Research Publications
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From Barriers to Solutions for Reclaiming Wood in Construction: A Business Ecosystem Case in Finland
Rahman, M.R., Korsunova, A., Dmitrijeva, A., Toppinen, A.
Circular Economy and Sustainability • 2025
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Participatory product disassemblability: Bridging design, sustainability, and circular strategies
Sofie Bach Hybel, Andreas Wilhøft, Lykke Margot Ricard
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2025
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The qualitative quotient: the importance of applying mixed methods to understand circularity of hospital plastics
Nikoline Oturai, Tiffany Ramos, Joy Ndwiga, Kristian Syberg
Environmental Research: Health • 2025
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High-Resolution Mapping of the Nordic Plastic Cycle Suggests Capacity Expansion for Both Mechanical and Chemical Recycling
Yunhu Gao, Xuewei Liu, Wu Chen, André Cabrera Serrenho, Ciprian Cimpan, Gang Liu
ACS Sustainable Resource Management • 2025
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Implementing Circularity in Organizations by Navigating Institutional Plurality
Tom B. J. Coenen, Nicolaj Frederiksen, Leentje Volker, Klaasjan Visscher
Business Strategy and the Environment • 2025
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From mass customization to circular customization – measuring and managing variety in product service systems
Johannes Matschewsky, Marianna Lena Kambanou, Tomohiko Sakao
Resources, Conservation and Recycling • 2025
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Circularity in Danish Modern Chair Design: Analysis of Three Danish Modern Classics with DesignStrategies from Circular Economy
Guha, A. R.
Circular Economy and Sustainability • 2025
A process-based life cycle assessment of the climate impact of a Swedish intensive care unit
Linn Hemberg, Jagdeep Singh, Peter Bentzer
Scientific Reports • 2025
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Effects of resource security concerns on Nordic countries' approach to the circular economy of metals
Eugène Petelin
Sustainable Production and Consumption • 2025
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Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing
Réka Tölg, Christian Fuentes
Consumption and Society • 2025
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Reuse of consumer products: Climate account and rebound effects potential
Ruby Bubinek, Ursula Knaack, Ciprian Cimpan
Sustainable Production and Consumption • 2025
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Reimagining circularity: actions for optimising the use of existing buildings
Rebecka Lundgren, Riikka Kyrö, Saija Toivonen, Lassi Tähtinen
Buildings & Cities • 2025
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Digital Product Passport as Digital Carrier for Information of Life Cycle Assessment: A Feasibility Study of Solvolysis on Composite Recycling for Wind Turbines Blades
Christina Tsitsiva, Michail Beliatis
Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit • 2025
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Design for Disassembly: An analytical method for assessing target components for remanufacturing
Sofie Bach Hybel, Emilie Folkmann, Lykke Margot Ricard
Cleaner Production Letters • 2025
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The Circular Economy: A Transformative Service Perspective
Sönnich D. Sönnichsen, Ad de Jong, Jesper Clement, Roger Maull, Chris Voss
Journal of Service Research • 2024
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Distribution of benefits and adverse effects and their role in industrial symbiosis decision-making - A Swedish case study
Lovisa Harfeldt-Berg
Cleaner Environmental Systems • 2024
Selling of care offerings and the ethicalisation of consumption
Réka Tölg
Marketing Theory • 2024
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Decarbonising plastics – On the technologies and framings of carbon capture and utilisation (PhD Thesis)
Ellen Palm
Lund University Press • 2024
Link circular economy to waste hierarchy in treaty
Kristian Syberg, Nikoline Oturai, Steffen Foss Hansen, Terrence Collins, Sedat Gündoğdu, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Ellen Palm, Arturo Castillo Castillo, Juan Baztan, Natalia de Miranda Grilli, Tiffany Ramos, Trisia Farrelly, and Jane Muncke
Science • 2024
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Imagining circular carbon: A mitigation (deterrence) strategy for the petrochemical industry
Ellen Palm, Joachim Peter Tilsted, Valentin Vogl, Alexandra Nikoleris
Environmental Science & Policy • 2024
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Reaching net-zero in the chemical industry—A study of roadmaps for industrial decarbonisation
Ylva Kloo, Lars J. Nilsson, Ellen Palm
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition • 2024
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The lifecycle impact and value capture of circular business models in the built environment
Rebecka Lundgren, Riikka Kyrö, Stefan Olander
Construction Management and Economics • 2024
