Thank you to the GRF conference committee and the conference partners Fudan Tyndall Centre and Fudan University, Shanghai.
You can download the powerpoint presentations from the Shanghai 2014 GRF Conference below.
You can download the powerpoint presentations from the Shanghai 2014 GRF Conference below.
Videos
Selected keynote presentations were videotaped. You can watch them here.
Presentations
Keynote presentations
John Ashton: My Chinese Dream (download PDF)
William E. Rees: Overcoming Denial: Toward an “Ecological Civilization” (战胜拒绝:走向生态文明) (download PDF)
Outline of Rees presentation (download PDF)
Ashish Kothari: Sustainable Consumption and Radical Ecological Democracy ( 可持续消费与激进生态民主) (download PDF)
Zhu Dajian: China’s Green Transition towards Sustainability (download PDF)
Conference Opening:
Philip Vergragt: Global Transitions to Sustainable Production and Consumption (download PDF)
Conference Closing:
Lars Mortensen: Transitions to sustainable consumption and production systems (download PDF)
Shilpa Iyanna: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (download PDF)
Session 1A: HEGiATLCS - Chair: Yuan Ren
Session 1B: Values and SPC 1 - Chair: Marie Harder
Session 1C: Eco-cities 1 - Chair: Martin de Jong
Session 1D: Food Systems 1 - Chair: Cindy Isenhour
Session 1E: Energy Modeling - Chair: Kira Matus
Session 2A: HEGiATLCS 2 - Chair: Yuan Ren
Session 2B: Values & SPC 2 - Chair: Gemma Burford
Session 2C: Eco-cities 2 - Chair: Buhm Soon Park
Session 2D: Food Systems 2 - Chair: Leonie Dendler
Session 2E: Indicators - Chair: Ashish Kothari
Session 3A: Sustainability Transitions - Chair: Audley Genus
Session 3B: Panel Discussion on Human Values & the Future of SCP - Chair: Elona Hoover
Panelists: Marie Harder, Arthur Dahl, Philip Vergragt, Maurie Cohen, John Thøgersen, and Chinese participants
Session 3C: Sustainable Cities Roundtable - Conveners: Buhm Soon Park and Martin de Jong
Panelists: Margot Weijnen, Sofia Shwayri, Jung Won Sonn, Tao Zhou, Xiaoling Zhang
SECTIONS BELOW STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT - STAY TUNED
(presentation not available)
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Session 3D: Food Systems 2 - Chair: Michael Fabinyi
Session 3E: Modeling Sustainable Consumption - Chair: William Rees
Session 4A: Low-Carbon Innovation - Chair: Adrian Ely
Session 4B: Discursive Framing - Chair: Shilpa Iyanna
Session 4C: Sustainable Consumption and Carbon Labeling - Chair: Zhongkai Xiong
Session 4D: Climate Mitigation Policies in China - Chair: Ellen van Bueren
Session 4E: Political Economy and Policy - Chair: John Thøgersen
Session 5A: Dialogue Session on Innovation - Chair: Philip Vergragt
Session 5B: SWITCH Asia: Results and Forthcoming Book - Chair: Patrick Schroeder
Session 5C: Sustainable Lifestyles - Chair: Arthur Dahl
Session 6A: Sustainable Mobility Futures - Chair: Maurie Cohen
Session 6B: Discussion Session on "Lifestyles Leapfrogging" in Developing Countries - Chair: Patrick Schroeder
Session 6C: Absolute Reductions and Sustainability - Chair: Philip Vergragt
Session 6D: Business Perspectives on SCP - Chair: Jeffrey Barber
Session 7A: Consumer Behavior - Chair: Fabián Echegaray
Session 7B: Food-waste Recycling in Large Cities - Chair: Marie Harder
Session 7C: Communicating SPaC - Chair: Jeffrey Barber
John Ashton: My Chinese Dream (download PDF)
William E. Rees: Overcoming Denial: Toward an “Ecological Civilization” (战胜拒绝:走向生态文明) (download PDF)
Outline of Rees presentation (download PDF)
Ashish Kothari: Sustainable Consumption and Radical Ecological Democracy ( 可持续消费与激进生态民主) (download PDF)
Zhu Dajian: China’s Green Transition towards Sustainability (download PDF)
Conference Opening:
Philip Vergragt: Global Transitions to Sustainable Production and Consumption (download PDF)
Conference Closing:
Lars Mortensen: Transitions to sustainable consumption and production systems (download PDF)
