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Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED)

The Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) conducts research and education focused on the sustainable development of society. SEED gathers a broad range of interdisciplinary expertise to conduct research that covers a wide field within environmental, engineering and sustainability issues.

The department belongs to the School of Architecture and the Built Environment .

SEED's divisions

Competence centres

Water

WaterCentre@KTH

The WaterCentre@KTH is a wide collaborative effort based at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The centre's mission is to bring about water innovations for a sustainable future of the Earth. The centre believes in the meeting of experts, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Fishes is water

Centre for Future Seafood, Blue food

Blue food is a national seafood centre working to develop the Swedish sustainable production of seafood. A primary task is to utilize the wild fish catch more efficiently and to develop a modern aquaculture for fish, shellfish and algae in collaboration with about 70 partners.

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Illustration

Viable Cities

Viable Cities is a strategic innovation programme focusing on the transition to climate-neutral and sustainable cities. The programme's mission is climate neutral cities 2030 with a good life for all within planetary boundaries. KTH is the host organization for Viable Cities.

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SEED's calender

  • Past-Proofing Infrastructure Futures

    EHL Events

    Wednesday 2023-05-31, 13:15 - 14:45

    Participating: Timothy Moss, Senior Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin

    Location: Big Seminar Room, Div. of History of Science, Teknikringen 74D, 5th floor

    2023-05-31T13:15:00.000+02:00 2023-05-31T14:45:00.000+02:00 Past-Proofing Infrastructure Futures (EHL Events) Big Seminar Room, Div. of History of Science, Teknikringen 74D, 5th floor (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Past-Proofing Infrastructure Futures (EHL Events)
  • Groundwater defluoridation by natural minerals

    Public defences of doctoral theses

    Wednesday 2023-06-14, 13:00

    Location: Two venues: Sahara, Teknikringen 10B, Campus, Sweden at 13:00 (CEST), AND Swedish Embassy at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at 14:00 (EAT), video conference

    Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/64600615013

    Doctoral student: Vivian Kimambo , Vatten- och miljöteknik, The University of Dodoma, United Republic of Tanzania, International Groundwater Arsenic Research Group

    2023-06-14T13:00:00.000+02:00 2023-06-14T13:00:00.000+02:00 Groundwater defluoridation by natural minerals (Public defences of doctoral theses) Two venues: Sahara, Teknikringen 10B, Campus, Sweden at 13:00 (CEST), AND Swedish Embassy at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at 14:00 (EAT), video conference (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)Groundwater defluoridation by natural minerals (Public defences of doctoral theses)
SEED's full calender

Latest SEED publications

[1]
V. Voloshchuk, O. Kordas and E. Nikiforovich, "Comprehensive energy and exergy analysis of the Ground Source Heat Pump evaporator," in ECOS 2021 - 34th International Conference on Efficency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, 2021, pp. 1436-1445.
[2]
K. Skånberg and Å. Svenfelt, "Expanding the IPAT identity to quantify backcasting sustainability scenarios," Futures & Foresight Science, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021.
[3]
S. Nyström et al., "Challenging the image of the altruistic and flexible household in the smart grid using design fiction," in Seventh Workshop on Computing within Limits 2021, 2021.
More SEED publications
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Last changed: Apr 05, 2023