Sustainability

Allam, Z. 2020

‘Urban and graveyard sprawl: the unsustainability of death’, in Z. Allam, Theology and Urban Sustainability, Chaim: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Pantani O. & Scalenghe, R. 2020

‘Connecting existing cemeteries saving good soils’, Sustainability, 12:1, 93.

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.

Rumble, H., Troyer, J., Walter, T. & Woodthorpe, K. 2014

‘Disposal or dispersal: environmentalism and final treatment of the British dead’, Mortality, 19:3, 243-260.

Uslu, A., Bariṣ, E. & Edroğan, E. 2009

‘Ecological concerns over cemeteries’, African Journal of Agricultural Research, 4:13, 1505-11.

Keywords

Woodthorpe, K. 2011

‘Sustaining the contemporary cemetery: implementing policy alongside conflicting perspectives and purpose’, Mortality, 16:3, 259-276.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract