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Associate Professor Arunima Malik
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+61 2 9351 5451
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A28 - Physics Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Environment Institute
Member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture
Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Member of The University of Sydney Nano Institute
Arunima Malik is an Associate Professor in Sustainability in the Integrated Sustainability Analysis group at the School of Physics and in the Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation at the Business School. Her research focusses on sustainability supply chain assessments at multiple scales, including local and global perspectives. Arunima’s interdisciplinary work bridges the Science and Business fields, with an emphasis on assessing sustainability performance of organisations, industries and nations. Her research has relevance to global frameworks such as the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Arunima employs big-data modelling to quantify sustainability impacts across environmental, social and economic dimensions. She has published extensively on the influence of international trade on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and in driving global outsourcing and spillover effects resulting in resource depletion, pollution, biodiversity loss and inequalities. Arunima has also published on the carbon footprint of health care. Her work on this topic covers local, national and global assessments. Arunima’s research on hybrid life cycle assessment techniques has been applied to organisation-level Scope 3 assessments, renewable energy technologies, construction materials, and emerging industries. She has also published on climate risk assessments, supply-chain assessments of global energy use, nitrogen, and tourism.
2022 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
2022 University of Sydney SOAR Prize
2020 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Early-Career Teaching
2019 SUPRA Teacher of the Year Award
2019 Faculty of Science Outstanding Teaching and Learning Award
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Health care hybrid life cycle assessment: existing barriers and new opportunities in utilizing activity-based costing data to calculate comprehensive and accurate footprints via hybrid lifecycle assessment. | Dorna GHOREISHI |
| Sustainability Assessment of Recovery Technologies | Asiyath IBRAHIM |
| Advancing impact attribution research for climate justice | Camille MORA |
| Developing and applying input-output analysis tools for assessing sustainability and informing global frameworks | Vivienne REINER |
Selected publications
The Social Effects of Global Trade - Quantifying Impacts Using Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis
(Pan Stanford Publishing, 2018)
Publications
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Edited Books
- Murray, J., Malik, A., Geschke, A. (2018). The Social Effects of Global Trade - Quantifying Impacts Using Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis. Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Malik, A. (2017). Triple Bottom Line Assessment of Algae Bio-crude Production. In Jose Carlos Magalhaes Pires (Eds.), Recent Advances in Renewable Energy, (pp. 402-413). Soest: Bentham Science Publishers. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Quintal, D. (2016). Norfolk Island. In Wayne Visser (Eds.), The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise, (pp. 112-117). United States of America: Greenleaf Publishing Limited.
- Malik, A. (2015). Social Impact Analyses in the Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory. In Joy Murray, Darian McBain, Thomas Wiedmann (Eds.), The Sustainability Practitioner's Guide to Social Analysis and Assessment, (pp. 99-106). Illinois: Common Ground Publishing.
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Journals
- Malik, A., Goodlet, J., Li, M., Mora, C., Fry, J., Munro, A., Mill, S., Noonan, A., Lenzen, M. (2024). Assessing waste and carbon impacts of health system at a regional level. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 209, 107750. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Lafortune, G., Mora, C., Carter, S., Lenzen, M. (2024). Carbon and social impacts in the EU's consumption of fossil and mineral raw materials. Journal of Environmental Management, 369, 122291. [More Information]
- Kikstra, J., Li, M., Brockway, P., Hickel, J., Keysser, L., Malik, A., Rogelj, J., van Ruijven, B., Lenzen, M. (2024). Downscaling down under: towards degrowth in integrated assessment models. Economic Systems Research. [More Information]
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Conferences
- Egan, M., Sack, F., Malik, A. (2024). Selective pursuit of truth: hegemonic engagement with life cycle assessment within Australia’s water services sector. 14th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference 2024, London: Royal Holloway University of London.
- Egan, M., Malik, A., Sack, F. (2023). Evolving approaches to supply chain sustainability assessment within Australia's water sector: standardised technique and emergent metis. Durham University Seminar, United Kingdom: Durham University.
