ISDRS NEWSLETTER, 2018, Issue 2

Editors: Olawale Olayide, Volker Mauerhofer
Email: newsletter@isdrs.org

Dear reader,

We hereby like to bring you the latest information about recent activities and news about our Society and direct your attention to interesting developments and up-coming events.

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CONTENTS

 

1. Message from the President

2. ISDRS 2018 Conference

3. 2017 ISDRS Best SD Research Article Award competition

4. RMIT to lead fight against food waste in $130 million Cooperative Research Centre

5. Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue, Planning for transformation?  

6. Call for Chapters: Base of the Pyramid Markets in Asia: Innovation and challenges to sustainability 

7. Call for Chapters: Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability 

8. Further announcements

9. Not Just tourism! preview of a poster presentation  

10. ISDRS Privacy Notice and GDPR compliance

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1. Message from the President

This 2nd issue of the 2018 ISDRS Newsletter is published while many of us are preparing for the travel to Italy, the hosting city of the 24th annual ISDRS Conference in Messina 13-15th June, 2018. We are very happy to be invited here by the University of Messina. For next week they have chosen the very will fitting motto Actions for a Sustainable World: from theory to practice”. This aims to emphasise that we reached a cornerstone in the concept and practice of sustainable development. Like the organisers stress, the greatest challenge that humanity faces today is that we plan and carry out human activities in a manner compatible with the Earth’s resource systems. Despite the fact that the concept of sustainable development has been developed and studied for several decades now, its practical application still seems limited and meaningful targets have not been met: indeed, we are still operating unsustainably. 

This brings us the focus for the next days: with this awareness and with all the experience that we as delegates from all corners of the world bring we will jointly rethink our social and economic systems in order to make economic and social development more resource efficient and more equitable to all, both across the planet and in future generations: finding the pathways for our twin integral ecological and societal fairness agenda 

Meanwhile we can anticipate results of the new ISDRS activity: in Messina we will be announcing the winners of the 2017 ISDRS Best Article Award. The identification and final selection has been a rewarding process. Still online on the website anyone can see which 10 articles have been nominated as the best sustainable development research articles worldwide. It helps all members and others to easily keep updated with new developments in our research field. We will continue this activity in the future, so keep your eye open for candidate articles for the 2018 competition. 

In this newsletter you will read about various activities in the ISDRS network and about some practical development, such as the new privacy policies and what it means for us. 

Lastly, do not forget to write down the date for the 25th ISDRS Conference in Nanjing, China which will be in June 26-28th, 2019organised by the School of the EnvironmentNanjing University.  

Bids for organsing the 26th conference in Europe in 2020 are still welcome.  

Walter J.V. Vermeulen, President ISDRS  

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2. ISDRS 2018 Conference 

 

 The conference timetable is now available, click here

 

Also available on the conference website:

• Information regarding oral and poster presentations

• Arrival information

• Publication opportunities

• Pre conference events 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The full list of keynote speakers is available here.

GENERAL INFORMATION

For more information about the conference, including themes, tracks and all of the latest updates please click here.

 

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3. 2017 ISDRS Best SD Research Article Award competition: top three to be announced in Messina

 

This year ISDRS organised its first competition for the Best Article Award. We received 30 suggestions from our members. The procedure had three steps: first, members nominated the best articles; second, the jury made assessments of the suggested articles and determined a short list of 10 nominations and finally, the members of the ISDRS cast their votes on the nominations. 

The top three SD articles, and of course the winner, will be announced at the end of the Conference, on Friday at approximately 17:30. 

To view the top ten best sustainable development articles of 2017 click here. Don't forget to get involved in the 'Best Sustainable Development Article for 2018"

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4. RMIT to lead fight against food waste in $130 million Cooperative Research Centre

 RMIT (Melbourne, Australia) is part of a new national Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) that will drive change in the food sector.

Associate Professor Karli Varghese from the School of Design will lead a 'reduce' research program in the $133 million Fight Food Waste CRC, with ISDRS member Simon Lockrey (School of Design), Professor Harshan Gill (School of Science), and Professor Linda Brennan (School of Media and Communication).

