IndEcol Seminars 2010

Seminars take place Fridays at (NB!) 11:05 - 12:00 in R60 , Realfagbygget, Gløshaugen.  Afterwards you are welcome to the social Friday lunch with cake and a wine raffle.

Welcome!

29.01: "Modeling the dynamics of in-use stocks of steel"
Stefan Pauliuk, PhD Candidate, Dep. of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering/IndEcol.

05.02: "Climate budget for new road projects"
Johanne Hammervold, PhD Candidate, Dep. of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering/IndEcol

12.02: "Agent-based modelling of heating system adoption"
Bertha Maya Sopha, PhD Candidate, Dep. of Energy and Process Engineering/IndEcol

19.02:"Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Environmental Impacts: First Results of the E-Car Project"
Troy Hawkins, Post Doctoral Researcher, IndEcol

26.02:"Aluminium material flow and production network in the globalizing world"
Gang Liu, PhD Candidate, Dep. of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering/IndEcol

05.03:
Seminar cancelled

12.03: Addressing the Carbon Footprint of municipalities - Experiences from Norway
Hogne Nersund Larsen, PhD candidate, IndEcol

19.03: What is strategic about energy? Implications for energy-security
Gunnar Fermann, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science

26.03: Sintef Technology and Society: Environmental information supporting product development for sustainability
Silje Aschehoug, PhD candidate, Department of Engineering Design and Materials

02.04:
No seminar

09.04:
No seminar

23.04: "Renewables and energy policy in Japan"
Espen Moe, Post Doc, Dep. of Sociology and Political Science

30.04: "LCA of biorefinery systems based on forest biomass (Norwegian Spruce)"
Francesco Cherubini, Post Doc, IndEcol

07.05: "Emerging industrial development along a sustainable trajectory – the special case of Bhutan"
Cecilia Haskins, Post Doc, Dep. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management

13.05:
No seminar

20.05: Special Lecture: "Prosperity without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet"
Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE) at the University of Surrey, UK.

25.06: "Life Cycle Assessment of Power Transmission and Distribution"
Raquel Santos Jorge, PhD Candidate, IndEcol

 

Older seminars

2009

 

12.11: "An industrial ecology analysis of municipal water management"
Venkatesh Govindarajan, PhD Candidate, Dep. of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering/IndEcol

05.11: "Development of tool for assessing greenhouse gas emissions in new road projects"
Johanne Hammervold, PhD Candidate, Dep. of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering/IndEcol

29.10: "The fundamental sustainability challenge: integrating analysis, design, and interpretation"
Daniel Müller, Professor, Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, NTNU

22.10: "Design for sustainable behaviour"
Ida Nilstad Pettersen, PhD candidate, IndEcol/Dep. of Product Design, NTNU

15.10: "Norwegian Household’s Perception of Clean Heating Options Pellets or Heat Pumps?"
Bertha Maya Sopha, PhD Candidate, IndEcol

08.10: "The Anthropogenic Metal Cycles in China"
Tao Wang, Post Doctoral Researcher, IndEcol

01.10: "Technology-Neutral, Levelized Costs of Bioenergy: A Streamlined Modeling Tool and Database"
Ryan Bright, PhD Candidate, IndEcol

19.06: "Analysis of Forest-based Biofuel Production and Consumption Scenarios in Scandinavia using an Environmentally-extended Input-Output Based Well-to-Wheel Model."
Ryan Bright, PhD Candidate, IndEcol

24:04: "A hybrid LCA of the introduction of Active Disassembling Fasteners made of Hydrogen Storing Materials into Home Appliances"
Shinichiro Nakamura, Faculty of Political Science & Economics, Waseda University, 169-8050 Tokyo, Japan EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, 464-8603 Nagoya, Japan Eiji Yamasue, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan
 

2008

 

12.12.08: EXIOPOL
Troy Hawkins, Postdoctoral researcher, IndEcol, NTNU

05.12.08: "Do Socially Responsible Brands Lead to Socially Responsible Companies? Understanding Change in Expressive Organizations"
Øivind Hagen, PhD candidate, Dep. of Psychology, NTNU.

07.11.08: "Energy, vested interests and economic growth"
Post doctoral researcher Espen Moe, Industrial Ecology Programme

31.10.08 "Urbanization in China and its implication for resource and waste management"
Mingming Hu, Faculty of Construction Management and Real Estate, Chongqing University, China

03.07.08 (Note new date): "Resource efficiency and development of a decision-support tool"
Shahriar Amini, PhD, Research Scientist, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry

09.05.08: "Design and development of a low emissions society - Fundamental challenges"
Professor Edgar Hertwich, Programme Director, IndEcol

25.04.08: "Ecocriticism: Literature Studies and the Politics of Ecology"
Henning Fjørtoft, PhD Candidate in Scandianavian Literature, Department for Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, NTNU

18.04.08: Double-seminar:
1) ”CO2 well to wheel analysis of electric vs. fossil fuelled vehicle alternatives”
1) Åsgeir Helland, Dr. Sc., Environmental Officer, Think Global AS,
2) "Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuel Based Transportation - Current status of the field"
2) Associate Professor Anders H. Strømman, Dep. of Energy and Process Engineering, NTNU and Kristian Røraas, Research Assistant, IndEcol

11.04.08: "Wave-energy research and development at NTH/NTNU and elsewhere"
Professor Emeritus Johannes Falnes, Dep. of Physics, NTNU

04.04.08: "Sustainable infrastructure"
Rolf André Bohne, Post.doc., Dep. of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU

22.02.08: "Impact of air pollution on human welfare: examples from studies at the Center for Ecological Economics (CEE), the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)"
Professor and Center Director Jozef M. Pacyna, Ph.D, D.Sc., Center for Ecological Economics, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller

15.02.08: "Land use and impact on biodiversity in LCA / Small discussion on the role of Industrial Ecology for maintenance of biodiversity"
Post Doc Ottar Michelsen, Dep. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, NTNU

08.02.08 “The Comprehensive Action Determination Model as an Environmental Psychological Approach to Explain and Change Conservationist Behavior”
Dr. Christian A. Kloeckner, Førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor, RIPENSA - Riskpsychology, Environment and Safety, Dep. of Psychology, NTNU
 

Realfagbygget - the Science building - where IndEcol has its offices. Photo: IndEcol/Elin Mathiassen