- Egan, M., Malik, A., Sack, F. (2023). Selective pursuit of truth: hegemonic engagement with life cycle assessment techniques within Australia’s water services sector. 22nd A-CSEAR Conference 2023, Brisbane, Australia: Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR).
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2024
- Malik, A., Goodlet, J., Li, M., Mora, C., Fry, J., Munro, A., Mill, S., Noonan, A., Lenzen, M. (2024). Assessing waste and carbon impacts of health system at a regional level. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 209, 107750. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Lafortune, G., Mora, C., Carter, S., Lenzen, M. (2024). Carbon and social impacts in the EU's consumption of fossil and mineral raw materials. Journal of Environmental Management, 369, 122291. [More Information]
- Kikstra, J., Li, M., Brockway, P., Hickel, J., Keysser, L., Malik, A., Rogelj, J., van Ruijven, B., Lenzen, M. (2024). Downscaling down under: towards degrowth in integrated assessment models. Economic Systems Research. [More Information]
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2023
- Egan, M., Malik, A., Sack, F. (2023). Evolving approaches to supply chain sustainability assessment within Australia's water sector: standardised technique and emergent metis. Durham University Seminar, United Kingdom: Durham University.
- Malik, A., Lafortune, G., Dahir, S., Wendling, Z., Kroll, C., Carter, S., Li, M., Lenzen, M. (2023). Global environmental and social spillover effects of EU's food trade. Global Sustainability, 6. [More Information]
- Jin, Y., Lenzen, M., Montoya, A., Laycock, B., Yuan, Z., Lant, P., Li, M., Wood, R., Malik, A. (2023). Greenhouse gas emissions, land use and employment in a future global bioplastics economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 193. [More Information]
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2022
- Li, M., Lenzen, M., Pedauga, L., Malik, A. (2022). A minimum-disruption approach to input–output disaster analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis, 17(4), 446-470. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Fry, J. (2022). Biodiversity Impact Assessments Using Nested Trade Models. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(12), 7378-7380. [More Information]
- Duan, X., Zhang, J., Sun, P., Zhang, H., Wang, C., Sun, Y., Lenzen, M., Malik, A., Cao, S., Kan, Y. (2022). Carbon Emissions of the Tourism Telecoupling System: Theoretical Framework, Model Specification and Synthesis Effects. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(10). [More Information]
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2021
- Pomponi, F., Li, M., Sun, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Fountas, G., D'Amico, B., Akizu-Gardoki, O., Luque Anguita, M. (2021). A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 8(1), 46-52. [More Information]
- Heller, R., Sun, Y., Guo, Z., Malik, A. (2021). Comparing carbon emissions between online and in-person study for a cohort of overseas students: A retrospective cohort study. F1000Research, 10, 849. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Padget, M., Carter, S., Wakiyama, T., Maitland-Scott, I., Vyas, A., Boylan, S., Mulcahy, G., Li, M., Lenzen, M., Geschke, A., et al (2021). Environmental impacts of Australia's largest health system. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 169, 105556. [More Information]
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2020
- Nansai, K., Fry, J., Malik, A., Takayanagi, W., Kondo, N. (2020). Carbon footprint of Japanese health care services from 2011 to 2015. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 152, 104525. [More Information]
- Chaves, L., Fry, J., Malik, A., Geschke, A., Sallum, M., Lenzen, M. (2020). Global consumption and international trade in deforestation-associated commodities could influence malaria risk. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1258. [More Information]
- Lenzen, M., Li, M., Malik, A., Pomponi, F., Sun, Y., Wiedmann, T., Faturay, F., Fry, J., Gallego, B., Geschke, A., Nansai, K., Prokopenko, M., Wakiyama, T., Yousefzadeh, M., et al (2020). Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the coronavirus pandemic. PloS One, 15(7 July), 1-13. [More Information]
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2019