"This CRC provides, for the first time, a fantastic opportunity to bring industry together with leading researchers and key government departments to tackle the complex issue of food waste," Karli said.

In the 'reduce' program, a multimillion project will roll out Karli and Simon's dynamic industry resource efficiency calculation tool, DIRECT (see the Journal of Cleaner Production article), to benchmark, then solve, food waste problems across the national supply chain. RMIT secured nine industry partners for the Fight Food Waste CRC bid, with a cash contribution of $2.8 million over 10 years. For more, check out the links below:

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5.  Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue, Planning for transformation?  

05/08/2018 

Guest editors 

Dr. Marc Wolfram, Associate Professor, Urban Transformations Lab, Dept. of Architecture, SKKU (Sungkyunkwan University), Seoul/Suwon, South Korea, wolfram@skku.edu 

Dr. Markus Egermann, Senior Researcher, IOER (Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development), Dresden, Germany, m.egermann@ioer.de 

Goals and objectives 

The overall objective of this special issue is to critically review and discuss recent innovations in planning approaches, strategies and instruments regarding their potentials and limits to prepare, to initiate and to sustain transformative urban change. 

Cities and regions are widely recognized as critical hotspots for shifting current development pathways at local to global scales towards sustainability. Deep structural changes are required in the multiple systems that configure urban areas and processes. Notably, this demands to account for the wider multi-level governance settings in which cities are embedded since frictions or synergies between the planning strategies devised at local, metropolitan, regional and national levels can critically hinder or support transformative urban change (Bai et al., 2016; Wolfram et al., 2016; Webb et al., 2017; Ehnert et al., 2017). 

In fact, efforts for achieving more substantive changes in urban systems appear to have intensified across the globe. Over the last decade, the number and scope of new planning approaches to foster and direct future urban change has increased considerably, both in the global North and South, targeting a variety of fundamental long-term economic, social, environmental and technological innovations. This process has frequently been driven by: 

 High-level political agreements and strategies at regional, national and international scale (SDGs, Paris agreement, New Urban Agenda, national sustainability strategies, laws, etc.); 

 The mainstreaming of particular sustainability-related policy priorities into planning (strategies for realizing a “low carbon-”, “resilient-”, “eco-”, “smart-”, “green-”, “circular-” city/region, etc.); 

 The emergence and/or revival of bottom-up and collaborative planning initiatives targeting urban sustainability and transformation (transition towns, grassroots initiatives, Local Agenda 21, etc.); 

 The diffusion and adoption of planning concepts and formats developed in various strands of sustainability science (transition management, adaptive governance, urban living labs, etc.). 

 The changing role of science and researchers as part of society (transformative science, real world experiments, citizen science, “scientivists”, etc.). 

This emerging diversity of novel planning approaches necessarily implies shifts regarding the role and tasks of planning, its rationalities, instruments and related institutions (Franklin and Marsden, 2015; Malekpour et al., 2015; Wolfram, 2017): New approaches are frequently cutting across established sectoral and territorial boundaries, involve a variety of different actors and through novl methods, while seldom relying on formal regulations. Most importantly, the extent to which such approaches effectively enable or constrain transformative change may differ substantially, depending on their respective formation, orientation and design. 

Guiding questions 

Considering the proliferation of new planning approaches sketched above, and the inherent tensions between characteristics of “planning” and the emergent nature of transformations, the overarching questions addressed by this special issue are therefore: 

 What are the institutions, motives and interests shaping new planning approaches and techniques? 

 What are the discourses that build coalitions and mobilize action for new planning approaches (e.g. around “green growth”, “sufficiency”, “efficiency”, “resilience”, “security”, “inclusion”)? 

 What are characteristics of such new planning approaches regarding: informality/formality, scope, spatial scale, timeframe, participants, process, methods and outputs? 

 How do such planning approaches address the conditions and requirements for transformative systemic change? 

 How do such planning approaches affect the normative orientations, power positions, and legitimacy of actors? 

 What are the outcomes and impacts of such planning approaches in terms of transformative change? 

 How do such planning approaches compare to each other (across themes or regions), and/or to formerly existing ones? 