Shilpa Iyanna: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (download PDF)
Session 1A: HEGiATLCS - Chair: Yuan Ren
- Xinfang Wang: High-emitting households in the UK (download PDF)
- Hilda Rømer Christensen: From the Kingdom of Bicycles to the Land of the Car: Gendering Car-culture in Urban China (download PDF)
- Tong-Ping Li and Jia-Ding Wang: Urbanization, Rural-urban Disparity and Consumption in China: Hypotheses and Empirical Tests (presentation not available)
- ShengCheng: Asymmetric relationship between urbanization and industrialization in China (presentation not available)
Session 1B: Values and SPC 1 - Chair: Marie Harder
- John Thøgersen and Yanfeng Zhou: Is There a Stable Value Basis for Organic Food Consumption in China? (presentation not available)
- Michaeil Gordon, Xijin Lin, Blaine Johnson, Marie Harder: Affective and values-related aspects of a NGO's impact in motivating food-waste recycling in China (download PDF)
- Renata Dagiliūtė and Genovaitė Liobikienė: University’s contribution to environmental consciousness: state of art and possibilities for the Lithuanian case (download PDF)
- Gemma Burford and Elona Hoover: Designing and Using Values-Based Indicators in Formal Education Contexts (download PDF)
Session 1C: Eco-cities 1 - Chair: Martin de Jong
- Vincent Aurez: Circular economy and industrial reconstruction in China: from economy of transformation to the transformation of the economy (download PDF)
- Tao Zou: Eco-city practices in China: Learning from failure and the transformation of implementation mechanism (presentation not available)
- Sofia Shwayri: Songdo and Incheon free economic zones: two visions, two scales, one model - the ubiquitous eco-city (presentation not available)
- Martin de Jong, Simon Joss and Margot Weijnen: Smart intelligent low-carbon eco-knowledge cities: making sense of a family of concepts promoting sustainable modernization of urban areas (download PDF)
Session 1D: Food Systems 1 - Chair: Cindy Isenhour
- Jingsong Li: Growing alternative food networks in urban China (presentation not available)
- Lei Zhang and Yunan Xu, Peter Oosterveer and Arthur P.J. Mol: Consumer trust and alternative food supply: a case study from Beijing, China (download PDF)
- Leonie Dendler and Paul Dewick: Institutionalisation of organic labelling in the People's Republic of China (download PDF)
Session 1E: Energy Modeling - Chair: Kira Matus
- Zhifu Mi: Optimization of industrial structure under the energy and environmental constraints: A case study in Beijing (download PDF)
- Mo-Jie Li and Ke Wang: Industrial energy and environmental efficiency in China: Analysis based on 36 major cities with undesirable outputs (download PDF)
- Eddie Soulier, Wenhua Zhu and Philippe Calvez: IIMOTHEP data platform for sustainable lifestyles and energy consumption practices (presentation not available)
- Xiangyang Xu and Dingfei Jie: Research on the Sustainable Development of Coal Industry (download PDF)
Session 2A: HEGiATLCS 2 - Chair: Yuan Ren
- Jing-jing Shan: Study of the path of low-carbon urbanization (presentation not available)
- Ran Gao and Zhen Zhang: Study on Residential Carbon Lock-in (download PDF)
- Khairulmaini Osman Salleh and Fauza Ab Ghaffar: Environmental quality analysis of the urban ecology of Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia (presentation not available)
- Zongguo Wen, Xuan Zhang, Jining Chen, Qilu Tan, and Xueying Zhang: Forecasting CO2 Mitigation and Policy Options for China's Key Sectors in 2010-2030 (download PDF)
Session 2B: Values & SPC 2 - Chair: Gemma Burford
- Arthur Lyon Dahl: The Ethics of Hope: Values as Positive Drivers for a Sustainable Future (presentation not available)
- Rachel A. Howell and Simon J. Allen: Values, motivations, and formative influences of people acting to mitigate climate change (presentation not available)
