Research Profile
Dr Andrea Collins
Papers published:
Collins A, Munday M and Roberts A (forthcoming) ‘Environmental Consequences of Tourism Consumption at Major Events: An Analysis of the UK Stages of the Tour de France’, Journal of Travel Research.
Fairchild R and Collins A and (2011) Serving up Sustainable and Healthy School Meals: an analysis of school meal provision in Cardiff, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 13 (3), pp209-229.
Collins A, Jones C and Munday M (2009) ‘Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Mega Sporting Events: Two Options?’ Tourism Management (30), pp828-837
Collins A, Cowell R and Flynn A (2009) Evaluation and environmental governance: the institutionalisation of ecological footprinting, Environment and Planning A, 41 (7), pp1525-1777.
Collins A, Jones C and Munday M (2009) ‘Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Mega Sporting Events: Two Options?’ Tourism Management, (30), pp828-837.
Peattie K and Collins A (2009), Guest editorial: perspectives on sustainable consumption, International Journal of Consumer Studies, Special Issue on Sustainable Consumption, 33 (2), pp107-233.
Collins A and Flynn A (2008) Measuring the Environmental Sustainability of a Major Sporting Event: A case study of the FA Cup Final, Tourism Economics, 14 (4), pp751-768.
Collins A and Flynn A (2007) Engaging with the Ecological Footprint as a Decision Making Tool: Process and Responses, Local Environment, 12 (3), pp1-18.
Collins A, Flynn A, Munday M and Roberts A (2007) Assessing the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003/04 FA Cup Final, Urban Studies, 44 (3), pp1-20.
Collins A and Fairchild R (2007) Sustainable food consumption at a sub-national level: an ecological footprint, nutritional and economic analysis, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (Special Issue: Sustainable Food Supply Chains), 9 (10), pp5-30.
Collins A, Flynn A, Wiedmann T and Barrett J (2006) The Environmental Impacts of Consumption at a Subnational level: The Ecological Footprint of Cardiff, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 10 (3), pp1-16.
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:
Collins A and Flynn A (2012) Building a network for the Ecological Footprint Community. BRASS Working Paper Series, No. 66 (BRASS, Cardiff University).
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 (BRASS, Cardiff University).
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 ‘Assessing the Impact of Major Events: a case study of the 2007 Tour de France Grande Depart’. Presented at A Two Day Think Tank conference on ‘Event Impacts, Leverage, and legacy’, organised by the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability, November 2011.
Collins A ‘Engaging with the Ecological Footprint Indicator: A comparison of experiences in the UK and Australia’. Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference Seattle (Canada), 12-16 April, 2011.
Collins A and Flynn A ‘The ecological footprint community: Future challenges for networking and engagement’. Presented at the Regional Studies Association (Winter Conference), November, 2010.
Collins A, Munday M and Roberts A. The Economic and Environmental Impacts of the UK Stages of the 2007 Tour de France. Presented at the Regional Science Association BIS Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK 25-27 August 2010.
Collins A and Flynn A. Building a network for the Ecological Footprint Community. Presented at The Global Footprint Network 2010 Footprint Forum ‘State of the art in Ecological Footprint theory and applications’, University of Siena, Colle de Val d’Elsa, Ital, 7-11 June, 2010.
Collins A, Munday M and Roberts A. Footprint perspective on discrete activity: An application of the UK round of the 2007 Tour de France. Presented at the RSA/ESRC workshop on methods for regional carbon and waste accounting: Perspectives from Scotland and Wales. Cardiff, UK, 11 May, 2010
Collins A. The Environmental Cost of Sports Tourism: A Case of the Tour de France Le Grande Depart 2007. International Conference on Sport and Society University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 8-10 March 2010.
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 7th 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 36th 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’. 12th 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’. 2nd 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’. 6th 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 21st 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).