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Science, Research and Development of Non-ferrous Metals
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3/5/2002
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DIRECTORY OF RESEARCHERS PUBLISHING ON SD IN THE METALS AND MINERALS INDUSTRIES/ SD ORGANIZATIONS/ RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS Name Affiliation/ Organisation/ Program Address - postal Country/ Region Telephone Fax Address - electronic Home Page URL Area of Research Collaborators Remarks Links to Consultative Forum Weidema, Bo Pedersen 2.-0 LCA consultants Borgergade 6, 1., 1300 København K, Denmark Denmark +45 333 22822 +45 339 11103 bow@lca.dk www.lca.dk/bow.htm Life Cycle Assessment; co-product allocation member of the SETAC Steering Committee on LCA Masayuki, Sagisaka AIST Japan +81 298 61 8022 +81 298 61 8195 m.sagisaka@aist.go.jp unit.aist.go.jp/lca-center/intro-menber/sagisaka.htm CA for mineral industries, sustainable development, energy resources analysis, mine safety APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation) Asia Pacific +65 276 1880 +65 276 1775 tth@mail.apecsec.org.sg www.apecsec.org.sg/ Contribution of science, engineering and technology to sustainable economic development Intergovernmental; APEC reviews SD issues at ministerial level. A conference was called specifically on SD and science in 1999. Details are available at www.apecinnovations.org.nz NO Polprasert, Chongrak Asian Inst Technol Env Eng Program, Asian Inst Technol, Bangkok 10501, Thailand Thailand chongrak@ait.ac.th www.ait.ac.th/AIT/schools/serd/eep/chongrak.htm Hazardous waste generation and processing; waste reduction measures; hazardous waste engineering; resources recovery LRJ Liyanage Ackermann, Peter Brandenburgisches Umweltforschungszentrum e.V. Universitat Potsdam Germany www.uni-potsdam.de/over/homegd.htm Sustainable Development photovoltaic cell SD CANMET Mining and Minerals Sciences Laboratories Canada +1 613 947-6580 +1 613 952-7501 llaflech@nrcan.gc.ca www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/canmet-mtb/mmsl.htm Expertise includes advanced mining systems; mine-related health and safety; emissions and effluent management, including mine closures and reclamation; and metals in the environment. Research Inst.; The Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories provide quality research and development services, technology and sound scientific advice to Canada's mining and minerals industries, and to provincial and federal government departments involved in promoting or regulating these industries. YES Kasamas, Harald CARACAS (Concerted Action on Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites) CLARINET (Contaminated Land Rehabilitation Network for Environmental Technologies in Europe) CLARINET Office, Breitenfurterstr. 97, A-1120 Vienna, Austria Europe +43 1 804 93 192 +43 1 804 93 194 kasamas@caracas.at www.caracas.at/ Risk Assessment, contaminated land rehabilitation Research Inst.; Networks that bring together expetise from researchers, regulators, technology developers and industry to look at contaminated land risk assessment and management in Europe. NO Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESN) USA +1 202 314 3822 +1 202 488 8679 ciesin.info@ciesn.columbia.edu www.ciesin.org/ Hub for earth science sites Research Inst.; Based at Columbia University, USA. World data centre for science. NO Centre for Science and Environment, India India +91 11 608 1110 +91 11 6085879 webmaster@cseindia.org www.cseindia.org/ Health and environment, climate change Research Inst.; Leading Indian NGO with interest in sustainable resources management. NO CETEM - Centro de Tecnologia Mineral Brazil +55 021 3865-7222 +55 021 2260-2837 webmaster@cetem.gov.br www.cetem.gov.br/ Research centre addressing the devolopment, adaptation and dissemination of mineral, metallurgical, materials and environmental tecnologies Research Inst.; Mission is to promote Brazilian tecnological development creating solutions compatible to the sustainable use of mineral resources and to the preservation of the environment thus contributing to the social welfare and to the economical progress of the country. YES Råde, Ingrid Chalmers Univ Technol Dept Phys Resouce Theory, S-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden Sweden +46 31 772 3126 +46 31 772 31 50 frtir@fy.chalmers.se www.frt.fy.chalmers.se/frteng.html Datasets for Life Cycle Assessments BA Andersson Electric vehicle batteries Gilles, D.G. Civ Eng Corps US Naval Base, Code N43B, Norfolk, VA 23451 USA Waste generation and minimization RC Loehr Waste generation and minimization in semiconductor industry (1994) Collaborative Research Centre 525 Germany +49 241 80 5667 +49 241 888 272 cbauer@lih.rwth-aachen.de sfb525.rwth-aachen.de/ (1)Metallic raw materials flows (2)Sustainable resource management Research Inst.; Publicly funded interdisciplinary German R & D Centre YES Solo-Gabriele, Helena College of Engineering, Depatment of Civil Engineering University of Miami, 325 McArthur, Coral Gables, FL 33124-0630, USA USA +1 305 284 3391 hmsolo@miami.edu www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/niehs/center/helena_sologabriel_cv.htm Waste minimization, re-use, recycling, disposal; drinking water issues Timothy Townsend, Jennifer Penha, Thabet Tolaymat, Vandin Calitu Pressure-treated wood (CCA) SD issues; metals in wood and environmental impacts of pressure-treated wood Banken, Reiner Conseil d'evaluation des technologies de la sante Montreal, Quebec Canada reiner.banken@ssss.gouv.qc.ca www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/cets/ Historical evolution of health impact assessments as part of the environmental assessment process; health policy CYTED-XIII Iberoamerican Programme on Minerals Technology Brazil +55 21 3865 7222 +55 21 2290 9196 villasboas@cetem.gov.br www.cetem.gov.br/cyted-xiii Sustainable development issues in the minerals extraction industries Research Inst.; Network groups, seminars and conferences on metals and minerals towards sustainable development. YES Reuter, Markus Andreas Delft Univ Technol Fac Appl Earth Sci, Dept Raw Mat Technol, Mijnbouwstr 120, NL 2628 RX Delft, Netherlands Netherlands 015 278 2903 015 278 2836 m.a.reuter@mp.tudelft.nl home.mp.tudelft.nl/~reuter/ Simulation of industrial systems; ISO 14000; Life Cycle Assessment; simulation model with interconnected routes for several metals Life cycle analysis for the German Copper Industry and Project for the EC on recycling of materials Nielsen, Pia Holst Departmenet of Manufacturing Engineering Technical University of Denmark, Building 425, DK 2800 Lyngby, Denmark Denmark +45 4525 4763 +45 4593 0190 phn@ipl.dtu.dk www.ipt.dtu.dk/index_uk.html; Department: http://www.ipt.dtu.dk/index_uk.html Life Cycle Assessment M Hauschild Municipal solid waste landfills; models Huang, Yinlun Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Wayne State University, USA USA +1 313 577 3771 huang@chem1.eng.wayne.edu www.eng.wayne.edu/research/interest.html Environmental pollution prevention H.R. Lou Industrial pollution prevention P2 and profitable P2 (P3) strategies for the electroplating industry; Buchberger, Steven G. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210071, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0071 USA USA +1 513 556 3681 +1 513 556 2599 Steven.Buchberger@uc.edu www.eng.uc.edu/dept_cee/people/faculty/buchberger.php3 Best Management practices for urban highway runoff JJ Sansalone Characterization and control of nonpoint pollutants from urban and rural watersheds Barlaz, Morton A. Department of Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering, Campus Box 7908, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7908, USA USA +1 919 515 7676 +1 919 515 7908 barlaz@eos.ncsu.edu www.ce.ncsu.edu/faculty/barlaz/ Life Cycle Inventory K.W. Harrison; R. D. Dumas; S.R. Nishtala Life-cycle inventory model of municipal solid waste combustion Xu, Jingcheng Dept of Materials Science Lanzhou Univ, Lanzhou 730000, China China www.lzu.edu.cn/landa/index.html Life Cycle Assessment Weichang Hao; Xinli Kou; Tianmin Wang Object-oriented Life Cycle Assessment database Athanassiadis, Dimitris Dept of Silviculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Dept of Silviculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden Sweden +46 90 786 62 87 +46 90 786 76 69 Dimitris.Athanassiadis@ssko.slu.se www.ssko.slu.se/~diat/ Application of Life Cycle Assessment G Lidestav, I Wasterlund Forestry; material consumption due to spare part utilization for work machinery; includes