- Marie K. Harder, Gemma Burford, Martin Zahradnik and Elona Hoover: From 'Sustainable Production' to 'Production as Sustainability': The Emergence of Values-Focused Evaluation (presentation not available)
Session 2C: Eco-cities 2 - Chair: Buhm Soon Park
- Xiaoling Zhang: Bi-dimensional matrix model to extra beset practices for sustainable urbanization (presentation not available)
- Buhm Soon Park and YouJung Shin: The social construction of nature: the Seoul Green Trust and the making of a city-forest (presentation not available)
- Jung Won Sonn: Nationally specific regime of policy learning and academics as agendas of policy mobility: a case study of the agenda within 'smart city' policy in China (presentation not available)
Session 2D: Food Systems 2 - Chair: Leonie Dendler
- Li Yan, Lu Yi, Liu Leping, and Zhang Xiyue: Consumers in Chinese Representative Cities Willing to Pay for Premium Priced Green Productions (presentation not available)
- Michael Fabinyi and Liu Neng: The Chinese policy and governance context for sustainable global seafood (download PDF)
- Francesca Valeria Hansstein: Consumer Knowledge and Attitudes towards Food Traceability: a Comparison between the European Union, China and North America (download PDF)
Session 2E: Indicators - Chair: Ashish Kothari
- Almut Reichel, Lars Fogh Mortensen, Mike Asquith and Jasmina Bogdanovic, European Environment Agency (EEA): EEA: Environmental Indicator Report 2014: Environmental Impacts of Production and Consumption Systems in Europe (download PDF)
- Discussant: Maurie Cohen
Session 3A: Sustainability Transitions - Chair: Audley Genus
- Eric Zusman, So-Young Lee, Paul Ofei-Manu: Approach to Systemic Transition to Global Dematerialisation Drivers and Challenges: Case from Seoul, Korea (download PDF)
- Peter S. Hofman, Jingzi Zhou and Shijin Zhou: The role of absorptive capacity in fostering indigenous eco-innovations Evidence from China (download PDF)
- Shi Han: Eco-industrial parks serve as a niche for sustainable low-carbon urban transition in China (download PDF)
- Audley Genus: A discourse-institutional perspective on micro-generation in the UK (download PDF)
Session 3B: Panel Discussion on Human Values & the Future of SCP - Chair: Elona Hoover
Panelists: Marie Harder, Arthur Dahl, Philip Vergragt, Maurie Cohen, John Thøgersen, and Chinese participants
Session 3C: Sustainable Cities Roundtable - Conveners: Buhm Soon Park and Martin de Jong
Panelists: Margot Weijnen, Sofia Shwayri, Jung Won Sonn, Tao Zhou, Xiaoling Zhang
SECTIONS BELOW STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT - STAY TUNED
(presentation not available)
(download PDF)
Session 3D: Food Systems 2 - Chair: Michael Fabinyi
- Wanqing Zhou: The Triangle: Factory Farming in the U.S., China and Brazil
- A. Kuokkanen, L. Linnanen, H. Kahiluoto, M. Kuisma, M. Mikkilä: System innovation in the food system - solving the input sustainability gap
- Leonie Dendler, Paul Dewick and Shiyi Chen: Focal organisations and sustainable consumption and production systems: Institutional entrepreneurship in China's dairy industry
Session 3E: Modeling Sustainable Consumption - Chair: William Rees
- Romualdas Juknys, Genovaitė Liobikienė, and Renata Dagiliūtė: Economic and environmental convergence on the global and regional scale
- Yi Lu and Bin Chen: Ecological network analysis for the carbon metabolism of a typical industrial park
- Delin Fang and Bin Chen: Network environmental perspective for virtual water cycle in social-economic system
Session 4A: Low-Carbon Innovation - Chair: Adrian Ely
- Doris Fischer: Green industrial policies in China - The example of solar energy, in: Pegels, A. (ed.), Green industrial policies in emerging countries, Routledge 2014
- Adrian Ely, Sam Geall, and Yiching Song: Pathways towards sustainable maize production and consumption in China: prospects, politics, and practice
