Joakim Krook

Academic degrees
Tech. Dr. in Environmental Systems Analysis and Environmental Management, 20/10/06
Title of disseration: "Concentrate or dilute contaminants? Strategies for Swedish wood waste"

Tech. Licentiate in Environmental Systems Analysis and Environmental Management, 30/01/04
Title of disseration: Contamination in Swedish wood waste. Environmental implications, sources and waste management strategies

BSc in Chemical Engineering 2001, Linköping University,

Research
Joakim is an expert in Material and Substance Flow Analysis with special interest in analyzing the environmental performance of waste management strategies. His research involves studies in the intersection between environmental systems analysis and environmental management, emphasising what driving forces determine the actions of companies. At present, he is the leader of two recently initiated projects on urban mining and landfill mining respectively. In common for both these projects, is the overall aim to identify, develop and evaluate strategies for extracting valuable material and energy resources from alternative sources such as the built environment and waste deposits.

Education
Joakim is the examinator for the course Large Technical Systems and the Environment and the coordinator for the two years master's program Energy and Environmental Engineering. He is also teaching in several other courses at the department such as Industrial ecology.

Cooperation with Industry and Society
His research is characterized by a close collaboration with different actors belonging to different societal sectors such as infrastructure managers, material and energy companies, waste management and recycling contractors and so on.

Publications

Reviewed scientific papers:
Krook, J. (2010). Urban and Landfill mining: emerging global perspectives and appoaches. Journal of Cleaner Production 18, 1772-1773.

Krook, J., Carlsson, A., Eklund, M., Frändegård, P., Svensson, N. (2010). Urban mining: prospecting for metals in the invisible city. Peer-reviewed conference paper. ERSCP-EMSU conference, Knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation, 25-29 October 2010, Delft, The Netherlands.

Baas, L., Krook, J., Eklund, M., Svensson, N. (2010). Industrial ecology looks at landfills from another perspective. Regional Development Dialogue. In press.

Svensson, N., Frändegård, P., Krook, J., Eklund, M. (2010). Introducing an approach to assess environmental pressures from integrated remediation and landfill mining. Peer-reviewed conference paper. ERSCP-EMSU conference, Knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation, 25-29 October 2010, Delft, The Netherlands.

Krook, J., Eklund, M. (2010). Developing a monitoring method facilitating continual improvements in the sorting of waste at recycling centres. Waste Management 30, 34-40. 

Krook, J., Svensson, N., Eklund, M., Johansson, N., Frändegård, P. (2010). Landfill mining: a review of three decades of research. Peer-reviewed conference paper. ERSCP-EMSU conference, Knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation, 25-29 October 2010, Delft, The Netherlands.

Krook, J., Eklund, M. (2010). The strategic role of recycling centres for environmental performance of waste management systems. Applied Ergonomics 41, 362-367.

Engkvist, I-L., Eklund, J., Krook, J., Björkman, M., Sundin, E., Svensson, R., Eklund, M. (2010). Joint investigation of working conditions, environmental and systems performance at recycling centres - Development of instruments and their usage. Applied Ergonomics 41, 336-346.

Krook, J., Mårtensson, A., Eklund, M. (2008). Swedish recovered wood waste: Linking regulation and contamination. Waste Management 28, 638-648.

Krook, J., Mårtensson, A., Eklund, M. (2007). Evaluating waste management strategies. A case of metal-contaminated waste wood. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 52, 103–118.

Krook, J., Mårtensson, A., Eklund, M. (2006) Sources of heavy metal contamination in Swedish wood waste used for combustion. Waste Management 26, 158-166

Krook, J., Mårtenssons, A., Eklund, M. (2006) Preservative-treated. Progress in Industrial Ecoclogy-An International Journal, 3(5) 471-486.

Krook, J., Mårtensson, A., Eklund, M. (2004) Metal contamination in recovered waste wood fuel used as energy source in Sweden. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 41, 1-14

Submitted scientific papers:
Krook, J., Eklund, M., Carlsson, A., Frändegård, P., Svensson, N. Urban mining: hibernating copper stocks in local power grids. Submitted for publication in scientific journal.

Krook, J., Svensson, N., Eklund, M., Wolf, A. Potential of resource recovery from landfills. Submitted for publication in scientific journal.

Engkvist, I-L., J. Eklund, J. Krook, R. Svensson, M. Björkman, M. Eklund & E. Sundin. Recycling centres – today and outlooks for the future. Submitted for publication in scientific journal.

Reports, books and dissertations:
Krook, J., Eklund, M. (2009). Verktyg för bättre sortering på återvinningscentraler. Report 2009:01, Avfall Sverige Utveckling, Malmö. 

Krook, J., Eklund, M. (2009). Utveckling av en bättre avfallsterminologi på återvinningscentraler. Report 2009:22, Avfall Sverige Utveckling, Malmö. 

Engkvist, I-L., Eklund, J., Eklund, M., Sundin, E., Krook, J., Björkman, M., Kihlstedt, A (2008). Återvinningscentralen: sorteringsplats, arbetsplats och mötesplats. Institutionen för medicin och hälsa, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, Linköpings universitet, LiU-Tryck, Linköping.

Krook, J (2006). Concentrate or dilute contaminants? Strategies for Swedish wood waste. Doktorsavhandling No 1047, Linköping University, Environmental Technology and Management.

Krook, J (2003). Contamination in Swedish waste wood. Environmental implications, sources and waste management strategies. Licentiatavhandling No 1068, Linköping University, Environmental Technology and Management.