- Trainer, T., Malik, A., Lenzen, M. (2019). A Comparison Between the Monetary, Resource and Energy Costs of the Conventional Industrial Supply Path and the "Simpler Way" Path for the Supply of Eggs. BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality, 4(9), 1-7. [More Information]
- Malik, A., McBain, D., Wiedmann, T., Lenzen, M., Murray, J. (2019). Advancements in Input-Output Models and Indicators for Consumption-Based Accounting. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23(2), 300-312. [More Information]
- Liu, S., Malik, A., Du Plessis, M., Egan, M., Lenzen, M. (2019). Analyst Behaviour and Economic Policy Uncertainty. 32nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference AFBC 2019, Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
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2018
- Fry, J., Lenzen, M., Jin, Y., Wakiyama, T., Baynes, T., Wiedmann, T., Malik, A., Chen, G., Wang, Y., Geschke, A., et al (2018). Assessing carbon footprints of cities under limited information. Journal of Cleaner Production, 176, 1254-1270. [More Information]
- Zhao, N., Xu, L., Malik, A., Song, X., Wang, Y. (2018). Inter-provincial trade driving energy consumption in China. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 134, 329-335. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Lenzen, M., McAlister, S., McGain, F. (2018). The carbon footprint of Australian health care. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2, e27-e35. [More Information]
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2017
- Lenzen, M., Geschke, A., Malik, A., Fry, J., Lane, J., Wiedmann, T., Kenway, S., Hoang, K., Cadogan-Cowper, A. (2017). New multi-regional input-output databases for Australia-enabling timely and flexible regional analysis. Economic Systems Research, 29(2), 275-295. [More Information]
- Malik, A. (2017). Triple Bottom Line Assessment of Algae Bio-crude Production. In Jose Carlos Magalhaes Pires (Eds.), Recent Advances in Renewable Energy, (pp. 402-413). Soest: Bentham Science Publishers. [More Information]
2016
- Cui, S., Shi, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Gao, B., Huang, W. (2016). A hybrid method for quantifying China's nitrogen footprint during urbanisation from 1990 to 2009. Environment International, 97, 137-145. [More Information]
- Lan, J., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., McBain, D., Kanemoto, K. (2016). A structural decomposition analysis of global energy footprints. Applied Energy, 163, 436-451. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Quintal, D. (2016). Norfolk Island. In Wayne Visser (Eds.), The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise, (pp. 112-117). United States of America: Greenleaf Publishing Limited.
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2015
- Rodriguez-Alloza, A., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Gallego, J. (2015). Hybrid input-output life-cycle assessment of warm mix asphalt mixtures. Journal of Cleaner Production, 90, 171-182. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Ralph, P., Tamburic, B. (2015). Hybrid life-cycle assessment of algal biofuel production. Bioresource Technology, 184, 436-443. [More Information]
- Malik, A. (2015). Social Impact Analyses in the Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory. In Joy Murray, Darian McBain, Thomas Wiedmann (Eds.), The Sustainability Practitioner's Guide to Social Analysis and Assessment, (pp. 99-106). Illinois: Common Ground Publishing.
2014
- Lenzen, M., Geschke, A., Wiedmann, T., Lane, J., Anderson, N., Baynes, T., Boland, J., Daniels, P., Dey, C., Fry, J., Malik, A., Murray, J., et al (2014). Compiling and using input-output frameworks through collaborative virtual laboratories. Science of the Total Environment, 485-486(1), 241-251. [More Information]
- Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Ely, R., Dietzenbacher, E. (2014). Simulating the impact of new industries on the economy: The case of biorefining in Australia. Ecological Economics, 107, 84-93. [More Information]
2013
- Lan, J., Malik, A. (2013). Structural Decomposition Analysis of the Energy Consumption in China and Russia - An Application of the Eora MRIO Database. In Joy Murray and Manfred Lenzen (Eds.), The Sustainability Practitioners Guide to Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis, (pp. 170-179). Champaign, Illinois, USA: Common Ground Publishing.
