Events

Four members of the Waterloo Industrial Ecology Group (WIEG) returned in good cheer from the International Roundtable on Raw Material Criticality (IRTC) Conference 2023, “Raw Materials for a Sustainable Future”, held 15-17 February 2023 in Lille, France. This was the first in-person scholarly conference for SUSM Masters student Jamie Faubert and for SUSM PhD student Ankesh Siddhantakar – and the first since the pandemic for Professors Komal Habib and Steven Young.

Four members of the Waterloo Industrial Ecology Group (WIEG) returned in good cheer from the International Roundtable on Raw Material Criticality (IRTC) Conference 2023, “Raw Materials for a Sustainable Future”, held 15-17 February 2023 in Lille, France. This was the first in-person scholarly conference for SUSM Masters student Jamie Faubert and for SUSM PhD student Ankesh Siddhantakar – and the first since the pandemic for Professors Komal Habib and Steven Young.

Four members of the Waterloo Industrial Ecology Group (WIEG) returned in good cheer from the International Roundtable on Raw Material Criticality (IRTC) Conference 2023, “Raw Materials for a Sustainable Future”, held 15-17 February 2023 in Lille, France. This was the first in-person scholarly conference for SUSM Masters student Jamie Faubert and for SUSM PhD student Ankesh Siddhantakar – and the first since the pandemic for Professors Komal Habib and Steven Young.

Professors Komal Habib and Steven B. Young are at the 2019 European Raw Materials Week. The event builds on a series of events organised by the European Commission addressing the latest news on raw materials in the EU, including discussions on relevant issues of policy, technology, international cooperation, and the like. Critical raw materials and circular economy discussions are central.

Degree type: Master of Environmental Studies, Sustainability Management

Thesis title: Tool to assess raw material social supply risks

Examining Committee:

Prof Steven Young from WIEG is visiting the Resource Lab, University of Augsburg, Germany. Long-time collaborators, the Resource Lab is a research unit at the Institute for Materials Resource Management (MRM) with a focus on industrial ecology.

GLOBE 2020

We will be watching a webinar about a topic in industrial ecology, and will have a brief discussion afterwards. More details will follow soon!

(Bring your own lunch)

Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention (OFVC)

Congratulations to WIEG student Sohani Withanage for winning the Faculty of Environment's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! Great presentation from Elham Mohammadi as well!