metals and brass Young, Brian C. Envirosafe International Pty. 1A Yarrbat Ave., Balwyn, Victoria 3103, Australia Australia +61 0 3 9888 4154 +61 0 3 9830 1678 byoung@envirosafe.com.au Value-added agglomeration; waste minimization; greenhouse effect; metallurgical solid wastes European Union Europe env-susdev@cec.eu.int www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/eussd/index.htm Sustainable Development Strategy (climate change, public health, pressure on natural resources) Intergovernmental; Framework recommendations on SD adopted by Commission for EU summit at Gothenburg, Sweden in June 2001. DG Environment has also set up a Sustainable Development division and a Sustainable Resources division following a recent internal reorganisation. NO Petek, Janez Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor Smetanova 17, 62000 Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia Slovenia +386 62 221 112 +386 62 227 774 janez.petek@uni-mb.si www.lu.se/IIIEE/research/eastern_europe/oecd/cp_education_report.html Waste Minimization methodology P. Glavic Waste minimization methodology suitable for Eastern Europe Shuey, S.A. Freeport-McMoRan www.fcx.com/ Mine site remediation Villas Bôas, Roberto C. IMAAC/UNIDO (International Materials Assessment and Application Centre Avenida Ipê, 900- Ilha da Cidade Universitária, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Brazil 55 21 3865 72 19 55 21 2260 91 54 villasboas@cetem.gov.br www.cetem.gov.br/imaac Promotion of discussions, conferences, seminars, book and position papers on the issues of sustainable development and materials sectors of the economy Middleton, W.J. Inco Ltd Copper Cliff, ON P0M 1N0, Canada Canada +1 705 682 5202 +1 705 682 5319 www.incoltd.com/default.asp Life Cycle Inventory/ Life Cycle Assessment methodologies RJ Hilton; SB Young Chiu, Shen-Yann Industrial Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs, 41-2 Sinyi, Taipei, Taiwan USA +1 630-252-6034 chius@ema.org.tw www.moeaidb.gov.tw/index.htm Waste Minimization Waste minimization study for printed circuit board facility; plant audits Lifset, Reid J. Industrial Environmental Management Program Assoc. Director, IEMP, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 285 Prospect St., Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA USA +1 203 432 6949 reid.lifset@yale.edu www.yale.edu/forestry/popup/faculty/lifset.html Industrial Ecology; solid wastes; environmental impact of e-commerce; Extended Producer Responsibility Editor of Journal of Insustrial Ecology; market development for recycling and composting Nakamura, Takashi Inst Advanced Materials Processing Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577 Japan www.iamp.tohoku.ac.jp/~center/phys/index.html Recycling; waste minimization Masafumi Maeda; Kimihito Satoh; Yoshinori Yajima Smelter technology; dust Lan, C.Y. Inst National Resources Waste Management Dep Biol, Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Hong Kong www.hkbu.edu.hk/ Reclamation of mine tailings; remediation WS Shu; MH Wong International Development Research Centre Canada +1 613 236 6163 +1 613 238 7230 info@idrc.ca www.idrc.ca/ Mining Policy Research Initiative (1) Environmental and Health Impacts (2) Mining and Environmental Research Research Inst.; Public Agency set up by Canadian government - focuses on developing countries NO International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University Sweden +46 46 222 0200 +46 46 222 0210 iiiee@iiiee.lu.se www.lu.se/IIIEE/hp (1)Cleaner Production (2)Product Research Research Inst.; Swedish Institute, active in research activities and environmental policy advice in Eastern Europe and Asia NO International Materials Assessment and Application Centre (IMAAC) / UNIDO Brazil +55 21 3865 7219 +55 21 2260 9154 villasboas@cetem.gov.br www.cetem.gov.br/ Sustainable Development strategies for the production of materials Research Inst.; Promotion of discussions, seminars and position papers on the issues of sustainable development and the materials sector of the economy YES Ayers, Robert L. ITT Fluid Technology ITT Industries FTC Headquarters, 10 Mountain View Road, Saddle River, New Jersey, USA 07458 USA rayers@fluids.ittind.com www.ittind.com/home.asp SD; industrial water management; water crisis; sustainable economic growth