Published 14 October 2015 LUM, No. 7, 2015 On 8 October 2015, Lund University Magazine published a series of articles under the Theme: "Stopp för MOOC-loket?"In the article Pedagogisk utveckling med förhinder, Kes McCormick and Peter Arnfalk comment on the discouragement of MOOCs.The six articles are in Swedish and can be accessed via these links:Pedagogisk utveckling med förhinderLU tonar ner sin

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/kes-mccormick-and-peter-arnfalk-iiiee-comment-discouragement-moocs - 2025-04-23

Published 9 December 2022 A new article on sustainable energy systems and energy justice outlines the factors that dictates user flexibility, and the ways in which current business models “reward” some users while “punishing” others. How is flexibility and energy related to justice, equity and sustainable development? As the share of renewable energy production is increasing, such as wind and sola

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-flexibility-and-energy-related-justice-equity-and-sustainable-development - 2025-04-23

Published 22 December 2022 What about the potentially unwanted Christmas gifts? The products that are returned to the seller in e-commerce are likely to be thrown away instead of being resold. This is a research finding that has been picked up and shared in Swedish radio, just in time for Christmas. For some type of consumer products such as clothing and small electronics reselling returned articl

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/media-attention-unused-products-going-straight-waste - 2025-04-23

Av coordinator [at] lmc [dot] lu [dot] se (Valeria Naters) - publicerad 13 april 2023 Pufendorfinstitutet har antagit Tema "Sound of Democracy" för arbete 1 september 2023 – 30 april 2024. Ett stort grattis riktar vi till de forskare som kommer att ingå i detta Tema och som även är aktiva i Ljudmiljöcentrums forskarnätverk. I Temat Sound of Democracy: how everyday sound environments support, refle

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/sound-democracy-nytt-tema-vid-pufendorfinstitutet - 2025-04-23

Av coordinator [at] lmc [dot] lu [dot] se (Valeria Naters) - publicerad 21 april 2023 Från vänster: Sanne Krogh Groth, David Larsson Heidenblad, Kristoffer Mattisson, Martin Hallberg, Viveka Lyberg-Åhlander Är det ett tidigt tecken på stress att du inte kan njuta av musik? Finns det sammanhang där buller är bra? Vad skiljer Djungellekan i Helsingborg från en vanlig lekplats? Och vad menas med en l

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-ljudmiljoer-hur-nar-vi-dit-panelsamtal-under-hallbarhetsveckan - 2025-04-23

Publicerad 1 februari 2024 Projektets huvudsyfte är att utreda vilken effekt olika sociala aktiviteter, som körsång och vanlig kursverksamhet, har på rösthälsa och allmänt välbefinnande för äldre vuxna. Det är vanligt att rösten försämras och blir svagare med stigande ålder, och vi vill ta reda på om körsång och andra sociala aktiviteter kan motverka detta. Dessutom vill vi undersöka om en simuler

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/deltagare-sokes-till-forskningsprojekt-om-rost-och-valbefinnande - 2025-04-23

Publicerad 7 februari 2024 Den 19 november 2024 går konferensen Sound Environments av stapeln. Mer information kommer inom kort!

https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/save-date - 2025-04-23

Published 14 October 2015 The Bioeconomy: An Introduction to the World of Bioenergy The Bioeconomy: An Introduction to the World of BioenergyBioenergy is booming around the world and with the expansion comes exciting opportunities and some disturbing risks. Learning about bioenergy – from technologies, to resources, to policies – is important to the success and sustainability of the bioeconomy. Th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-guide-bioeconomy-available - 2025-04-23

Published 4 January 2023 A new study shows points to the importance of political support of municipalities however also points to the common barriers among municipalities which are lack of expertise, capacity and financial resources. Half of the EU’s final energy consumption is made up by the heating and cooling sector, making this an important sector for reducing fossil fuel consumption. What rol

