A5069653284- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Risk Perception and Management
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Information Systems and Technology Applications
Cranfield University
2014-2024
Hodges University
2012
The precautionary principle was formulated to provide a basis for political action protect the environment from potentially severe or irreversible harm in circumstances of scientific uncertainty that prevent full risk cost‐benefit analysis. It underpins environmental law European Union and has been extended include public health consumer safety. aim this study examine how interpreted subsequently applied practice, whether these applications were consistent, they followed guidance Commission....
The technical expertise that politicians relied on in the past to produce cost-effective and environmentally sound solutions no longer provides sufficient justification approve waste facilities. Local authorities need find more effective ways involve stakeholders communities decision-making since public acceptance of municipal facilities is integral delivering strategies. This paper presents findings from a research project explored attitudes towards greater levels involvement UK management...
The agricultural sector faces multiple challenges linked to increased climate uncertainty, causing severe shocks including frequency of extreme weather events, new pest and disease risks, soil degradation, pre postharvest food losses. This situation is further exacerbated by geopolitical instability volatility in energy prices impacting on fertiliser supplies production costs. Net zero strategies are vital achieve both security address negative environmental impacts. perspective paper...
The governance dimensions of water reuse scheme development and operation, such as policies regulatory frameworks, public involvement stakeholder collaboration, can serve to both facilitate constrain wider adoption practices. This paper explores the significance underlying structure key challenges facing sector in Europe. It presents empirical evidence from interviews focus group sessions conducted at four schemes: an indirect potable Torreele (Belgium), urban treated municipal wastewater...
The European Food Safety Authority's has established procedures for the identification of emerging risk in food and feed. main objectives are to: (i) to carry out activities aiming at identifying, assessing disseminating information on issues ensure coordination with relevant networks international organisations; (ii) promote data sources collection /or generation prioritised issues; (iii) evaluate collected identify risks. objective(s) Standing Working Group Emerging Risks (SWG-ER) is...
Coffee production faces major sustainability issues and consumers increasingly look to choose certified coffee as awareness grows. While consumers’ understanding of is limited, independent voluntary certification schemes such Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, organic—three high-profile schemes—can play a role in future-proofing through standard-setting. These can also inform about from economic, environmental, social perspectives, thus driving up demand for sustainably grown coffee, supporting...
Scenarios are used to examine systemic change in food systems so policy makers can craft opportunities improve the management of uncertainty and shape policy. We present a number alternative scenarios system for 2035, developed with Food Standards Agency, independent government department working protect public health consumers' interest relation England, Wales Northern Ireland. To build we employed morphological analysis; non-quantified method modelling multiple scenario variables (food...
The modern funeral industry faces many environmental risks and challenges, such as the use of sustainable materials for coffins, release potentially damaging organisms to soil groundwater, reduced space available cemeteries. "Natural burial" proposes an alternative more practice, omitting preservatives that inhibit body decomposition, thus proposing reduce degradation benefit ecosystem services. This study conducted a literature review identify proposed benefits "natural" compared...
UK educators often express concerns that students from some cultural backgrounds frequently seem unwilling or are unable to apply critical thinking skills within their academic programmes. This may be due not a lack of ability confidence but rather the way they have been previously taught and assessed. Often, design courses implicitly requires skills, use these in taken into account conceptualization across diverse global group students. paper reports on results study Master's engineering...
Strategic risk appraisal (SRA) has been applied to compare diverse policy level risks and from the environment in England Wales. Its application relied on expert-informed assessments of potential consequences residual that attract attention at national scale. Here we consequence assessments, across environmental, economic social impact categories draw 'expert'- 'literature-based' analyses evidence for 12 public appraised by Government. For environmental there is reasonable agreement between...
Abstract Risks and futures methods have complementary strengths as tools for managing strategic decisions under uncertainty. When combined, these increase organisational competency to evaluate manage long-term risks, improving the flexibility agility of organisation deal with gross uncertainties. Here, we set out a framework guide assessment risks business planning, based on its application at Portugal’s largest water utility, Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres. Our approach extends risk by...
Most coastal areas around the world are currently at risk of flooding, which is increasing due to sea level rise and other impacts a changing climate. The design appropriate flood protection policies schemes thus becoming more imperative. Partly in response net zero gain agendas, practitioners across sectors have started champion ‘greener’ nature-based solutions place traditional hard defences. However, social acceptance limited, examples worldwide too scarce fully test...
Coastal hazards pose a significant risk to people, property, and infrastructure worldwide. They will be increasing over the next century mainly driven by sea level rise. Managing coast in sustainable way requires understanding impacts under changing climate of actions done decisions taken now. This often relies on exploring response coastal systems natural and/or anthropogenic drivers using modelling tools. The experimental design such work is essential providing robust scientific evidence...
Estuaries are complex and dynamic systems where physical biological processes overlap with social economic activities. Increasing coastal hazards human pressure threaten the fragile equilibrium of these ecosystems. The combination fluvial increases probability flooding in estuaries. Expanding urban development low-lying areas their exposure (i.e. population, number value assets), which impacts vulnerability communities businesses. Traditionally, hard-engineered structures grey defences) have...
ABSTRACT Waste crime is a pressing concern for the waste and resource industry as it undermining investment, growth jobs within threatening natural environment. However, there little knowledge of scale problem, types criminality motivations involved, precise nature crime. Environmental regulators are building foresight capabilities to better understand effect current future changes in markets, technology legislative environment on associated behaviours. At heart this paper question: how can...