MILEN is the University of Oslo’s interfaculty research area on environmental change and sustainable energy. MILENs goal is to facilitate interfaculty and interdisciplinary research on environmental change and sustainable energy and to strengthen the University of Oslo’s renome as an important contributor to the work in solving important energy and environmental challenges.
News
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Including lifetime energy costs in appliance shopping
Apr 9, 2013 09:44 AM
Does more complete information on energy requirements and lifecycle costs influence consumer's buying decisions for electrical appliances? A team of researchers at CICERO conducted an experiment to find that out.
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Summer School on Governing the Transition to a Bio-based Economy
Apr 5, 2013 12:02 PM
Zurich – Basel Plant Science Center and Departement of Political Science at the University of Zürich is offering a summer school on bio-based economy to PhD students or Master students in their final year in the fields of plant sciences, political science and economics.
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The three horsemen of the apocalypse
Apr 3, 2013 11:35 AM
How do we do research on global problems such as climate change in a local setting? That was the main question of Thomas Hylland Eriksen's MILEN seminar. If you missed it, you can listen to the podcast here.
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Environment and Statecraft
Mar 4, 2013 07:42 PM
Why do some environmental treaties work and others fail miserably? In order get an insight into that conondrum, Professor Jon Hovi recommends the book "Environment and Statecraft".
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What does it mean to be comfortable?
Feb 19, 2013 11:53 AM
What does comfort at home and at the workplace mean for us? In the article "A cross-cultural analysis of household energy use behaviour in Japan and Norway" Wilhite, Nakagami, Masuda, Yamaga and Haneda illustrate how cultural differences and perceptions of comfort impact overall energy use in these countries. Wilhite's et al. article is still current in a world of rising energy demand and climate change.
