Rickard Arvidsson

Associate professor, Technology management and Economics

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Rickard Arvidsson is mainly conducting environmental and sustainability assessments, mostly life cycle assessment (LCA), social life cycle assessment (SLCA), environmental risk assessment (ERA), and material and substance flow analysis (MFA/SFA). The main study objects are various advanced materials, such as nanomaterials and new battery materials.

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Environmental Risk Assessment

Major publications
Life Cycle Assessment of Cellulose Nanofibrils Production by Mechanical Treatment and Two Different Pretreatment Processes

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Thuy Duong Nguyen; Magdalena Svanström

Published: 2015

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Journal article
Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of Graphene Production by Ultrasonication and Chemical Reduction

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Duncan Kushnir; Björn Sandén; Sverker Molander

Published: 2014

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Journal article
Energy use indicators in energy and life cycle assessments of biofuels: review and recommendations

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Kristin Fransson; Morgan Fröling; Magdalena Svanström; Sverker Molander

Published: 2012

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article
Latest publications

2020
The need for a prospective perspective in LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Comments on “Life cycle assessment of cobalt extraction process” by Farjana et al. [1]

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Mudit Chordia; Anders Nordelöf

Published: 2020

Published in: Journal of Sustainable Mining

Publication type: Introductory text in journal
Implementation of the crustal scarcity indicator into life cycle assessment software

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Mudit Chordia; Sanna Wickerts; Anders Nordelöf

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Report
Environmental and health risks of nanorobots: an early review

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Steffen Foss Hansen

Published: 2020

Published in: Environmental Science: Nano

Publication type: Journal article
Influence of natural organic matter on the aquatic ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles: Recommendations for environmental risk assessment

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Steffen Foss Hansen; Anders Baun

Published: 2020

Published in: NanoImpact

Publication type: Journal article
Environmental and resource aspects of substituting cemented carbide with polycrystalline diamond: The case of machining tools

Author: Anna Furberg; Kristin Fransson; Mats Zackrisson; Mikael Larsson; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article
A crustal scarcity indicator for long-term global elemental resource assessment in LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Maria Ljunggren; Björn Sandén; Anders Nordelöf; Hampus André; Anne-Marie Tillman

Published: 2020

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Journal article
Sculpting Responsibility? Historicising Nanoscience and Technology Development in Attendant Research and Innovation Ethics

Author: Nicholas Surber; Karl Palmås; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Human health impacts of natural diamond production

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2020

Published in: Social LCA Impacts, Interests, Interactions

Publication type: Paper in proceedings
Time-based indicators of forced labour, local employment and equal opportunities in social LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Social LCA - Impacts, Interests, Interactions

Publication type: Paper in proceedings
Measuring the immeasurable: The contribution of social sciences to the assessment of social impacts in a life cycle perspective

Author: Giulia Goffetti; Henrikke Baumann; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Collection FruiTrop Thema Social LCA

Publication type: Paper in proceedings
A Function‐Based Approach for Life Cycle Management of Chemicals in the Textile Industry

Author: Sandra Roos; S Posner; Christina Jönsson; Elisabeth Olsson; Hanna Lindén; Steffen Schellenberger; Mikael Larsson; Anne-Charlotte Hanning; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Sustainability

Publication type: Journal article
2019
What are the Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Synthetic Diamond?

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Mikael Larsson; Mats Zackrisson; Kristin Fransson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2019

Published in:

Publication type: Conference poster
Beyond a Corporate Social Responsibility Context Towards Methodological Pluralism in Social Life Cycle Assessment: Exploring Alternative Social Theoretical Perspectives

Author: Henrikke Baumann; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2019

Published in: Perspectives on Social LCA : Contributions from the 6th International Conference

Publication type: Book chapter
Methodological Approaches to End-Of-Life Modelling in Life Cycle Assessments of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Author: Anders Nordelöf; Sofia Poulikidou; Mudit Chordia; Felipe Bitencourt de Oliveira; Johan Tivander; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2019

