The 2015 Annual Report
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 - 2025-10-25
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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 - 2025-10-25
Climate change education in schools and universities tends to focus on environmental facts, whilst little room is given to inner dimensions of change and to collective action. The CLARITY project co-led by IIIEE launches a coached self-paced course to address these challenges by enhancing educators’ skills. Teachers & educators! Our new training on teaching climate change with both care and impact
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/clarity-project-launches-new-training-teaching-climate-change - 2025-10-25
IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar has been promoted to professor in environmental law. We proudly note that our Carl Dalhammar has been promoted full professor – as high as you can go in the Swedish system. His research focus lies in product regulation to achieve sustainability goals, with specialities in topical issues such as product repair, eco-design, planned obsolescence, etc. He has a long hi
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-professor-iiiee - 2025-10-25
The IIIEE is proud to announce that several of its researchers have been once again recognised in the latest edition of the Stanford–Elsevier World’s Top Scientist Ranking. This recognition reflects the global impact and high-quality research output of our faculty members. The honoured researchers include Nancy Bocken, Aleh Cherp, Oksana Mont, Luis Mundaca, Kes McCormick, Lena Neij, and Jenny Palm
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-global-top-2-scientists - 2025-10-25
Visiting PhD Researcher Lotte Levelt is joining the IIIEE crew to exchange knowledge in the field of post-growth economics and to shed some extra light on “experimental organizations”. Lotte Levelt is a visiting PhD Researcher based at Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands. She does her research on post-growth businesses focusing on experimental organizations such as not-for-profit busin
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-visiting-phd-researcher-lotte-levelt - 2025-10-25
For the second year, Lund University stays in the top 100 universities in the world. According to the latest Times Higher Education ranking it reaches 95 worldwide and 2nd in Sweden after Karolinska Institute. Times Higher Education ranks 2,200 universities from 108 different countries and also this year Lund University reaches a record high ranking as it comes on spot 95 worldwide and 2 in Sweden
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-retains-high-position-times-higher-education-ranking - 2025-10-25
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 att ställa om samhället till lå
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/interview-iiiee-researcher-nora-smedby - 2025-10-25
The European Union has recently adopted laws related to “Right-to-Repair”. In a new book chapter, IIIEE Professor Carl Dalhammar examines possible ethical implications, and what kinds of rights that are granted to consumers. Are market mainly about delivering goods and services in an efficient way, or should issues related to ethics play a larger role? The EU has recently adopted rules related to
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ethics-marketplace-implications-eu-consumer-rights-laws - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25
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 nation. It looks at the relationships between
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/greening-economy-moocs-start-new-5-week-sessions-monday-25-april - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25
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 young researchers in Europe.The project is
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-promising-future-solution-sustainability-challenges-cities - 2025-10-25
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 presented in our Aula today!
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/master-students-present-their-client-projects-across-globe - 2025-10-25
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 IIIEE.Watch the film clip here
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/renewable-energy-projects-poland - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25
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’ at University of Maryland. This meeting brought together top scientists from Universitas 21 network working on different aspects of climate change mitigation and
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-luis-mundaca-high-level-meetings-during-climate-action-week-2016 - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25
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 - 2025-10-25