Moolenaar, Simon W. IWACO IWACO, Branch Office West, PO Box 8520, 3009 AM Rotterdam, The Netherlands Netherlands +31 10 286 5418 +31 10 220 0025 s.moolenaar@rtd.iwaco.nl www.iwaco.nl Environmental management systems, materials flow accounting, soil quality management, substance flow analysis, heavy metals Itubo, Norihiro Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry Ueno 1-17-6, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8535, Japan Japan +81 3 38 32 7085 +81 3 38 32 2774 morimoto@jemai.or.jp www.jemai.or.jp/index-e.asp Life Cycle Assessment Life Cycle Assessment for metal industry Lindstrom, Kris P. K.P. Lindstrom, Inc. PO Box 51008, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 USA +1 831 372 5989 Pollution Prevention; Source Reduction A Renescu Pollution prevention studies of sanitation districts in California; reduction of influent loadings Abatzoglou, Nicholas Kemestrie Inc. 4420 Garlock, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada J1L 2P4 Canada +1 819 569 4888 +1 819 569 8411 kemestrie.com/ "Zero effluent" technologies Juan-Carlos Fernandez; Esteban Chornet BIOSYN gasification technol Korea Institute of Science and Technology Korea +82 2 958 5803 whpark@kist.re.kr www.kist.re.kr/ Materials science, technology and environment Research Inst.; Korea's leading R & D institute - has worked on SD issues NO Forssberg, Eric Lulea University or Technology Division of Mineral Processing, Solhagavägen 22, 18463 ÅKERSBERGA, Lulea, Sweden Sweden 0920 91311 Eric.Forssberg@km.luth.se peka.luth.se/search/dept.cgi?dept=KEM End-of-life electric and electronic management; recycling Shunli Zhang; Jan Van Howelingen; Peter Rem; Liu-Ying Wei Copper recovery Metals in the Environment Research Network Canada +1 519 837 3320 +1 519 837 3861 dwarner@tox.uoguelph.ca www.mite-rn.org/ Ecological Risk Assessment, metals transformation, metals and human health, metals and ecosystems Research Inst.; Canadian network of Toxicology Centres, based at the University of Guelph in Ontario. NO Kerfoot, W.C. Michigan Technological University Lake Superior Ecosystems Research Center & Dept Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, Michigan 49931 USA +1 906 487 2769 wkerfoot@mtu.edu www.bio.mtu.edu/faculty/kerfoot.htm Copper mining; copper cycling in lake ecosystem; Director - Lake Superior Ecosystem Research Center Minerals Metals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) +44 20 7269 1634 +44 20 7831 6189 caroline.digby@iied.org www.iied.org/mmsd/index.html Life Cycle Assessment Research Inst.; Research project undertaken by the IIED due to complete in December 2001. Forms part of the preparation for the Global Mining Initiative conference in Toronto scheduled for May 2002. YES Warhurst, Alyson Mining and Energy Research Network MERN, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK +44 0 24 7657 3130 Alyson.Warhurst@warwick.ac.uk users.wbs.warwick.ac.uk/ccu/mern/ Environmental, social and economic impacts of development projects within the mining, minerals, metals and energy sectors, and their implications for public policy, community well-being and corporate strategy Unit sponsored by a Consortium of Business Partners; international collaborative research network with 140 centers of excellence worldwide; promotes Corporate Social Responsibility Harrington, Karen Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance 520 Lafayette Road N, 2nd Floor, St. Paul, MN 55155-4100, USA USA +1 651 215 0233 www.moea.state.mn.us/res/V8_4/measur2.cfm Life Cycle Inventory Paul A. Smith Life Cycle Inventory for MSW system Castro, James M. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Montana Tech of the U Montana, 1300 West Park St, Butte, MT 59701-8997 USA USA +1 406 496 4753 jcastro@mtech.edu www.mbmg.mtech.edu/castro.htm Remediation of mine pit lakes; ecotoxicology; pollution prevention JN Moore Lo, Shang-Lien National Taiwan University Grad Inst Env Engineering, National Taiwan University, 71 Chou Shan Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan Taiwan +886 2 236 25373 +886 2 239 28821 sllo@ccms.ntu.edu.tw www.ntu.edu.tw/english/main.html Waste minimization; recycling and source reduction YC Tsao Electroplating industry National Technical University of Athens Greece +30 1 7722064 +30 1 7722063 secretary@metal.ntua.gr