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Published 30 June 2020 "Circular Economy in Home Textiles: Motivations of IKEA Consumers in Sweden" Ever wondered what motivates consumers to engage in circular home textile disposal practices? IIIEE researchers Matthias Lehner, Oksana Mont, Giulia Mariani, and Luis Mundaca have just published a study in Sustainability, answering this question based on a sample of IKEA Consumers in Sweden. Abstrac
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication - 2025-04-21
Published 24 January 2019 CIRCUSOL consortium meeting in Antwerp, Belgium, followed by co-creation session at Cohousing Waasland to discuss circular solar business model options. On 23-26 January the CIRCUSOL project consortium is coming together to discuss progress on the circular solar business model demonstrators and next steps to explore second-life use of solar PV and batteries.Demonstrator-l
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circusol-project-discusses-circular-solar-business-model-options - 2025-04-21
Published 30 January 2019 IIIEE is a partner in the EIT Raw Materials project which is organizing community electronics repair events across Europe in 2019 to educate about critical raw materials. Raw materials are crucial for maintaining a quality of life and for the transition to a low carbon economy, but many critical materials face potential supply disruptions in the near future. Many of these
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/refer-project-educating-about-critical-raw-materials-electronics - 2025-04-21
Published 5 February 2019 Prof. Nancy Bocken talking at the first Open Innovation Seminar of the year at UC Berkeley, Haas Business School, organised by Prof. Henry Chesbrough. Circular Economy is one of the concepts that can help us address pressing challenges such as climate change. As engaged researchers, we need to find new ways of doing research to address these pressing challenges. This tal
Published 22 February 2019 Steven Curtis & Matthias Lehner publish open access journal article that proposes a logically-consistent definition of the sharing economy that prioritises sustainability. The sharing economy is largely promoted to facilitate access over ownership, which proponents of the sharing economy suggest leads to reduced resource consumption. However, the purported sustainability
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/publication-defining-sharing-economy-sustainability - 2025-04-21
Published 25 February 2019 New book on Innovation for Sustainability Nancy Bocken, Professor in Sustainable Business at the IIIEE, has co-edited a new book: Innovation for Sustainability: Business Transformations Towards a Better World, available hereThe aim of the book:The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/innovation-sustainability-business-transformations-towards-better-world - 2025-04-21
Published 5 March 2019 Supporting the project Environmental and socio-economic benefits from Swedish biofuel production. Philip Peck at the IIIEE has completed a new support analysis together with scientists at IVL and Bio4Energy (LTU). The analysis is a support analysis for the project Environmental and socio-economic benefits from Swedish biofuel production within the f3 and Swedish Energy Agenc
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-support-analysis-completed-socio-economic-metrics-transport-biofuels-review - 2025-04-21
Published 6 March 2019 Professor Luis Mundaca guest edited a special issue of Energy Efficiency, volume 12, issue 2. His editorial is open access and available here: Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-issue-out-energy-efficiency-guest-edited-professor-luis-mundaca - 2025-04-21
Published 6 March 2019 A new article has been published by Lucie Zvolska, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont at the IIIEE with the title: 'How do sharing organisations create and disrupt institutions? Towards a framework for institutional work in the sharing economy'.AbstractThe sharing economy is a new form of resource distribution that is affecting traditional markets, cities and individuals
Published 12 March 2019 Photo: Pixabay Professor Oksana Mont in an interview on sustainable consumption and flying. In an interview made by Heidi Hakala at Vasabladet, Professor Oksana Mont at the IIIEE states that "We need more political governance to solve climate issues" (”Vi behöver mer politisk styrning för att lösa klimatproblemen”).Link to the interview here (in Swedish only)
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/klimatangest-och-flygskam-nu-omprovas-normerna - 2025-04-21
Published 12 March 2019 Showing the linkages between social, economic and environmental issues in business models and spotlighting solutions. New report out on "Business Models and Labour Standards: Making the Connection", co-written by Professor Nancy Bocken at the IIIEE.Abstract:Despite retailers spending significant sums on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and other related initiatives lit
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-out-business-models-and-labour-standards-making-connection - 2025-04-21
Published 12 March 2019 IPACST research team together in Lund On 11 March, researchers from the IPACST team gathered in Lund to discuss research on the role of IP strategies and sustainable business models in sustainability transitions.The research team consists of researchers from: HTW Berlin, FU Berlin, University of Cambridge, Indian Institute of Science, and Lund University. Lund University II
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ipacst-research-team-gathered-lund - 2025-04-21
Published 14 March 2019 On 15 March, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Aktuell Hållbarhet are organizers of Klimatforum 2019 – från strategi till verklighet. Professor Lena Neij at the IIIEE, Chair of the Climate political council in Lund, is participating and discussing climate challenges and ways forward.Link to the event (live stream)
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/klimatforum-2019-strategy-reality - 2025-04-21
Published 14 March 2019 Focusing on identifying recurrent patterns, similarities and differences between different types of sharing services. A new paper has been published with initial findings from the research project Sharing Cities Sweden: Analysis of Sharing Economy Services : Initial Findings from Sharing Cities SwedenAbstract:In this paper, we analyze different types of sharing economy serv
Published 25 March 2019 New podcast episode by Advancing Sustainable Solutions! Kiruna, a small and industrious mining town in the arctic north of Sweden, is facing a unique challenge - the mine has expanded so far under ground that it is weakening the town’s foundations and will eventually pose a threat to inhabitants.City leadership and the mining company decided that much of the town would have
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/town-ice-and-fire - 2025-04-21
Published 25 March 2019 Photo: Shutterstock Discussing how to reduce climate impact from business travel in Sweden. Peter Arnfalk at the IIIEE participated in two stories by Swedish Radio on climate impact, business travels and virtual meetings as a tool for reducing carbon emissions.In Ekot: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/1253738?programid=4540In P1-morgon: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/ar
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/peter-arnfalk-interviewed-swedish-radio - 2025-04-21
Published 26 March 2019 A summary of sixty innovative examples with the aim of spreading knowledge about sustainable production and consumption in accordance with the UN Global Goal 12 of Agenda 2030. The Nordic Report 01 was recently published, displaying sixty innovative examples with the aim of spreading knowledge about sustainable production and consumption in accordance with the UN Global Goa
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/nordic-report-01-2018 - 2025-04-21
Published 2 April 2019 Peter Arnfalk at the IIIEE Guiding authorities how to speed up the transition to digital meetings. Sydsvenskan published an article on Swedish universities' transition from unnecessary flying to digital meetings.Peter Arnfalk at the IIIEE was interviewed for this article: Universiteten släpar efter när flyg ska ersättas av digitala möten
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/peter-arnfalk-sydsvenskan - 2025-04-21
Published 4 April 2019 On 3 April a new climate report was submitted to the municipal executive board of Lund. The report was conducted by the Climate Policy Council of Lund Municipality, a newly established council, with the aim to inspect the climate work of Lund Municipality and guide them towards reaching the goals set.Lena Neij at the IIIEE is the Chair of the council and handed over the repo
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-climate-report-conducted-climate-policy-council-lund-municipality - 2025-04-21
Published 8 April 2019 In April 2019, Sharing Cities Sweden (coordinated by IIIEE) published a synthesis report entitled Sharing Cities: Exploring the Emerging Landscape of the Sharing Economy in Cities. It captures the lessons learned and ambitious goals of the test-beds in Stockholm, Malmö, Umeå and Göteborg. The document contains articles on the journeys of the test-beds, a discussion of design
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-journeys-and-insights-sharing-economy-cities - 2025-04-21
