Scientific Sessions WRF 2019

The Scientific Sessions for WRF 2019

SS1: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (23 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 13)

Moderators: Tender Pangilinan Ferolin and Edgar E. Sacayón

1. Daudi Mongeri Nyaanga: Life Cycle (LC) for Farm Manure at Egerton University, Kenya
2. Edgar E. Sacayón: Considering Blue Carbon Sequestration in Life Cycle Assessment of Palm Oil Systems
3. Benjamin Fritz: Life Cycle Inventories of Different Types of Gold Extraction from Small-Scale Mining in the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil
4. Marcus Andreas Berr: Assessing Supply Risks within A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework – A Critical Review of Available supply risk indicators
5. Harald Ulrik Sverdrup: Assessing with the WORLD6 Model, the Global Energy Use, CO2 Emissions and Water Use of Metals, Materials and Fossil Fuels Extraction and Production
6. Gregor Wernet: Life cycle inventory generation and data handling in a large LCI database in a global context

SS2: Meeting the SDGs (23 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 18)

Moderator: Marzia Traverso

1. Marzia Traverso: New United Nations Social LCA Guidelines – Supporting the SDGs
2. Vandana D Ravishankar: In-House Greywater Sewage Treatment Systems: Proposing a Comprehensive Decision-Making Framework for Micro-Scale Solutions at the Point Source
3. Fritz Brugger: Mining Companies and Local Communities: Time for Change
4. Marcos Rodrigues Queiroz: Rethink fashion, rethink the world

SS3: Circular Economy: From Ideas to Implementation (23 October 2019: 12h30 – 14h00, room 13)

Moderators: Rudolf Struis and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

1. Sanjeevan Bajaj: Circular Economy simplified: Every ending is a new beginning
2. Valeria Superti: Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators
3. Beatriz Granziera: Fostering the transition to a Circular Economy in developing countries: a screening over the potentials of the Brazilian National Waste Policy
4. Seigo Robinson: Systems Thinking for a Circular Economy
5. Lorena del Pilar Munoz: Circular Economy and Positive Carbon – Case Study, Rethread Industry US and Latin America

SS4: Resource Efficiency (23 October 2019: 16h00 – 18h00, room 13)

Moderators: Ron Zevenhoven and Bhavish Patel

1. Feng Wang: Hotspot Analysis Tool for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP-HAT)
2. Dola Oluteye: Hotel Lobbies as Workspaces for the Modern Worker
3. Kerstin Anstätt & Nadja Wisniewski: Simulation Games – A method for Uncovering Resource Efficiency Potentials in Manufacturing Companies
4. Bhavish Patel: Phosphorus Recovery from Bio Feedstock using the Improved Hard Process
5. Ralph Bodle: International Governance of Resource Efficiency – Prospects for a Treaty?
6. Grégoire Meylan: Building capacities for a competitive circular economy – The case of wastewater in Colombia

SS5: Social Aspects of Sustainability (23 October 2019: 16h00 – 18h00, room 18)

Moderator: Sanjeevan Bajaj

1. Geoffrey I. Nwaka: From Neglect to Recognition: Promoting the Informal Sector for Sustainable Cities in Africa
2. Sally K Springer: Capability of Social Life Cycle Assessment for Representing the Artisanal Small-Scale Mining Sector of Gold in the Amazonian Rainforest of Brazil
3. Sanjana Shivakumar: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Aspects and Built Environments of the Indigenous Settlements in Coorg, India
4. Andrés Tello: Enhancing the social value of the circular economy in Latin America
5. Anna Hulda Olafsdottir: The WORLD6 global integrated assessment model; Linking natural resources, population, energy, pollution, climate change, recycling, trade, health, society, governance and the economy into one structure

SS6: Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (24 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 13)

Moderator: : Lorena Munoz

1. Sandor Czellar: Environmental Identity and Sustainable Consumption
2. Katrin Bienge: Can there be a global tool for reducing lifestyle footprints? First reflections from setting up the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator
3. Sibel Eker: Modelling the drivers of a widespread shift to sustainable diets
4. Dean Tashobya: Training of Trainers in LCA – a practical experience in Uganda
5. Lynnette Widder & Thomas Pacioni: University-level Education in Support of Sustainable Mining: A Case Study from Columbia University and UNDP Guinea

SS7: E-waste to Resource (24 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 18)

Moderators: Markus Spitzbart and Ajay Bhagwan Patil

1. Ajay Bhagwan Patil: Rare Earth Elements Recycling from End of Life Electronics Waste: The Green Approach with Cloud Point Extraction
2. Antoinette van der Merwe : Mobile Phone Recycling in Switzerland: A Potential Gold Mine?
3. Karoline Owusu-Sekyere: Analysis of the e-waste management conditions in Agbogbloshie through a process based MFA
4. Andreas Manhart: Incentive Based Collection of E-Waste – Results from Pilot Implementations in Ghana
5. Ron Zevenhoven: Energy Requirements for Recovery of (Metallic) Nanoparticulate Material from Waste

SS8: Material Flows and Management (24 October 2019: 12h30 – 14h00, room 13)

Moderator: Atsushi Inaba

1. Barbara Beck: Characterization of Gold Ores – The Basis of Gold Traceability
2. Shourjomay Chattopadhyay: Material Flows in the Indian Pulp-and-Paper and Steel Manufacturing Sectors in India
3. Dennis Kolcava: International Norms and Extra-Territorial Regulation: Are Citizens Willing to Tie the Hands of Home Corporations Abroad?
4. Fabian Ottiger: Impacts on Climate Change and Contribution to Circular Economy of Informal E-Waste Recycling in Developing Countries
5. Tender Pangilinan Ferolin: Physicomechanical Properties of Starch-Based Bioplastic Films