Background

Murat holds a Ph.D degree in Environmental Management and Policy from Lund University, Sweden and an M.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. 

Since 1997, Murat has worked with various resource productivity and sustainability projects, focusing both on individual companies and on regions.  Previously he held a research associate position in Lund University.  Since 2007, he worked as an international consultant assisting, among others, organizations like the World Bank and UNDP with sustainability assessments and initiatives.   

He has joined the IEI team in May as a part-time expert. 

Research

Murat has carried out various applied and action research projects on industrial resource productivity.  His work concentrated partly on implementing cleaner production programmes and other environmental management initiatives in individual industries.  He also worked extensively with the industrial symbiosis networks, focusing on a diverse set of industries and facilitating resource productivity through collaborative action.

Murat is interested in the role industrial symbiosis networks can play in the development of alternative and more sustainable production and consumption systems, currently focusing on Händelö (Norrköping) and Linköping as cases. More specifically, he is investigating the synergistic relationship between industrial symbiosis and the distributed economies concepts.  Murat’s research interests cover the following topics:  

• Resource productivity
• Industrial symbiosis networks
• Localised production and consumption systems
• Renewable energy and materials
• Distributed production and economies
  

Education

Murat assists educational activities related to industrial symbiosis networks.

Relevant publications 

• Ristola, P., Mirata, M. (2007) Industrial Symbiosis for more Sustainable, Localised Industrial Systems. Progress in Industrial Ecology – An international Journal. Vol. 4, Nos: 3/4, pp. 184-204.  Interscience.
• Mirata, M. (2005).  Industrial Symbiosis: A tool for more sustainable regions.  Ph.D. Dissertation. IIIEE, Lund University; Lund.
• Mirata, M., Emtairah, T. (2005)  Industrial Symbiosis Networks and The Contribution to Environmental Innovation - The Case of Landskrona Industrial Symbiosis Programme.  Journal of Cleanar Production 13(10-11). p. 993-1002
• Mirata, M., Nilsson, H., Kuisma, J.  (2005)  Production Systems Aligned with Distributed Economies – Examples from Energy and Biomass Sectors.  Journal of Cleaner Production. 13(10-11) p. 981-991
• Johansson, A., Kisch, P. and Mirata, M. (2005).  Distributed Economies – A new engine for innovation.  Journal of Cleaner Production 13(10-11) p. 971-979.
• Mirata, M. (2004)  Experiences from early stages of a national industrial symbiosis programme in the UK: determinants and coordination challenges.  Journal of Cleaner Production. 12(8-10) p.967-983.
• Mirata, M. (2000). Use of Environmental Performance Indicators to Promote Cleaner Technologies in Small and Medium Sized Cotton Textile Wet Processing Enterprises, Master’s Thesis, Environmental Engineering Dept., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.