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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 LUCSUS and CEC.Read the full article in Lund University Research MagazineDescription of project:Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have the potential to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/nature-based-solutions-cities - 2025-12-20

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 innovations in buildings, transpo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/advancing-urban-living-labs-experimentation-governance-and-transitions - 2025-12-20

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 - 2025-12-20

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 and purpose of ULL is sti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-urban-living-labs - 2025-12-20

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. In the framework of the course on Strategic Environmental Development (SED) at the IIIEE,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-students-show-way-clean-air-poland - 2025-12-20

Debate article IIIEE researcher Nora Smedby expresses her opinions in a debate article with the title Låt föregångskommuner ta täten för det hållbara byggandet (In English: Let pioneering municipalities take the lead on sustainable construction) published in Fastighetsnytt. The article is published in Swedish only.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/let-pioneering-municipalities-take-lead-sustainable-construction - 2025-12-20

On 18 April 2017, the Lund University Research Magazine published an article on recycling and e-waste. IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter was interviewed about her research on European policies and e-waste.Read the full article here.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/recycling-important-collection-reduce-e-waste - 2025-12-20

A game developed to increase awareness On 18 April 2017, the Lund University Research Magazine highlighted IIIEE researcher Katherine Whalen's game "In the Loop", a game developed to increase awareness about the materials we use to produce electrical goods.Learn more about the game in Lund University Research MagazineFurther reading:In the Loop GamesWatch the game on YouTube  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/loop - 2025-12-20

New SED report 2017 The strategic environmental development course (SED) is part of the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) at the IIIEE. This year a group of twenty-five graduate students travelled to six global destinations to work with regions and communities in order to develop solutions to the problems that they are facing. The teams spent time researching their re

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/rays-sunshine-tales-sustainable-transition - 2025-12-20

The April issue of the IIIEE newsletter is out now.Click here to access the April issueClick here for the IIIEE newsletter archiveClick here to subscribe to our newsletter

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/april-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now - 2025-12-20

IIIEE researchers Charlotte Leire and Carl Dalhammar has written a report where they document the long term effects of GPP. The report was commissioned by the Swedish Competition Authority (Konkurrensverket). Taken together, both the literature and the product case studies conducted in the project indicate that green procurement often has long-term effects that are different from short term effect

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-long-term-effects-green-public-procurement-gpp - 2025-12-20

Opinion by Matthias Lehner, postdoc at the IIIEE. Airbnb is a hugely successful American company that has managed to make us invite strangers into our own private homes. I visited New Zealand last winter and stayed with an old lady in her private home outside Nelson, and it was an exciting experience where I got to know someone I otherwise would never have met. For a small fee, I got to stay in a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/challenge-sharing-sustainably - 2025-12-20

The Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST) research project is soon coming to an end. It has explored the concept of Urban Living Labs, and has involved four research organisations and cities in Sweden, the UK, Austria and the Netherlands. One outcome from the project will be a handbook full of ideas for the transition to more sustainable cities to be used as an inspiration for urba

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/collaborative-research-speed-sustainable-transition-cities - 2025-12-20

Seminar 15 May at the IIIEE Today, 15 May, the IIIEE is organising a seminar on Sustainable Fashion, offering a glimpse of what IIIEE researchers have been working on in the past 10+ years in this area.Clothes, textiles and fashion are indispensable elements of human being. They serve various functions – all the way from meeting the basic needs to protect ourselves from outside environment and mai

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainable-fashion-finding-cuts-future - 2025-12-20

Conference 16 May The transition to a fossil fuel-free society is in full swing and proceeding more easily than many people think. In Skåne there are many good initiatives that show how profitability and prosperity can grow as emissions are reduced.This conference will take place on 16 May at the Academic Society (AF building) in Lund. The focus is on learning for sustainable development and the b

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fossil-free-skane-opportunities-more-modern-future - 2025-12-20

CONFERENCE, 350TH ANNIVERSARY This event is part of the Lund university 350 jubilee and will be held in Swedish only. Therefore the information that follows is in Swedish.Den smarta staden väcker löften om effektivare och mer hållbara lösningar och kommersiella förhoppningar om nya produkter, tjänster och marknader. Men smarta städer är inte nödvändigtvis städer som är levande och välkomnande att

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/humans-city-day-focusing-sustainable-urban-planning - 2025-12-20

Kes McCormick, the programme coordinator for Sharing Cities Sweden, has presented the national programme at two Australian Universities in June 2019 – the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University.The presentations focused on the ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden, the emerging findings on the sharing ec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presentations-australian-universities - 2025-12-20

IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick have joined a group of international researchers to act as guest editors for a Special Issue on smart and sustainable cities in the Local Environment journal. The special issues brings together a diverse collection of papers that explore the relationship between urban sustainability and smart city development. Read more on the Local Environment,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-guest-editors-special-issue-smart-and-sustainable-cities - 2025-12-20

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research has granted SEK 47 million for four years to Mistra REES. The aim of the programme is to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to a circular economy. Business and academia collaborate to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to more resource-efficient solutions.Mistra REES, where “REES” is an ac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-continue-funding-research-circular-economy-transition - 2025-12-20

New research implies that green growth climate mitigation policies are not sufficient for reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2°C by the end of the century.Green growth policies dominate the climate change mitigation discourse but how much can they contribute to rapid decarbonisation? Jonas Sonnenschein at the IIIEE, Lund University, has ass

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/current-green-growth-policies-are-not-enough-reach-paris-agreement-climate-targets - 2025-12-20