Tamar Makov

Lecturer in the Department of Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Biography

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Dr Makov is a Lecturer at the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Makov investigates how stakeholder’s perceptions, preferences, and behaviour, affect the potential to address social and environmental challenges via social entrepreneurship and sustainable business practices. Drawing from industrial ecology, judgment and decision making, and data science, she combines methods such as life cycle assessment (LCA), psychological experiments, and network analysis to investigate topics including sustainable consumption, the circular economy, sustainable food systems, and planned obsolescence . Makov holds a PhD and MA in Environmental management with focus on Industrial ecology from Yale University, and a B.Sc. in Nutrition Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Education

  • 2019 Ph.D., Environmental Studies
    Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
    Dissertation chair: Prof. Marian Chertow
    Title: The Environmental Implications of Reuse: Three Circular Consumption Models
  • 2015 M.Phil., Environmental Studies
    Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
  • 2005 B.Sc. Nutrition Science
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Academic Experiance

  • 2019- Lecturer
    Department of Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • 2013-2019 Guest Lecturer and Teaching Assistant
    Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
  • 2012 Research Assistant
    Weizmann Institute of Science

Research Areas

Industrial ecology, Sustainable entrepreneurship, Circular economy, sharing economy, Sustainable food systems, Big data for sustainability, Reuse and planned obsolescence

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