Faculty of Management

Following her award of a CREDO grant last summer, Dr. Rossitsa Yalamova travelled recently to the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to meet her grant research collaborators Roberto Peccei and Charles Corbett.

Yalamova, a researcher at the forefront of the systems approach to sustainability, is expanding her research on financial crisis into sustainability and resilience building. While at UCLA, she visited the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Dr. Yalamova draws inspiration from the work of Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei, and most recently from her participation in the 2011 Global Sustainability Summer School in Brunei. She is enthusiastic about the opportunity to collaborate with Peccei and Corbett.

“We must encourage collaborations among researchers across disciplines on the various aspects of sustainable systems," says Yalamova. "Ultimately, we must use systems thinking and collaborative effort not just to find solutions to the complex problems arising from the rapidly diminishing carrying capacity of the Earth, but also by directing that thinking to the development and implementation of policies and practices that will foster sustainability in all aspects of human activity."

In addition to advancing her scholarly research, Yalamova is hopeful that a Sustainability Research Center can be developed at the University of Lethbridge that draws on the experience of leading Universities to bring together the various initiatives already underway here.

"I recently met with the Chairman of the Aurelio Peccei Foundation, Dr. Roberto Peccei and Dr. Charles Corbett, the founding director of the UCLA Leaders in Sustainability theme in graduate education. We discussed their mission, research and academic programs, as well as the many community partnerships of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability."