All Outputs (5)

WHAT'S HOT AT NAPIER-VSB? Initiating the Systems Thinking Lab for Sustainable Solutions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M., Pokorna, K., & Chipulu, M. (2025, May). WHAT'S HOT AT NAPIER-VSB? Initiating the Systems Thinking Lab for Sustainable Solutions. Presented at U!REKA Connects, Helsinki, Finland

The Centre for Business Innovation and Sustainable Solutions (CBISS) at Edinburgh Napier and the Bulk Solid Research Team at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, VSB-TUO, are founding the Systems Thinking for Sustainability Lab. To deepen our combined... Read More about WHAT'S HOT AT NAPIER-VSB? Initiating the Systems Thinking Lab for Sustainable Solutions.

Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pokorna, K., Weaver, M., & Chipulu, M. (2025, May). Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy. Presented at U!REKA Connects 2025, Helsinki, Finland

Systems thinking is essential for addressing sustainability challenges and promoting sustainable development. While management approaches like Doughnut Economics and Circular Economy are rooted in systems thinking, research in this area is limited. S... Read More about Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy.

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Shifting to a Higher Level of Systems Consciousness (2025)
Journal Article
Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., Tan, H., & Pokorna, K. (online). Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Shifting to a Higher Level of Systems Consciousness. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2025.2486698

The grand challenges encapsulated in the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030, are complex, messy and interconnected. Fulfilling these goals necessitates a shift in mindset from ego-to-ecosystems awareness and an imperati... Read More about Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Shifting to a Higher Level of Systems Consciousness.

Practising Systemic Sustainability for the Circular Economy Concept (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M., Pokorna, K., Osowska, R., Chipulu, M., Fonseca, A., & Tan, H. (2025, June). Practising Systemic Sustainability for the Circular Economy Concept. Presented at 34th European Conference on Operational Research 2025, Leeds, UK

Systems thinking is essential for addressing sustainability challenges & promoting sustainable development. While management approaches like Doughnut Economics & the Circular Economy are rooted in systems thinking, research in this area is limited. C... Read More about Practising Systemic Sustainability for the Circular Economy Concept.

Circularity as a Systems Concept
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pokorna, K., Weaver, M., & Chipulu, M. (2024, September). Circularity as a Systems Concept. Paper presented at OR66 The Operational Research Conference, Bangor, UK

A critical management challenge is the move to circular design thinking. Moving away from the “take-make-consume-dispose” linear model of resource consumption (Rasi et al., 2023) to systems that are regenerative and restorative. This is necessary to... Read More about Circularity as a Systems Concept.