Weslynne阿什顿

  • Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability
  • Affiliate Professor to 阿默尔工程学院

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Weslynne阿什顿 is a professor of environmental management and sustainability at Illinois Institute of Technology, with joint appointments at the 斯图尔特商学院 and the 设计院. Dr. Ashton is a sustainable systems scientist, 他的研究, teaching and practice are oriented around transitioning our socio-ecological systems towards sustainability and equity. She studies the adoption of socially and environmentally responsible strategies in business, and the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in addressing social and environmental challenges. Her research is grounded in industrial ecology and the circular economy. Her current work focuses on increasing sustainability and equity in urban food systems, and developing regenerative economies in post-industrial regions, newly industrializing countries and small island states.

2012年至2015年间，她领导了美国经济.S. State Department funded Pathways to Cleaner Production in the Americas project. 这个项目涉及8个国家, interdisciplinary industry-academia partnership focused on education for cleaner production (CP) and its implementation in small and medium enterprises in Latin America. In 2018, she was awarded a Jefferson Science Fellowship 通过美国国家科学院, 工程与医学, and spent the 2018-19 academic year at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She worked with USAID’s Bureau for Europe and Eurasia to analyze, 评估, and lead strategic planning for increasing energy security, 供应的多样性, 效率, and modernization in the region’s transition economies. She returned to 威尼斯人平台 in fall 2019 and is continuing research on the sustainability of urban food systems and industrial networks around Chicago.

在威尼斯人平台之前，博士. Ashton led Yale University’s 工业生态学 in Developing Countries program, where she trained researchers and graduate students in South and Southeast Asia in industrial ecology concepts and methods, holding visiting faculty appointments at TERI University in India and the National University of Singapore. She has previously worked as a business/technical consultant, 环境工程师, 科技企业家. She has a bachelor’s degree in 环境工程师ing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and master’s and doctoral degrees in environmental science from Yale University.

教育

Ph.D.毕业于耶鲁大学环境科学专业
M.S.毕业于耶鲁大学环境科学专业
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Environmental Engineering

研究兴趣

工业生态学
循环经济
Cleaner production and green business strategies
社会企业家精神
Sustainability in small and medium enterprises
Sustainable urban and regional development

从属关系

商科本科课程

工商管理硕士.B.A.)

M.S. in Sustainability Analytics and Management

媒体露面

韦斯利恩·阿什顿教授, 食品系统行动实验室联合主任, Says Awareness and Interest in Local Sourcing Has Increased After Pandemic and Recent Recalls

WTTW

“Our food system is really dependent on these long supply chains,威尼斯人平台的韦斯利恩·阿什顿说, professor of environmental management and sustainability and co-director of the Food Systems Action Lab. “Our food is coming from all over the country and really all over the world, and contamination can happen at any point in that journey. And so there's a real awareness about those contamination possibilities along the supply chain, and it is increasing people’s interest and awareness in more local sourcing.”

Americans Are Still Putting Way Too Much Food Into Landfills, Says 韦斯利恩·阿什顿教授

美联社

“I think it is possible to get zero organic waste into landfills,韦斯利恩·阿什顿说, a professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “But it means that we need an infrastructure to enable that in different locations within cities and more rural regions. It means we need incentives both for households as well as for commercial institutions.”

Sustainability 韦斯利恩·阿什顿教授 Explains How Businesses and Technology Innovators Can Help Reduce Food Waste

MarketScale

“If we think about the whole supply chain, 正确的, 食物被浪费的地方, 它从农场开始, 发生在分销过程中, 在零售, 在商店里, 在餐饮行业, 在家庭中也是如此,韦斯利恩·阿什顿说, professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “So, if we think about that entire supply chain, we can think about the new technologies that are available now around predictive analytics that can help with inventory management for ordering food. Companies can have a better handle on how much they need to order, 时间框架, and what customers are most likely to purchase, using that data to better manage their inventory.”