The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Sustainability
Allam, Z. 2020
‘Urban and graveyard sprawl: the unsustainability of death’, in Z. Allam, Theology and Urban Sustainability, Cham: Springer, 37-52.
Allam, Z. 2021
‘On the sustainability of graveyards in urban milieus’ in R. Brinkman (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (online only)
Allam, Z. 2019
‘The city of the living or the dead: on the ethics and morality of land use for graves in a rapidly urbanised world’, Land Use Policy, 87, 104037.
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da Silva Nobre, M. & Calixto, A. 2019
‘A percepção dos moradores do Bairro do Socorro sobre o cemitério e suas implicações com a sustentabilidade’ Revista Brasileira de Administração Científica, 10:1, 101-116.
Eastwood, S. 2022
‘Thinking outside the box: can education about the environmental impacts of traditional body disposal methods, and communication of more sustainable alternatives influence people’s body disposal decisions?’ in R. McManus (ed.) Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable, Newcastle: Cambridge Publishing, 93-116.
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Lange, Ł. 2022
Can a dead body be sustainable in the XXI century? Polish attempts to be sustainable after death’, in R. McManus (ed.) Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable, Newcastle: Cambridge Publishing, 44-56.
MacWinnie, S. 2022
Incidental environmentalism: cultural driven change and its effects on sustainability in Japanese burial practices’, in R. McManus (ed.) Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable, Newcastle: Cambridge Publishing, 29-43.
Monaghan, A. 2019
‘Conceptual niche management of grassroots innovation for sustainability: the case of body disposal practices in the UK’, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 76, 1026-43.
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Neckel, A., Korcelski, H., Kujawa, I. & 9 others 2021
Hazardous elements in the soil of urban cemeteries; constructive solutions aimed at sustainability’, Chemosphere, 262, 128248.
Ocón, D. 2021
‘Balancing sustainable development and cultural heritage preservation: luxury burial legacies in Singapore’, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 13:1, 87-107.
Ocón, D. and Young, W. 2024
‘Bridging the nature–cultural heritage gap: evaluating sustainable entanglements through cemeteries in urban Asia’, Sustainability Science, 19:5, 1641-1660.
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Pantani O. & Scalenghe, R. 2020
‘Connecting existing cemeteries saving good soils’, Sustainability, 12:1, 93.
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Prajapati, V. 2020
‘Sustainable disposal of the dead: a study of Nigambodh Ghat in Delhi’, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 13:7, 865-872.
Rugg, J. 2020
‘Social justice and cemetery systems’, Death Studies, 46:4, 861-874.
Uslu, A., Bariṣ, E. & Edroğan, E. 2009
‘Ecological concerns over cemeteries’, African Journal of Agricultural Research, 4:13, 1505-11.
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Woodthorpe, K. 2011
‘Sustaining the contemporary cemetery: implementing policy alongside conflicting perspectives and purpose’, Mortality, 16:3, 259-276.
