Personal Profiles
Dr Lauren Basson
BSc (Chem Eng) MSc (Chem Eng) PhD
Lecturer
Short Biography:
Lauren Basson joined CES in March 2006. She holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia (awarded in 2004). Prior to commencing with the PhD, Lauren worked as an environmental process engineer in an environmental consulting firm in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she consulted principally to the mining and minerals processing industries. During her PhD studies and subsequently she consulted extensively to the South African electrical utility (Eskom) on a range of projects including the selection of cleaner technologies for coal-based power generation, the screening of greenhouse gas reduction projects for the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol and the incorporation of sustainability considerations into the performance evaluation of senior management.
Research Interests:
Lauren Basson's research focuses on developing approaches to support corporate and public policy decision making for Sustainable Development. These efforts are guided by Industrial Ecology principles and involve, among other, the integrated application of approaches such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), economic and social value chain analysis (VCA), multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), systems dynamics and agent-based modelling (ABM) to analyse and simulate complex socio-technical systems and explore the effects of policies and strategies aimed at their transformation towards Sustainability.
Engineering Doctorate Projects
Ms Helen Amos:
Incorporation of Quality of Life in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Budget Allocation for the National Measurement System
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
Mr David Cobbledick:
Multiple Criteria Decision Support for Industrial Symbiosis Development
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), Birmingham
Mr Paul Jensen:
Incorporating Industrial Symbiosis into Regional Resource Planning
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), Yorkshire and Humber Region
Mr Neil Weston:
Identifying More Sustainable Technological Solutions for the Oil Refining Industry
Chevron/Texaco, Pembroke Refiniery
PhD Projects
Mr Phil Holmes:
Carbon Accounting for Oil Refineries (provisional title)
Ms Jingheng Zhang:
Systems Analysis for Clean Coal Technologies (provisional title)
Ms Yuzhu Zhang:
Clean Development Mechanism in China: Legislative and Institutional Aspects
(provisional title)
Teaching:
Postgraduate
- Life Cycle Approaches Module (2006 - ongoing) (Module Convenor)
Postgraduate Certificate in Life Cycle Management (2006-2007) (Module Convenor) - Value Chain Analysis Course for the EU Marie Curie Postgraduate School of Industrial Ecology (2007) (Module Convenor)
- Sustainable Engineering/Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2006 - ongoing):
- (i) Life Cycle Thinking and Dematerialisation
- (ii) Sustainable Cities
- Corporate Sustainability (2006 - ongoing)
- (i) Life Cycle Thinking and Life Cycle Assessment
- (ii) Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis
- (iii) Value Chain Analysis
Other:
Professional Institutions:
Member of
- Institution of Chemical Engineers (Affiliate)
- International Society of Industrial Ecology
Journal Co-Editor
- Co-editor of Special Issue on Complexity and Industrial Ecology, Journal of Industrial Ecology. Publication Date: Summer 2009
Conference Organisation
- Assistant Organiser of Expert Workshop on Land Use Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Guildford, 12-13 June 2006
- Co-Organiser of International Workshop on Complexity and Industrial Ecology, Toronto, Canada, 21 June 2007
Member of Technical Committee, 4th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Cape Town, 6-9 September 2009
Selected Publication/Conference Presentations:
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
- Weston, N., Clift, R., Basson, L., Pouton, A. and White, N. (2008). "Assessment of Cleaner Process Options: A Case Study from Petroleum Refining". The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, accepted for publication
- Basson, L. and Petrie, J. G (2007). "A Critical Systems Approach to Decision Support for Process Engineering". Computers and Chemical Engineering, 31, 876-888
- Basson, L. and Petrie, J. G (2007). "An Integrated Approach for the Management of Uncertainty in Decision Making Supported by LCA-Based Environmental Performance Information". Environmental Modelling and Software, Special Issue on Environmental Decision Support Systems, 22, 167-176
- Milà i Canals L.; Cowell, S.J., Sim. S., Basson L (2007) "Comparing Domestic versus Imported Apples: A Focus on Energy Use." Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 14 (5) 338 - 344 (2007)
- Heinrich, G., Howells, M., Basson, L and Petrie, J.G. (2007) "Electricity Supply Industry Modelling For Multiple Objectives Under Demand Growth Uncertainty", Energy, 32 (11), 2210-2229
- Heinrich, G., Basson, L, Cohen, B. Petrie, J.G. and Howells, M. (2007). "Ranking Power Expansion Alternatives for Multiple Objectives under Uncertainty". Energy, 32 (12), 2350-2369
- Stewart, M., Basson, L. and Petrie, J. G. (2003). "Evolutionary Design for Environment in Minerals Processing." Trans IChemE (Part B): Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 81(5), 341-351.
- Seppälä, J., Basson, L. and Norris, G. A. (2001). "Decision Analysis Frameworks for Life-Cycle Impact Assessment." Journal of Industrial Ecology, 5(4), 45-68.
- Kempener, R., Cohen, B., Basson, L. and Petrie, J.G. (in press). "A Framework for Analysis of Industrial Networks" in M. Ruth and B. Davidsdottir (eds .), The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, England.
- Petrie, J. G., Basson, L., Notten, P. J. and Stewart, M. (2004). "Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: The Case of Power Generation in South Africa." Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists. A. Azapagic, R. Clift and S. Perdan, Eds. John Wiley, London
- Milà i Canals L, Clift R, Basson L, Hansen Y, Brandão M (2006) Expert Workshop on Land Use Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). 12-13 June 2006 Guildford, Surrey (UK). The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 11(5) 363-368
- Basson, L. and G.J.P. Dijkema (2007). "Complexity: the Holy Grail for Industrial Ecology", 4th Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference, 17- 20 June 2007, Toronto, Canada
- Basson, L. and Petrie, J.G. (2006). "The Complimentary Use of Value Function and Outranking Methods to Screen Projects for the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol". 21st European Conference on Operational Research, 2-5 July 2006, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Basson, L. and Petrie, J.G. (2006). "An Integrated Approach for the Consideration of Uncertainty in Multiple Attribute Decision Analysis and its Demonstration for Value Function Methods", 18th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, 19-23 June 2006, Chania, Greece
- Basson, L. and Petrie, J.G. (2006). "Indifference and Indistinguishability - Implications for Preference Modelling and Management of Uncertainty in MCDA". 18th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, 19-23 June 2006, Chania, Greece
Contact Details
| l.basson@surrey.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +44 (0)1483 686680 |
| Fax | +44 (0)1483 686671 |
| Room | 20 AZ 04 |
| Postal Address | Centre for Environmental Strategy Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences University of Surrey (D3) GU2 7XH United Kingdom |