A new book with editors including IIIEE researchers reviews current research approaches in the field of sustainable cities. The book reveals the need for greater engagement with a diversity of perspectives and interrogates foundational assumptions in the field and offers reframed perspectives on sustainability. Global in its outlook, this Research Agenda systematically reviews and critiques existi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-launch-research-agenda-sustainable-cities-and-communities - 2025-09-07

Photo by Johan Persson Lund University offers commissioned education programs aimed at companies, organisations and authorities to develop their business and staff. One such program – Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based Solutions - is developed by the IIIEE in collaboration with LUCE (Lund University Commissioned Education). This summer, the IIIEE and LUCE had the pleasure of welcoming

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/successful-sweden-week-programme-innovation-governance-urban-nature-based-solutions - 2025-09-07

A new project aims to understand why women remain a minority in the energy sector and create qualitative research-based tools that can lead to greater diversity and inclusion on multiple levels of decision making. Energy transitions are not only about the expansion of renewable energy sources, they also need to include diverse decision makers at all levels. While Sweden is a country that holds the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/women-power-and-winding-road-there-examining-diversity-swedish-energy-sector - 2025-09-07

Photo: Leonidas Milios A group of researchers from Wuhan University and the Research Institute of Environmental Law have visited the IIIEE to learn about our activities and to discuss possible joint projects. On Monday 21 August, researchers from Wuhan University, Research Institute of Environmental Law visited the IIIEE. The delegation presented Wuhan and their institute and listen to ongoing res

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/visit-researchers-wuhan-university - 2025-09-07

The anniversary batch 30 students have arrived and are getting ready for the next two years of intense studies in the legacy masters program. The latest batch of masters students in our program "Environmental Management and Policy" have arrived and settled in and are about to commence their studies at the IIIEE. Today marks the final day of team work and preparatory courses and the students are fi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/inauguration-new-masters-group-environmental-management-and-policy - 2025-09-07

Today the 19th batch of MESPOM-students have commenced their two-semesters long journey at the IIIEE. The fall semester is starting and we proudly welcome the batch 19 students from the joint MESPOM program to the IIIEE. Last semester their studies were hosted by the University of the Aegean in Greece and this period in Lund marks their second and final cycle in the program.  Warm welcome to Lund

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/latest-group-mespom-program-have-arrived - 2025-09-07

The autumn semester course on applied environmental management was kicked-started with a study visit to Nordic Waterproofing. Interesting discussions on drivers, approaches and possibilities in the roofing business. On Tuesday 29 August the course EMSBVC went onsite to Höganäs and the company Nordic Waterproofing to discuss the environmental management, strategies and approaches applied there.  Th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/students-visiting-nordic-waterproofing-get-insights-industry - 2025-09-07

Sharing housing with non-family members has increasingly become a way to reduce costs while pursuing autonomous yet communal living throughout the life course. But is it as easy as it sounds? What might be the implications of new forms of shared housing be on the residents, and what happens when shared household tasks can be performed by staff, for a fee? Sharing housing with non-family members ha

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-possible-implications-new-forms-shared-housing-what-do-we-share-when-dirty-work-daily - 2025-09-07

IIIEE researchers Lena Neij and Sofie Sandin Lompar shared their ongoing research on transaction costs for acquiring solar PV systems at the 14th International Sustainability Transitions conference in Utrecht. In the light of the numerous challenges we as societies are facing, the need for sustainability transitions is pressing. As researchers, we ask ourselves what is needed to move forward: whic

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presenting-transitions-and-pv-systems-utrecht - 2025-09-07

In August, Frans Libertson from the IIIEE discussed the role of culture in sustainable development and the need for “inner sustainability”. The doctoral student of IIIEE, Frans Libertson, participated on a discussion panel at the second iteration of Österlens Fredsfestival that was held in Simrishamn in August. The panel discussions focused on the role of culture in sustainable development and the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/role-culture-sustainable-development-and-need-inner-sustainability - 2025-09-07

Photo: Håkan Rodhe Meet our new colleague Georgios Pardalis who recently joined the IIIEE. Originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, with master’s degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gävle and a PhD from Linnaeus University, he has now moved to Lund. Georgios has a background in Building Technology and Industrial Economics, and will be working as Associate Senior Lectu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-georgios-pardalis - 2025-09-07

The IIIEE is part of a new collaborative research project engaging the Swedish Institute of International Affairs as well as the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the municipalities of Amsterdam and Stockholm. The project is investigating if and how the mission approach for climate neutral cities can spark transformative change. The world needs to break out from business as usual to spee

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/breaking-silos-can-mission-approach-climate-neutral-cities-accelerate-energy-transitions - 2025-09-07

Do you know how district heating and electric heating were perceived in the news media when first coming into Swedish homes? Or how the arguments have changed for including heating costs in the rent over time? As part of the JustHeat project, IIIEE researchers Jenny von Platten and Jenny Palm have published a new report providing an overview of the Swedish history of domestic heating from 1940 unt

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-historical-and-policy-narratives-domestic-heating-sweden - 2025-09-07

The picture was generated with AI. Would you be able to abstain from buying a shirt if you could buy one for your avatar instead? A new article explores the role of digitization for sustainable consumption. In an age where our digital presence is increasing, in everything from traditional computer games to social VR environments, we have begun to place greater value on the digital avatars that rep

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-virtual-shopping-satisfy-ones-consumption-urge - 2025-09-07

Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and Girls in China Series pu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gender-equality-and-empowerment-china - 2025-09-07

Mina Roces Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-mina-roces - 2025-09-07

Monica Lindberg Falk has published the monograph Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand: Socio-cultural responses. Routledge Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia. This book addresses culture as an underpinning issue in post-disaster recovery,it uses original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to provide in-depth ethnography of Thailand’s recovery. With a foc

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-monograph-associate-professor-monica-lindberg-falk - 2025-09-07

We congratulate Asian studies alumna Montserrat López Jerez who will defend her doctoral dissertation "Deltas Apart : Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam" at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. The public defence takes place on December 19, 10:15 in EC3: 207.AbstractThis study provides an explanation of the different pathways

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/defence-doctoral-dissertation - 2025-09-07

Marina Svensson has been promoted to Professor of Modern China Studies. Marina has been with the Centre since 2004 and is currently engaged in several research projects. She is project leader for a project on the Chinese digital society, as well as engaged in research on cultural heritage issues and on the role of documentary film in China.Read more about Marina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/marina-svensson-has-been-promoted-full-professor - 2025-09-07

photo of Ann Kull from Sydsvenskan 2015-02-25 Article with Ann Kull in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish) Read the full article hereAnn is is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre and for more information about Ann’s research see here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/feminism-within-islam-difficult-not-impossible - 2025-09-07