Dr. Shannon Lloyd

Associate Professor, Management

Contact information

Email:

shannon.lloyd@concordia.ca

Websites:

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ResearchGate

ORCID:

0000-0003-1058-6765

Biography

Shannon Lloyd is an associate professor in the John Molson School of Business and a member of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University. She began her career in operations and product development, and then transitioned to an applied research and consulting role. During this time, she developed methods for assessing the life cycle environmental performance of products, processes, and organizations. Dr. Lloyd’s research focuses on:

Studying the (mis)alignment of corporate environmental performance with collective environmental goals, such as the Paris Agreement temperature goal

Assessing the potential environmental impact of emerging technologies and practices, with a particular focus on sustainable aviation

Integrating the work environment(worker health and safety) into environmental life cycle assessment

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in General Engineering (Systems Engineering and Design), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Areas of Expertise

Life Cycle Assessment
Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Supply Chain Sustainability
Corporate Sustainability
Worker Health & Safety

Learn more about Professor Lloyd's research group

Watch Professor Lloyd's talk on science-based targets

Read about Professor Lloyd's research assessing corporate environmental efforts

Read about student Zeynab Yousefzadeh's LCA on pulse water jet coating removal

Watch us give an overview of our study on science based target setting methods

Read about our study on methods for setting science based targets

Watch postdoc Anders Bjørn discuss methods for setting science based targets

Watch graduate students present ongoing life cycle assessment research

Listen to Professor Lloyd discuss interdisciplinary research

Watch Professor Lloyd participate in a roundtable discussion on green aviation

Publications

Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Hadziosmanovic, M., Lloyd, S.M., Bjørn, A., Paquin, R.L., Mengis, N., & Matthews, H.D. (2022). Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways. Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Bjørn, A., Lloyd, S.M., Brander, M., & Matthews, H.D. (2022). Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets. Nature Climate Change, 12, 539–546.

Bjørn, A., Tilsted, J.P., Addas, A, & Lloyd, S.M. (2022). Can science-based targets make the private sector Paris-aligned? A review of the emerging evidence. Current Climate Change Reports.

Bjørn, A., Lloyd, S., & Matthews, D. (2022). Reply to Comment on 'From the Paris Agreement to corporate climate commitments: evaluation of seven methods for setting "science-based" emission targets'. Environmental Research Letters, 17, 038001.

Bjørn, A., Lloyd, S., & Matthews, D. (2021). From the Paris Agreement to corporate climate commitments: Evaluation of seven methods for setting science-based emission targets. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 054019.

Sustainable Aviation

Salihu, A.L., Lloyd, S.M., & Akgunduz, A. (2021). Electrification of airport taxiway operations: A simulation framework for analyzing congestion and cost. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 97, 102962.

Dostaler, I., Lloyd, S., Nsakanda, A.L. & Virk, R.R.K. (2017). Measuring the competitiveness of Canadian national airports under various regulatory and ownership structures: A scenario analysis approach. 21th Air Transport Research Society Conference, Antwerp, Belgium.

Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies

Yousefzadeh, Z., Rezvani Rad, M., McDonald, A., & Lloyd, S.M. (2022). Life Cycle Assessment of a Thermal Sprayed Al2O3-NiCr Resistive Heating Coating for Pipe Freeze Protection. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 31, 378–395

Yousefzadeh, Z., & Lloyd, S.M. (2021). Prospective Life Cycle Assessment as a Tool for Environmentally Responsible Innovation.2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS).

Rezvani Rad, M., Ngaokere, K., Lloyd, S.M., & McDonald, A. (2021). Techno-Economic Assessment of Multi-Layered Coating-Based Resistive Heating Systems and Conventional Heat Tracing Cables for Industry Pipes Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 30, 1393–1409.

Thabrew, L., Lloyd, S.M., Cypcar, C.C, Hamilton, J.D., & Ries, R. (2008) Life Cycle Assessment of Water-based Acrylic Floor Finish Maintenance Programs. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 13(1) 65-74.

R Clift and S Lloyd (2008) Nanotechnology: A New Organism in the Industrial Ecosystem? Journal of Industrial Ecology, 12(3) 259-262.

Lloyd, S.M., Lave, L.B., & Matthews, H.S. (2005). Life Cycle Benefits of Using Nanotechnology to Stabilize PGM Particles in Automotive Catalysts. Environmental Science & Technology, 39(5) 1384-1392.

Lloyd S.M. & Lave, L.B. (2003) Life Cycle Economic and Environmental Implications of Using Nanocomposites in Automobiles. Environmental Science & Technology, 37(15) 3458-3466.

Worker Health and Safety

Scanlon, K.A., Lloyd, S.M. Gray, G.M., Francis, R.A., & LaPuma, P. (2015). An approach to integrating occupational safety and health into life cycle assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19(1) 27–37.

Scanlon, K.A., Gray, G.M., Francis, R.A., Lloyd, S.M., & LaPuma, P. (2013). The work environment disability adjusted life year for use with life cycle assessment: a methodological approach. Environmental Health, 12(21).

Lloyd, S., Scanlon, K., & Lengacher, D. (2012). Improving Life Cycle Assessment by Considering Worker Health and Comparing Alternatives Based on Relative Efficiency. In: Subic A., Wellnitz J., Leary M., Koopmans L. (eds) Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Other

Lloyd, S.M., Schmitt, K.A., Rotteveel, N.M., Schwartz, T.B., & Stanley, C. (2015). Impact of Consumption and Cost Forecasting on United States Defense Fuel Budgeting. Public Budgeting and Finance, 35(1) 116–140.

Lloyd, S.M. & Schmitt K.A. (2015). Survey of Approaches for Including the Impact of Technology on Society in Canadian Engineering Undergraduate Curricula. International Journal of Engineering Education, 30(4) 977–991.

Lloyd, S.M. & Ries, R. (2007) Characterizing, Propagating, and Analyzing Uncertainty in Life-Cycle Assessment: A Survey of Quantitative Approaches. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 11(1) 161-179.

Thurston, D.L, Lloyd, S.M., & Wallace, J. (1994) Considering customer preferences for environmental protection in material selection. Materials & Design, 15(4) 203-209.