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Helena Ranängen
Helena Ranängen

Helena Ranängen

Associate Professor
Luleå University of Technology
Quality Technology and Logistics
Business Administration and Industrial Engineering
Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts
helena.ranangen@ltu.se
+46 (0)920 491398
A2592 Luleå

Degree

  • 2020 Associate Professor Industrial Environmental Management, Luleå University of Technology
  • 2015 Ph.D. degree Industrial Environmental Management, Luleå University of Technology
  • 2013 Licentiate of Engineering Industrial Environmental Management, Luleå University of Technology
  • 2002 M.Sc degree in Civil Engineering, Luleå University of Technology
     

My research has been focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainable business. In my doctoral thesis I studied how the extractive industry in general and the mining industry in particular, practice CSR and how this work can be developed. I have developed guidelines for the Nordic mining industry's sustainability practice.  I have also conducted research within stakeholder management, materiality analysis and sustainability management system (SMS) for social acceptance which based on stakeholder dialogue creates, implements, evaluates and develops sustainable processes along the entire value chain.

I teach environmental management that involves different types of environmental tools such as environmental management systems, life cycle assessment and environmental labels, but also sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Publications

Article in journal

Guiding corporate social responsibility practice for social license to operate (2020)

A Nordic mining perspective
Lindman. Å, Ranängen. H, Kauppila. O
The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol. 7, nr. 3, s. 892-907
Article in journal

Walk the Talk (2020)

A Sustainability Management System for Social Acceptance in Nordic Mining
Ranängen. H, Lindman. Å
Sustainability, Vol. 12, nr. 9
Article in journal

Exploring corporate social responsibility practice versus stakeholder interests in Nordic mining (2018)

Ranängen. H, Lindman. Å
Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 197, nr. Part-1, s. 668-677
Article in journal

From global goals and planetary boundaries to public governance (2018)

A framework for prioritizing organizational sustainability activities
Ranängen. H, Cöster. M, Isaksson. R, Garvare. R
Sustainability, Vol. 10, nr. 8
Article in journal

A path towards sustainability for the Nordic mining industry (2017)

Ranängen. H, Lindman. Å
Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 151, s. 43-52