Sustainable Engineering Group

Our world faces increasing environmental degradation, has finite resources and growing population pressures… and then there is climate change! These challenges require us to move towards a more sustainable model of production and consumption. A model that allows for better balancing of modern economic imperatives and growth with social pressures and the significant liabilities we are facing in terms of environmental degradation. Modern sustainability management needs to now manage the important triple bottom line considerations in decarbonising our economy whilst enhancing our resource efficiency through circular economy principles and reducing the impact of our modern production and consumption activities on the environment.

By applying sustainable systems thinking, industrial ecology principles and life cycle assessment approaches we can reduce the anthropogenic footprint from our economic production and consumption decisions, determine the inherent risks and environmental impacts created and plan for enhanced sustainability outcome through improved sustainability measurement, technology development, organisational management, policy and regulations, and behaviour change. This is what sustainability transformation is about.

The Sustainable Engineering Group at Curtin warmly welcomes PhD students and Research Fellows.

If you are interested in spending some time in research collaboration at SEG, please contact Professor Michele John.

Find out about the Sustainable Engineering Group courses