www.metal.ntua.gr/home-en.html Environmental management in mining and metallurgy Research Inst.; Greek centre for metallurgy and environmental management NO Netherlands Institute for Metals Research Netherlands +31 15 278 2535 +31 15 278 2591 info@nimr.nl www.nimr.nl/ Metals science, production and engineering Research Inst.; Dutch government funded centre pools research expertise from four universities. NO Huijbregts, M.A.J. Nijmegen University Department of Environmental Science, Nijmegen University, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands Netherlands +31 0 24 3652835 +31 0 24 3653030 m.huijbregts@sci.kun.nl www.sci.kun.nl/milieukunde/research/huijbregts.htm Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Risk Assessment, Uncertainty Analysis JB Guine; L Reijnders focuses on modeling impacts of toxic stress in river ecosystems Narita, Nobuhiko Nippon Steel Technoresearch Corp Hon-machi 4-40, Naka-ku Yokahama 231-0005, Japan Japan www.nstr.co.jp/nstr2.htm Life Cycle Assessment; LCI analysis; CO2 and SO2 emissions from pyro- and hydro-metallurgical copper Kohki Ichitsubo, Masayuki Sagisaka, Tadao Moro, Atsushi Inaba LCA for copper production system in Chile (2001) OECD +33 1 4524 8038 +33 1 4430 6271 www.oecd.org/ Science, cleaner technology and managing natural resources in relation to SD Intergovernmental; OECD convened a ministerial conference on SD in May 2001. Science directorate is working on policy to harness science and technology for SD through encouraging centres of excellence, R & D on ecosystems, cleaner technology and long trem impact of human activity on the environment. NO Ho, K.C. Open University of Hong Kong Environmental Studies Program, Open Univ. Hong Kong, 30 Good Shepherd St., Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong People's Republic of China 852 2768 6803 852 2789 1170 kcho@ouhk.edu.hk www.oli.hk/%7Esctwww/es/kcho.htm Regional sustainability; water quality; point and nonpoint sources; cross-border; environmental management systems K.C.C. Hui Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology USA +1 503 748 1121 toccalino@ese.ogi.edu www.ogi.edu/ Principles of toxicology and risk assessment Research Inst.; US graduate research centre specialising in acquatic risk assessment. NO Donaldson, Andrew W. Penn State University Middletown, PA 17057, USA USA www.psu.edu/ Pollution Prevention; Recycling Pollution prevention in scrap metal recycling; titanium scrap Barron, Thomas Professional Engineer 3351 Beechwood Drive, Lafayette, CA 94549 USA +1 925 283 8121 +1 925 283 6746 tsbarron@attglobal.net Pollution Prevention; Runoff Pollution prevention measures at South Bay POTWs to decrease copper in bay; heavy metals in runoff from roofs with copper elements Martchek, Kenneth J. Program Manager, Alcoa Inc. Pittsburgh, PA 15212 USA www.alcoa.com/ SD/ Life Cycle Assessment/ metal recycling Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) Japan +81 3 5469 0502 +81 3 5469 0503 y-kaya@st.rim.or.jp www.rite.or.jp/english/e-home-frame.html Innovative technology and SD Research Inst.; Leading Japanese R & D centre has links to OECD NO Reinirkens, P. Ruhr Universitat Fakultat fur Geowissenschaften, AG Stadtokologie/Bodenschutz, D-44780 Bochum Germany www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ Sustainable Development in road planning; soil protection Society for the Promotion of Life Cycle Assessment Development (SPOLD) +32 2 456 2849 bow@lca-net.com www.spold.org/ Life Cycle Assessment Association of industries interested in accelerating the development of LCA NO Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) +1 850 469 1500 +32 2 772 7281 +1 850 469 9778 +32 2 770 5386 setac@setac.org www.setac.org/ (1) Ecological Risk Assessment (2) Life Cycle Assessment (3) Contaminted Soils (4) Whole Effluent Toxicity Organises scientific conferences and has government and industry members. YES Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) USA +1 202 314 3822 +1 202 488 8679 ciesin.info@ciesn.columbia.edu sedac.ciesin.org/ Hub for socio-economic and earth science Research Inst.; Columbia University based for linking socio-economic data to science NO Stockholm Environmetal Institute Sweden +46 8 412 1400 +46 8 723 0348 postmaster@sei.se www.sei.se/ (1)Sustainable Development Management Systems (2)Risk