Research Areas

The program’s six research areas or work packages include:

WP0: Future Policy Scenarios and Alternative Pathways for LETS
WP0 studies alternative technological and policy scenarios and asks: What kind of transformations, in terms of technological and behavioural change, are required for LETS to meet challenging climate policy objectives? What are the political, economic and social challenges associated with such transformations? What alternative pathways towards LETS are possible under various scenarios?
WP leader: PhD Jamil Khan

WP1: Governance: Developing Institutions and Policy for LETS
WP1 considers implications for policy and institutional change and asks: What type of governance, in terms of institutions and policy, are needed to enable the transition towards LETS? And How can such institutions handle a set of governance dilemmas such as legitimacy, accountability, dynamic consistency, effectiveness and efficiency related to climate policy?
WP leader: PhD Fredrik N G Andersson

WP2: Urban and regional planning and infrastructure for LETS
WP2 studies urban and regional planning and changes in infrastructure as means for reducing greenhouse gases and asks: What tools, instruments and recommendations are necessary to (re)organize the built environment and transport system in order to enable and support the transition towards LETS?
WP leader: PhD Lena Hiselius

WP3: Markets, industry and policy for bioenergy
WP3 focuses on fossil fuel substitution using biomass and asks: What are the market and resource implications of high carbon prices? What are the sustainability challenges, commercial opportunities and policy options involved in governing the transition to increased use of bioenergy?
WP leader: PhD  Karin Ericsson

WP4: Citizen-Consumers and Voluntary Instruments for LETS
WP4 looks at implications of ‘soft’ policy and voluntary instruments, as complements to regulation and market based instruments, and asks: What type of voluntary policy and planning instruments will contribute to behavioural change among citizen-consumers consistent with the transition towards LETS?
WP leader: Ass.Prof. Mikael Klintman

WP5: Logistics and Goods Transport
WP5 focuses on the interplay between freight transport and logistics and asks: What are the challenges, opportunities and incentives of companies and the society regarding sustainable freight transport and logistics configurations in order to enable a change towards LETS? What types of instruments and policies have sufficient effect, relevance and feasibility to make freight transport sustainable? WP leader: PhD Henrik Pålsson

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