Published 24 January 2020 A day that encourages a more responsible approach to electronic goods. On 24 January is Circular Electronics Day. It is a day that aims to encourage organizations and consumers to take a more responsible approach to the electronic goods they use.The IIIEE together with several organisations stand behind the initiative: Chalmers Industriteknik, Dustin, European Environment

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Published 27 January 2020 Listen to our newest podcast episode! A tree is so much more than just a tree! Trees provide habitat to support biodiversity, remove carbon dioxide and particulate matter from our air, cool our cities during summers, and inspire enjoyment by all.A tree planted deliberately to provide any of these services is considered a nature-based solution. In this episode, we present

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Published 30 January 2020 Leonidas Milios Awarded the 'Excellence in Review Award 2019' PhD candidate Leonidas Milios received the Excellence in Review Award 2019 from the interdisciplinary journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling (IF 7.044).The journal presented the annual Excellence in Review Awards to recognize exceptional reviewers who provided timely and constructive review services to t

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Published 25 February 2020 Julia Nussholz defends her doctoral dissertation on "Circular Business Model Design: Business Opportunities from Retaining Value of Products and Materials" On 6 March 2020, PhD candidate Julia Nussholz will defend her doctoral dissertation with the title: Circular Business Model Design: Business Opportunities from Retaining Value of Products and MaterialsThe opponent wil

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Published 26 February 2020 Nature-based solutions for innovation and sustainability As we come to the end of our inaugural session (5 weeks in duration) for the Urban Nature MOOC, we just wanted to give a quick update. So far we have had 64,000 page views, 9,000 unique visitors and 2,000 enrolments. The compendium has been downloaded some 3,800 times. We get continuous feedback from participants.

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Published 9 March 2020 Our Professor Nancy Bocken recently finished a collaborative report on the principles and strategies of 'resource-light' business models. Based on a significant body of research and real-life examples the report provides a useful resource for practitioners, academics, and entrepreneurs seeking to integrate proven resource-light strategies into their circular business innovat

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-resourse-light-business-models-circular-economy - 2025-07-01

Published 16 March 2020 Photo by Shutterstock The coronavirus has been spreading fast internationally, in Sweden as well as in Skåne. At the IIIEE, we follow the development closely and take action based on the decisions by the Swedish authorities and Lund University. Update 17 MarchAt a press conference today, 17 March, the Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven announced that the Government recomm

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Published 2 September 2015 The potential of ecodesign:Increasing efficiency by requirement From a sustainability point of view, the EU Ecodesign Directive has been very successful in improving the environmental performance of products – but there is more work to do. IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar is currently searching for concrete suggestions as to how the Swedish Energy Agency can advance their

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Published 28 August 2017 Mespom students at the IIIEE On 28 August, batch 12 of the Mespom programme (European joint Master's programme in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management) began their time at the IIIEE - welcome!This year the students come from: Germany, Belgium, the UK, Tanzania, Canada, Jordan, India, Pakistan, Austria and China.

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Published 28 August 2017 From the left: Luis Mundaca, Oksana Mont, Jenny Palm and Nancy Bocken. Photo: Jenny Loftrup The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) was established in 1994 as an international centre at Lund University to address complex environmental challenges. Over the years, the IIIEE has developed into a unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence

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Published 21 September 2017 On 29 September 2017, the annual Graduation Day at the IIIEE takes place. This year it is batch 22 who graduates from the Master's programme in environmental management and policy (EMP programme) at the IIIEE.If you would like to be part of this event and did not get an invitation, please contact Håkan Rodhe, Director of External Relations at the IIIEE.View invitation h

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Published 25 September 2017 Photo: Håkan Rodhe From Thursday 21 September until Thursday 28 September, batch 22 of the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting and defending their Master's theses. The opponents are people from academia, business and industry.The week ends with the annual graduation ceremony on 29 September in the Lund University Assembly Hall.Click

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/msc-thesis-presentation-week-iiiee - 2025-07-01

Published 28 September 2017 Handbook on Urban Living LabsThere is a growing trend to involve citizens in city development to make urban areas more sustainable and livable. The urban living labs approach offers a way to foster new collaborative, trans-disciplinary ways of thinking in urban planning and development, and provides a real-world testing ground for urban innovation and transformation. Th

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Published 3 October 2017 Photo: Sofie Sandin Håkan Rodhe at the IIIEE is in the process of finding out. Dr. Håkan Rodhe, senior lecturer and researcher at the IIIEE, is part of a committee at the Swedish Higher Education Authority, which is in the process of evaluating just how sustainable higher education is in Sweden. An interview with Håkan Rodhe was published in Lund University Magazine where

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Published 6 October 2017 The programme aims to put Sweden on the map as a country that actively and critically works with the sharing economy in cities. The objectives of the programme are to: develop world-leading test-beds for the sharing economy in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå, and develop a national node, Sharing Cities Sweden, in order to strengthen national (and international) coope

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Published 20 October 2017 Building new networks between schools, industry and academia. On 13 October the Raw Materials University Day was held in Vattenhallen Science Center in Lund. The event targeted upper secondary school students in Lund and was organised by the IIIEE, EIT Raw Materials at LTH, Lund University and Vattenhallen Science Center. The aim of the day was to increase the interest in

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Published 23 October 2017 A half-day seminar about the green city (in Swedish only). Kan mer natur bidra till en ekologiskt, socialt och ekonomiskt hållbar stad? Vilka är vinnarna och vilka är de eventuella förlorarna? Välkommen till ett halvdagsseminarium om den gröna staden.Seminariet innehåller kortare presentationer om: gröna visioner, gestaltning, drivkrafter och barriärer för att bevara och

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vision-green-city-how-green-can-it-become - 2025-07-01

Published 23 October 2017 Photo: Allgmstips.com Study published in the peer-reviewed open access journal Sustainability. Researcher Julia Nussholz at the IIIEE has published the study Circular Business Models: Defining a Concept and Framing an Emerging Research Field in the peer-reviewed open access journal Sustainability.The study focuses on conceptualizing circular business models and clarifying

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Published 23 October 2017 Seminar at Malmö Live 23 October! On Monday, 23 October at 11:00-12:00, at Malmö Live, researchers from Lund University and Malmö University will discuss with Isabella Lövin, Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate, what we need to do to achieve the 1.5-degree goal.This seminar is in Swedish only:Forskare från Lunds universitet och Malmö hö

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-change-knowledge-politics-how-do-we-reach-15-degree-goal - 2025-07-01

Published 25 October 2017 Luis Mundaca, from the IIIEE, joins the 3rd Lead Author Meeting of the ‘IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5⁰C above Pre-industrial Levels’. Luis Mundaca, from the IIIEE, joins the 3rd Lead Author Meeting of the ‘IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5⁰C above Pre-industrial Levels’. This special report, requested by the UN, is l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-attending-ipcc-lead-author-meeting - 2025-07-01