Eva Marie Collins is an American–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the

University of Waikato The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in nume ...

, specialising in business sustainability and the

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Academic career

Collins completed a Bachelor degree with honours at

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, followed by a Master of Arts degree at

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in the UK. She then completed a

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titled ''A multi-stakeholder evaluation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 33/50, Climate Wise and Project XL voluntary environmental programs'' at

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in 2002. Collins spent ten years working as a

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for

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. Collins joined the faculty of the University of Waikato in 2002, rising to full professor in 2022. Collins is the Sustainability Coordinator for the Waikato Management School, and co-chairs the university's Sustainability Committee. She is a lifetime member of Clare Hall, at

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. Collins is interested in management and sustainability, and researches areas such as environmental entrepreneurship, the circular economy, and the relationship business has with sustainability. Collins says that greater transparency requirements means that New Zealand exporters can no longer ignore the need to engage in sustainability or carbon emission reporting, for instance. She is part of an

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-funded collaboration with Sara Walton, Gradon Diprose and Alison Greenaway to explore the understanding and use of the term 'circular economy' in New Zealand, and make recommendations about how to improve collaboration towards a circular economy.

Selected works

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References

External links

Will business ever be truly sustainable?
inaugural professorial lecture by Eva Collins, 11 October 2022, via YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Collins, Eva New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics New Zealand people of American descent New Zealand business theorists Portland State University alumni George Washington University School of Business alumni