I have been employed at KTH since 1992, and have been working within the Environmental Strategies Research Group (fms) since 1995. My PhD-thesis from 2000 was on long-time future studies on sustainable development with a focus on environment, transport and information technology in the future city. During 2001 I spent eight months at the Centre for geographical studies at Lisbon University. After the dissertation my research has been mainly focused on future studies of sustainable cities, especially on how various urban forms can be compatible with sustainable development and how energy use in buildings could be reduce. The possible role of information technology for changes of various kinds has been a part in all those studies.

Centre for Sustainable Communications
I am Director of the Vinnova Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communications, since March 2009. The Centre is a cooperation between KTH and 13 industrial and public partners and focus on Media and sustainability, Mediated meetings, Methods assessment of ICT and sustainable development and Persuasive technologies. See www.sus.kth.se.

Sustainable Images of the Future – for Women and Men?

The overall aim of the project is to contribute to and deepen the knowledge on a gender aware planning for sustainable development. More specifically, the objective is to give new empirical and theoretical knowledge on how so called sustainable images of futures, used in future studies, affect women and men and to discuss whether or how these images could be transformed to be gender equal. Vinnova

SitCit

Part of my research time I work with the SitCit project, see www.kth.se/abe/forskning/sitcit

Responsible for PhD-education in Environmental Strategic Analysis. Responsible for the Master-level course Futures studies and forecasts, AG2171, the PhD course Futures studies for PhD-students, FAG3201, and for PhD course in Environmental Strategic Methods, F1N5008

Reviewed articles in international journals

Wallgren, C and Höjer, M. (forthcoming) ”Eating energy - Identifying possibilities for reduced energy use in the future food supply system” Energy Policy

Höjer, M., Ahlroth, S., Dreborg, K-H., Ekvall, T., Finnveden, G., Hjelm, O., Hochschorner, E., Nilsson, M. and Palm, V. (2008) “Scenarios in selected tools for environmental systems analysis” Journal of Cleaner Production,16: 1958-1970.

Ahlroth, S. and Höjer, M. (2007) “Sustainable Energy Prices and growth – comparing macroeconomic and backcasting scenarios” Ecological Economics, 63: 722-731.

Larsen, K. and Höjer, M. (2007). "Technological innovation and transformation perspectives in environmental futures studies for transport and mobility”. International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 3(1): 95-115.

Börjeson, L. Höjer, M. Dreborg, K-H Ekvall, T. Finnveden, G. (2006). Scenario types and techniques - Towards a user's guide. Futures, 38, 723-739.  

Åkerman, J, Höjer M, (2006). How much transport can the climate stand? Energy Policy, 34, 1944-1957.

Höjer, M, 2002, A hundred nodes in the Stockhom region – a simple calculation of the effects on commuting, Environment and Planning B Planning and Design, 29, 197-217

Höjer, M. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2000). Determinism and backcasting in futures studies. Futures. 32(7), 613-634.

Höjer, M. (1998). Transport telematics in urban systems - a backcasting Delphi study. Transportation Research Part D, 3(6), 445-463.

Höjer, M. (1996). Urban transport, information technology and sustainable development. World Transport Policy and Practice, 2(1-2), 46-51.

Gudmundsson, H. & Höjer, M. (1996). Principles of sustainable development and their implications for transport. Journal of Ecological Economics, 19(3), 269-282.

Reviewed book sections

Höjer, M. (2001). Telecommunicators in the multinuclear city. In: Snickars, F., Olerup, B. and Persson, L.-O. (eds) Reshaping Regional Planning. Aldershot, Ashgate: 347-362.

Steen, P., Dreborg, K.-H., Henriksson, G., Hunhammar, S., Höjer, M., Rignér, J. and Åkerman, J. (1999). A sustainable transport system for Sweden in 2040. In: Meersman, H., van de Voorde, E. and Winkelmans, W. (eds) World transport research – selected proceedings from the 8th World conference on transport research, Antwerp, Belgium, 12-17 July 1998. Amsterdam, Pergamon. 3: 667-677.

Höjer, M. (1999). Options for transport telematics. In: Beuthe, M. and Nijkamp, P. (eds) .New contributions to transportation analysis in Europe. Aldershot, Ashgate: 297-316.

Book

Gullberg, A., Höjer, M., and Pettersson, R. (in press, due Autumn 2006). Bilder av framtidsstaden – Tid och rum för hållbar utveckling, Symposion, Eslöv.

Höjer, M., Gullberg, A., and Pettersson, R. (forthcoming). Images of the future city – time and space for sustainable development (preliminary title), Springer.

Research reports

Björklund, A., Höjer, M., Roth, L. och Svenfelt, Å. (2007). Giftfria och resurssnåla kretslopp - Åtgärdsstrategier under olika omvärldsutveckling. 112 sid. ISSN 1652-5442 TRITA-FMS 2007:8

Gunnarsson, U., Höjer, M. och Dreborg, K.-H. (2006): Att använda scenarier - förslag till långsiktigt miljömålsarbete 69 s. TRITA-INFRA-FMS 2006:3

Hedberg, L., Dreborg, K.-H., Finnveden, G., Gullberg, A., Höjer, M. and Åkerman, J. (2003). Rum för framtiden. FOI-R--0854—SE, Defence Analysis, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm.

Åkerman, J., Dreborg, K.-H., Henriksson, G., Hunhammar, S., Höjer, M., Jonsson, D., Moberg, Å., Steen, P. (2001). Destination Framtiden. KFB-report 2000:66, Stockholm, Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board

Höjer, M, (2001), Sustainable Development, the Information Society and the Future of the City, TRITA-IP-AR 01-99, Infrastruktur, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm

Höjer, M, (2001), Telecommunicators in the multinuclear city In Reshaping Regional Planning Eds F Snickars, B Olerup, L-O Persson (Ashgate, Aldershot) pp 347-362

Höjer, M, (2000), Information Technology, Urban Form and Travel in Traffic in Major Cities, Problems and prospects. Contributions from 22 Researchers and Students Ed K-H Bång, TRITA-IP FR 00-66, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm

Höjer, M. (2000). What is the point of IT? – backcasting urban transport and land use futures. PhD thesis. TRITA-IP FR 00-72. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Höjer, M. (1998). Ökad tillgänglighet och minskat resande? – en framtidsstudie om bebyggelsestruktur och IT för minskad pendling. KFB-report 1998:40, Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board, Stockholm.

Steen, P., Dreborg, K.-H., Henriksson, G., Hunhammar, S., Höjer, M., Rignér, J. and Åkerman, J. (1997). Färder i framtiden - transporter i ett bärkraftigt samhälle. KFB-report 1997:7, Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board, Stockholm.

Höjer, M. (1997). Telematics in Urban transport - a Delphi survey using scenarios. Stockholm, Tekn. Lic. Thesis. Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology

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