"Lund will be a lovely place to live in 2050!" In an interview in Sydsvenskan in March 2020, professor Lena Neij talked about the Climate Council of Lund Municipality, of which she is the Chair. The council is to annually evaluate the municipality’s work towards minimized climate impact and climate adaptation, and suggest improvements that can add to achieve the municipality’s climate goals.The ar

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-lena-neij-sydsvenskan - 2025-08-27

IIIEE Researcher Leonidas Milios contributed to the MISTRA summary report. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA) published a popular science report (only available in Swedish at the moment), summarising the research findings of several MISTRA funded projects related to plastics.Leonidas Milios contributed with research findings on plastic recycling from the MISTRA RE

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-mistra-popular-science-report-about-plastics-showcasing-iiiee-research-mistra-rees-programme - 2025-08-27

A new publication by IIIEE researchers Kes McCormick and Bernadett Kiss, published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability on “Learning through Renovations for Urban Sustainability: The Case of the Malmö Innovation Platform”.This article investigates the relevant hands-on challenges creating a supportive learning environment when projects in the area of sustainable urban renewal are use

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-learning-through-renovations-urban-sustainability - 2025-08-27

The “Sharing and the City” project aims to examine, test and advance knowledge on the role of city governments in the initiation, implementation and institutionalisation of the sharing organisations across cities in Europe. A report from a mobile research lab on sharing in Gothenburg is now available. It is based on the findings from the mobile research lab, which Sharing and the City researcher Y

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/report-sharing-and-city-mobile-research-lab-gothenburg - 2025-08-27

Register now! Welcome to the 2020 City Futures Online Summit! Thursday 8 October 2020, 10.00-12.00 CET Join the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics for an online summit connecting people around the world to advance sustainable solutions!We will explore missions for low-carbon and resource efficient development from the perspectives of government, business and society. At

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-online-summit-8-october-2020 - 2025-08-27

Our first virtual phd-defence took place today  Today, Leonidas Milios successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Policy Framework for Material Resource Efficiency - Pathway towards a circular Economy Paradigm". The opponent was Prof. Raimund Bleischwtz from University College London, UK.    Leonidas' dissertation can be downloaded here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/leonidas-milios-successfully-defends-his-doctoral-dissertation - 2025-08-27

"Greening the economy in times of Covid-19: Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis" In an article published on the Green Growth Knowledge Platform Professors Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij, together with post-doctoral fellows Jessika Luth Richter and Lars Strupeit, and phd Jonas Sonnenschein discuss what lessons could be learnt from the 2008 financial crisis, in times of the Covid-19 crisis.Some of th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-green-growth-knowledge-platform-front-page - 2025-08-27

"The professionals in the middle as drivers for sustainable transformation in the building sector" Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl and Professor Jenny Palm have published their article entitled "The professionals in the middle as drivers for sustainable transformation in the building sector" in Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management. Abstract:The building sector in Sweden and E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/katharina-reindl-and-jenny-palm-publish-journal-sustainable-energy-planning-and-management - 2025-08-27

The sharing economy is booming! But what are the impacts on cities and sustainability? This course connects the sharing economy, cities, governance and urban sustainability to provide unique knowledge and insights into sharing cities. We utilize a diversity of leading examples of the emerging sharing economy in cities to bring this course to life. Join the online courseDownload the course guideRea

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-sharing-cities-mooc-massive-open-online-course - 2025-08-27

Photo: Speakers and participants of session 2.2: Urban Experimentation - Unleashing the Creative Capacity of Cities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-experimentation-unleashing-creative-capacity-cities - 2025-08-27

Accelerating sustainable transitions Our Annual Report for 2019 is done. Download it here to learn more about the 2019 highlights.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-annual-report-2019 - 2025-08-27

News from the IIIEE, Spring 2020 Read ou latest newsletter here

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In our project’s first digital newsletter we are opening the dialogue with our participating energy communities, our stakeholders, with you and everyone who is interested in exploring new clean energy communities with us. The NEWCOMERS team explores which types of communities within this spectrum have the greatest potential to stimulate a rapid decarbonisation while creating new values for communi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newcomers-project-first-digital-newsletter - 2025-08-27

Professor Jenny Palm and Postdoctoral fellow Daniela Lazoroska publishes in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Palm, J & Lazoroska, D (2020): Collaborative planning through dialogue models: situated practices, the pursuit of transferability and the role of leadership, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. About the article:Sweden is considered an environmental sustainabil

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-collaborative-dialogues-perspective-situated-practices-transferability-and-role - 2025-08-27

PhD Researcher Steven Curtis and Prof. Oksana Mont publish a new article providing detailed description of sharing economy business model choices, with conditions for improved sustainability performance. About the article:The sharing economy is not sustainable by default. Therefore, there is a need to be strategic and deliberate in how to design sharing economy business models to ensure improved s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-sharing-economy-business-models-sustainability - 2025-08-27

“In a short period of time we have seen some very good examples of nudging, where people are guided towards right behaviour” Professor Oksana Mont was interviewed for Sydsvenskan about the concept of ‘nudging’ in times of Corona.The Corona crisis has lead to a focus on behaving in certain manners, e.g. keeping distance, washing our hands, staying at home if we feel sick etc. The encouragement to v

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-oksana-mont-interviewed-sydsvenskan - 2025-08-27

Researchers from the IIIEE at Lund University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Oksana Mont, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Karin Bradley and Lucie Zvolska publish an Editorial for the Special Issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production on the Sharing Economy Researchers from the IIIEE at Lund University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Oksana Mont, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Karin Bradley and L

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-decade-sharing-economy-concepts-users-business-and-governance-perspectives - 2025-08-27

Starting this week, EMP MSc theses are defended all the way through June. Remote sensing to make supply chains more sustainable, Designing medical products for circularity, Managing plastics waste in California or Cost-Benefits of green roofs as carbon sinks? A sweet mix of talent and hot topics as batch 25 are presenting their master thesis research.This week we will have master's thesis defences

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/emp-msc-theses-defences-start-week - 2025-08-27

- Kes McCormick sets new record! IIIEE Associate Professor Kes McCormick has achieved over 160,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications (LUP), which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University.Recently, Kes McCormick has become the most downloaded author at Lund University. Currently, his most downloaded publication is the Greening the E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/most-downloads-lund-university - 2025-08-27

Delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority A delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority are visiting the IIIEE to discuss continuing collaboration in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform.For more information, please contact mikael [dot] backman [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Mikael Backman)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/delegation-west-pomeranian-regional-authority-are-visiting-iiiee - 2025-08-27