Roland Clift

Roland Clift is a chemical engineering professor widely known for his work and media contributions on the topic of sustainability.

Career

Clift studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge (Trinity College), achieving first class honours in 1964 ["The Times" June 18, 1964, page 16 "University News"] . He received a PhD from McGill University in 1970 for work on particle-fluid interactions, and this was his main research area (at McGill and Cambridge then Surrey University) in subsequent years [R. Clift, J. R. Grace and M. E. Weber (1978) "Bubbles, Drops and Particles" Academic Press] [J. F. Davidson, R. Clift and D. Harrison (eds) (1985) "Fluidization, 2nd ed" Academic Press, New York] [, R. Clift and J. P. K. Seville (eds)(1993) "Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures" Blackie ISBN 0 7514 0178 1] . He became Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Surrey in 1981 [The Times April 2 1982 page 16] .His growing interest in the application of engineering principles to environmental issues led him in 1992 to establish the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at the University of Surrey, a multidisciplinary group of engineers, scientists and social scientists. In this Centre he was an advocate of Clean Technology, Life Cycle Analysis and Environmental Sustainability. He is presently Distinguished Professor of Environmental Technology at the CES [ [http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=822,512799&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Centre For Environmental Strategy] Professor Roland Clift] .He has made a number of criticisms of government policy with respect to energy and the environment [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1120712.ece "The Times" (online) March 18, 2003] "Recycling drive 'does more harm than good"] [ [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/utilities/article597403.ece "The Times" (online) November 28, 2005] "It's clean, it's cheap - warming to the appeal of nuclear power"] [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1909827.ece "The Times" (online) June 10 2007] "Top scientist says biofuels are a scam"] .

Positions

Member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1996-2005). Visiting Professor in Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers University, Sweden. Expert Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee enquiry into Energy Efficiency. Member of the Science Advisory Council of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (2006-). Vice-President of Environmental Protection UK. President-Elect of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.

Honours

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts. In 1994 he was made an OBE for his initiative in promoting research in Clean Technology [http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=174&print=true Royal Academy of Engineering] Press Release 2 June 2003] , and a CBE in 2006 for services to the environment [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article782804.ece "The Times" (online)] 31 December 2005] . He received the Sir Frank Whittle Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for 2003, 'for outstanding and sustained achievement by an engineer who has contributed to the well being of the nation'. He received the 2007 Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

ome Publications

*Clift, R., Grace, J. R., and Weber, M. E., (1978) "Bubbles, Drops and Particles" Academic Press
*Davidson,J. F., Clift, R., and Harrison, D., (eds) (1985) "Fluidization", 2nd ed Academic Press
*Clift, R., and Seville, J. P. K., (eds)(1993) "Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures" Blackie ISBN 0 7514 0178 1
*Clift, R. (1993) "Journal of Cleaner Production", 1, 3-4, pp 155-159 "Life Cycle Assessment and Ecolabellling"
*Clift, R. (1996) "Powder Technology" 88, pp 335-339 "Powder technology and particle science"
*Clift, R., & Wright, L., (2000) "Technological Forecasting and Social Change", 65, 3, pp 281-295 "Relationships Between Environmental Impacts and Added Value Along the Supply Chain"
*Azapagic, A., Perdan, S., and Clift, R., (eds) (2004) "Sustainable Development in Practice – case studies for engineers and scientists", John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-470-85608-4
*Clift, R. (2006) "Energy", 32, pp.262-268 "Climate Change and Energy Policy: The Importance of Sustainability Arguments"
*Clift, R. (2006) "Chemical Engineering Science", 61, pp 4179-4187 "Sustainable development and its implications for chemical engineering"
* [http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ENG/STAFF/STAFFAC/CLIFTR/BIOFUELS%20BRIEFING%20NOTE%2016-03-07.PDF Biofuels - A position paper by Roland Clift] 2007

References

External Links

* [http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/eng/research/ces Centre for Environmental Strategy] University of Surrey
* [http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Courses/ee3.ba/Sustainable%20Development%20EE3%20RC%20Autumn%2005.ppt Sustainable Development] Lecture slides by Roland Clift 2005
* [http://www.surrey.ac.uk/errg/PDFs/PowerPoint_Clift.pdf Conspicuous Consumption] Roland Clift May 2008