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Urgency to action: Enabling circular futures for the building sector
Rebecka Lundgren, Lassi Tähtinen, Riikka Kyrö, Saija Toivonen
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science • 2024
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Challenges and opportunities to a sustainable bioenergy utilization in climate mitigation: a global perspective
Jagdeep Singh, Yann Clough
Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy • 2024
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Business models and product designs that prolong the lifetime of construction workwear: Success, failure and environmental impacts
Marianna Lena Kambanou, Johannes Matschewsky, Annelie Carlson
Resources, Conservation and Recycling • 2024
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Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy
Jeanette Engzell, Marianna Lena Kambanou
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship • 2024
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Corporate Fashion and Circular Economy – How to Manage Ethical Challenges in Marketing of B2B Textiles
Sönnich D. Sönnichsen
International Business & Management • 2023
Corporate climate futures in the making: Why we need research on the politics of Science-Based Targets
Joachim Peter Tilsted, Ellen Palm, Anders Bjørn, Jens Friis Lund
Energy Research & Social Science • 2023
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Social life cycle assessment of adaptive reuse
Rebecka Lundgren
Buildings & Cities • 2023
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Adapting for shared use – evaluating the lifecycle carbon impact
Rebecka Lundgren, Riikka Kyrö, Stefan Olander
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science • 2023
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Connecting organizational context to environmental sustainability initiatives and industrial symbiosis: Empirical results and case analysis
Lovisa Harfeldt-Berg, Magnus Harfeldt-Berg
Sustainable Production and Consumption • 2023
Conceptualizing the circular economy (revisited): an analysis of 221 definitions
Julian Kirchherr, Nan-Hua Nadja Yang, Frederik Schulze-Spüntrup, Maarten J Heerink, Kris Hartley
Resources, Conservation and Recycling • 2023
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Reducing plastic in the operating theatre: Towards a more circular economy for medical products and packaging
Tiffany Ramos, Thomas Budde Christensen, Nikoline Oturai, Kristian Syberg
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2023
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Retail design in the transition to circular economy: A study of barriers and drivers
Mia Borch Münster, Sönnich D. Sönnichsen, Jesper Clement
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2022
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Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation
Julia Köhler, Sönnich D. Sönnichsen, Philip Beske-Jansen
Business Strategy and the Environment • 2022
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The transformation from manual to smart warehousing: An exploratory study with Swedish retailers
Joakim Kembro, Andreas Norrman
The International Journal of Logistics Management • 2022
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Circular Economy in the Nordic Real Estate and Construction Industry: A Policy Review
Rebecka Lundgren, Riikka Kyrö, Stefan Olander
SDGs in Construction Economics and Organization • 2022
Plastics and climate change—Breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways
Fredric Bauer, Tobias Dan Nielsen, Lars J. Nilsson, Ellen Palm, Karin Ericsson, Anna Fråne, Jonathan Cullen
One Earth • 2022
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Narrating plastics governance: policy narratives in the European plastics strategy
Ellen Palm, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg, Tobias Dan Nielsen
Environmental Politics • 2022
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An expert system for circular economy business modelling: advising manufacturing companies in decoupling value creation from resource consumption
Marina P.P. Pieroni, Tim C. McAloone, Yuri Borgianni, Lorenzo Maccioni, Daniela C.A. Pigosso
Sustainable Production and Consumption • 2021
A Trade-Off Navigation Framework as a Decision Support for Conflicting Sustainability Indicators within Circular Economy Implementation in the Manufacturing Industry
Mariia Kravchenko, Daniela C. A. Pigosso, Tim C. McAloone
Sustainability • 2021
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Exploring the Interface Between Public Demand and Private Supply for Implementation of Circular Economy Principles
Sönnich D. Sönnichsen
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Circular economy business model innovation: Sectorial patterns within manufacturing companies
Marina P.P. Pieroni, Tim C. McAloone, Daniela C.A. Pigosso
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2021
The living, the dead, and the obsolete: A characterization of lifetime and stock of ICT products in Denmark
Zhilyaev, D., Cimpan, C., Cao, Z., Liu, G., Askegaard, S., Wenzel, H.
