Dr. Andrea Collins - RCUK Fellow and BRASS Associate

Career Experience and Qualifications

Andrea is a RCUK Fellow at BRASS and the School of City and Regional Planning. She holds a BSc (Hons) (First Class) in Environmental Health and a PhD from the University of Wales.

Since joining BRASS in 2003, Andrea has been involved in a number of research projects including ecological footprinting, sustainable food consumption, sustainable communities, and measuring the environmental impacts of major events.

Research Interests

Ecological footprinting; sustainability decision making; environmental impacts of sport and major events; sustainable communities and public participation. 

Links to BRASS Projects

• Reducing Cardiff’s Ecological Footprint
• Knowledge and Practice in the Ecological Footprint Community
• Measuring the Ecological Footprint of the 2004 FA Cup Final
• Assessing the environmental and economic impact of the 2006 RBS Rugby Six Nations Championships
• Developing an Evaluative Framework to Assess and Measure the impacts and benefits of hosting major events

Selected Outputs

Measuring the Environmental Sustainability of a Major Sporting Event: A Case Study of the FA Cup Final
Collins A and Flynn A

Engaging with the Ecological Footprint as a Decision Making Tool: Process and Responses
Collins A and Flynn A

Assessing the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003/04 FA Cup Final
Collins A, Flynn A, Munday M and Roberts A

Sustainable food consumption at a sub-national level: an ecological footprint, nutritional and economic analysis
Collins A and Fairchild R

The Environmental Impacts of Consumption at a Subnational level: The Ecological Footprint of Cardiff
Collins A, Flynn A, Wiedmann T and Barrett J

Publications

Collins, A. and Fairchild, F. (2011) Serving up Healthy and Sustainable School meals? An Analysis of School meal Provision in Cardiff (UK), Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, iFirst, 1-21.

Collins, A., Cowell, R. and Flynn, A.(2009) Evaluation and environmental governance: the institutionalisation of ecological footprinting, Environment and Planning A, vol. 41, 1707-1725, ISSN 0308-518X.

Collins A and Flynn A (2005) A New Perspective on the Environmental Impacts of Planning: a case study of Cardiff’s International Sports Village, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 7 (4), pp277-302.

Collins A (2004) Can we learn to live differently? Lessons from Going for Green, International Journal of Consumer Studies (Special Issue: Empowering the Consumer in the 21st Century), 28 (2), pp202-211.

Reports:

Collins A, Flynn A and Netherwood A (2005) Reducing Cardiff’s Ecological Footprint: A Resource Accounting Tool for Sustainable Consumption (Technical Report) (WWF Cymru, Cardiff).

Collins A, Flynn A and Netherwood A (2005) Reducing Cardiff’s Ecological Footprint (Summary Report) (Cardiff Council, Cardiff).

Working Papers:

Newton J, Marsden T, Franklin A and Collins A (2008) Supporting Skills and Knowledge to Deliver Sustainable Communities: An Exploration of the Conceptual and Policy Content. BRASS Working Paper Series Number 45.

Collins A and Flynn A (2004) Measuring sustainability: the role of ecological footprinting in Wales, UK. BRASS Working Paper Series, No. 22 (BRASS, Cardiff University).

Practitioner Journals:

Collins A and Flynn A ‘Final Impact’ Viewpoint Feature, Stadia Magazine, Issue 35, pp 56-58 (July, 2005).

Book Chapters:

Collins A (2008) Promoting sustainable communities in the UK: a critical analysis of the ‘Going for Green’ sustainable communities project’ (pp121-142) in: T Marsden (Ed) (2008) Sustainable Communities: New Spaces for Planning, Participation and Engagement (Greenleaf Publishing).

Collins A and Flynn A (2008) ‘Measuring Sustainability: The Role of Ecological Footprinting in Assessing the Impact of Development’ (pp131-144) in: L C Heberle and S M Opp (Eds) (2008) Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalised World (Hampshire, Ashgate Publishing Ltd).