Evaluation Research Inst.; Swedish Institute promoting link between science and SD public policy NO Borjeson, L. Swedish Institute for Ecological Sustainability (IEH) Box 7980, S 907 19 Umea, Sweden Sweden +46 90 7869300 +46 90 7869309 info@ieh.se www.ieh.se/eng/ End-of-life; Recycling Lofvenius, Hjelt, Johansson, Marklund Automotive end-of-life; car recycling Legarth, Jens Brobech Technical University of Denmark Lyngby Denmark www.dtu.dk/index_e.htm Recycling; metals in manufacturing; product design for recycling Technical University of Denmark Denmark +45 425 56043 info@ipl.dtu.dk www.ipt.dtu.dk/ (1)Cleaner technology (2)Workplace assessment (3)Life Cycle Engineering Research Inst.; Danish University involved in co-ordinating a LCA network NO Thailand National Science and Technology Agency (NSTA) Thailand +662 6448 45099 +662 664 80279 stair@nstda.or.th www.nstda.or.th/ Science, technology and innovation - SD Research Inst.; Thailand's national R&D centre - has worked on APEC initiatives NO Tukker, Arnold TNO Institute of Strategy, Technology and Policy P.O. Box 6030, Delft 2600 JA, Netherlands Netherlands +31 15 2 69 54 50 + 31 15 2 69 54 60 Tukker@stb.tno.nl www.stb.tno.nl/site EN/department_do.asp?id=6 Life Cycle Assessment for incineration of hazardous wastes for Dutch MSWIs Furukawa, Michinobu Tokyo Gas Co Ltd. Energy and Environm Technol Lab, Tokyo 1050023, Japan Japan mfuru@tokyo-gas.co.jp www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/index_e.html Life Cycle Assessment of residential gas appliances; cover nonferrous metals; Life cycle assessment of energy systems T Koyama; Y Muneta; Y Ooki UNESCO s.raither@unesco.org www.unesco.org/science Natural Sciences, environment and SD Intergovernmental; UNESCO has a science section charged with co-ordinating external links realting to SD NO United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) +1 212 963 3170 +1 212 963 4260 dsd@un.org www.un.org/esa/sustdev/ Science for SD Intergovernmental; UNCSD has science as a listed point of focus in Chapter 35 of Agenda 21. It calls for: a) strengthening the scientific basis for sustainable management; b) enhancing scientific understanding; c) improving long-term scientific assessment; and d) building up scientific capacity and capability. UNESCO serves as task manager. NO United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) trade.environment@unctad.org www.unctad.org/trade_env/index.htm (1) Natural Resource Management (2) Environmentally Preferable Goods (3) Environmental Management Systems Intergovernmental; Project co-ordination with rest of UN system and industry partners, including natural resources. YES United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) +31 20 525 6268 +31 20 625 8843 unep@unep.frw.uva.nl www.unep.org/ Sustainable Product Development Intergovernmental; UNEP is constituting expert working groups, including on natural resources YES Schwartz, Seymour I. ("Sy") Univ Calif Davis Environmental Studies, 2132 Wickson Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA +1 530 752 3276 sischwartz@.ucdavis.edu www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/SCHWARTZ.htm Policy analysis of hazardous waste management; risk assessment and quantitative methods for policy evaluation Pollution prevention, waste reduction in metal plating and finishing industry Davis, B. Univ Tasmania Inst Antarctic & Southern Ocean Studies, GPO Box 252-77 Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Australia +61 (03) 6226 2972 +61 (03) 6226 2973 B.W.Davis@utas.edu.au www.antcrc.utas.edu.au/iasos/ SD; scientific uncertainty; public policy Redevelopment of Mt Lyell Copper Mines; Political aspects of Antarctic Treaty System Allen, Herbert E. University of Delaware Dept. Civil Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA +1 302 831 8449 +1 302 831 3640 allen@ce.udel.edu www.ce.udel.edu/ Bioavailability of trace metals Research Inst.; Faculty of Environmental Engineering researches biovailability and risk assessment. NO Low, Nicholas University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia Australia +61 3 8344 6417 +61 3 8344 5532 npl@unimelb.edu.au www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/research/profiles/staffprofilesh-l.shtml - low Conflicting social and ecological interests; resource