Research topics 

Contributions to this special issue should engage theoretically and/or empirically with novel planning approaches and the institutions, practices and/or experiments they engender - critically exploring their role in achieving urban transformations towards sustainability. Work based on transdisciplinary and co-designed research is particularly welcome. This may include, but is not limited to: 

 Novel planning regulations and policy frameworks; 

 Plans and strategies for comprehensive, sectoral and/or thematic urban change; 

 Formal and/or informal planning approaches, practices, techniques and tools; 

 Interrelations, exchange and knowledge transfer on planning innovations at multiple spatial scales (local, metropolitan, regional/sub-national, national). 

The research focus should thus be on the planning approach as such, while the subjects or themes of planning may well be diverse (including spatial and urban development, land use, climate change, mobility, energy, water, food, biodiversity, waste, building, green/blue infrastructures, ICT, circular economy, social inclusion, resilience, etc.). 

Abstract / Paper submission 

Authors may choose to submit either an extended abstract or a draft full paper for consideration, according to the current stage of their research work. 

 Extended abstract format: 500 words (excluding references, tables and visuals) 

 Paper format: 8000 words (excluding references, tables and visuals) 

 Submission: PDF file via email to: wolfram@skku.edu, m.egermann@ioer.de 

 Deadline: 07/31/2018 

This special issue will be building on a corresponding thematic session organized at the 2018 conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS): http://www.isdrsconference.org/site/view/515/track-6a/. Further contributions are thus invited to obtain deeper thematic and wider geographic coverage of the special issue. Preliminary inquiries about the suitability of a given research topic can be made to the editors via email at any time. 

Editorial schedule 

 08/31/2018 - Notification of authors regarding the acceptance of their contribution; Editorial feedback for the elaboration of the manuscript 

 10/15/2018 - Agreement of the SI editors with a selected planning or sustainability journal (SSCI) about the publishing schedule of the special issue 

 10/31/2018 - Submission of manuscripts to the SI editors 

 11/30/2018 - Editorial feedback for coherence and cross-referencing between manuscripts 

 01/15/2019 - Submission of manuscripts to the journal for peer review 

 06/01/2019 - Publication of complete special issue (depending on journal), applying “online first” to accepted manuscripts 

References 

Bai, X., van der Leeuw, S., O’Brien, K., Berkhout, F., Biermann, F., Brondizio, E.S., Cudennec, C., Dearing, J., Duraiappah, A., Glaser, M., Revkin, A., Steffen, W., Syvitski, J., 2016. Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda. Glob. Environ. Change 39, 351–362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.017 

Ehnert, F., Kern, F., Borgström, S., Gorissen, L., Maschmeyer, S., Egermann, M., 2017. Urban sustainability transitions in a context of multi-level governance: A comparison of four European states. Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.05.002 

Franklin, A., Marsden, T., 2015. (Dis)connected communities and sustainable place-making. Local Environ. 20, 940–956. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.879852 

Malekpour, S., Brown, R.R., de Haan, F.J., 2015. Strategic planning of urban infrastructure for environmental sustainability: Understanding the past to intervene for the future. Cities 46, 67–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.05.003 

Webb, R., Bai, X., Smith, M.S., Costanza, R., Griggs, D., Moglia, M., Neuman, M., Newman, P., Newton, P., Norman, B., Ryan, C., Schandl, H., Steffen, W., Tapper, N., Thomson, G., 2017. Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-017-0934-6 

Wolfram, M., 2017. Urban planning and transition management: Rationalities, instruments and dialectics, in: Frantzeskaki, N., Bach, M., Hölscher, K., Avelino, F. (Eds.), Co-Creating Sustainable Urban Futures. Springer, New York, p. In Press. 

