Philip Peck

I am Associate Professor & Docent at the International Institute for Industrial, Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden. I am dedicated to shifting both industrial and social norms and practice in ways that contribute to sustainability-oriented systems of production & consumption. 

My research works are primarily focused upon industrial actors, and I lead IIIEE research work on corporate strategies for adoption of sustainability-oriented activities that create business value. This relies upon collaborative work with companies as they pursue marked improvements in resource efficiency. And as experiment/innovate towards more circular and sustainable business models. My teaching roles centre upon sustainable business management and practice within the IIIEE's two graduate programmes. 

Current research projects for my business/management team are conducted in partnership with larger manufacturing, and base-industry firms. The implications of global (mega)trends of electrification (of everything!), digitisation, decarbonisation and servitisation underpin essentially all of our projects. We collaborate in a number of situations where technology and servitization shifts are rapidly rendering established business models obsolete. One key focus is on building understanding of how to foster organisational & management changes (e.g. contributing to decision-support) in larger companies where organisational inertial effects are oftentimes significant. Work is required intra-firm, inter-firm, and across value-chains to meet these multiple and overlapping challenges. A second prime area of work is the building of knowledge of how firms can (or must) experiment with new business models, followed by delineation of improved management decision-support. 

My research career is built on work with socio-technical system transitions - enfolding the broader environmental, social, policy, & deployment parameters of technical systems. Within this, a decade or more was invested in work with large scale transportation fuel transitions - with much focus on the evolution of advanced biofuels. Work with the challenges of developing and launching new infrastructure and markets was (and remains) central. With an earlier professional background in the mining sector, I also offer extensive experience of work with multilateral organisations in the areas of environmental policy, risk mgt., & evolution of environmental practices in the extractive industries; having supported UN-affiliated work in more than 20 countries.
 
Philip' first degree was in Civil Engineering, he also has an MSc. (Env. Mgt. & Policy) from the IIIEE, and a PhD (Eng.) from Lund University.

Research Areas: 
Strategies for low-carbon infrastructures

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Ongoing projects

Tempus Mansur - Master on sustainable development and renewable energy

The main objective of MANSUR project is to provide a high quality education for Jordanian students in the key aspects of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (REEE), therefore enabling them to take responsible, creative, challenging and stimulating posts in industry or research in this exciting field. The additional specific objectives of the project are to promote and publicize new REEE technologies in the country and considerably increase the scale of REEE technologies application in public and private buildings in accordance with the Jordanian National Energy Plan.