John Holmberg
John Holmberg
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Professor


John Holmberg is Vice President for Chalmers University of Technology with responsibility for the Systems and Environment Initiative. He is Professor of Physical Resource Theory and he also holds Sweden's first UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainable Development. He is a member of the board of Swentec, Swedish Environmental Technology Council, since 2008; member of UNESCO expert panel for the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development since 2006; member of the editorial board to the International Journal of Industrial Ecology since 2005; member of the European Commission's expert panel for eco-innovations in the EU, 2006-2008. During 2004 and 2005 he worked both for the Swedish and the UK Ministry of Environment on sustainable construction and energy efficiency. In 2003 he co-authored on a report on decoupling to the Swedish Environmental Advisory Board, which he presented at WSSD in Johannesburg, as well as a report on technology and policy for sustainable development which was prepared for the European Commission on a request from the Environment Commissioner Margot Wallström to serve as a background for a Commission report to the EU Summit in Barcelona.

John Holmberg’s main research interests are sustainable consumption, energy efficiency, industrial ecology, decoupling, back-casting, principles and indicators for sustainability and education for sustainable development (ESD).

In 2001 he was awarded "the best university teacher in environmental science in Sweden" by the National Agency for Higher Education.

In his doctoral dissertation, John Holmberg developed four principles for sustainable development together with a back-casting planning method, which has been spread internationally and used as the scientific underpinning by The Natural Step Foundation for strategic planning and educational purpose outside the academia in several countries. Until 2001 he was board member and the scientific director of the Natural Step Foundation.

John Holmberg gives many external lectures each year to other universities, corporations, local authorities, organisations and to the general public. He also has a broad experience of publishing in non-scientific journals and of contributing in television and radio programmes.
Publikationer 2012

Nässén, Jonas; Hedenus, Fredrik; Karlsson, Sten; Holmberg, John: Concrete vs. wood in buildings - An energy system approach. Building and Environment, 51 pp. 361-369.

2009

Holmberg, John; Nässén, Jonas: Quantifying the rebound effects of energy efficiency improvements and energy conserving behaviour in Sweden. Energy Efficiency, 2 (3) pp. 221-231.

2008

Holmberg, John; Svanström, Magdalena; Peet, Dirk-Jan; Mulder, Karel; Ferrer-Balas, Didac; Segalàs, Jordi: Embedding sustainability in higher education through interaction with lecturers: Case studies from three European technical universities. European Journal of Engineering Education, 33 (3) pp. 271-282.

Nässén, Jonas; Sprei, Frances; Holmberg, John: Stagnating energy efficiency in the Swedish building sector--Economic and organisational explanations. Energy Policy, 36 (10) pp. 3814-3822.

Sprei, Frances; Karlsson, Sten; Holmberg, John: Better performance or lower fuel consumption. Technological development in the Swedish new-car fleet 1975-2002.. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 13 (2) pp. 75-85.

Svanström, Magdalena; Lundqvist, Ulrika; Arehag, Marie; Holmberg, John: To address the quality of engineering education for sustainable development – experiences from Chalmers university of technology. Proceedings to Engineering Education in Sustainable Development 2008,

2007

Alänge, Sverker; Holmberg, John; Lundqvist, Ulrika: Strategies and Practices for Sustainability: Experiences from Firm Level. 10th International QMOD Conference at Campus Helsingborg, Lund University, June 18-20, 2007, Lund,

Nassen, J.; Holmberg, John; Wadeskog, A.; Nyman, M.: Direct and indirect energy use and carbon emissions in the production phase of buildings: An input-output analysis. Energy, 32 (9) pp. 1593-1602.

2006

Lundqvist, Ulrika; Alänge, Sverker; Holmberg, John: Strategic planning towards sustainability - An approach applied on a company level. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology.

Sprei, Frances; Nässén, Jonas; Holmberg, John: Experiences from Energy Efficiency Policies in Sweden During the Last 30 Years - Looking at the Building Sector . Proceeding for 2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings,

2005

Karlsson, Sten; Holmberg, John: The societal metabolism.. H. Brattebö (ed), Introduction to industrial ecology, MIT Press,

Nässén, Jonas; Holmberg, John: Energy efficiency - a forgotten goal in the Swedish building sector?. Energy Policy, 33 pp. 1037-1051.

2004

Ahlbäck, Anders; Strömberg, Dan; Nässen, Jonas; Sprei, Frances; Holmberg, John: Energy Sector Background Study - POPA CTDA. Brussels :

Karlsson, Sten; Fredrikson, Fredrik; Holmberg, John: Future Redistribution of Cadmium to Arable Swedish Soils A Substance Stock Analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 8 (4) pp. 41-57.

Samuelsson, Bo; Azar, Christian; Holmberg, John; Johansson, Daniel J.A.; Morrison, Greg; Nässen, Jonas; Åhman, Markus; Ahlbäck, Anders; Sterner, Thomas; Hydén, Håkan; Ness, Barry; Olsson, Lennart; Urbel, Evelin; Begg, Iain; Strömberg, Dan; Lindqvist, Oliver; Larsson, Allan: From Here to Sustainability – Is the Lisbon/Göteborg agenda delivering?. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology. ISBN/ISSN: 91-974921-2-4

Strömberg, Dan; Kemp, R; Holmberg, John; Ottosson, Pernilla; Montalvo, Carlos; Larsson, Allan: Perfomance Targets - Clean, Clever and Competetive. Göteborg : University of Gothenburg.

2001

Ayres, Robert U.; Holmberg, John; Andersson, Björn A.: Materials for the Global Environment: Waste Mining in the 21st Century.. MRS Bulletin, 26 (6) pp. 477-480.

2000

Holmberg, John; Robèrt, Karl-Henrik: Backcasting - a framework for Strategic Planning. International Journal of Sustainable Development, World Ecology, 7 pp. 291-308.

1998

Andersson, Björn A.; Azar, Christian; Holmberg, John; Karlsson, Sten: Materials constraints in a global energy scenario based on thin-film solar cells. Energy in the International Journal, 23 pp. 407-411.

1997

Azar, Christian; Lindgren, Kristian; Holmberg, John: Constant Quota versus Constant Effort Harvesting.. Environmental and Resource Economics, 7 pp. 193-196.

1996

Azar, Christian; Holmberg, John; Lindgren, Kristian: Socio-ecological Indicators for Sustainability.. Ecological Economics, 18 pp. 89-112.

1995

Azar, Christian; Holmberg, John: Defining the Generational Environmental Debt.. Ecological Economics, 14 pp. 7-19.

Azar, Christian; Holmberg, John; Lindgren, Kristian: Stability Analysis of Harvesting in a Predator-Prey Model.. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 174 pp. 13-19.

Holmberg, John: Socio-Ecological Principles and Indicators for Sustainability. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology. Diss.

Uppdaterad: 29 november 2010
Ansvarig för sidan: Sandra Malentacchi

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