Wolfram, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Maschmeyer, S., 2016. Cities, systems and sustainability: Status and perspectives for research on urban transformations. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 18–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.014 

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6. Call for Chapters: Base of the Pyramid Markets in Asia: 

Innovation and challenges to sustainability 

Editors 

Prof. Marlen Gabriele Arnold, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany 

Prof. Stefan Gold, University of Kassel, Germany 

Prof. Judy Muthuri, Nottingham University Business School, UK 

Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 

Important Dates 

Proposal Submission Deadline: 30th June 2018 

Invitation for chapter submission: 31st July 2018 

Full chapter submission: 31st December 2018 

Review process: January to March 2019 

Review results to chapter authors: 15th to 31st March, 2019 

Revised chapter submission from chapter authors: 30th May 2019 

Final acceptance to chapter authors: 15th July, 2019 

Submission of final chapters to editor: 31st August, 2019 

Scope and Topics 

Business concepts at the BOP aim at creating value with and for the poor and hence represent one promising way of creating opportunities for uplifting and integrating marginalized people. Asia has seen tremendous economic growth and increased social well-being in many parts; still there is a substantial part of the population who suffer from poverty, insufficient education, and health services etc. This book focusses on the BOP in Asia, and in particular the challenge of how to address the needs of deprived population groups in a sustainable manner. It deals with, amongst others, innovation and innovativeness that is necessary to better the life of resource-poor population groups. The book covers various themes and aspects of BOP markets in Asia and their embeddedness in socio-cultural settings, and adopts a variety of theoretical angles for analysing the phenomena. Thus, this book aims at furthering our understanding of BOP markets in Asia and at deriving valuable recommendations for managers and policy-makers. One important question hereby is how the private sector can work together with other stakeholders to develop and operationalize economically viable business models in BOP markets while contributing to sustainable development. Private actors such as multinationals, small- and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs have a critical role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals agenda as laid down by United Nations in September 2015. Yet, BOP markets face unique challenges and private sector actors alone cannot ensure sustainable value creation activities. Multidimensional collaboration between various stakeholders, deep consumer behaviour insights, community-driven product, process and value chain design, knowledge and capabilities transfer, unanticipated outcomes of well-intended strategies of single actors etc. – all of these (and more…) are elements of the puzzle which still needs to be disentangled in order to alleviate poverty and create economic development aligned with principles of sustainable development. 

Therefore, the book comprises critical, analytical and empirical studies, conceptual papers, and critical reflections on the challenges that are linked to BOP markets in Asian countries. Thereby, the book aims at grasping the wide variety of different business environments, institutional logics, and socio-cultural settings across the various countries and regions that make up this vast continent. As well, interviews or roundtable discussion formats would be welcome. Contributors are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics:

• BOP markets – core innovations, inclusive business models, main stakeholders and actors involved and sustainable performance, critical concepts and reflection 

• Drivers and barriers of BOP markets - institutional voids and mechanisms to fill them in, government role and international intervention, business model as strategies to fill in institutional gaps, scaling social and economic impact, trade-offs and unanticipated outcomes 

• Roles, cooperation and structure in BOP markets – frugal innovation networks, consumer behaviour, value co-creation and cross-sector collaboration, the role of multinationals, innovation and knowledge capabilities, value co-creation and cross-sector collaboration, systemic analyses, women empowerment, community development approaches 

• Design, integration, innovation and change of BOP markets – frugal engineering, transformative service research, product and service innovation, intellectual property and global standards, sustainable supply chain at the BOP, social business, inclusive CSR, circular business models, approaches to integrate the environmental dimension of sustainability 

Submission Procedure 

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal clearly explaining the chapters’ outline, goal, design and outcome of his or her proposed chapter. Please submit the proposal of the chapter (two to four pages) directly to the volume editor and until 30th June 2018. 

Authors will be notified about the review feedback by 31st July 2018. Authors with accepted proposals will get the chapter guidelines and asked to submit full chapters by 31st December 2018. All submitted chapters will pass a peer-reviewed process. 

Publisher 

Routledge is a global publisher of quality academic books, journals & online reference. Routledge is the world's leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences publishing thousands of books and journals each year, serving scholars, instructors, and professional communities worldwide. Routledge is a member of Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business. 

Questions 

Questions or inquiries can be sent directly to the volume editor Prof. Marlen Gabriele Arnold (marlen-gabriele.arnold@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de).

