Discover our equitable sustainability research
Exploring scalable solutions for sustainable development challenges
The Centre for Equitable Sustainability at the University of Portsmouth aims to achieve world-class standing in the field of sustainability, focusing on engendering action and innovation to address the challenges that hinder our journey toward an equitable and sustainable society.
At the heart of our centre’s objectives is the proposal of scalable solutions for sustainable development challenges. We aim to provide agile and evidence-based response to sustainability police needs and wicked sustainability problems. We will prioritize areas such as sustainable consumption and production, global equity, justice and inclusion, sustainable infrastructure, energy, climate change governance, as well as biodiversity and wildlife protection.
Overall, the Centre will develop and facilitate inter-disciplinary research activities to create opportunities for impactful research that not only drives knowledge exchange but also engages communities and establishes key partnerships with local organisations and beyond.
Our five themes
Theme 1: Building responsible, equitable, sustainable production and consumption
Sub-topics include:
- SDG 12 implementation
- Circular economy
- Ethical consumption
- Corporate Social Responsibility
Theme 2: Building global justice and sustainable and inclusive communities
Sub-topics include:
- SDG 5, SDG10, SDG 11 implementation
- Economic justice
- Social inclusion
- Climate change and economic inequality,
- South-South Collaboration
Theme 3: Responsible innovation, technology and project management for equitable sustainability
Sub-topics include:
- SDG 9 implementation
- Collaboration with women-led and minority-led businesses
- Pro-social behaviour through innovation
- Technology for equitable sustainability
- Responsible Project Management
Theme 4: Action for climate change and clean and affordable energy
Sub-topics include:
- SDG 7, SDG 13 implementation
- Energy poverty and justice
- Renewable energy
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Theme 5: Scaling environmental stewardship and wildlife protection
Sub-topics include:
- SDG 15 implementation
- Biodiversity protection
- Ecosystem regeneration
- Equitable co-existence of human and non-human species
- Criminal justice
Research projects
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PlastiCity
The PlastiCity project aimed to increase commercial and industrial plastic recycling rates in the 2 Seas Region (United-Kingdom, France, Netherlands and Belgium) from 20-30% to 50%. It developed new solutions and strategies for localising, collecting, recycling, and reusing “lost plastics” in urban environments.
Related courses
- Global Sustainability
- Leadership, Ethics, Governance and Sustainability
- Responsible and Sustainable Business
- Corporate Governance and Ethics
- Managing Employment Relations in a Global Context'
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic World
- Criminal Justice and Human Rights
- Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System,
- Green Criminology: environmental crimes and harms
- Global Environmental Justice
- Wildlife Crime: threats and Response
- Crimes of the Powerful: Corporate and Governmental Environmental Harms
- Environmental Activism: policing and legal responses
- International Environmental & Wildlife Law
- Ecological Justice and Climate Change Criminology
- Green Criminology and Wildlife Crime
Staff members
Dr Karen Middleton
Dr Sepehr Abrishami
Professor Diego Vazquez-Brust
Dr Selcuk Can
Dr Rui Yang
Dr Myropi Garri
Professor Yuksel Ekinci
Dr Jana Ries
Dr Emre Cinar
Media ready expert
Professor Victor Becerra
Dr Mahsa Ghaffari
Dr Matthew Anderson
Media ready expert
Professor Chris Simms
Media ready expert
Dr Roza Sagitova
Dr Caroline Cox
Dr Tarek Teba
Professor Leila Choukroune
Media ready expert
Dr Karen McBride
Media ready expert
Professor Pierre Failler
Dr Helen Thompson-Whiteside
Mr Phevos Kallitsis
Dr Judith Fletcher-Brown
Professor Barry Smart
Mr Guido Robazza
Professor Nigel Williams
Dr Julia Brown
Dr Nick Pamment
Professor Lester Hunt
Media ready expert
Dr Cressida Bowyer
Contact us
To speak to us about our research, please email diego.vazquez-brust@port.ac.uk.