Artwork created for Sustainable Earth 2017 by Heather Nunn, Print Maker www.heathernunnprintmaker.com

Artwork created for Sustainable Earth 2017 by Heather Nunn, Print Maker www.heathernunnprintmaker.com

Marketplace sessions

Read all the abstracts presenters have submitted for the marketplace sessions, which take place at the following times in the Rolle Marquee at the University: 
  • Session 1 - 16:15 - 17:45, Thursday 29 June
  • Session 2 - 10:30 - 12:00, Friday 30 June
  • Session 3 - 15:00 - 16:30, Friday 30 June
Please note that the session abstracts are subject to change.

Session 1

  • International standards for smart and sustainable cities and communities
  • Seaside Squad
  • Enhancing employees' pro-environmental behaviour within hotel chains in China
  • Moor Health and Wellbeing: National Parks as rehabilitation resources
  • What Remains: A photographic narrative of fragmented objects from journeys along the strandline
  • Modelling energy use behaviour of British Asian households
  • Creating the Future: Linking Sustainability and Employability at Plymouth College of Art Pre-Degree Centre
  • Sugar Smart? Cross-sector collaboration to promote more sustainable eating patterns
  • Post-Earthquake Structural Health Monitoring System
  • Science to support sustainable fisheries in small island developing states

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Session 2

  • Knowledge-based decision making for performance improvement in agri-food value chains
  • Strengthening Disaster Risk Adaptive Capacity through Risk Learning
  • A Free Trade Agreement with the EU – A radiant pillar of light for the environment or just a will o’ the wisp?
  • Providing sustainable support for people living with dementia in rural communities
  • Brexit: potential impacts on environmental law and policy
  • Soil degradation
  • The Making of Chrysalis
  • Ancient tsunami data in the 21st Century
  • Chronic lung diseases in Uganda
  • Social justice in education taking the lead on sustainable development goals
  • Sustainable Consumption of Coastal Tourism: attitudes and intention of university students in Shanghai

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Marketplace presentations at Sustainable Earth 2016

Session 3

  • Water for Africa: Leveraging local innovations through Organisation Networks 
  • Impacts and Destination Sustainability in China
  • From Dorset to Kenya: ESD in early years practice
  • Brazil Globalization in a rural context: addressing contemporary rural paradigm
  • Realising the value of Plymouth's natural space
  • The Impact of Big Data Development
  • Simple Sustainable Living
  • Opportunities for BIPV in new construction
  • Creating opportunities for a circular economy in the South West
  • How the threat of increasing food poverty is challenging the UK’s approach to food waste
  • The Use of Behavioural Economics and Psychology to Introduce Higher Energy Tax

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Marketplace presentations at Sustainable Earth 2016