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7. Call for Chapters: Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability 

Editors 

Prof. Stefan Gold, University of Kassel, Germany 

Prof. Marlen Gabriele Arnold, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany 

Prof. Judy Muthuri, Nottingham University Business School, UK 

Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 

Important Dates 

Proposal Submission Deadline: 31stDecember 2018 

Invitation for chapter submission: 31st March 2019 

Full chapter submission: 30th September 2019 

Review process: October to December 2019 

Review results to chapter authors: 30th November 2019 to 31st January 2020 

Revised chapter submission from chapter authors: 30th April 2020 

Final acceptance to chapter authors: 30th June 2020 

Submission of final chapters to editor: 30th September 2020 

Scope and Topics 

Business concepts at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) aim at creating value with and for the poor and hence represent one promising way of creating opportunities for uplifting and integrating marginalized people. In Affluent Countries, the existence of poor and disadvantaged population groups has been neglected for a long time in the business discourse, and responses to poverty and deprivation have largely been passed on to the realm of government action, for example in the frame of welfare state programmes. Concepts of social exclusion dominated scientific and political discussions. Since the global financial crisis starting in 2007 and the Euro crisis starting in 2009, however, awareness has been built up that affluent societies as well comprise a considerably large BOP. This entails both a responsibility and opportunity for business. Business may include marginalized people into value creation and engage in community development activities; simultaneously they may profit from diversifying their product and marketing portfolio for also serving the BOP as consumer group. In some instances, business and governmental action may need to be intertwined for tackling wicked social problems such as poverty being interrelated with other social problems as for example low education, lack of prospects, poor physical and psychological health, drug abuse and criminality. While it can be debated in how far poor labour conditions need governmental interventions, and in how far they could rather be addressed by voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities alone, extreme cases such as forced labour or slave labour definitely call for determined action by public authorities. 

This book focusses on the BOP in Affluent Countries, and in particular, the challenge of how to address the needs of deprived and discriminated population groups in a sustainable manner. Amongst others, it deals with innovation and innovativeness that is necessary to transform the lives of resource-poor population groups. The book covers various themes and aspects of BOP markets in Affluent Countries and their embeddedness in socio-cultural settings, and adopts a variety of theoretical angles for analysing the phenomena. Thus, this book aims at progressing our understanding of BOP markets in Affluent Countries and at deriving valuable recommendations for managers, civil society actors, and policy-makers. An important question hereby is how different stakeholders can develop and operationalize economically viable business models in BOP markets while contributing to sustainable development. Yet, BOP markets face unique challenges and single market actors alone cannot ensure societal inclusion and sustainable value creation activities. Multidimensional collaboration between various stakeholders, deep consumer behaviour insights, product, process and value chain design, knowledge and capabilities transfer, uplifting products and services, diffusion strategies, unanticipated outcomes of well-intended strategies of single actors etc. – all of these (and more…) are elements of the puzzle which still needs to be disentangled in order to alleviate poverty, create economic development and social integration aligned with principles of sustainable development. 

Therefore, the book comprises empirical studies, conceptual papers, and critical reflections on the challenges that are linked to BOP markets in Affluent Countries and to integrating the BOP in society and economy. Thereby, the book aims at grasping the wide variety of different business environments, institutional logics, and socio-cultural settings across the various countries and regions that make up the group of Affluent Countries. As well, interviews or roundtable discussion formats would be welcome. Contributors are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics: 

• BOP markets – specificities, inclusion versus efficiency, main stakeholders and actors, triple bottom line performance, digitalisation, wicked problems, forced and slave labour, critical reasoning and reflection 

• Drivers and barriers of BOP markets – institutions and institutional voids, norms, awareness, government role, market opportunities, scaling social and economic impact, societal marginalisation, social exclusion, trade-offs and unanticipated outcomes 

• Roles, cooperation and structure in BOP markets – consumer behaviour, value co-creation and cross-sector collaboration, the role of multinationals, knowledge transfer, value co-creation and cross-sector collaboration, systemic analyses, gender equality, power and empowerment, community development approaches, governmental framework setting 

• Design, integration, innovation and change of BOP markets – frugal engineering, transformative service research, inclusion, product / service / process / system innovation, social innovation, sustainable supply chains, social business, inclusive CSR, circular business models, servitization, sharing economy, vicious and virtual cycles, institutional entrepreneurship, integration of environmental sustainability, public service economy

Submission Procedure 

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal clearly explaining the chapters’ outline, goal, design and contribution. Please submit the proposal (two to four pages) directly to the volume editor by 31st December 2018. 

