Project team and partners

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is an independent, non-profit organization, owned by a foundation jointly established by the Swedish Government and Swedish industry. IVL was established in 1966 and has since then been involved in the development of solutions to environmental problems, both at national and international level. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has a broad environmental profile.

Project team:

Johan Holmqvist has a doctoral degree in Biogeochemistry and works as researcher and senior project manager at IVL in sustainable urban development. He has 7 years of experience as a CSR specialist and manager in Global Head of Sustainability in the ICT business and has 8-9 years of experience as a Senior Environmental Advisor and Risk Assessor at a consultancy.

Steve Harris holds a PhD in Industrial Ecology and has 19 years’ experience in applied sustainability research and consultancy. Having led research in the UK, Australia, Sweden and the EU, he has extensive expertise in urban development and assessment, industrial symbiosis and sustainability/life cycle assessment. He has extensive experience with sustainable systems assessment using such tools as LCA, MFA and multi-regional input output, and currently leads and works on several projects within urban development, circular economy and industrial

Sjoerd Herlaar is a researcher at IVL and a research engineer at KTH, with interest in sustainable consumption, circular economy, and data science, and where these fields overlap. At KTH, Sjoerd investigated the application of unsupervised neural networks on consumption data to find trends in household spending. Sjoerd will aid in several tasks throughout RECREATE, one of which is the calculation and application of regional IO tables for Malmö and other modelling and urban metabolism analysis activities.

Alexandra Wu holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Policy at Lund University, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE). She has extensive experience in managing international and European environmental projects. Alexandra’s specialist fields are in sustainability strategies, cleaner production and communications.

Chalmers University of Technology

Chalmers is focused on competence, knowledge and collaboration in order to play an important, demonstrable role in social development with a local, national and global perspective. This is reflected by the fact that Chalmers is a leading global institution for research cooperation with industry. The overall goal of Chalmers is to contribute to the transition of society towards a sustainable future, this includes the development of knowledge and technology through teaching and research that deal with both environmental questions and the broader perspective of sustainable development.

Project team:

Leonardo Rosado is an Associate Professor at the Architecture and Civil Engineering department at Chalmers focusing on the Urban Metabolism field, in particular using a holistic approach to develop methods to study all resource flows of cities. Leonardo Rosado has developed a groundbreaking method to account for materials in urban areas – the Urban Metabolism Analyst. The main goal is to study cities and regions to provide valuable information to stakeholders on different levels: circular economy, waste management, urban planning, industry and households.

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is the globally leading research institute on systems analysis, integrated assessment and scientific policy support. It was founded to bridge the divide between different ideologies and models of society and offers independent, interdisciplinary and solution-oriented approaches. Its research agenda features major global and universal challenges to humanity, including energy, climate change, ecosystems, population, technologies, and more broadly sustainable development.

Project team:

Brian Fath has a doctoral degree in Systems Ecology and Senior Research Scholar at IIASA. He has worked in the Advanced Systems Analysis Program at IIASA since 2002 with specialization in ecological network analysis, socio-ecological modelling, and resilience. He is also Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University (Maryland, USA), Editor in Chief of the journal Ecological Modelling, Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Ecology, and visiting professor at Beijing Normal University.

Fabian Wagner is a Senior Research Scholar at the IIASA. At IIASA he supports various international processes with modeling tools to guide the development of effective and efficient environmental policies. During 2014-16, he was Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Before joining IIASA in 2004, Dr. Wagner was a researcher at the IGES in Japan, and at LBNL. Dr. Wagner received both his PhD and two master's degrees from Cambridge University (UK). He is the author for more than 150 publications, including international assessments, IPCC, UNEP, and the European Commission. He has co-developed the GAINS model, an IIASA flagship product.

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer is an Emeritus Scholar in IIASA’s Risk and Resilience (RISK) Program. An economist by training, her current interest is global change and the risk of catastrophic events, and she investigates options for mitigating and transferring risk with a focus on the most vulnerable communities, cities and countries. This research is part of her broader interest in governance and resilience building especially in the context of adaptation to climate change. She is also active in designing and carrying out deliberative stakeholder processes, including smart gaming approaches, that co-generate policy options for disaster risk reduction and resilience. Dr. Bayer has served as lead author and editor on the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). She is a founding member of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative and serves on the board of the Austrian Climate Research Program, and until recently on the European Commission Environment Advisory Committee. Other affiliations include the faculty of Beijing Normal University and the Science Committee of the Chinese Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management.

Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University is a prestigious university, which is established in 1902. Beijing Normal University is one of the national bases for talent development of high quality and creativity. The School of Environment has an outstanding research profile and two key laboratories, namely the State Key Joint Laboratory for Environment Simulation and the Key Laboratory for Water and Sediment Science.

Project team:

Bin Chen has a doctoral degree in Environmental Science and is a distinguished professor of environment modeling at Beijing Normal University. Dr. Chen has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious international journals such as PNAS, Trends in Biotechnology, and Nature Climate Change. He has years of research experience in urban resource nexus study and urban resilience management. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief of Energy, Ecology and Environment, Associate Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production, Subject Editor of Applied Energy, and an editorial board member of Ecological Modelling, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hydrodynamics and Ecological Informatics. etc.

Delin Fang is a post-doctoral fellow at Beijing Normal University. She used to attend Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) in 2013 and 2015, and visit University of Maryland for one year. Dr. Fang has published 10 peer-reviewed papers in international journals.

Fudan University

Fudan University is ranked in the top 50 universities in the world. The urban resource economy research group of Fudan University has established an integrated analytic framework on ecological resource accounting at the regional and industrial level, and explored the ecological transformation model for cleaner production and circular economy in the pulp and paper industry. The sustainable behavior group has substantially developed the EU/Brighton “WeValue” values-based method to elicit articulated shared values from groups of stakeholders, in China and many Western countries, and used them to mitigate social vulnerability and increase local voice in planning.

Project team:

Yutao Wang is a professor of Environmental management at Fudan University. Educated at Shandong University, he has published 50+ peer-reviewed academic papers in journals like Applied Energy and Science of the Total Environment. He is serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cleaner Production, Subject Editor of Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment, Guest Editor of Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Editorial board member of Journal or Environmental Accounting and Management, and deputy Chief of Industrial Ecology Committee of the Ecological Society of China.

Marie Harder has a ten-year prestigious China National ‘Thousand Talents’ professorship. She has a PhD in physics and brings rigorous scientific method to study of wicked problems; she integrates social and cultural dimensions in the design of new systems. She has 70+ peer-reviewed papers and 70+ projects totaling over 3M Euros with commercial, government and civil society partners. She was the Coordinator of the EU FP7 Research project named ESDinds which initiated the values-led approach now known as WeValue.

Huan YanYan is a Research Officer with three years of using WeValue in UK and China, in English and Mandarin, and across languages and cultures in Thailand and Hong Kong.

Jinan university

The research group of Jinan University has developed their academic strengths in the areas of ecological environment protection issues, rapid economic development, cooperation mechanisms on green environmental development and micro-enterprises. Jinan University has also carried out a series of innovative research in the field of sustainability management, especially for the research of the impacts of environmental regulation policies on enterprise behavior.