Jutta Gutberlet is a full professor in Geography, the acting chair of Global Development Studies and affiliated faculty member of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria (UVic), Canada. She is an award-winning community engaged scholar and leads the Community-Based Research Laboratory. In research and practice her work focuses on intersectional and interdisciplinary themes related to waste and sustainability in a broad global context. She is interested in everyday livelihoods and development issues, related to waste governance particularly in the global South. She brings an overlapping socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental perspective and a participatory action-oriented approach to research that seeks to promote local livelihoods and a healthy global environment. Her research involves local participants which allows disenfranchised communities and individuals to use their agency to achieve greater social and environmental justice. Currently, she is engaging in the creation of a university for and with waste pickers, in Brazil (UNICATA).
Professor of Applied Environmental Science and Associate Dean (Enterprise) in the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, UK. He has an established track record in the field of environmental pollution and waste management. His work at Southampton has focused on pollution, waste- and carbon-related issues. Ian has published extensively in books and peer-reviewed journals as well as producing over 100 commercial project reports. He has a long track record of holding positions as an External Examiner for taught and research degrees, service on external bodies, sitting on the scientific and organizing committees of several international conferences, working on national and international task groups. Ian has received a number of awards for his research activities, including: the International Solid Waste Association Publication Award in 2016 and 2017, the Institution of Civil Engineers Baker Medal in 2010 and awards from the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (Waste Regulation Award 2010, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15; James Jackson Award 2006, 2015/16, 2016/17; J.C. Dawes Award 2016).
Raffaello Cossu, retired in 2018, is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Padova (IT). He is Chairman of "Sardinia" International Symposia on Waste Management and Sustainable Landfilling, and “Venice” International Symposia on Biomass and Waste to Energy. He carried out intensive scientific research on landfilling and designed more than 20 landfills in Italy and abroad. President of IWWG (International Waste Working Group) from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017 he was Editor in Chief of Waste Management, the international scientific journal published by Elsevier. Since 2018 he is Editor in Chief of DETRITUS, the new IWWG multidisciplinary journal for Waste Resources and Residues. In 2017 he was recipient of the IWWG "A Life for Waste" Award. He has given a series of talks and presentations in conferences on Waste Management and Landfilling throughout the world. He has authored more than 200 articles and conference papers and co-edited five international books on waste management and landfilling technology, published by Academic Press, Elsevier, EF and Spon.