Selected Grants
2025
- Sustainable and secure future energy pathways for Australia, Lenzen M, Malik A, Ximenes F, Cowie A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)
2024
- Assessing climate risk for future food supply, Malik A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
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Research reports
- H. Hoff, A. Monjeau, J. Gomez-Paredes, F. Frank, S. Rojo, A. Malik and K. Adams, 2019, International Spillovers in SDG Implementation: The Case of Soy from Argentina. SEI Policy Brief. Stockholm Environment Institute. Available online: https://www.sei.org/publications/spillovers-sdg-implementation-soy-argentina/
- M. Grubb, C. Okereke, J. Arima, V. Bosetti, Y. Chen, J. Edmonds, S. Gupta, A. Köberle, S. Kverndokk, A. Malik, L. Sulistiawati, 2022: Introduction and Framing. In IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, R. Slade, A. Al Khourdajie, R. van Diemen, D. McCollum, M. Pathak, S. Some, P. Vyas, R. Fradera, M. Belkacemi, A. Hasija, G. Lisboa, S. Luz, J. Malley, (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. doi: 10.1017/9781009157926.003
- A. Malik, G. Lafortune, C. Mora, S. Carter, M. Lenzen, 2023, Social and environmental impacts associated with fossil and mineral supply chains – a quantitative assessment of the EU’s international spillover, Research Policy Brief, United Nations SDSN
- A. Malik, G. Lafortune, S. Dahir, Z. Wendling, S. Carter, M. Li, M. Lenzen. 2021. Making globalisation and trade work for people and planet: International spillovers embodied in EU’s food supply chains, Research Policy Brief, United Nations SDSN
- A. Malik, G. Lafortune, S. Carter, M. Li, M. Lenzen. 2020. International spillover effects in the EU’s textile supply chains: A global SDG assessment, Research Policy Brief, United Nations SDSN
- A. Malik, M. Li, M. Lenzen, J. Fry, N. Liyanapathirana, K. Beyer, S. Boylan, A. Lee, D. Raubenheimer, A. Geschke, D. Schlosberg, 2020, Impacts of climate change on food supply – a case study of New South Wales, Australia. NSW Department of Industry, Planning and Environment.
In the media
- Would you have surgery if it badly impacted Earth’s carbon footprint? [Sydney Morning Herald, 1 September, 2024]
- Study reveals how the Global North drives inequality in international trade [PHYS ORG, 9 August, 2024]
- The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows [The Conversation, 21 June, 2022]
- IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity [The Conversation, 5 April, 2022]
- Google and Amazon misled about their carbon footprint. But what about the rest of us? [The Canberra Times, 25 February, 2022]
- Carbon ‘footprinting’ could accurately measure countries’ emissions [News.com.au, 13 October, 2021]
- Social, environmental and economic impacts of COVID-19: a snapshot [Sydney Business Insights, June 2021]
- China’s cloud companies show how big tech is far from green [Nikkei Asia, 22 April, 2021]
- Will travelers trash or treasure the planet after the pandemic [CNN Travel, 4 September, 2020]
- Economic standstill fails to clear the air [The Australian, 31 August, 2020]
- Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds [TheGuardian, 11 July 2020]
- New study shows COVID-19 pandemic consumption losses more than US$3.8 trillion [ABCNewsRadio, 10 July 2020]
- Your coffee and chocolate could increase malaria risk [Cosmos, 11-March-20]
- Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season [NewScientist, 28-Nov-18]
- Australia one of most rampant consuming nations on planet, research claims [9 News, 8-Aug-18]
- Your next holiday might cost the Earth [Cosmos, 8-May-18]
- Tourism’s carbon impact three times larger than estimated [BBC News, 7-May-18]
- Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought [NewScientist, 7-May-2018]
- Healthcare contributing 7 per cent of Australia's total CO2 equivalent emissions: studyWhen it comes to mitigating the effects of climate change, what can Australia's healthcare system do? Healthcare contributes to seven per cent of the country's total CO2 equivalent emissions. [ABC PM, 9-Jan-18]
- What harm does your nitrogen footprint do? Emissions of a harmful form of nitrogen contribute to deaths from air pollution. [BBC Radio, 27-1-17]
- Substantial nitrogen pollution embodied in international trade Roughly a quarter of the global nitrogen footprint is from commodities that are traded across country borders. Substantial local nitrogen pollution is driven by demand from consumers in developed countries. [ABC News 24, 11am, 26-1-17]
- Study reveals your nitrogen footprint - and who it is impacting.Emissions of reactive nitrogen have increased more than 10-fold over the past 150 years. [The Guardian, 26-1-17]
