University of Iceland - Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Research Institute/University
Topics
Environment / Climate
Energy
Innovation
Sub Topics
Renewable energy
Description
The Environment and Natural Resources Programme at University of Iceland conducts high quality research on energy and natural resource issues. The programme has several focal points including: sustainable energy development where the focus is on assessing transitions of energy systems towards sustainability using system dynamics and evaluating the social, economic and environmental impact of changes in energy systems; energy resource and environmental policy analysis, climate change mitigation and adaptation, cost benefit analysis, ecosystem services, land-use, sustainability indicators, circular economy, wellbeing and sustainability assessments and corporate social responsibility.
Projects
Sustainable energy development in various contexts, nature conservation/protection, ecosystem services, policy analysis. Expertise in e.g. systems modelling in many contexts, stakeholder engagement, policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis and life cycle assessment.