Associate Professor Michele Rosano

Director

Room Number: 603.221
Phone: +61 8 9266 4240
Fax: +61 8 9266 4811
Email: M.Rosano@curtin.edu.au

Qualifications

PhD (Resource Economics) UWA

Research Interests

• Resource Economics
• Sustainability Management
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Waste Management

Publications

• Climate change and the economics of farm management in the face of land degradation: Dryland salinity in Western Australia".
  Michele John, Ross Kingwell and David Pannell
  Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005) 53:443-459
• "The impact of farm landscape shape on the impact and management of dryland salinity"
  Ross Kingwell and Michele John
  Agricultural Water Management (2007) 89:29-38
• "A review of a community-based approach to combating land degradation: dryland salinity management in Australia".
  Michele John, Ross Kingwell and Michael Robertson
  Environment, Development and Sustainability (2007) 3:27-37
• W. K. Biswas and M.B John, (2009) Review of life cycle assessment research for the Australian Grain Industries. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, Vol 4 No 016.
• "Development of a Sustainability Roadmap for the Kwinana Industrial Area, Western Australia".
  Karin Schianetz and Michele John
  Journal of Cleaner Production (submitted)
• "Global warming contributions from grain, meat and wool production in Victoria, Australia - a Life Cycle Assessment".
  Wahidul Biswas and Michele John
  Journal of Cleaner Production (submitted)
• "A tale of two cities: Comparing waste management in Perth and Stockholm"
  Sarah Mullin, Maria Ljunggren Söderman and Michele John
  Journal of Waste Management (in prep)
• "Air emission reductions - an Industrial symbiosis approach".
  Ferdinand Latunij, Ben Mullins and Michele John.
  Journal of Cleaner Production (in prep)
• "Treatment of Municipal landfill leachate using microalgae.
  Hua, Mullins and John.
  Journal of Cleaner Production ( in prep)

Career Highlights

Assoc Prof Michele Rosano is the Director of the Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG) at Curtin University, Perth Western Australia. She has a PhD in Resource Economics from the University of Western Australia. Michele is a resource economist with particular research interests in life cycle assessment, resource economic modelling and sustainability metrics. Michele has worked internationally in the mining industry in a number of Senior Executive positions in London, Japan and Singapore and as a Lecturer and Researcher in Australia. She is currently leading a number of industrial ecology research projects in industrial by-product re-use, waste management, engineering sustainability education and life cycle assessment.
The SEG was established with the support from Curtin University to promote the uptake of industrial ecology and waste minimisation activities in Western Australia.
The Group is internationally recognised for the industrial symbiosis research it has done in Kwinana Western Australia, and has successfully developed other regional synergies programs including Gladstone, Queensland) and Rustenburg South Africa.
The Group also provides undergraduate and post graduate teaching programs with the MSc Sustainability and MSc Cleaner Production both providing post graduate education in industrial ecology and sustainability management.