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IIIEE researcher held a presentation at Roads to the Future focusing on the findings from a recent publication "Circular Economy Integration in Smart Grids: A Nexus for Sustainability | Circular Economy and Sustainability". On 27th of August, Professor Carl Dalhammar gave a presentation titled 'Towards circular vehicles and circular grids: Recent developments in Europe' at Roads to the Future, arr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-smart-grids-can-integrate-ce-considerations - 2025-09-21

Nora Smedby defends her Doctoral thesis on 8 April On 8 April 2016, Nora Smedby at the IIIEE will defend her Doctoral thesis with the title: Local Environmental Governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency.Oponent is Professor Matthew J. Hoffmann and supervisor is Professor Lena NeijView press release here (Swedish only) 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-8-april - 2025-09-21

The IIIEE Energy Blog sheds some new light on heating as lived practice. When we think of heating transitions, we often imagine new technologies replacing old ones, wood stoves giving way to oil boilers, district heating networks, and more recently heat pumps. However, heating transitions are not just about adopting new technologies but also about how households adapt, persist, and improvise. Thes

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-blog-heating-practices-across-time-what-we-remember-keep-and-revive - 2025-09-21

Photo: Johan Persson The 2015 Annual Report of the IIIEE has been completed! Please view the full report here: Annual Report 2015

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/2015-annual-report - 2025-09-21

Nora Smedby Photo: Håkan Rodhe On 8 April, IIIEE researcher Nora Smedby defended her Ph.D. thesis Local environmental governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency. An interview in Swedish was made with Nora in connection to her thesis defence, see below:Published: 08/04/2016Så kan kommuner driva på omställningen till energieffektiva byggnader– Det är en enorm utmaning

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/interview-iiiee-researcher-nora-smedby - 2025-09-21

The IIIEE is offering a Postdoctoral position in the area of economics focusing on environmental management and policy.Last application date: 29 April 2016More information here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-iiiee - 2025-09-21

New Special Volume on Advancing Sustainable SolutionsGuest editors: Kes McCormick, Lena Neij, Oksana Mont, Chris Ryan, Håkan Rodhe & Renato OrsatoSustainable solutions are needed to drive a profound industrial and societal transformation towards a sustainable, low-carbon, resilient, equitable and prosperous future. This Special Volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production addresses possibilities an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-special-volume-advancing-sustainable-solutions - 2025-09-21

Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities Both our Greening the Economy MOOCs start new 5-week sessions on Monday 25 April - join 1000s that are learning about lessons from Scandinavia and sustainable cities!Lessons from ScandinaviaHow can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course explores greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nati

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/greening-economy-moocs-start-new-5-week-sessions-monday-25-april - 2025-09-21

Luis Mundaca gave a keynote speech on the ‘Climate Paris Agreement’ at the University of Seville, Spain.On 16 March, at the IX Int’l Seminar on Economics and the Environment, Associate Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE talked about the outcomes and challenges associated with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. His presentation, titled ‘The Climate Paris Agreement: not a destination but a chal

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/luis-mundaca-gave-keynote-speech-climate-paris-agreement-university-seville - 2025-09-21

Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona Urban sharing of assets, spaces and skills has emerged as a promising future solution to sustainability challenges faced by cities. It is also the subject of a new project by Oksana Mont, professor in sustainable consumption and production at IIIEE, who recently received the Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant – a new grant intended for the most talented y

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-promising-future-solution-sustainability-challenges-cities - 2025-09-21

Presentations by master students in the IIIEE Aula Photo: Håkan Rodhe New business model for electric trucks at Volvo, renewable electricity for refugee camps in Jordan or mobile apps for coffee farmers in Tanzania to adapt to climate change? Today on 29 April, the final year master students at the IIIEE present their findings from client projects across the globe. Many interesting topics presente

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/master-students-present-their-client-projects-across-globe - 2025-09-21

Mikael Backman right in the photo. On 26 April Mikael Backman participated in a TV-broadcast presenting the planned combined heat and power (CHP) and Biogas plants in Zabrze. The latter is entirely a project based on research and development performed by EMP students (Environmental Management and Policy programme) and staff, in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform at the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/renewable-energy-projects-poland - 2025-09-21

A new project integrating cities and universities to advance sustainable building and planning Swedish municipalities play a key role in sustainable building and planning. However, research has proven to be difficult to transfer from universities to practice. From 2016, three universities located in Skåne, SLU Alnarp (project leader), Lund University (IIIEE and LTH) and Malmö University, have a jo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/when-municipalities-set-research-agenda - 2025-09-21

Associate Professor Luis Mundaca shaking hands with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the Climate Action Week 2016 in Washington DC. Photo: Luis Cifuentes Associate Professor and IPCC Lead Author Luis Mundaca participated in high-level meetings during Climate Action Week 2016 in the United States, May 2-6. He first participated in the Universitas 21 Workshop ‘Informing Climate Action 2016’ a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-luis-mundaca-high-level-meetings-during-climate-action-week-2016 - 2025-09-21

Håkan Rodhe right in the photo. On 12 May, the IIIEE was represented by Håkan Rodhe, at the Branding Africa Conference. He met with several African ambassadors and discussed the African need for education, MOOCs, and Ethiopia's fast growth and ambition to be climate neutral by 2030.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/branding-africa-conference - 2025-09-21

Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona In the article "Uber lägger ner Pop i Sverige" published by NyTeknik, Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production at the IIIEE, is commenting on the problems that may arise when the sharing economy is unregulated.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-nyteknik - 2025-09-21

Prof. Oksana Mont at the IIIEE is co-editor of a new edited book on welfare and its relationship to sustainability. Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making, there is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2025-09-21

Seven shades of green: Exploring options for sustainable transitions A new Strategic Environmental Development (SED) report has been published by Master's students of the Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) programme at the IIIEE.Follow the link to access the full report: Seven shades of green: Exploring options for sustainable transitions

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-sed-report-masters-students - 2025-09-21

IIIEE researcher Åke Thidell Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Swedish wood: Innovative products for a circular economy Can Swedish wood be the answer to our future needs, from T-shirts to 10-storey apartment buildings? The challenge is not the technology, but how society can support the development of this market. It has the potential for creating both a sustainable and circular economy. Saying that

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-ake-thidell - 2025-09-21

Visiting systems engineering students from University of Virginia engaged in problem-solving for organisations around Lund. University of Virginia visits IIIEE with a Study Abroad programme for the third time. Sixteen University of Virginia students came to Lund to engage in a three week sustainability consulting projects. IIIEE is hosting the group for the third time while the students under the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/university-virginia-visit - 2025-09-21