INSEAD Speaker Series - Roland Clift, University of Surrey
The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) is pleased to invite you to the following event, hosted by the Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (ISEAD):
Ethics of Supply Chains and Consumption
Roland Clift
Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
All are cordially invited to attend.
Location: Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish Street
Time: 5:00 pm
Abstract:
The commonly used model of sustainability recognises the importance of social equity, alongside environmental performance and techno-economic efficiency. While tools are established to analyse the environmental performance of supply chains, assessment of supply chain equity by approaches such as Social Life Cycle Assessment is not yet developed and accepted. This seminar will explore some of the ethical issues raised by the question of supply chain equity, with some specific examples of current interest. The analysis leads to a model of sustainable consumption in developed economies based on re-interpretation of "quality" and "luxury".
Biography:
Professor Roland Clift CBE, FREng, MA(Cantab.), PhD(McGill):
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Technology and founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey; previously Head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey; Visiting Professor in Environmental System Analysis at Chalmers University, Göteborg , Sweden; Adjunct Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is currently Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and a member of Rolls-Royce' Environmental Advisory Board.
From 1996 to 2005, Roland was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP). He is a past member of the UK Eco-labelling Board, of the Science Advisory Council of the Department, Food and Rural affairs (Defra), of the Royal Society/Royal Academy Working Group on nanotechnology and of the Working Group which drafted and updated the BSI/Defra/Carbon Trust standard on carbon labelling, PAS 2050. In 2004-5, he acted as Expert Adviser to a House of Lords Select Committee enquiry into energy efficiency. His research is concerned with system approaches to environmental management and industrial ecology, including life cycle assessment and energy systems.
Reception to follow.
