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Dr. Karel Mulder
Senior lecturer
Head SD unit
Delft University of Technology

Jaffalaan 5
Delft, NL2628bx
Netherlands

Tel: +31-15-2781043
Fax: +31-15-2783177
Email:
http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=0ad3e4b4-cf09-48f4-b739-fe1fa56e878b&lang=en

Karel F. Mulder (1956) received an engineering degree from Twente University, and a doctorate in Business Administration from Groningen University in 1992.

Mulder presided the Technology & Society department of the Dutch Royal Institute of Engineers from 1994 to 1999 and was in charge of a project to include Sustainable Development in all engineering curricula at Delft University of Technology from 1997-2005. He organized the first Engineering Education in Sustainable Development Conference in 2002 and co-organized the second and third EESD conferences. Since 2005, Mulder is head of the Department Technology Dynamics & Sustainable Development. And published recently the book Sustainable Development for Engineers (Greenleaf, 2006) 'Desarollo Sostenible para Ingenieros' (Ediciones UPC, 2007)



Dr. Mulder recommends:

P.Weaver, L. Jansen, G. van Grootveld, E. van Spiegel, Ph. Vergragt, 2000, Sustainable Technology Development, Sheffield: Greenleaf Publisher



Dr. Mulder has (co)authored:
Jakob Fokkema, Leo Jansen en Karel Mulder, 2005, Sustainability: necessity for a prosperous society.  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 6, 3, pp. 219-228

E.H.M. Moors, K.F. Mulder, 2002, Industry in Sustainable Development: the contribution of regime change to radical technical innovation in industry.  In. Journal of Technology Policy and Management 2, no. 4, pp434-454

Ellen H.M. Moors, Karel F. Mulder, Philip J.Vergragt  2005, Towards Cleaner Production: barriers and strategies in the base metals producing Industry, Journal of Cleaner Production 13, no. 7, (june), pp. 657-668

Mulder, K.F., 2004, Engineering Education in Sustainable Development: Sustainability as a tool to open up the windows of engineering institutions, Business Strategy and the Environment 13 no. 4 pp. 275-285

Karel F. Mulder, 2006, Engineering Curricula in Sustainable Development. An evaluation of changes at Delft UT.  European Journal of Engineering Education 31, no. 2, pp. 133-144

Karel Mulder, 1998, Sustainable Consumption and Production of Plastics?  Technological Forecasting & Social Change 58, nrs. 1&2, pp. 105-124

Karel Mulder, 2004, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Emerald isbn 1-84544-043-9

Karel Mulder, 2006, Sustainable Development for Engineers. A handbook and Resource Guide.  Sheffield: Greenleaf

Mulder, k, 2005, Innovation by disaster: the ozone catastrophe as experiment of forced innovation.  Int Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development 4, no. 1, pp. 88-103

Karel F.Mulder, J.Marjolijn Knot, 2001, PVC plastic: a history of systems development and entrenchment.  Technology in Society 23 (224), pp. 265-286

Mulder, 2006, Engineering curricula in Sustainable development. An evaluation of changes at TUD-European journal of engineering education 31 (2) pp 133-144 ISSN 0304-3797

Mulder 2006, Sustainability made in Delft.  Eburon: 905972156x

Dirk-Jan Peet, Karel Mulder, A Bijma, 2004 Integrating SD into engineering courses at the Delft University of Technology, the individual interaction method.  Int. Journal of sustainability in higher education, Vol 5, 3 pp 278-288


This Network Member is directly associated with the following:

EVENTS
Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
September 30, 2009 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Karel Mulder, Didac Ferrer, Jordi Segalas

PUBLICATIONS
Innovation for sustainable development: from environmental design to transition management (2007)
Karel F. Mulder

                                                     
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MEMBERS
Thomas Ruddy, EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratory, Switzerland

Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET), Argentina

Jill Jäger, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria

 
   
 
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