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

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105170

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54530-7_3

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123722

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.

• Zhou, Y., Clarke, A., & Cairns, S. (2020). Building Sustainable Communities through Market-Based Instruments (pp. 233-247). Walker, T., Goubran, S. & Sprung-Much, N. (Eds.) Environmental Policy: An Economic Perspective. USA: Wiley Blackwell.
• View free pre-publication version here: Building Sustainable Communities Through Market-Based Instruments.

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. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105108

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