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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.

Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland (2023)
Book Chapter
Fonseca, A., Crossan, K., Weaver, M., Tan, H., Bratton, A., & Pershina, E. (2023). Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland. In W. Leal Filho, M. A. Pimenta Dinis, S. Moggi, E. Price, & A. Hope (Eds.), SDGs in the European Region. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91261-1_38-1

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social structure, and ecosystem. Overcoming this situation is only possible when envir... Read More about Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland.

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.

The ‘Boundary Idea’ in Sustainability & Sustainable Development
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Tan, H. (2024, September). The ‘Boundary Idea’ in Sustainability & Sustainable Development. Presented at OR66 Operational Research Conference 2024, Bangor, UK

The grand challenges businesses and society face are complex and messy. These challenges are articulated in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), outlining the economic, social, and environmental goals to be attained by 2030. Th... Read More about The ‘Boundary Idea’ in Sustainability & Sustainable Development.