Resour. Conserv. Recycl. • 2021
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Circularity Evaluation of Alternative Concepts During Early Product Design and Development
Julie Kamp Albæk, Sasha Shahbazi, Tim C. McAloone, Daniela C. A. Pigosso
Sustainability • 2020
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From theory to practice: systematising and testing business model archetypes for circular economy
Marina P.P. Pieroni, Tim C. McAloone, Daniela C.A. Pigosso
Resources, Conservation and Recycling • 2020
Circular business models: A review
Martin Geissdoerfer, Marina P.P. Pieroni, Daniela C.A. Pigosso, Khaled Soufani
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2020
Policies for transitioning towards a circular economy: Expectations from the European Union (EU)
Kris Hartley, Ralf Van Santen, Julian Kirchherr
Resources, Conservation and Recycling • 2020
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A Procedure to Support Systematic Selection of Leading Indicators for Sustainability Performance Measurement of Circular Economy Initiatives
Mariia Kravchenko, Daniela C. A. Pigosso, Tim C. McAloone
Sustainability • 2020
Review of green and sustainable public procurement: Towards circular public procurement
Sönnich D. Sönnichsen, Jesper Clement
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2020
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Circular futures: What Will They Look Like?
Thomas Bauwens, Marko Hekkert, Julian Kirchherr
Ecological Economics • 2020
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Configuring New Business Models for Circular Economy through Product–Service Systems
Marina P. P. Pieroni, Tim C. McAloone, Daniela C. A. Pigosso
Sustainability • 2019
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Towards the ex-ante sustainability screening of circular economy initiatives in manufacturing companies: Consolidation of leading sustainability-related performance indicators
Mariia Kravchenko, Daniela CA. Pigosso, Tim C. McAloone
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2019
Developing a circular strategies framework for manufacturing companies to support circular economy-oriented innovation
Fenna Blomsma, Marina Pieroni, Mariia Kravchenko, Daniela C.A. Pigosso, Jutta Hildenbrand, Anna Rùna Kristinsdottir, Eivind Kristoffersen, Sasha Shahbazi, Kjartan Due Nielsen, Anna-Karin Jönbrink, Jingyue Li, Carina Wiik, Tim C. McAloone
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2019
Business model innovation for circular economy and sustainability: A review of approaches
Marina P.P. Pieroni, Tim C. McAloone, Daniela C.A. Pigosso
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2019
Consumers in a Circular Economy: Economic Analysis of Household Waste Sorting Behaviour
Doan Nainggolan, Anders Branth Pedersen, Sinne Smed, Kahsay Haile Zemo, Berit Hasler, Mette Termansen
Ecological Economics • 2019
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Environmental Assessment of End-of-Life Textiles in Denmark
Koligkioni, A., Parajuly, K., Sørensen, B.L., Cimpan, C.
Procedia CIRP • 2018
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Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence From the European Union (EU)
Julian Kirchherr, Laura Piscicelli, Ruben Bour, Erica Kostense-Smit, Jennifer Muller, Anne Huibrechtse-Truijens, Marko Hekkert
Ecological Economics • 2018
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Conceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitions
Julian Kirchherr, Denise Reike, Marko Hekkert
Resources, Conservation and Recycling • 2017
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Towards a Sustainable Business Model for Plastic Shopping Bag Management in Sweden
Jagdeep Singh, Tim Cooper
Procedia CIRP • 2017
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Electricity-based plastics and their potential demand for electricity and carbon dioxide
Ellen Palm, Lars J. Nilsson, Max Åhman
Journal of Cleaner Production • 2016
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Conflicting expectations on carbon dioxide utilisation
Ellen Palm, Alexandra Nikoleris
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management •
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