Published 18 May 2020 In our project’s first digital newsletter we are opening the dialogue with our participating energy communities, our stakeholders, with you and everyone who is interested in exploring new clean energy communities with us. The NEWCOMERS team explores which types of communities within this spectrum have the greatest potential to stimulate a rapid decarbonisation while creating

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newcomers-project-first-digital-newsletter - 2025-08-15

Published 19 May 2020 Professor Jenny Palm and Postdoctoral fellow Daniela Lazoroska publishes in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Palm, J & Lazoroska, D (2020): Collaborative planning through dialogue models: situated practices, the pursuit of transferability and the role of leadership, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. About the article:Sweden is considered an env

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Published 25 May 2020 PhD Researcher Steven Curtis and Prof. Oksana Mont publish a new article providing detailed description of sharing economy business model choices, with conditions for improved sustainability performance. About the article:The sharing economy is not sustainable by default. Therefore, there is a need to be strategic and deliberate in how to design sharing economy business model

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-sharing-economy-business-models-sustainability - 2025-08-15

Published 26 May 2020 “In a short period of time we have seen some very good examples of nudging, where people are guided towards right behaviour” Professor Oksana Mont was interviewed for Sydsvenskan about the concept of ‘nudging’ in times of Corona.The Corona crisis has lead to a focus on behaving in certain manners, e.g. keeping distance, washing our hands, staying at home if we feel sick etc.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-oksana-mont-interviewed-sydsvenskan - 2025-08-15

Published 28 May 2020 Researchers from the IIIEE at Lund University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Oksana Mont, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Karin Bradley and Lucie Zvolska publish an Editorial for the Special Issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production on the Sharing Economy Researchers from the IIIEE at Lund University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Oksana Mont, Yuliya Voytenko Palga

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-decade-sharing-economy-concepts-users-business-and-governance-perspectives - 2025-08-15

Published 2 June 2020 Starting this week, EMP MSc theses are defended all the way through June. Remote sensing to make supply chains more sustainable, Designing medical products for circularity, Managing plastics waste in California or Cost-Benefits of green roofs as carbon sinks? A sweet mix of talent and hot topics as batch 25 are presenting their master thesis research.This week we will have ma

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/emp-msc-theses-defences-start-week - 2025-08-15

Published 3 June 2020 - Kes McCormick sets new record! IIIEE Associate Professor Kes McCormick has achieved over 160,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications (LUP), which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University.Recently, Kes McCormick has become the most downloaded author at Lund University. Currently, his most downloaded publication

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/most-downloads-lund-university - 2025-08-15

Published 8 September 2015 Delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority A delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority are visiting the IIIEE to discuss continuing collaboration in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform.For more information, please contact mikael [dot] backman [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Mikael Backman)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/delegation-west-pomeranian-regional-authority-are-visiting-iiiee - 2025-08-15

Published 5 June 2020 Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl and colleagues from Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Germany publish new article in Nature and Culture "Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life. Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research", Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl. Nature and Culture, vol. 1

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-plastic-packaging-food-supply-and-everyday-life - 2025-08-15

Published 10 June 2020 Welcome to the 2020 City Futures Summit on Thursday 8 October 2020 between 12.00-14.00 CET – an online event connecting people, places and projects around the world! Check out the website for the City Futures Summit to learn more about the event – www.cityfutures.seRegister here for the event 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-website-city-futures-summit - 2025-08-15

Published 15 June 2020 Doctoral student in Sustainable urban governance on mission-oriented innovation The doctoral student will work in the area of sustainable urban governance with a focus on mission-oriented innovation.The transformation to a sustainable society involves a multitude of actors including municipalities, business, public organizations and citizens, together advancing new knowledge

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vacancy-iiiee - 2025-08-15

Published 18 June 2020 There is growing attention on green stimulus recovery packages around the world, and policy-oriented research and expertise at the IIIEE is being increasingly considered to support policy initiatives in this important area. Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) launched the development of the ‘World Energy Outlook Special Report on Sustainable Recovery’. The IIIEE