- Yixin Dai: A political economic analysis over the climate policy implementation: A case from Chinese wind energy development
- David Tyfield and Dennis Zuev: Low Carbon Innovation in Chinese Urban Mobility: Prospects, Politics and Practice
Session 4B: Discursive Framing - Chair: Shilpa Iyanna
- Angie Silva and Paul Mercieca: Waste transitions: the role of labelling and framing activities
- Ronald Wennersten and Hongling Liu: A critical analysis of the ideas behind circular thinking and the Industrial Ecology metaphor
- Joachim Spangenberg and Sylvia Lorek: The good life or the better life? Taking the sustainable consumption lens seriously
- Maurie J. Cohen: Sharing Discourses: Reframing the Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Session 4C: Sustainable Consumption and Carbon Labeling - Chair: Zhongkai Xiong
- Yu Zhou: Managing process innovation for remanufacturing in a closed-loop supply chain
- Rongyao He and Yu Xiong: Carbon emissions of dual-channel closed-loop supply chain with consumers' free-riding and governmental intervention
- Yonghong Cheng, Zhongkai Xiong, and Yu Xiong: The impacts of carbon labelling on pricing and PCF-reduction investment in a decentralized supply chain considering consumer environmental awareness
- Yu Xiong: A game-theoretic model to analyze the impacts of consumer environmental awareness on supply-chain strategies under carbon labelling
Session 4D: Climate Mitigation Policies in China - Chair: Ellen van Bueren
- Jiajia Zheng, Ping Jiang, Wen Qiao, Yun Zhu, and Erin Kennedy: Analysis of air pollution reduction and climate change mitigation in the industry sector of Yangtze River Delta in China
- Sabine Dauth: The Carbon Experiment: Emissions Trading in China - The potential of carbon markets to change production and consumption patterns
Session 4E: Political Economy and Policy - Chair: John Thøgersen
- Fabián Echegaray: Corporate mobilization of consumer responsibility and the rise of political consumerism in Brazil
- Cindy Isenhour and Kuishuang Feng: Decoupling and Displaced Emissions On Swedish Consumers, Chinese Producers and Policy to Address the Climate Impact of Consumption
- Mapula Tshangela: South Africa environment sector science-policy interface approach: sustainable consumption and production as one of the national green economy focus areas
Session 5A: Dialogue Session on Innovation - Chair: Philip Vergragt
- Fabián Echegaray: Consumers’ reactions to product obsolescence in emerging markets: The case of Brazil
- Vanessa Timmer and Kira Matus: Systems change in the manufacturing sector: innovation and access to technologies for sustainable development
- Ying Li, R.J.S. Beeton, Anthony Halog, and Thomas Sigler: Urban Modelling and Transition towards Sustainability: a Case Study in Industrial City of Jinchang, NW China
Session 5B: SWITCH Asia: Results and Forthcoming Book - Chair: Patrick Schroeder
- Mingshun Zhang and Yichen Wang: Implementing sustainable consumption in civil society of urban China and sustainable procurement in urban administrations in China
- Yiping Lou, Hanmei Yang and Yanxia Li: Enhancing eco-friendly, pro-poor bamboo production supply chains in Sichuan Province of China
- Sao Soon Chen: Carbon footprint labelling for sustainable building materials
- Yanxia Li and Yiping Lou: Building an eco-friendly and resource-efficient edible bamboo shot value chain China
Session 5C: Sustainable Lifestyles - Chair: Arthur Dahl
- Wenling Liu, Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer, and Can Wang: Promoting sustainable consumption in China: an integrative review and research agenda
- Shilpa Iyanna: Everyday sustainable behaviour practices of individuals in the UAE
- Midori Aoyagi, Tomohiro, Yuko Kanamori and Aya Yoshida: How people perceive their future lifestyles: the results of our focus group interviews on sustainable lifestyles.