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-role-can-energy-communities-play-decarbonising-heating-sector - 2025-04-23

Published 17 January 2023 ​​​​​​​What kind of knowledge is produced in social science studies on smart grids? Smart technologies, such as smart grids, are emerging as indispensable aspects of an energy transformation and come with hopes of more sustainable resource use. A substantial amount of research has examined the technical, economic, and environmental implications of these technologies, but

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/development-social-science-research-smart-grids - 2025-04-23

Published 23 October 2015 Duncan McLaren in the IIIEE Aula On 20 October, guest lecturer Duncan McLaren will visit the IIIEE and give a lecture on the theme: Sharing Cities for Sustainability.The lecture will cover the principles and dilemmas of sharing economy in cities and focus on what city authorities can do to promote the sharing paradigm, and manage the sharing economy to maximise its enviro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/guest-lecture-duncan-mclaren-sharing-cities-sustainability - 2025-04-23

Published 23 October 2015 IIIEE students EMP 2016-2018! The application for the Master's Programme in Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) at the IIIEE is now open.The application period is 16 October 2015 - 15 January 2016.For more information, please view the university admissions' website

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/application-now-open-next-round-master-students-iiiee - 2025-04-23

Published 23 October 2015 Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities – A Massive Open Online CourseHow can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures?This course explores sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban tr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/greening-economy-sustainable-cities-massive-open-online-course - 2025-04-23

Published 24 January 2023 Mark this day by learning how you can make electronics more circular! Today is the official Circular Electronics Day and the IIIEE is participating. For the sixth year in a row, the 24th of January means the Circular Electronics Day. The IIIEE is a participating organisation in the Circular Electronics Initiative. The goal is to create awareness about the need for a longe

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/january-24-official-circular-electronics-day - 2025-04-23

Published 30 January 2023 A new paper by Aleh Cherp and several co-authors published in Environmental Research Letters asks what is the fastest realistic rate of global coal phase-out and what it means for the climate.  The paper signals both good and bad news. The good news are that more and more countries promise to phase out coal, including poorer economies that rely more on coal, have younger

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-fast-can-we-stop-using-coal-power-and-what-does-it-mean-climate - 2025-04-23

Published 2 February 2023 Public seminar with discussions and questions around lifestyle options and structural changes. On Thursday, January 26th, Fridays for Future held their second “Ask A Researcher” event in Lund. IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter introduced the EU 1.5 lifestyle project and answered questions about different lifestyle options and the structural changes needed to transitio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/15deg-degree-lifestyle-highlighted-fridays-future - 2025-04-23

Published 7 February 2023 Exploring unsustainable production-consumption systems and appropriate policy responses The practice of product destruction, whereby retailers or manufacturers dispose of viable consumer products such as unsold goods or customer returns, is an extreme expression of the linearity of our current production-consumption system. This qualitative exploratory study aims to uncov

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-product-destruction - 2025-04-23

Published 10 February 2023 This year's first study visit focused on the operations and environmental management work at Höganäs AB. On 8th February master's students from the program Environmental Management and Policy visited Höganäs AB to learn more about environmental hotspots and approaches to address them. Höganäs AB is an energy intense industry and struggling with extreme energy prices, whi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/masters-students-learn-more-about-hoganas-ab - 2025-04-23

Published 13 February 2023 Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns. Ending the use of unabated coal power is a key climate change mitigation measure. However, we do not know how fast it is feasible to phase-out coal on the global scale. Historical experience of individual countries indicates feasible co

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-we-phase-out-coal-power - 2025-04-23

Published 21 February 2023 Economic impacts, carbon footprint and rebound effects of car sharing. Car sharing is promoted as one alternative to decrease emissions from personal transport in cities. Most emission assessments have focused on the production and use phase of car sharing, but few have focused on the impacts of changes in consumption. In this article I assess changes in the total output

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-are-impacts-car-sharing - 2025-04-23