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-policy-analysis-theme-contributes-iea-special-report-sustainable-recovery - 2025-08-15

Published 29 June 2020 Redesigning our economies and communities in the face of pandemics and crises. In this article, Kes McCormick, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Charlotte Leire at IIIEE, present the ambitions and design of a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on five ways to shape the sharing economy in cities.The article is published on the Viable Cities website, an innovation programme for sm

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/five-ways-shape-sharing-economy-cities - 2025-08-15

Published 30 June 2020 "Circular Economy in Home Textiles: Motivations of IKEA Consumers in Sweden" Ever wondered what motivates consumers to engage in circular home textile disposal practices? IIIEE researchers Matthias Lehner, Oksana Mont, Giulia Mariani, and Luis Mundaca have just published a study in Sustainability, answering this question based on a sample of IKEA Consumers in Sweden. Abstrac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication - 2025-08-15

Publicerad 13 februari 2009 Jämfört med insulinbehandling med Lantus stärker kombinationen Byetta och metformin betacellernas förmåga att utsöndra insulin mer än dubbelt så mycket. En internationell forskargrupp har jämfört hur de insulinproducerande betacellerna fungerar efter ett års behandling på två olika sätt.Den ena gruppen patienter med typ 2 diabetes fick Byetta och diabetestabletten metfo

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/byetta-starker-betacellerna-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-08-15

Publicerad 16 februari 2009 Personer med det metabola syndromet, där högt blodtryck är ett av symtomen, får den bästa effekten av att minska ned på saltet i maten. Blodtrycket sjunker och risken för hjärt- kärlsjukdomar minskar. Metabola syndromet är ett samlingsnamn för en rad symtom som ofta finns hos en och samma individ. Till syndromet hör insulinresistens, bukfetma, blodfettsrubbningar, högt

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/de-med-storst-behov-vinner-mest-pa-minskat-saltintag - 2025-08-15

Publicerad 19 februari 2009 Hba1c, långtidsvärdet för blodsocker ger värdefullt besked om medelvärdet. Men för att spåra toppar och dalar måste provet kompletteras med vanliga blodsockerkontroller. Att med ett enda blodprov få svar på hur den senaste tidens genomsnittliga blodsockernivå varit är till stor hjälp för en god blodsockerkontroll vid diabetes. Men eftersom Hba1c bara ger besked om genom

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hba1c-plus-enskilda-blodsockervarden-ger-en-sann-bild - 2025-08-15

Publicerad 23 februari 2009 Högt blodtryck ökar risken för njurskador vid diabetes. Gränsen för behandling är också satt snävare vid diabetes men nu visar en stor undersökning att även sänkning av normalt blodryck har en skyddande effekt på njurarna. Sambandet mellan högt blodtryck och njurskador vid diabetes är sedan länge känt. Därför inleds behandling med blodtryckssänkande läkemedel oftare vid

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/bra-njurarna-sanka-ocksa-normalt-blodtryck - 2025-08-15

Publicerad 25 december 2009 Genetiska varianter som ökar risken för hjärtinfarkt ligger också bakom en större ärftlig risk för stroke. Detta visar en stor undersökning som forskare vid Lunds Universitet och Universitetssjukhusen i Malmö och Lund har utfört. – Det är välkänt att stroke går i vissa släkter, men fram tills nyligen har man bara känt till ett fåtal ovanliga genvarianter som kan orsaka

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/riskgener-stroke-identifierade - 2025-08-15

Publicerad 26 februari 2009 Vill du gå ned i vikt? Ät inte så mycket! Det låter självklart. Nu är det också vetenskapligt visat. Minska på fettet eller på kolhydraterna? Det fungerar, bara du minskar på något. – Det enda som betyder något för att du ska gå ner i vikt är mängden mat du äter, inte om det är proteiner eller kolhydrater eller något annat, säger Frank Sacks, professor på Harvard-univer

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/enda-sattet-att-ga-ned-i-vikt-mindre - 2025-08-15