The Science Program for Sustainable Resource Flows focuses on developing and applying interdisciplinary frameworks for research that increase society’s knowledge about resource flows between the environment and society, about how environmental and climate impacts can be mitigated or increased by changes in resource flows, and how environmentally, socially and economically sustainable changes in resource flows might be motivated by incentives and regulation.

The objectives are:

• to identify and analyse the most important resource flows in the production/consumption circle and the potentials for improving resource efficient use and management of materials and energy, by recycling, waste prevention in households, industry and agriculture, improvements in product design etc.;
• to identify possibilities for exploring new biomass resources, and to analyse the environmental, economic and social consequences of the use of these resources; and
• to create new and further develop existing interdisciplinary concepts and models to enable integrated analyses and assessments  of the utilisation and management of materials, energy and ecosystem services in a broader sense.

Focus areas comprise:

• Ecosystem Services, future land use and sustainable resource flows;
• Use of ecosystem services in marine areas – macro algae, mussels and fisheries; and
• Use and recirculation of biomass waste from agricultural production and households.