Environmental Management

Requirements specification and sustainability

Is it possible to develop a method to help companies to design, engineer and manufacture products in a more sustainable and resource-efficient manner? Sara Nilsson discusses the first part of this process – requirements development – in her thesis.

Export of environmental technology requires collaboration

Action that truly promotes collaboration and networking, both within Sweden and in the export markets, is required if the export of environmental technology is to take off. This is the conclusion of Wisdom Kanda’s doctoral thesis.

Political obstacles to mineral recycling

We are keen to discuss how to bring about a sustainable society, but we seldom discuss how we manage resources. Nils Johansson shows in his doctoral thesis that current policies lead to an increased waste of mineral resources, not the reverse.

SEK 10 million to research in the circular economy

LiU researchers have won two major research projects within the field of design and construction for a world in which we husband, recycle and reuse natural resources. Both will be carried out in close collaboration with industrial partners.

Sustainability requires interdisciplinary science

Linköping University continues to work across boundaries. Six new professorships that drive world-leading sustainability research are the target for the research network “LiU Sustainable”.

The Norrköping Iron and Copper Mine

At the same time as protests against both the current mining policy and mineral legislation are getting louder, Björn Wallsten is prospecting a totally different type of mine in his licentiate – the one underneath central Norrköping.

Welcome to the World of the Urks

We continue to extract metals from the earth’s crust, with the associated risks to the environment, although only half of some of the metals we have already extracted are used. Björn Wallsten found the unused metals in the world of the Urks.

Hallbara affarer

Dig where you stand

There are many good reasons for excavating Sweden’s landfills in search of valuable metals. But it is not happening. In his licentiate degree thesis, Nils Johansson sought an explanation as to why we prefer searching in space to mining our own rubbish tips.

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.