Collins A and Flynn A (2006) ‘A City’s Consumption: the Ecological Footprint of Cardiff’ in: A Hooper and J Punter (eds) Capital Cardiff 1975-2020: Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment (University of Wales Press, Cardiff).

Conference Papers:

Collins A, Putting the Earth into Play: The Olympic Games and the Environment, Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Boston (15-19 April 2008).

Collins A and Roberts A ‘Assessing the Environmental Impact of Major Sporting Events: The ecological footprint of the Rugby Six Nations and FA Cup Final’. Welsh Economic Research Unit Conference ‘Sport, Society and Environment: Tracing the Links’, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff (24 May, 2007).

Collins A and Fairchild R, ‘Jamie Oliver’s School Dinners campaign: An analysis of the nutritional and environmental impacts’. International Ecological Footprint Conference ‘Stepping Up the Pace: New Developments in Ecological Footprint Methodology, Policy and Practice’, Cardiff, UK (8-10 May, 2007).

Collins A, Roberts A and Munday M, ‘Comparing the economic and environmental impacts of major sporting events: the RBS Rugby Six Nations and FA Cup Final’. International Ecological Footprint Conference ‘Stepping Up the Pace: New Developments in Ecological Footprint Methodology, Policy and Practice’, Cardiff, UK (8-10 May, 2007).

Collins A, ‘Competing for the Planet: world-class cities, the Olympics and the environment’. Paper presented at the 7^th UPEA Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (3-5 January, 2007).

Collins A, ‘Modelling the Environmental Sustainability of a Major Sporting Event: The 2006 Wales v Scotland Rugby Six Nations International’. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006 ‘Global social justice and environmental sustainability’, London (30 August-1 September, 2006).

Collins A,’ Measuring the Environmental Impacts of a Major Sporting Event: A Rugby Six Nations International’. The RSAI: British and Irish Section 36^th Annual Conference, The Royal Hotel, Jersey, Channel Islands (16-18 August, 2006).

Collins A, ‘Ecological Footprinting in UK Local Government: Closing the ‘science-policy gap’. 12^th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Hong Kong (6-8 April, 2006).

Collins A and Flynn A, ‘Engaging with the Ecological Footprint as a Decision Making Tool: Process and Responses’. Second Annual International Sustainable Development Conference and Exhibition ‘Sustainability-Creating the Culture’, Aberdeen (2-4 November, 2005).

Collins A and Flynn A, ‘Modelling the Environmental Sustainability of Major Sporting Events: An Ecological Footprint of the FA Cup Final’. 2^nd International Conference on Tourism Economics ‘Tourism Modelling and Competitiveness: Implications for Policy and Strategic Planning’, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (24-26 October, 2005).

Collins A and Flynn A, ‘Geographies of waste: the case of ecological footprinting’. RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2005 ‘Flows and spaces in a globalised world’, Royal Geographical Society, London (31 August-2 September, 2005).

Collins A and Flynn A, ‘The Environmental Cost of Sports Tourism’. RGS- IBG Annual Conference 2005 ‘Flows and spaces in a globalised world’, Royal Geographical Society, London (31 August-2 September, 2005).

Collins A, Flynn A, Munday M and Roberts A, ‘Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003/04 FA Cup Final’. Theoretical Advances in Tourism Economics Conference, University of Évora, Portugal (18-19 March, 2005).

Collins A and Flynn A, ‘Measuring Sustainability: the role of ecological footprinting in Wales, UK’. 6^th International Urban Planning and Environment Association (IUPEA) Global Pressure on Local Autonomy: Challenges to Urban Planning for Sustainability and Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA (4-8 September, 2004).

Barrett J, Collins A, Farrar J, Flynn A, Nason J, Netherwood A and Wiedmann T, ‘Material flows in a small country’. Footprinting Wales. ERP International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Manchester (29-30 March, 2004).

