70 results

Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Matouq, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Weaver, M. (2024)
Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean. In W. Leal Filho, G. Nagy, & D. Ayal (Eds.), Handbook of Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98067-2_85-1
Despite the current technological advancement in agriculture to improve the production capacity and livelihood of the estimated 608 million smallholder family farmers across t...

Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023)
Agroecology as Catalyst for Smallholder Farming Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Caribbean Region. In W. L. Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (405-427). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_112
Agriculture production emits approximately 29% of greenhouse gases, contributing to climatic changes. These changes increase pests and disease outbreaks according to the frequ...

Undertaking supply chain management research: philosophy and practice

Book Chapter
Nunes, B., Bennett, D., & Weaver, M. (2022)
Undertaking supply chain management research: philosophy and practice. In S. Childe, & A. Soares (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management (71-85). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis

Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M. (2022, September)
Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis. Presented at OR64: OR For a Better World Together, University of Warwick
Each year we pose a “grand challenge” to provide an opportunity to identify how OR can be used to help solve real-world issues in our host city region, the UK and beyond. We h...

The Build for Purpose Canvas

Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M., Fonseca, A., Tan, H., & Pershina, E. (2022, September)
The Build for Purpose Canvas. Paper presented at OR64 The Annual Operational Research Conference, University of Warwick
The paper proposes the “Build for Purpose Canvas” (B4PC) to help organisations to put purpose at the heart of their business, build meaningful relationships with communities a...

Integrating lean concepts in smallholder farming to catalyze sustainable agriculture for food security in Trinidad, WI

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Broatch, R., & St. Martin, C. (2022)
Integrating lean concepts in smallholder farming to catalyze sustainable agriculture for food security in Trinidad, WI. In W. Leal Filho, E. Popkova, & M. Kovaleva (Eds.), Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (283-309). Cham: Springer
The development for sustainable smallholder farming is not a transparent and replicable procedure because the agricultural sector focuses primarily on productivity with minimu...

Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland

Book Chapter
Fonseca, A., Crossan, K., Weaver, M., Tan, H., Bratton, A., & Pershina, E. (in press)
Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland. In W. Leal Filho (Ed.), SDGs in the European Region. Springer
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social stru...

The Applicability of Autopoietic Cybernetics in Humanitarian Supply Chain Thinking

Conference Proceeding
Duddy, D., Weaver, M., & Stantchev, D. (in press)
The Applicability of Autopoietic Cybernetics in Humanitarian Supply Chain Thinking. In Logistics Research Network Conference 2022: Supply Chain Innovation; People, Process, Technology

Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland

Conference Proceeding
Fonseca, A. P., Crossan, K., Hock, T., Bratton, A., & Weaver, M. (2021)
Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland. In ISBE Conference Papers
The United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social stru...

Integrated soil and water management on smallholder family-farms in building resilience to hydrometeorological hazards in Trinidad

Conference Proceeding
Roop, R., St. Martin, C. C., & Weaver, M. (2021)
Integrated soil and water management on smallholder family-farms in building resilience to hydrometeorological hazards in Trinidad. In Caribbean Science Symposium on Water: Building Resilience in the Regional Water Sector to Address Climatological and Hydrological Risks and Threats
Hydrometeorological hazards (droughts, floods, and heatwaves) threaten the life and livelihoods of the most vulnerable people worldwide, including the 500 million smallholder ...
9 results

A Critical Evaluation of Information Sharing and Digitalization of Supply Chain: A context of Nigeria

2020 - date
Mr Olusegun Akintola | Director of Studies: Dr Eoin Plant | Second Supervisor: Dr Miles Weaver

Mind the gap: Public equity as a financing solution for medium-sized enterprises and the influence of national culture

2017 - 2021
Lisa Koch | Director of Studies: Dr Kenny Crossan | Second Supervisor: Dr Piotr Jaworski

Outside-In Thinking: Retail & Fashion Industry Perspectives on Sustainable, Circular Economy, its Benefits and Challenges

2017 - 2023
The interpretive approach develops an understanding on the particularity and co...
Carina Legl | Director of Studies: Dr Miles Weaver | Second Supervisor: Dr John Thomson

How autopoietic cybernetics can contribute to humanitarian supply network operations

2016 - date
David Duddy | Director of Studies: Dr Miles Weaver | Second Supervisor: Dr Damian Stantchev

Understanding perceived risks in a lean company for supply chain risk mitigation in the automotive sector in China

2013 - 2019
Yuliang Hui | Director of Studies: George Stonehouse | Second Supervisor: Dr Janice McMillan

Establishing a framework for partnerships between third sector and SME business in Scotland

2013 - 2022
Elena Pershina | Director of Studies: Dr Kenny Crossan | Second Supervisor: Dr Miles Weaver

An exploration of strategic planning and stakeholder engagement for the development of heritage sites in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2012 - 2017
Carrie Bruehlmann | Director of Studies: Dr Ahmed Hassanien | Second Supervisor: Dr Miles Weaver

Critical factors in the implementation of public sector transactional shared services

2011 - 2016
Murdoch Macleod | Director of Studies: Prof Richard Whitecross | Second Supervisor: Dr Miles Weaver

Exploring the role of the stakeholder in fast-moving consumer goods cross-sector collaborations: a phenomenological study

2010 - 2016
David Axon | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Miles Weaver

Date