Göran Finnveden
PROFESSOR
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About me
Göran Finnveden is Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Finnveden's main research interest is the use and development of life cycle assessment and other sustainability assessment tools. His contributions include both methodology development and case studies. He also works with environmental policy and scenarios for sustainable development. Application areas include buildings, energy, ICT, transportation, urban development and waste management. Current research projects include "Mentor - Methods for enviromental sustainability assessment in the early design stage of a resource recovery system" with the Department of Chemical Engineering and "Urban Circle- urban waste and circular economy benefits" together with Stockholm Environment Institute.
Finnveden is a member of the board of Stockholm Environment Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards (or equivalent) of seven scientific journals: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Journal of Cleaner Production, Progress in Industrial Ecology, Sustainability, Environments and Sustainable Production and Consumption. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Joint Program Initiative Urban Europe and the reference group for the energy field of the Helmholtz program at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Between 2011 and 2021, Finnveden was vice-president for sustainable development at KTH. Between 2003 and 2011 he was Head of the division of Environmental Strategies Research at KTH. Between 1998 and 2005 he was a researcher and research leader at the Swedish Defence Research Institute and between 1988 and 1998 a researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. He has a M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from KTH (1989), a PhD in Natural Resources Management from Stockholm University (1999) and is a Docent in Industrial Ecology at KTH (2003).
Finnveden has published extensively in several areas. He has according to Scopus (in December 2021) more than 100 scientific publications, more than 7000 citations and an h-index of 41. According to Google Scholar he has more than 16000 citations and an h-index of 54. He is also active in public discussions, appears in media and writes opinion papers.
Courses
Degree Project in Strategies for Sustainable Development, Second Cycle (AL250X), examiner | Course web
Energy, Climate and The Environment (AG1808), teacher | Course web
Environmental Aspects of the Built Environment (AG2806), examiner | Course web
Life Cycle Assessment (AL2608), teacher | Course web
Literature Course in Strategies for Sustainable Development (FAL3513), examiner | Course web
Resilience Thinking in Sustainable Planning (AL2511), examiner | Course web
System Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment (BB2570), teacher | Course web
Transport, Communication and Sustainable Development (AG2804), examiner | Course web