Agile Centre For Equitable Sustainability

The Centre for Equitable Sustainability at the С��Ƶ 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

Publication highlights

2025

Cinar, E., Prodius, O., Sokoly, I., Ozcan, S., Guenduez, A. A.

20 Sep 2025, In: Research Policy. 54, 10, 22p., 105322

Research output: Article

Japutra, A., Can, A. S., Alphun, C.

1 Sep 2025, In: Journal of Travel Research. 64, 7, p. 1537-1555

Research output: Article

James, T. J., Mayes, H., Alnajjar, M., Newell, Y., Kohlert, E., Shute, J., Perissiou, M., Corbett, J., Costello, J. T., Neupert, E., Moore, J. M., Morgan, P. T., Simms, C., Saynor, Z. L., Shepherd, A. I.

15 May 2025, In: The Journal of Nutritional Physiology. 1, 11p., 100003

Research output: Article

Kesgin, M., Can, A. S., Ding, L., Legg, M., Schuler, D.

1 Apr 2025, In: International Journal of Hospitality Management. 126, 13p., 104037

Research output: Article

Ozer, M., Can, A. S., Ekinci, Y., Özer, A.

21 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Travel Research

Research output: Article

Active Research Projects

Abrishami, S., Cinar, E., Ghaffari, M., Simms, C., Vazquez-Brust, D.

31/03/2025 → 31/03/2026

Cinar, E., Fairchild, N., Hadleigh-Dunn, S., Simms, C., Tait, A., Williams, N.

01/12/2024 → 30/11/2027

Alberti, F., Bailey-Ross, C., Cox, J., McBride, K.

04/09/2023 → 04/09/2026

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.