The inside of a water pipe (Photo: Krisjtan Pullerits) In a unique study carried out in drinking water pipes in Sweden, researchers from Lund University and the local water company tested what would happen if chlorine was omitted from drinking water. The result? An increase in bacteria, of course, but after a while something surprising happened: a harmless predatory bacteria grew in numbers and at

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/predatory-bacteria-provide-hope-chlorine-free-drinking-water - 2025-08-25

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 on the link to view the MSc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/msc-thesis-presentation-week-iiiee - 2025-08-25

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. This handbook aims to bring op

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/handbook-urban-living-labs - 2025-08-25

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 he gives an insight into

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-sustainable-higher-education-sweden - 2025-08-25

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) cooperation and promote a good

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-sweden-national-programme-sharing-economy-cities - 2025-08-25

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 and the understanding for

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/raw-materials-university-day-2017 - 2025-08-25

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 skapa mer natur i staden,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vision-green-city-how-green-can-it-become - 2025-08-25

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 its key strategiesTo aid

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-business-models-defining-concept-and-framing-emerging-research-field - 2025-08-25

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 högskola samtalar med Isabel

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-change-knowledge-politics-how-do-we-reach-15-degree-goal - 2025-08-25

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 looking at what we stand to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-attending-ipcc-lead-author-meeting - 2025-08-25

Photo: Joanna Nicklasson Mikael Backman, Director of the Swedish Polish Sustainable Energy Platform at the IIIEE, attended and presented at the 6th Biogas Forum in Warsaw. The forum is organised in the framework of the RENEXPO international trade fair and conferences for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-attending-6th-biogas-forum-warsaw - 2025-08-25

On 26 October 2017, Kes McCormick at the IIIEE, presented online the early findings on nature-based solutions from the Urban Regional Innovation Partnerships in Naturvation to the National Cities Forum organized in Melbourne, Australia.This national forum examined approaches to catalysing urban transformation for low carbon resilient cities that are based on calls for fundamental ’re-invention’ of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/re-inventing-city-nature-based-solutions - 2025-08-25

Last application date 21 November 2017 The IIIEE is now announcing a new PhD student position for our MISTRA project on sustainable consumption where the candidate will work with alternative business models for sustainable consumption such as sharing, reducing consumption, shifting to producing and using more efficient products and services and the main focus will be on furnishing and interior des

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/doctoral-student-sustainable-consumption-governance - 2025-08-25

Lars Strupeit defends his doctoral dissertation at 13:00. On 6 November, Lars Strupeit at the IIIEE defends his doctoral dissertation in Industrial Environmental Economics, with the title “Scaling up solar photovoltaic use: A system-oriented assessment of experiences gained in deployment”.Appointed faculty opponent is Professor Tomas Kåberger, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.Time: 06/1

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-iiiee - 2025-08-25

New paper published in the Elsevier journal on energy research and social science. This new paper presents a framework to help a dialogue of energy economists, sociologists of technology and political scientists to meaningfully discuss national energy transitions.Cherp, Aleh, Vadim Vinichenko, Jessica Jewell, Elina Brutschin, and Benjamin K Sovacool. 2018. "Integrating Techno-Economic, Socio-Techn

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/integrating-techno-economic-socio-technical-and-political-perspectives-national-energy-transitions - 2025-08-25

An upcoming IIIEE ‘Massive Open Online Course’ to be launched on the Coursera platform in the 3rd quarter of 2018 The CE-MOOC – or “The Circular Economy: Managing Materials Sustainably” – will reach out with learning content, and best practice examples, to broader social and political audiences.The CE-MOOC content will be full of concrete examples of how and where raw materials; their value chains

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-economy-managing-materials-sustainably - 2025-08-25

New publication Based on national legislations, Swedish municipal authorities have the responsibility as well as the means to shape their own transport and energy systems and lead the transformation towards fossil fuel free cities. In this report we explore how sixteen Swedish municipalities work toward fossil fuel free visions and goals with a particular emphasis on the urban transport and energy

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fossil-fuel-free-municipalities-sweden-analysing-modes-governing - 2025-08-25

In the photo from left to right: Yuchen Yang, Aija Baumane, Jonas Hafström, Vitaliya Mokhava, Hans Eliasson, Christopher Nilsson, Erik Hjort, Thomas B Johansson and Shambhatra Sreepada. Photographer: Jens C Hilner IIIEE student awarded in the category "Talent of the year" On 15 November, the winners of the yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" was announced during a ceremony at Skissernas museum. T

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/winners-yearly-award-arets-framtidsbyggare-announced - 2025-08-25

Seminar on 15 December at the IIIEE This seminar is organized in the framework of the EU Interreg Lighting Metropolis project by the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University.IIIEE invites you to a special seminar on procuring LED responsibly, including minimising risks, on 15 December, at Lund University. At the the seminar you will receive the late

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/leds-go-green - 2025-08-25

On 29 November, a project meeting in the Smart Cities Accelerator research programme (SCA) was held at IIIEE. Participants came from Swedish and Danish universities, and Swedish and Danish corporations in the energy sector. Almost 40 participants attended the meeting. The SCA project – funded by Interreg - deals with sustainable local energy solutions, including renovations, improved district heat

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/smart-cities-accelerator-research-programme-meeting-iiiee - 2025-08-25