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Overview

Göran Finnveden is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Education, and Strategy and Management.

Themes central to their work include:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Handling climate change education at universities: an overview", 2021, Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "Governing the circular economy: Assessing the capacity to implement resource-oriented sanitation and waste management systems in low- and middle-income countries", 2020, Earth System Governance
  • "The sustainable materials roadmap", 2022, Journal of Physics Materials
  • "Ex-ante life cycle assessment of volatile fatty acid production from dairy wastewater", 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Cost-benefit analysis of two possible deposit-refund systems for reuse and recycling of plastic packaging in Sweden", 2022, Cleaner Waste Systems

Frequent co-authors in their research include Daniel Ddiba, Elisabeth Ekener, Kim Andersson, Sarah Dickin, and Shoaib Azizi.

Göran Finnveden's work is often published in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Sciences Europe

Best Publications

  • Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.

    Göran Finnveden;Michael Z. Hauschild;Tomas Ekvall;Jeroen B. Guinée

  • Scenario types and techniques: Towards a user's guide

    Lena Börjeson;Mattias Höjer;Karl-Henrik Dreborg;Tomas Ekvall

  • Life cycle assessment part 2: current impact assessment practice.

    D. W. Pennington;J. Potting;Göran Finnveden;E. Lindeijer

  • Environmental systems analysis tools – an overview

    Göran Finnveden;Åsa Moberg

  • Allocation in ISO 14041—a critical review

    Tomas Ekvall;Göran Finnveden

  • What life-cycle assessment does and does not do in assessments of waste management.

    Tomas Ekvall;Getachew Assefa;Anna Björklund;Ola Eriksson

  • Life cycle assessment of energy from solid waste—part 1: general methodology and results

    Göran Finnveden;Göran Finnveden;Jessica Johansson;Per Lind;Åsa Moberg

  • Methodological aspects of life cycle assessment of integrated solid waste management systems

    Göran Finnveden

  • Best available practice regarding impact categories and category indicators in life cycle impact assessment

    Helias A. Udo de Haes;Olivier Jolliet;Göran Finnveden;Michael Hauschild

  • The application of Life Cycle Assessment to Integrated Solid Waste Management - Part 1 - Methodology

    R. Clift;A. Doig;Göran Finnveden

  • Life-Cycle Impact Assessment: Striving towards Best Practice

    H.A Udo de Haes;G Finnveden;M Goedkoop;M Hauschild

  • Models for waste life cycle assessment: Review of technical assumptions

    Emmanuel C. Gentil;Anders Damgaard;Michael Hauschild;Göran Finnveden

  • On the limitations of life cycle assessment and environmental systems analysis tools in general

    Göran Finnveden

  • Life cycle assessment of fuels for district heating: A comparison of waste incineration, biomass- and natural gas combustion

    Ola Eriksson;Göran Finnveden;Tomas Ekvall;Anna Björklund

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Operational Electricity Use in the ICT and Entertainment & Media Sectors

    Jens Malmodin;Åsa Moberg;Dag Lundén;Göran Finnveden

  • Life-cycle assessment as a decision-support tool—the case of recycling versus incineration of paper

    Göran Finnveden;Tomas Ekvall

  • Recycling revisited - life cycle comparisons of global warming impact and total energy use of waste management strategies

    Anna Björklund;Göran Finnveden;Göran Finnveden

  • Plastic waste as a fuel - CO2-neutral or not?

    Ola Eriksson;Göran Finnveden

  • Exergies of natural resources in life-cycle assessment and other applications

    Göran Finnveden;Per Östlund

  • Scenarios in selected tools for environmental systems analysis

    Mattias Höjer;Sofia Ahlroth;Karl-Henrik Dreborg;Tomas Ekvall

Frequent Co-Authors

Måns Nilsson
Måns Nilsson Stockholm Environment Institute
Miguel Brandão
Miguel Brandão Riga Technical University
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark
Thomas Sterner
Thomas Sterner University of Gothenburg
Patrik Söderholm
Patrik Söderholm Luleå University of Technology
Sigbritt Karlsson
Sigbritt Karlsson Royal Institute of Technology
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University
Olivier Jolliet
Olivier Jolliet University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard Wood
Richard Wood Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Marie Vahter
Marie Vahter Karolinska Institute

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