New research from SEED faculty on low carbon economy, waste management in Grenada, food waste and recycling

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Grenada

Can a small island state be sustainable? Professor Simron Singh and research student Allison Elgie think so.

  • Elgie, A. R., Singh, S. J., & Telesford, J. N. (2021). You can’t manage what you can’t measure: the potential for circularity in Grenada’s waste management system. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 164, 105170.

Professor Olaf Weber and Ph.D. students Truzaar Dordi and Adeboye Oyegunle, have written a chapter in the book Sustainability and Financial Risks.

  • Weber, O., Dordi, T., & Oyegunle, A. (2020). Stranded Assets and the Transition to Low-Carbon Economy. In M. Migliorelli & P. Dessertine (Eds.), Sustainability and Financial Risks: The Impact of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Social Inequality on Financial Markets (pp. 63–92). Springer International Publishing.

Food waste
Food waste has become an increasingly discussed topic. Sustainability management graduate student Sohani Withanage and Professors Goretty Dias and Komal Habib have a new article.

Withanage, S. V., Dias, G., & Habib, K. (2020). Review of household food waste quantification methods: focus on composition analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 123722.

How can we pursue sustainable cities in a cost effective way? In collaboration with Stephanie Cairns from the Smart Prosperity Institute, PhD student Ying Zhou and Professor Amelia Clarke have a new book chapter. This is based on Ying Zhou’s Master’s thesis, which she completed through SEED’s MES in Sustainability Management.

Coffee cup
Other than waste management, what benefits can recycling provide? Professor Steven Young worked with PhD student Alex Cimprich and Bertrand Laratte and Jair Santillan-Saldivar, both visiting scholars to SEED in 2019 from University of Bordeaux.

  • Santillán-Saldivar, J., Cimprich, A., Shaikh, N., Laratte, B., Young, S. B., & Sonnemann, G. (2021). How recycling mitigates supply risks of critical raw materials: Extension of the geopolitical supply risk methodology applied to information and communication technologies in the European Union. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 164, 105108.

For more information on our PhD and MES research programs in Sustainability Management, please take a look at SEED’s graduate programs.