John Holmberg

2026

Exploring how metaphors of change prefigure futures in public policy, social movements, and community projects.

2024

Multi-level learning for systemic transformation: Experiences from an expedition in North Mid Sweden

Transformative learning and leadership for a sustainable future: Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology

2022

Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology

2022

Higher Education Leadership: Cruise or Expedition?

2022

Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden

2021

Student-led sustainability transformations: employing realist evaluation to open the black box of learning in a Challenge Lab curriculum

2021

Learning to Frame Complex Sustainability Challenges in Place: Explorations Into a Transdisciplinary “Challenge Lab” Curriculum

2021

Symmetrical leadership and participation for cross-learning

A space for learners to lead and leaders to learn: Challenge Lab

Medskapande i backcastingexpeditioner — Ale i 360 grader

2020

Sustainability-oriented labs in real-world contexts: An exploratory review

2020

Högre utbildning och hållbar omställning – En reflektion över studenternas roll

2020

Ledarskap för hållbar omställning i högre utbildning

Backcasting into the future

Oseglade vatten? — då behövs expeditioner!

2018

Learning while creating value for sustainability transitions: The case of Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology

Omställning för hälsa och hållbarhet

2018

Governing sustainability transitions: contrasting experimental arenas through the lens of Agenda 2030

2018

A Sustainability Lighthouse—Supporting Transition Leadership and Conversations on Desirable Futures

Olika aspekter av Agenda 2030-arbetet i Riksdagens seminarium om Agenda 2030

Guiding Systemic Change: A cross-case analysis of ‘transition labs’ in Canada and Sweden

Skrivelse till UKÄ:s bedömargrupp angående UKÄ:s uppdrag att utvärdera alla högskolors och Universitets hållbarhetsarbete. Skickad till bedömargruppen 2016-10-10 och inkom till UKÄ 2017-03-16 (citerad i UKÄs utvärderingsrapport 2017:12)

A principles-based framework for sustainability transitions

An approach to sustainable product development relevant to small and medium-sized enterprises

Challenge Lab – Learning by Engaging in Society’s Sustainability Transitions

Challenge Lab - Students guiding sustainability transitions in society

Reflections on evaluating Challenge Lab by applying a proposed scheme for Sustainability Transition Experiments

Backcasting from sustainability principles – a case from a regional climate policy process in West Sweden

Students guiding societal transitions - examples from Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Learning Outcomes in Challenge Based Master’s Theses for Sustainable Development

Dealing with the multidimensionality of sustainability through the use of multiple perspectives – a theoretical framework

Challenge Lab: A transformative and integrative approach for sustainability transitions

2015

Learning Outcomes in Challenge Based Master’s Theses for Sustainable Development at Chalmers University of Technology

2015

Förändringar för mer hållbara konsumtionsmönster

Nu krävs kraftfulla åtgärder mot nötkött och flygresor

Explaining the Variation in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Between Households: Socioeconomic, Motivational, and Physical Factors

LRF och Svenskt flyg svarar inte om klimatmålen

2014

Backcasting - What is a sustainable future and how do we reach it?

Transformative learning and leadership for a sustainable future: Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology

Transformative learning and leadership for a sustainable future

2014

Greenhouse gas emissions and subjective well-being: An analysis of Swedish households

Mistra Urban Futures: a living laboratory for urban transformations

Experiences from an International Training Programme on ESD in Higher Education at Chalmers University of Technology

On the potential trade-offs between energy supply and end-use technologies for residential heating

Low-carbon transitions and the good life

Concrete vs. wood in buildings - An energy system approach

2012

The university and transformation towards sustainability: The strategy used at Chalmers University of Technology

Klimatomställningen och det goda livet

Price and income induced rebound effects of improved energy efficiency in Swedish households – with comments on materials efficiency

Well-being the path out of the consumption-climate dilemma?

The effect of work hours on energy use: A micro-analysis of time and income effects

Quantifying the rebound effects of energy efficiency improvements and energy conserving behaviour in Sweden

Stagnating energy efficiency in the Swedish building sector--Economic and organisational explanations

Better performance or lower fuel consumption. Technological development in the Swedish new-car fleet 1975-2002.

To address the quality of engineering education for sustainable development – experiences from Chalmers university of technology

Embedding sustainability in higher education through interaction with lecturers: Case studies from three European technical universities

2007

Strategies and Practices for Sustainability: Experiences from Firm Level

10 miljarder lyckliga planetskötare

Direct and indirect energy use and carbon emissions in the production phase of buildings: An input–output analysis

Direct and indirect energy use and carbon emissions in the production phase of buildings: An input-output analysis

Strategic planning towards sustainability - An approach applied on a company level

Samband mellan energieffektivisering och övergripande mål

Quantifying the Rebound Effects of Energy Efficiency and Energy Conserving Behaviour in Sweden

Experiences from Energy Efficiency Policies in Sweden During the Last 30 Years - Looking at the Building Sector

Energy efficiency - a forgotten goal in the Swedish building sector?

The societal metabolism.

Energianvändning i bebyggelsen – vad är det som styr?

Perfomance Targets - Clean, Clever and Competetive

Future Redistribution of Cadmium to Arable Swedish Soils A Substance Stock Analysis

Barriers to energy efficient new-construction

Energy Sector Background Study - POPA CTDA

From Here to Sustainability – Is the Lisbon/Göteborg agenda delivering?

Energieffektivitet i bebyggelsen

Materials for the Global Environment: Waste Mining in the 21st Century.

Backcasting from non-overlapping sustainability principles — a framework for strategic planning

Materials constraints in a global energy scenario based on thin-film solar cells

Backcasting — a natural step when operationalising sustainable development.

Constant Quota versus Constant Effort Harvesting.

1997

Man and material flows

Socio-ecological Indicators for Sustainability.

Socio-Ecological Principles and Indicators for Sustainability

Defining the Generational Environmental Debt.

Stability Analysis of Harvesting in a Predator-Prey Model.

Materials Flows: On the metabolism of the industrial society in a sustainability perspective

An environmental tax-shift with indirect desirable effects

Resursteoretiska principer för en bärkraftig utveckling

1992

On designing socio-ecological indicators