Senior Scientist in
Sustainable Development
Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
Energy, Environment and Resources Center
University of Tennessee
311 Conference Center
Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
Phone: 865-974-3379
Fax: 865-974-1838
dhuising@utk.edu
Selected Publications:
Donald Huisingh, The Environmental Pressure
Indices: Factors to Consider in Designing and Utilizing Them so that EU
Societies Make Progress Toward Sustainability, report commissioned by
the Environmental Department of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium,
2001.
Donald Huisingh, Cleaner Production Program
and Institutional Action Plan for Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand,
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Pollution Control
Department with support from the Asian Development Bank, 1998.
M. Jorgensen, S. Poyry, Donald Huisingh, M.
Borup, and A. Leskinen, eds., Inventory on Cleaner Production Education
and Training, published by UNEP/UETP_EEE/IACEE/TEK/DTU, 1997.
Donald Huisingh, Overview of Activities and
Initiatives on Cleaner Production and Waste Minimization & Suggestions
of How Those Responsible for Implementing the Basel Convention May
Synergistically Work with and through Them, a report commissioned by
the UNEP/SBC, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995.
O. Samper and Donald Huisingh, Cooperation
in Education in the Field of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering IEP/Colombia/IHE/Cali,
Colombia, report commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 1995.
Ph.D., Biochemistry
and Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin.
B.S. (Summa Cum
Laude), Science Specialization in Genetics, Biology, and Chemistry;
University of Minnesota.
Dr. Huisingh is
dedicated to interdisciplinary education and integrated approaches to
defining and solving society’s problems. He addresses topics ranging
from toxic substances and hazardous waste in industry and the home to the
philosophical, ethical, and political implications of improper land-use
management, human population growth and control, and energy use.
Dr. Huisingh’s work
has focused on Pollution Prevention/Waste Reduction approaches to managing
toxic substances and hazardous wastes. His primary research focus has been
on developing policies, concepts, and technologies to help government and
industry identify sustainable approaches to pollution prevention and waste
minimization. He seeks to improve environmental quality by integrating
these preventive approaches with traditional pollution-control approaches.
Dr. Huisingh is active
in many national and international organizations, including UNEP, UNIDO,
WHO, Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank. In addition to his
position with EERC, he continues part-time faculty positions at the
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (Lund
University, Sweden), the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), and
Monterrey Tec (Technological Institute of Monterrey, Mexico).
Dr. Huisingh also
serves as editor in chief for the Journal of Cleaner Production and
directs, under the auspices of Erasmus University, an international
off-campus PhD program in Cleaner Production, Cleaner Products, Industrial
Ecology, and Sustainable Development.
In his leisure time, Dr. Huisingh enjoys photography (still and movie), sailing, hiking, bicycling, jogging, woodworking, cooking, gardening, and public speaking.