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Publications

Christine Nikander currently writes a lot of about e-waste, electronics circularity, and the energy transition. She is also working on a poetry collection, a short story collection, and a series of children's books. You can follow the progress on her literary and art projects on Instagram.

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Publications & Research

  • "The 3.5 Percent" series • coming in 2026 • Stories of ordinary people stepping into their power as citizens, volunteers, activists, entrepreneurs, and business owners to push for positive social and environmental change (published in learning hub)

  • "Female Scientists" series • 01/2026 - present • Stories of female pioneers and trailblazers in data and AI, electronics, mobility, energy, mining, circularity, and climate (published in learning hub)

  • "Circular Impactmakers" series • 11/2025 - present • Stories of people and organizations pushing to make the circular economy a reality through waste reduction and repair, resource management, systems change, and design (published in learning hub)

  • "100 People & Organizations in Circularity to Follow in 2025" series • 11/2025 - 12/2025 • List featuring the stories of 100 people and organizations broadly working in circularity, worth following if you are looking to expand your knowledge or community around the circular economy (published on blog)

  • “The Just Transition Newsletter” • 03/2024 - present • Monthly newsletter by Palsa & Pulk exploring how to achieve a just transition and how companies can become champions for change (published on LinkedIn, Substack, and website)

  • “The E-Waste Column” • 09/2022 - present • Weekly column and a monthly newsletter on e-waste, transition minerals, and critical raw materials (published on LinkedIn, Substack, and website)

  • “E-waste recycling: time to peddle harder” • 03/2024 • Article published online and in print in The Mint Magazine by Promoting Economic Pluralism

  • “How have courts dealt with scientific evidence in youth-led climate cases? How does this differ between courts?” • 12/2021 • LL.M. writing project for Columbia Law School (unpublished)

  • "Attacks on Human Rights Lawyers in Zimbabwe: 2020/21 Report" • 09/2021 • Report drafted for Lawyers for Lawyers (published)

  • "Weser Road Trips" • 02/2021 to 06/2021 • Travel blog about exploring the Road of Weser Renaissance by e-car (published online)

  • “The Legal Principles of Hazardous Waste Management, and Their Deployment in European and US Case Law” • 08/2017 • Master's thesis for Edinburgh Law School (unpublished)

  • “E-Waste Trafficking as an Environmental Crime: Countering the Transboundary Movement of E-waste by Legally Limiting Planned Obsolescence” • 05/2016 • Bachelor's thesis for Leiden University College (unpublished)

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