Published in: Batteries

Publication type: Review article
Prospective inventory modelling of emerging chemicals: The case of photonic materials

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Duncan Kushnir; Mathias Janssen; Björn Sandén

Published: 2019

Published in: SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting Abstract Book

Publication type: Paper in proceedings
Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Synthetic Diamond Production

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Mikael Larsson; Mats Zackrisson; Kristin Fransson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2019

Published in:

Publication type: Conference poster
An inventory framework for inclusion of textile chemicals in life cycle assessment

Author: Sandra Roos; Christina Jönsson; S Posner; Rickard Arvidsson; Magdalena Svanström

Published: 2019

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Journal article
A Swedish comment on ‘review: the availability of life-cycle studies in Sweden’

Author: Gregory Peters; Robin Harder; Rickard Arvidsson; Henrikke Baumann; Anna Björklund; Mélanie Despeisse; Tomas Ekvall; Niclas Ericsson; Göran Finnveden; Torun Hammar; Mathias Janssen; Carl Karheiding; Hanna Karlsson; Maria Ljunggren Söderman; Magdalena Svanström; Anne-Marie Tillman; Holger Wallbaum

Published: 2019

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Introductory text in journal
On the use of ordinal scoring scales in social life cycle assessment

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2019

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Journal article
Indicators for national consumption-based accounting of chemicals

Author: Linn Persson; Rickard Arvidsson; Mårten Berglund; Christel Cederberg; Göran Finnveden; Viveka Palm; Louise Sörme; Sarah Schmidt; Richard Wood

Published: 2019

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article
Dissipation of tungsten and environmental release of nanoparticles from tire studs: A Swedish case study

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2019

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article

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Mistra Environmental Nanosafety

The Mistra Environmental Nanosafety program (Mistra Miljösäker Nanoteknik) aims to build, through interdisciplinary research, knowledge to promote responsible use of nanotechnology in a sustainable society.

Projects
1/1/2020 — 12/31/2022

Life Cycle Assessment of All-Electric Aircrafts
7/1/2020 — 6/30/2024

Life cycle assessment of future battery chemistries – high storage capacity without scarce...
Start date : 1/1/2019

Making Sense of the Megajoules: Improving Energy Use Calculations in Life Cycle Assessment of energy...
4/1/2019 — 3/31/2023

Mistra Environmental Nanosafety Phase II
6/1/2020 — 12/31/2023

“Blood Batteries”? Social Life Cycle Impacts of Lithium Ion Batteries
Closed
1/1/2015 — 12/31/2020

Environmental and resource performance of the nanomaterials graphene and nanocellulose
1/1/2008 — 1/1/2013

Life cycle environmental impacts of biofuels

Biofuels are seen as one of several technologies that can contribute to a sustainable society, less dependent on fossil fuels. During the 2000s, it has however become clear that...
1/1/2018 — 12/31/2019

Making Sense of the Megajoules: Improving Energy Use Calculations in Life Cycle Assessment of energy...
12/1/2014 — 12/31/2018

Mistra Environmental Nanosafety
1/1/2009 — 12/31/2014

NanoSphere: Centre for interaction and risk studies in Nano-Bio-Geo-Sociotechno-sphere interfaces

The rapid and promising advancement of nanotechnology (NT) require a concomitant expansion of the knowledge about risks - human, ecological and societal - related to nanomaterials...
1/1/2015 — 3/30/2018

Policy-Relevant Indicators for National Consumption and Environment (PRINCE)

The PRINCE project aims to develop a sound and repeatable methodology to monitor the environmental impacts of Swedish consumption, both inside and outside Sweden's borders, using the...
1/15/2019 — 8/31/2019

Pre-study regarding a nexus for life cycle assessment of electromobility

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Rickard Arvidsson

Major publications

Latest publications

2020

2019

Mistra Environmental Nanosafety

Projects

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