Rickard Arvidsson

Assistant 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 object has been various nanomaterials, and the current research is mainly focused on environmental and sustainability aspects of the new material graphene.

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Environmental Risk Assessment

Major publications
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
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
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
Latest publications

2019
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:

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:

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

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

Published: 2019

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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
Environmental life cycle assessment of cemented carbide (WC-Co) production

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

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
2018
Proxy Measures for Simplified Environmental Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Anders Baun; Anna Furberg; Steffen Foss Hansen; Sverker Molander

Published: 2018

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Journal article
“Just Carbon”: Ideas About Graphene Risks by Graphene Researchers and Innovation Advisors

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Max Boholm; Mikael Johansson; Monica Lindh de Montoya

Published: 2018

Published in: NanoEthics

Publication type: Journal article
Environmental Assessment of Emerging Technologies: Recommendations for Prospective LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Anne-Marie Tillman; Björn Sandén; Mathias Janssen; Anders Nordelöf; Duncan Kushnir; Sverker Molander

Published: 2018

Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology

Publication type: Review article
Societal flows of cemented tungsten carbide – the case of tire studs

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2018

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Potential improvements of the life cycle environmental impacts of a Li/S battery cell

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Mathias Janssen; Magdalena Svanström; Patrik Johansson; Björn Sandén

Published: 2018

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Beyond a CSR context towards pluralism in SLCA: exploring alternative social theoretical perspectives

Author: Henrikke Baumann; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2018

Published in:

Publication type: Conference contribution
Using DALY for Assessing Human Health Impacts of Conflict Minerals

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2018

Published in:

Publication type: Paper in proceedings
Live and Let Die? Life Cycle Human Health Impacts from the Use of Tire Studs

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2018

Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Publication type: Journal article
Response to Comment on “Risk Assessments Show Engineered Nanomaterials To Be of Low Environmental Concern”

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2018

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Introductory text in journal
Risk Assessments Show Engineered Nanomaterials To Be of Low Environmental Concern

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2018

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Introductory text in journal
Energy use and climate change improvements of Li/S batteries based on life cycle assessment

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Mathias Janssen; Magdalena Svanström; Patrik Johansson; Björn Sandén

Published: 2018

Published in: Journal of Power Sources

Publication type: Journal article
USEtox characterisation factors for textile chemicals based on a transparent data source selection strategy

Author: Sandra Roos; Hanna Holmquist; Christina Jönsson; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2018

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

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
1/1/2015 — 12/31/2019

Environmental and resource performance of the nanomaterials graphene and nanocellulose
1/1/2018 — 12/31/2019

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
Closed
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...
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...

Published: Thu 26 Apr 2012. Modified: Tue 07 Nov 2017

Rickard Arvidsson

Major publications

Latest publications

2019

2018

Mistra Environmental Nanosafety

Projects

Closed