Industrial ecology programme

The Industrial Ecology Programme, or IndEcol, in the at Norwegian [University of Science and Technology|NTNU] is an interdisciplinary research programme specialising in sustainable development, circular economy research and environmental issues.
IndEcol's research areas are framed around the recently adopted United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and include:

Research groups focus on Life Cycle Assessment, Material Flow Analysis, and global environmental input-output analysis. bundles the Research software engineering efforts of the group.
The programme was initiated in 1994 and covers several research disciplines and a comprehensive educational curriculum. IndEcol established the world's first PhD programme in Industrial Ecology in 2003 and set up the international Master of Science in Industrial Ecology the following year.
The IndEcol group consists of Professors, Researchers, Post-Doctoral Fellows and PhD candidates, and currently numbers around 70 people. Current academics include Helge Brattebø, [Anders Hammer Strømman], , , , Francesca Verones, , and . Cherubini was a contributing author for Working Group 3's and for the Intergovernmental [Panel on Climate Change|Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)]

Specialist programmes

The Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU offers both PhD and Master’s study options

IndEcol is the home of the NTNU SUSTAINABILITY office, which represents one of four Strategic Research Areas of NTNU
IndEcol is also the home for the European Editorial Office of Journal of Industrial Ecology, a journal produced by Yale University for the International Society for Industrial Ecology.

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