Dr Walter Wehrmeyer
Reader
Qualifications: MA PhD MIEMgt FRSA CEnv
Email: w.wehrmeyer@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9075
Room no: 18 AZ 04
Further information
Biography
Walter joined CES in 1998 as the BG Surrey Scholar, focusing on contaminated land and ways in which current processes towards recycling land can be improved, in terms of both the speed of recycling as well as the quality of the site remediation. Before that he was at the University of Kent, jointly appointed between the School of Biological Sciences and the (now) Kent Business School, working on environmental perf measures and management systems.
Research Interests
His past research interests include self-organisation as a viable method to understand corporate environmental behaviour, organisational behaviour towards sustainability and sustainability indicators, especially for the regeneration of brownfield sites. His current interest cover organisational approaches to innovation and sustainable development, participatory approaches to decision-making, and corporate social responsibility, in particular, the role of culture and ethics in defining and forming business strategies.
Research Collaborations
He is actively involved with research and teaching collaborations with Universities in Germany, Hungary, Australia and Lithuania, but has been working with many more in the past. Industry-based collaboration involved, amongst many more, Unilever, Shell, Airbus UK, GSK.
He is also editor of Greener Management International, sits on the Editorial Board of Environment, Development and Sustainability, and is Co-editor, Case Studies of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Publications
Highlights
- . (2010) 'Decomposition analysis and mitigation strategies of CO2 emissions from energy consumption in South Korea'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD ENERGY POLICY, 38 (1), pp. 364-377.
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(2008) 'How warm is the corporate responses to climate change? Evidence from Pakistan and the UK'. Wiley Business Strategy and the Environment, 17 (1), pp. 46-60.doi: 10.1002/bse.569
- . (2006) 'Sustainability evaluation for brownfield redevelopment'. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability, 159 (1), pp. 3-10.
Journal articles
- . (2012) 'Energy consumption and attitudes for the promotion of sustainability in buildings: The case of hotels'. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 6 (2), pp. 213-227.
- . (2010) 'Sustainable development management systems in global business organizations'. Management Research Review, 33 (11), pp. 1083-1096.
- . (2010) 'The impact of regulation and policy on radical eco-innovation: The need for a new understanding'. Management Research Review, 33 (11), pp. 1022-1041.
- . (2010) 'Decomposition analysis and mitigation strategies of CO2 emissions from energy consumption in South Korea'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD ENERGY POLICY, 38 (1), pp. 364-377.
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(2008) 'How warm is the corporate responses to climate change? Evidence from Pakistan and the UK'. Wiley Business Strategy and the Environment, 17 (1), pp. 46-60.doi: 10.1002/bse.569
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(2007) 'A comparison of environmental visions of university students in Israel and Palestine'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD FUTURES, 39 (6), pp. 685-703.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7197/
- . (2007) 'Industrial constructions of publics and public knowledge: a qualitative investigation of practice in the UK chemicals industry'. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE, 16 (1), pp. 23-43.
- . (2006) 'Sustainability evaluation for brownfield redevelopment'. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability, 159 (1), pp. 3-10.
- . (2006) 'The role and effectiveness of continuing education training courses offered by higher education institutions in furthering the implementation of sustainable development'. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 7 (2), pp. 129-141.
- . (2006) 'Greener Management International: Editorial'. Greener Management International, (54), pp. 3-4.
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(2006) 'Scenario development for 2050 for the Israeli/Palestinian water sector'. KLUWER ACADEMIC-HUMAN SCIENCES PRESS POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT, 27 (3), pp. 245-261.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7203/
- . (2001) 'Acute Chemical Incidents Involving Fuel: Developing Best Practice Guidance'. Public Health Medicine, (3)
Conference papers
- . (2011) 'Environmental attitudes and energy initiatives within the greek hotel sector'. Sustainability in Energy and Buildings - Results of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB'10, Brighton: 2nd International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB'10, pp. 225-235.
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(2006) 'Evaluating brownfield redevelopment projects: a review of existing sustainability indicator tools and their adoption by the UK development industry'. WIT PRESS/COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS PUBLICATIONS Brownfield Sites III: Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites, Tallinn, ESTONIA: 3rd International Conference on Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites 94, pp. 51-60.doi: 10.2495/BF060061
- . (2005) 'Brownfield redevelopment, integrating sustainability and risk management'. WIT PRESS Environmental Health Risk III, Bologna, ITALY: 3rd International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health 9, pp. 21-30.
Teaching
He is teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level several modules pertinent to his research interest. In addition to providing lectures and seminars on other modules, full modules include:
Postgraduate:
- Environmental Auditing and Environmental Management Systems
- Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility
- Environmental Management Strategy (at Curtin graduate Business School’s MBA programme)
Undergraduate:
- Corporate Sustainability (Chemical Engineering and Technology Entrepreneurship degree)
- Modelling and Management (Technology Entrepreneurship degree)
Departmental Duties
He is Director of the Technology Entrepreneurship BSc and the MSc Sustainability Management.
