ESRs’ Blog

The economic development, social cohesion and political stability in the EU have been imperiled by the regional[1] economic divergence [1]. The last 50 years have...

by Josep Pinyol Alberich How should we measure economic performance and success? We keep using GPD and economic growth and we keep ignoring all the critiques that...

IKEA, the world’s biggest furniture retailer, recently announced a furniture buy-back and resell scheme offering customers vouchers to spend in store. The scheme...

Stientje van Veldhoven, Minister for Environment of the Netherlands, said, “we need to look at the resources side” instead of base decisions on energy efficiency...

During my summer holidays in Switzerland, one topic caught my attention: domestic waste management. And I just realized that it is not the first time I’m writing...

Text by Sanja Arsova and Azar Mahmoungonbadi The First Day of the Roundtable event for exchanging knowledge between the 15 Early Stage Researchers, industries and...

Akis Bimpizas, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK ([email protected]) Prof. Andrea Genovese, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK...

By Josep Pinyol and Kevin van Langen The latest Edition of the International Conference on Innovation and Circular Economy[1] took place from the 25th to the 27th of...

I was in one of the amazing Greek islands last summer, Samos, when I was preparing an abstract to submit for an international conference on circular economy (CE), and...

I recently sent a document to an industrial partner and requested for a review. It did not take too long to receive the comment “word Emergy is a typo”. Well, even my...

Flying is a convenient, affordable, safe, and quick way to travel across countries, making it is the most popular mean of transportation for academics, especially to...

Text by Jayani I. Sudusinghe, Felipe A. de Lima, and Biman D. Hettiarachchi. What happens to the disposable coffee-to-go cup we drink every morning? What happens to...

Text by Felipe A. de Lima, Jayani I. Sudusinghe, and Biman D. Hettiarachchi. Aquarelle by Felipe A. de Lima. Transformation (noun): an act, process, or instance of...

Text by Felipe Alexandre de Lima & Jayani Ishara Sudusinghe Aquarelle by Felipe Alexandre de Lima It’s worldwide recognized that the current “take-make-dispose”...

Municipal solid waste and in particular organic waste are globally generated in large quantities from various sectors including different stages of the food supply...

Before taking my current position as a PhD student at Dalarna University in Sweden, I lived in a small city in the UK called Chester, located in North West England...

The current linear economy has been strongly challenged in recent years regarding its merely focus on economic growth in spite of the resulting environmental...

We love consuming goods Buying things changes our mood, but are we aware of the environmental issues we have caused? There are tons of plastics in the ocean The...