Marie K. Harder
Professor, PhD Adviser, National China Thousand Talents Professor
Based at: Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China 20043
Office: 804 YiFu Science & Technology Building
E-mail: m.k.harder@brighton.ac.uk
more information: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/scieng/contact/details.php?uid=mkh
Exployment&Education
09/ 2011 1000 Talents Professor at Fudan University, China
(with part-time continuation of Professor of Sustainable Waste Management, University of Brighton, UK： Feb-April,)
01/2008 Professor of Sustainable Waste Management
(active within broader field of Applied Sustainable Development) University of Brighton, UK (Previously PL, SL, L at University of Brighton since 09/1989)
CEO and founder of the Brighton Environmental Body 2001-2004
1985-89： DPhil in Nuclear Structure: University of Sussex
1982-85: BSc (Honours) in Chemical Physics: University of Bangor
Schooling: In 12 schools in USA, Pacific Islands, India, Wales, Ireland
Academic Achievements (traditional indicators)
refereed publications (>54)
conference presentations (>33)
major reports (>26)
PhD completions 5 in nuclear physics 1999-2003
4 in waste/resource management 2005-2011
(6 current in waste/SD: due in 2011-2015)
EPSRC grants (pre-2001: physics); 6 grants totalling ￡385,175 pre –2001
Landfill Tax Research Funds; 6 grants totalling ￡824,358 1999-2004
Industry/LA funded research; 11 grants totalling ￡102,238 2001-2004
Industry/LA/DEFRA funded research:30 grants totalling ￡900,997 2004-2006
Industry/LA/DEFRA funded research:20 grants totalling ￡895,700 2007-2011
TOTAL (not counting EPSRC, physics grants pre-2001) ￡ 2,723,293 1999-2011
My work can be roughly divided into the following topics, (current and most recent first):
- Applied Sustainable Development,
- Values-based Indicators
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Behaviour change e.g. for recycling, low-carbon lifestyles
- Waste Stream Flows: quantification & modelling
- Household Waste: minimisation and increased recycling
- Public Education: waste awareness
- End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV): materials recovery
- Pyrolysis of Shredder Residues: related metal contaminations
- (Nuclear Structure Physics)
Current Interests
The inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary work I carry out has a modern name: Sustainable Development. It is a discipline which many people find difficult to define and specify. It involves a simultaneous, multi-pronged approach of related issues covering environmental, financial and social domains. People often find Sustainable Development difficult to grasp because it is not a separate discipline to others, but overlaps many, in different ways. For workers in this field, an ability to keep an overview across different disciplines is critically important, but so also is the need for depth in some specialism. For example, my specialism has been physical sciences and waste management in particular, but I have demonstrated that I deal with waste issues in fuller environmental, social and financial contexts – this approach then qualifies as Applied Sustainable Development. This does not mean that I work on ‘everything’; it means that I take wider, real-life, issues into account when I work on ‘anything’.
While at Fudan University I wish to focus on Applications of Sustainable Development in science, education, business and civil society. This means I would like to interact with each of these disciplines in Fudan, Shanghai and China, providing collaboration which will enhance international status with increased sustainable content e.g. in journal publications, engagement activities with society, and teaching of graduates and undergraduates in each discipline. I have offered to do this via:
- shared research projects with staff in these disciplines,
- help with journal writing,
- help with curriculum development, and
- help with engagement with businesses and civil groups,
creating a loose network of staff interested in applying and leading sustainable development in their own field. My exact approach will need to be developed over time; anyone (staff or students) interested should just contact me to see if have any overlapping interests!
Applied Sustainable Development requires an overview across different disciplines as well as depth in a specialism. My specialism has been waste management but recently is Values-based Indicators (see www.ESDinds.eu and www.WeValue.org) which has applications in business, economics, government, civil society and education where it can be used to develop mission statements, prioritise, measure progress and cause deep behaviour change. Papers and working papers on these will be available online shortly.
Selected Papers & Talks
The Earth Charter and the ESDinds initiative: Developing indicators and assessment tools for Civil Society Organisations to examine the values dimensions of sustainability projects
Podger, D, Piggot, G, Zahradnik, M, Janouskova, S, Velasco, I, Hak, T, Dahl, A, Jimenez, A, and Harder, MK* Journal of Education for Sustainable Development ２０１０ ４： ２９７－３０ doi:10.1177/097340821000400219
Use of home food digesters to reduce household waste Harder, M.K. and Woodard, R. (2009) Waste and Resources Management, 162 (2). pp. 69-73. ISSN 1747-6526
Development of a new quality fair access best value performance indicator (BVPI) for recycling services? Harder, M.K., Stantzos, N., Woodard, R. and Read, A. (2008) Waste Management, 28 (2). pp. 299-309. i:10.1016/j.wasman.2006.12.015
Systematic studies of shop and leisure voucher incentives for household recycling
Harder, M.K. and Woodard, R. (2007)
Resources Conservation and Recycling, 51 (4). pp. 732-753. ISSN 09213449
 doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.12.001
Characterisation of rotary kiln residues from the pyrolysis of shredder residues: issues with lead
Forton, O.T., McGrady, L., Singh, M.M., Taylor, E.R.M., Moles, N.R. and Harder, M.K. (2007)
Journal Of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. pp. 395-402. ISSN 0165-2370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2006.12.015
A Critical Review of Developments in the Pyrolysis of Automotive Shredder Residue
Harder, M.K. and Forton, O. Tening (2006) Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 79 (1-2). pp. 387-394. ISSN 01652370 ?http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2006.12.015
The IBM extended consistent-Q formalism across the N = 82-126 shell -Empirical trends and anomaliesM. K. Harder and K. T. Tang Physics Letters B, Volume 369, Issue 1, 15 February 1996, Pages 1-6
Invited Keynote Speaker Presentations:
The Emergence of Design as a Necessity for Sustainable Development
All Our Futures 2: Sustainable Development Conference, Sustainable Futures, Plymouth, UK Sept 2009
The Need for Better Design of Research Projects with Civil Society Organisation Partners
Sustainable Development – a Challenge for European Research 26-28 May 2009, Brussels: European Commission, ERAhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/sd/conference/2009/index_en.cfm
Results from a series of community and school incentive schemes
Resource Recovery Forum International conference “Recycling Incentives”, London, September 2006
A Review of Current Options for Post-shredded End of Life Vehicles
End of Life Vehicles '06 Conference, Warwick, September 2006
A Review of Developments in the Pyrolysis of Automotive Shredder Residue
International Conference on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, Budapest, May 2006
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