Session 6A: Sustainable Mobility Futures - Chair: Maurie Cohen
- Doris Fischer and Sabrina Weithmann: Electric Vehicle Market Development in China: Consumption and Business Models
- Xiao Lin and Peter Wells: The Decomposition Analysis of air pollutant emission from electric generation in China: an investigation to e-bike related air pollution
- Esther Zipori and Maurie J. Cohen: Planning for Post-Automobility: Learning from Experiences in Heritage Cities, Modern Green Metropolises, and Eco-Cities
Session 6B: Discussion Session on "Lifestyles Leapfrogging" in Developing Countries - Chair: Patrick Schroeder
Session 6C: Absolute Reductions and Sustainability - Chair: Philip Vergragt
- Vanessa Timmer, William Rees, Jennie Moore, Allison Witter, Karen Litfin, Emmanuel Prinet, Dagmar Timmer and Alastair Moore: Do eco-villages actually reduce ecological footprints? Defining elements of a monitoring protocol
- Philip J. Vergragt and Halina Szejnwald Brown: From Consumerism to Wellbeing: Towards a Cultural Transition?
Session 6D: Business Perspectives on SCP - Chair: Jeffrey Barber
- Joachim Spangenberg: Beyond CSR: corporate sustainability and corporate human development index
- Shauna Jin, Sarah Suib, Marcel Crul, and Han Brezet: Connecting Stakeholders to Sustainable Product Innovation in Vietnam: A strategic approach
- Liu Qian: The stock market response to the disclosure of environmental incidents in China: fan empirical research of 149 events
Session 7A: Consumer Behavior - Chair: Fabián Echegaray
- Shilpa Iyanna: Sustainable consumption practices in the UAE
- Xin Sun: The rebound effect in household air conditioner consumption behavior
- Yan Han: Psycho-social determinants of organic apparel consumption in China
- Yun Zhu: Individual environmental behavior: the key of building low-carbon communities in China
Session 7B: Food-waste Recycling in Large Cities - Chair: Marie Harder
- Zhang Zhong: A street government official in Shanghai
- Meng Yu Qi: A Youth League leader in a street government office in Shanghai
- Li Qiong: From Ai Fen, a Shanghai NGO
- Xu DongYin and Dai YuanCan: Elements of successful food waste recycling in Shanghai
- Monica Wilson: International Coordinator from Global Alliance Against Incineration (GAIA)
Session 7C: Communicating SPaC - Chair: Jeffrey Barber
- Jeffrey Barber: Communicating Sustainable Production and Consumption Challenges and Strategies
- Olivier Galibert and Cyril Masselot: IT for eco-responsive consumption: Facebook as a 2.0 ecological education tool
- Franck Dubois: Toward guidelines for replication of best practices in urban neighbourhoods
- S.S.Chen and Isnazunita binti Ismail: Carbon Footprint Labelling for Sustainable Building Materials
- Zelalem N. Dendir: Households’ Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change: Adverse Effects and Adaptation Strategies in Southern Ethiopia, A Case Study of Sodo Woreda
- Qian Liu, Luwei Lin, Yao Wang: How do the Investors Response to Environmental Violation Events in China?
- Qian Liu, Yuwei Lin, and Yao Wang: How do the Investors Response to Environmental Violation Events in China?
- Yun Zhua, Ping Jianga, Jiajia Zhenga, Erin Kennedy: Individual Environmental Behavior: The Key of Building Low-Carbon Communities in China