Authors will be notified about the review feedback by 31stMarch 2019. Authors with accepted proposals will get the chapter guidelines and they are asked to submit full chapters by 30th September 2019. All submitted chapters will pass a peer-review process. 

Publisher 

Routledge is a global publisher of quality academic books, journals & online reference. Routledge is the world's leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences publishing thousands of books and journals each year, serving scholars, instructors, and professional communities worldwide. Routledge is a member of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business. 

Questions 

Questions or inquiries can be sent directly to the volume editor Prof. Stefan Gold (gold@uni-kassel.de).

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8. Further announcements 

We are looking forward to welcome you at Sustainable Textile School in Chemnitz, Germany, 10th – 12th of September 2018. 

Click here to visit the website.

Focus 2018: REALCYCLING and NEW SOURCES

The objectives are: Formation of a marketplace for innovation and further education with a focus on sustainability in the textile industry. We focus on the textile chain. Each value step of the textile chain is regarded individually and in an overlapping way.


Environmental Innovation Prize 2018 – Call for proposals

There is also a call for the environmental prize. Click here. 

Nominate your REALCYCLING & NEW SOURCES business model for the Environmental Innovation Prize 2018!

Sustainability in the textile chain is not a question of preferences of individual entrepreneurs. We only have one earth, so groundbreaking models for REALCYCLING and the use of NEW SOURCES that facilitate a non-exploitative textile industry must be introduced to a wider public.

That is why a sustainable innovation will receive the Environmental Innovation Prize 2018 at the Sustainable Textile School

Student Programme 2018

Call for applications: We keep on educating!

Even if the Sustainable Textile School is a contribution to counter the consequences of our current exploitative textile industry, the coming generations must ultimately deal with the consequences of the economic and political failures of the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus, we want to invite all students with an affinity for textiles to educate themselves, to network, to get involved and to help design the solutions for tomorrow. We would like to keep the threshold for participation low and therefore offer a Student Programme again this year. Ten students will have the opportunity to attend the Sustainable Textile School 2018 for a reduced conference fee of 99 €.

All you have to do is send Sabrina (schmidt@sustainable-textile-school.com) your application (letter of motivation and CV, no more than three pages in PDF format) by 15 July 2018. Tell us why you are enthusiastic about the topic, what you expect from the conference and how you want to get involved in the meeting in September.

Take your chance to participate in the conference, gain a better understanding of current best practices and get in touch with experts from both academia and the industry click here.

 

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9. Not Just tourism! preview of a poster presentation 

Tiziana Crovella, PhD student at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.

There is often talk of tourism, and especially of cruise tourism. Or rather, we talk about the growth of this sector but less frequently about the environmental impacts. To talk about this, at the ISDRS Conference in Messina, there will be a PhD student of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Dr. Tiziana Crovella.

Following a bachelor's degree in Economics and Management of maritime enterprises and a master's degree in Economics and Management of companies and touristic systems, both in Geography (of the sea and tourism), further experience in the city of Marseille for her thesis, she emphasises this topic by dedicating her research activity to the doctoral path.

A scientific poster: Relationship between economic development and environmental impact in the cruise sector. The considerable growth of tourism generates negative effects on the environment will be presented to communicate the development of her study and will also be discussed at the PhD workshop.

Waiting to proceed with the study, Tiziana is looking for advice and collaboration. With her supervisors (Prof. Giovanni Lagioia and Dr. Annarita Paiano) she published an article in conference proceedings of Italian Academy of Commodity Sciences, analyzing the consumption of drinks on board of cruise ships and evaluating the impacts deriving from the packaging itself.

This research is ongoing, for more information and proposals send an email to titty.crovella@gmail.com, tiziana.crovella@uniba.it.

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