allocation; politically grounded theory of justice; ecological responsibility B. Gleeson Ok Tedi as a case study Nriagu, Jerome O. University of Michigan Dept of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Education, Univ Michigan, 109 Observatory St., 2510 SPH 1, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029 USA +1 734 936 0706 +1 734 764 9424 jnriagu@umich.edu www.umich.edu Sources, fate and effects of toxic metals in the environment; environmental justice and environmental health in developing countries Water quality issues in Great Lakes Bridge, Gavin University of Oklahoma Dept of Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA +1 405 325 5325 gbridge@ou.edu geography.ou.edu/people/gbridge.html US copper industry; commodity production; social regulation; "metabolism of production" Economic and resources geographer whose work addresses the environmental implications of restructuring in the minerals industry Santos, Teodoro M. University of the Philippines Natl Inst Geol Sci, Univ Philippines, Coll Sci, Quezon City 1101 Philippines tsantos@nigs.upd.edu.ph www.nigs.upd.edu.ph/index.html Natural resources accounting; contribution of mining to sustainable economic development; system of natural accounts; copper and gold sectors; Mineral Economics, Economic Geology M.L. Zaratan Mogi, Gento University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN, 113-8656 Japan +81 3 5841 7046 +81 3 3818 7492 gento@geosys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp lead.geosys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mogi/ Systems dynamic model of metal recycling; sustainable supply; optimum allocation of general waste recycling among industries; Life Cycle Assessment of CO2 emission for resources development T. Adachi; J. Yamatomi; S. Mismi Yamamoto, Ryoichi University of Tokyo Institute Industrial Science, 4-6-1 KOMABA MEGURO-KU, TOKYO 153-8505, JAPAN Japan +81 3 5452 6024 +81-3-5452-6094 www-admin@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dept4/yamamoto-e.html Life Cycle Assessment of manufacturing of nonferrous metals; Development of environmentally conscious materials and Life Cycle Assessment N Itsubo Lemieux, Paul US EPA National Risk Management Res Lab, Res Triange Park, NC 27711, USA USA +1 919 541 0962 lemieux.paul@epamail.epa.gov www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/index.html Multimetal continuous emission monitoring technologies JV Ryan (same address); NB French (Sky& Inc, Oakland, Calif); WJ Haas (Ames Lab);S Priebe (Idaho Nat Eng Env Lab); DB Burns (Westinghouse Savannah River Lab) Clausen, Carol A. USDA Forests Products Laboratory USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI 53705-2398, USA USA +1 608 231 9476 +1 608 231 9592 www.fpl.fs.fed.us/contact.htm Bioremediation Bioremediation of CCA treated wood Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands +31 20 44 47070 straalen@bio.vu.nl www.vu.nl/ Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment for essential metals Research Inst.; Dutch university has department of ecology and ecotoxicology working on RA NO World Resources Institute USA +1 202 729 7600 +1 202 729 7610 lauralee@wri.org www.wri.org/ Resource management, biodiversity and climate change Research Inst.; Washington DC based Institute adressing global environmental problems and resource management NO Wuppertal Institute Germany +49 202 24920 +49 202 2492 108 info@wupperinst.org www.wupperinst.org/ (1)Materials Flow Analysis (2)Sustainable Resource Management Research Inst.; Recognised German environmental think tank on LCA NO Yale University Center for Industrial Ecology USA +1 203 432 5694 +1 203 432 5556 thomas.graedel@yale.edu www.yale.edu/iem/ Materials Flow Analysis Research Inst.; Part of School of Forestry and Environmental Studies researching stocks and flows of copper, zinc, cadmium and silver within the industrial ecosystem. NO Reife, Abraham 60 Oakside Drive, Toms River, NJ 08755, USA USA biospace.intota.com/viewbio.asp?bioFile=/xml/biofull/605178data.xml&bioID=605178&strQuery=dye+intermediate Pollution prevention; waste minimization; source reduction HS Freeman (N Carolina State U, Raleigh, NC 27696, USA) Pollution prevention, waste minimization, source reduction in dye industry processes
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