Flynn A, Collins A and Netherwood A, ‘Ecological Footprinting and Regional Sustainable development’. RegioNet Conference on Regional Sustainable Development, Brussels (14-16 January, 2004).

Collins A, ‘Can we learn to live differently? Lessons from Going for Green’. International Consumer Science Conference ‘Empowering the Consumer in the 21^st century’, Cardiff (July 2003).

Collins A, ‘Making Progress Towards Sustainable development: the value of Community Evaluations’. UK Evaluation Society Conference. South Bank Centre, London (December, 2002).

Collins A (1997) ‘Local Environmental Concerns and the Brundtland Challenge’. European Environment Conference, Environmental Policies in Europe: Towards Sustainability, ERP Environment, Leeds University, Leeds (September, 1997).

Seminars:

Collins A, ‘Measuring the Environmental Consequences of The Grand Depart 2007’, NERC-ESRC Seminar Series , Sustaining Future Ecosystem services. From Understanding to Action' University of Bath, International Centre for the Environment (23 September, 2008).

Collins A and Roberts A, ‘The BRASS Journey: Assessing the impact of UK events’, ESRC Seminar Series on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Forecast and scenarios for a more sustainable society. The Brit Oval Stadium, London (1 July, 2008).

Collins A and Munday M, ‘Major Sport Events: Evaluating their Impact’, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (9 March, 2007).

Collins A, ‘Major Sporting Events: Competing on an Environmental Stage’. Norwegian University of Technology (22 May, 2007).              

Collins A, ‘Staging Sustainable Events: The contribution of the ecological footprint’, RMIT University, Melbourne (26 November, 2007).              

Collins A and Roberts A, ‘Measuring the Ecological Footprint of Major Sporting Events in Cardiff’, ESRC Social Science Week 2006 Progress Towards Sustainability: Hard to Manage, Hard to Measure?. BRASS, Cardiff University (13 March, 2006).

Collins A and Fairchild R, ‘Does a healthy diet have environmental consequences? A case study of Cardiff’s ecological footprint’, Measuring Sustainability in the Food Supply Chain. BRASS, Cardiff University (27 October, 2005).

Collins A and Flynn A, ‘The Ecological Footprint and the FA Cup Final’, SPRU-CENTRIM Freeman Centre Seminar Sussex University, Brighton (6 May 2005).

Media and Broadcast

• Collins A and Flynn A ‘Final Impact’ Viewpoint Feature, Stadia Magazine, Issue 35, pp56-58 (July, 2005).
• BBC Wales Today, BBC Wales (14 April, 2005).       
• Good Morning Wales, BBC Radio Wales (14 April 2005).        
• ‘Measuring our environmental impact’, You and Yours Programme BBC Radio 4 (6-May, 2005). To listen to this broadcast click here    
• Costing the Earth 'Come on you Greens' BBC Radio 4 (26 April 2007). To listen to this broadcast click here
• Wales Today, BBC Wales (9 February, 2007)
• 'Good Morning Wales' BBC Radio Wales (9 February, 2007)
• Five Live Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 (12 February, 2007)        

Awards and Prizes

International Research Collaboration Travel Award 2006/07 (Visiting Scholar at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia) (November 2007).

Memberships/External Activities

• Member, Recalculating Wales’ Ecological Footprint Steering Committee (2007-2008)
• Member, London 2012 Carbon Management Strategy Technical Advisory Group (2008-current)

Conferences Organised

International Ecological Footprint Conference, ‘Stepping up the Pace: New Developments in Ecological Footprint Methodology, Policy and Practice’. Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff (8-10 May 2007)

Teaching

Andrea teaches on the following modules at the School of City and Regional Planning:

• Environmental Policy and Planning (BSc 2)
• Sustainability in Practice (MSc SPEP)
• Live Project (MSc SPEP, PPR, RS, IPD, T&P)