But what does a smart city really mean and how do we create one?A smart city is a sustainable city. A city in which people want to live, wh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/collaboration-key-smart-sustainable-cities-future - 2025-07-07

Published 20 January 2017 Photo: Pixabay Last application date: 16 february 2017 The IIIEE is now offering a position as Doctoral student in sustainable governance with a focus on nature-based solutions and innovation.Last application date is on 16 February 2017.More about the position on Lund University website: Doctoral student in sustainable urban governance with a focus on nature-based solutio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/doctoral-student-sustainable-urban-governance-focus-nature-based-solutions-and-innovation - 2025-07-07

Published 24 January 2017 Photo: Pixabay New article published within the project Reconomy A new article, Sustainability framings of accommodation sharing, has been published by IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Lucie Zvolska and Oksana Mont, in the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, published by Elsevier. The article is published within the project Reconomy: Sharin

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainability-framings-accommodation-sharing - 2025-07-07

Published 27 January 2017 Damascus in Syria Foto: Aziz1005 Wikipedia Seminar 27 January On 27 January, the Swedish Institute is hosting a public release of Dr. Tareq Emtairah's study on Post Conflict Futures in Syria 2040. During August to December 2016, Dr. Tareq Emtairah, at the IIIEE, has organised and led pioneering workshops involving academics who are a part of the Syrian diaspora in Sweden

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/post-conflict-futures-syria-2040 - 2025-07-07

Published 3 February 2017 European Parliament Photo: Wikimedia commons PhD candidate Leonidas Milios at the IIIEE is scrutinizing on concepts and policies for resource efficiency based on circular economy thinking in a new report under the research project Mistra REES. This report presents basic concepts around resources, resource efficiency and the Circular Economy. The limitations and the opport

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-policies-resource-efficient-and-effective-solutions - 2025-07-07

Published 3 February 2017 Alvar Palm Photo: Johan Persson Thesis defence 8 February 2017 On 8 February 2017, Alvar Palm will defend his doctoral dissertation in Industrial Environmental Economics at the IIIEE, with the title: Residential solar photovoltaics deployment: barriers and drivers in space. Appointed opponent is Professor Harald Rohracher, Linköping University. Supervisors are: Professor 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/residential-solar-photovoltaics-deployment-barriers-and-drivers-space - 2025-07-07

Published 23 February 2017 Diversity in Education: Crossing cultural, disciplinary and professional divides New book out now! Diversity in Education: crossing cultural, disciplinary and professional divides, is a newly published book that explores the challenges of interdisciplinary international programmes at Lund University.In this book, teachers, administrators and students tell how they have f

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/diversity-education-crossing-cultural-disciplinary-and-professional-divides - 2025-07-07

Published 1 March 2017 The February issue of the IIIEE Newsletter is out now. Follow the link Vol.2. No. 1, February, 2017.IIIEE newsletter archive

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Published 6 March 2017 Photo: Shutterstock Article in Lund University Research Magazine In the latest issue of the Lund University Research Magazine (LUM), the article "In narratives of hope, researchers come together for the future of Syria" was published. The article sheds light on two academic Syrian refugees and participants of the project Post Conflict Futures, initiated by the IIIEE and CMES

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/narratives-hope-researchers-come-together-future-syria - 2025-07-07

Published 9 March 2017 Prof. Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE has been selected as a Lead Author for the next IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C Prof. Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE was selected to participate as a Lead Author for an upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. This time, he will contribute to the assessment of Global Warming of 1.5 °C: An IPCC spec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-will-contribute-ipcc-special-report-global-warming-15degc - 2025-07-07

Published 10 March 2017 CST staff and students together with IIIEE representatives Photo: Håkan Rodhe The IIIEE has set up a joint initiative with the University of Stellenbosch, Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST), on exploring greener development models in Africa. Initiated by Dr Desta Mebratu, the ambition is a multi-year initiative called Distributed Renewable Economies for Africa’s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-joint-initiative-university-stellenbosch - 2025-07-07

Published 13 March 2017 Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon River displays how cities can design green space to manage flooding and improve the urban landscape. A new and ground-breaking European trans-disciplinary Horizon 2020 project Lund University is now a partner in NATURVATION, a project focusing on nature-based solutions in cities. From Lund University, the IIIEE is involved in the project together with

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/nature-based-solutions-cities - 2025-07-07

Published 14 March 2017 Dialogue session at the International Sustainability Transitions Conference on 18-21 June 2017 The Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST) project will organize a dialogue session at the International Sustainability Transitions Conference on 18-21 June 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden.Urban living labs are proliferating across Europe as a means for testing innovatio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/advancing-urban-living-labs-experimentation-governance-and-transitions - 2025-07-07

Published 15 March 2017 Advancing Sustainable Solutions The IIIEE Annual Report 2016 has now been completed. The web version can be downloaded here: IIIEE Annual Report 2016

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-annual-report-2016 - 2025-07-07

Published 20 March 2017 Urban Living Labs (ULL) are advanced as an explicit form of intervention delivering sustainability goals for cities. Established at the boundaries between research, innovation and policy, ULL are intended to design, demonstrate and learn about the effects of urban interventions in real time. While rapidly growing as an empirical phenomenon, our understanding of the nature a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-urban-living-labs - 2025-07-07

Published 4 April 2017 IIIEE students presenting their results in the City Hall of Zabrze Three scenarios for the the way towards clean air in the city of Zabrze in Poland, was presented by a student group from the IIIEE last Friday, 31 March. Zabrze is known as one of the most polluted cities in Europe and was last winter facing extreme problems, including hazardous levels of pollutants and smog.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-students-show-way-clean-air-poland - 2025-07-07