Environmental Technology and Management

WE TURN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS INTO OPPORTUNITIES

The Division for Environmental Technology and Management is an interdisciplinary research group with thirty years experience of turning environmental problems into opportunities. Our main focus is the transformation of organisations, technical systems and products and services towards a resource efficient society. Today the division is a research and education environment with international reputation and with 25 employees and 900 students.

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Megacities a huge market for environmental tech

There is certainly a huge market for Swedish environmental technology in a megacity like Mexico City. But environmental and social issues are closely intertwined; what works best is technology adapted to daily life in Mexico, as a new licentiate thesis shows.

Metals worth billions at local tip

The mines of the future may be closer than we think. A degree project from Linköping University demonstrates that landfill at the Gärstad waste facility in Linköping contains metals worth SEK 3 billion.

GIN2012 roused fervent interest

With five women keynote speakers and six unique “Jam Sessions” at six different host businesses in the region, GIN2012 made an impression in conference history.

Invest in open innovation at Braviken

Invest in open innovation and your own incubator. That was the advice Holmen, the forestry company, received when GIN2012 participants participated in a Sustainability Jam Session at the Braviken forestry combine.

Open lecture on LCA and Industrial Symbiosis

Laura Sokka, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, will give an open lecture in room A33 (A building, LiU) Thursday 25 April at 15:00.

Paul Fenton presented at Columbia University

How the concept of urban sustainability is framed and used in academic articles was the topic when Paul Fenton gave a presentaion at Columbia University, NY.

Dissertation on Industrial Symbiosis

On Friday 26 April Michael Martin will defend his thesis on environmental benefits from industrial symbiosis.

Best Paper Award to Lindahl/Sakao

A study by Mattias Lindahl and Tomohiko Sakao on how the design of product-service offerings affects environmental impact and cost was rewarded best paper at the 5th CIRP conference on Industrial Product-Service Systems.

Top rankings for Envtech researchers

Tomohiko Sakao and Mattias Lindahl end up as number one and four when Journal of Cleaner Production rank the most relevant publications in the field of PSS.

Research collaboration with Botswana

Mattias Lindahl and Joakim Krook are part in an assistance project for improved waste handling in Gaborone, Botswana granted funds from Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, ICLD.

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