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SUMMARY:Bigger Picture Talks with Professor Roland Clift: The role of chem
 ical engineering in sustainable development - Professor Roland Clift\, Cen
 tre for Environment and Sustainability\, University of Surrey
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CONTACT:Ellie Hall
DESCRIPTION:Our departmental seminar series\, Bigger Picture Talks\, runs 
 throughout the academic year\, inviting thought-leaders from across the wo
 rld driving significant advances in our impact areas of energy\, health an
 d sustainability to share and discuss their work with us. This is a fantas
 tic opportunity for us to hear from other leading researchers\, develop ne
 w connections and collaborations\, and discuss some of the wider questions
  in our field. We hope they will inspire new ideas for us all to take into
  our own research.\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Roland Clift shares his wor
 k about the role of Chemical Engineering in sustainable development. Pleas
 e "register to join us":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bigger-picture-talk
 -with-prof-roland-clift-tickets-449444920857. \n\n*Abstract:* \nSustainabl
 e development is conceived\, for example in the UN Sustainable Development
  Goals\, as a process of social development subject to techno-economic and
  ecological constraints\, rather than merely economic growth. This interpr
 etation requires a re-evaluation of the role of engineering\, and particul
 arly chemical engineering. Chemical engineering can provide new processes 
 and products\, but it is also a main component of the emerging field of In
 dustrial Ecology (IE) by applying chemical engineering thinking to physica
 l stocks and flows in the economy - i.e. “chemical engineering outside t
 he pipe”. Examples to show the value of this approach are:\n\n- Consumer
  plastics\, where IE analysis shows why a closed-loop economy for plastics
  is impossible without energy-from-waste processes\;\n\n- Durable and manu
 factured goods\, where IE shows that product service life is more importan
 t than recycling and so requires re-evaluation of the popular idea of a 
 “circular economy”\;\n\n- Management of scarce materials\, where IE he
 lps to guide regulatory approaches.\n\n*Bio:* \nProfessor Clift was a lect
 urer at Cambridge from 1976 to 1981. He then moved to the University of Su
 rrey as Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1992\, he found
 ed the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at Surrey\, now the Centre 
 for Environment and Sustainability\, as a transdisciplinary research centr
 e embracing engineering and the natural and social sciences. He is now an 
 Emeritus Professor at Surrey and Adjunct Professor in Chemical and Biologi
 cal Engineering at the University of British Columbia\, Canada. Since 1992
 \, he has focussed on the use of chemical engineering principles to underp
 in the transition to a more sustainable economy\, primarily as a component
  of the emerging discipline of industrial ecology. He has served as both P
 resident and Executive Director of the International Society for Industria
 l Ecology. In 2017\, he was awarded the George E. Davis medal of the Insti
 tution of Chemical Engineers for his work on the application of chemical e
 ngineering in industrial ecology and sustainability.\n\nHis experience in 
 advising government bodies includes: Review Editor and contributing Chapte
 r Author for the 5th Assessment Report of the (UN) Intergovernmental Panel
  on Climate Change (IPCC)\; ten years as a member of the Royal Commission 
 on Environmental Pollution\; Member of the Science Advisory Council of the
  Department of the Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)\; and Spec
 ialist Advisor to the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lor
 ds. He has acted as environmental consultant to a number of major companie
 s.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotec
 hnology\, West Cambridge Site
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