Sustainable Earth 2017: Marketplace abstracts

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

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

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