About Me
María-Laura Franco-García holds a Ph.D. on “Environmental Chemistry” (Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France). She worked for the Mexican Environmental Ministry contributing to the hazardous waste regulations. Franco’s research interests expanded to public and private management of natural resources and to product development fields since her affiliation to “Tecnológico de Monterrey”. Franco is currently one of the European coordinators of the global network of “Greening of Industry Network GIN)”
www.greeningofindustry.org. Her current research is related to GIN’s mission, e.g. Circular Economy, CSR, sustainable industrial parks, social and environmental Life Cycle Assessment, social entrepreneurship, among others.
Expertise
Social Sciences
# Mexico
# Sustainability
Earth & Environmental Sciences
# Circular Economy
# Small And Medium-Sized Enterprise
# Sustainability
# Transition
Business & Economics
# Co-Creation
# Environmental Policy
Organisations
Publications
Recent
Kreiner, I. (2023).
Industrial Parks for People and Planet: Assessing their contribution to sustainable regional development. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556958
Crespo-Rosas, N.
, & Franco-García, L. (2023).
Improving Gender Equality with Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Economy: A Mexican Case. In
The Social Dimensions of the Circular Economy (pp. 241-263). (Greening of Industry Networks Studies; Vol. 10). Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25436-9_11
Kreiner, I.
, Bressers, H. T. A.
, & Franco-García, M. L. (2023).
Challenges to implementing a sustainable strategic evaluation framework of industrial parks: Mexican case.
Cleaner Engineering and Technology,
13, [100612].
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2023.100612
Guerra-Tamez, C. R.
, & Franco-García, M. L. (2022).
Influence of Flow Experience, Perceived Value and CSR in Craft Beer Consumer Loyalty: A Comparison between Mexico and The Netherlands.
Sustainability (Switzerland),
14(13), [8202].
https://doi.org/10.3390/su14138202
Nurdiana, J.
, Franco-Garcia, L.
, & Heldeweg, M. A. (2021).
How shall we start? The importance of general indices for circular cities in Indonesia.
Sustainability (Switzerland),
13(20), [11168].
https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011168
Luján-Ornelas, C., Güereca, L. P.
, Franco-García, L.
, & Heldeweg, M. (2020).
A life cycle thinking approach to analyse sustainability in the textile industry: A literature review.
Sustainability (Switzerland),
12(23), [10193].
https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310193
Shahrabi, N. S.
, Bressers, J. T. A.
, Franco Garcia, M. L., & Pourezzat, A. A. (2020).
Policy learning for generating green electricity.
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy,
10(4), 487-496.
https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.10306
Zhang, Q. (2020).
Enhancing the sustainability of Chinese production: Going beyond individual firms by green supply chain and eco-industrial parks. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036550611
Nurdiana, J.
, Heldeweg, M.
, & Franco-García, M-L. (2019).
New lens scenarios to shape the future of Indonesian’s first circular city. In
4° Congreso de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental AMICA - 5th International Conference of Greening of Industry Network: 28, 29 y 30 de octobre de 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Ciudad de México (pp. 523-527). [ID 617] UNAM, Instituto de Ingeniería.
Nurdiana, J.
, Heldeweg, M.
, & Franco-García, M-L. (2019).
Mapping Indonesian's transition towards a circular economy. In
4° Congreso de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental AMICA - 5th International Conference of Greening of Industry Network: 28, 29 y 30 de octobre de 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Ciudad de México (pp. 516-522). [ID 616] UNAM, Instituto de Ingeniería.
Loya-Hinojos, K., Güereca, L. P.
, Franco-García, L.
, & Heldeweg, M. (2019).
El estudio de cultivo de tomate en invernadero, hacia una producción más sustentable. In
4° Congreso de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental AMICA - 5th International Conference of Greening of Industry Network: 28, 29 y 30 de octobre de 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Ciudad de México (pp. 421-426). [ID 627] UNAM, Instituto de Ingeniería.
Luján-Ornelas, C., Güereca, L. P.
, Franco-García, L.
, & Heldeweg, M. (2019).
Hacia una industria textil sustentable. In
4° Congreso de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental AMICA - 5th International Conference of Greening of Industry Network: 28, 29 y 30 de octobre de 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Ciudad de México (pp. 400-405). [ID 601] UNAM, Instituto de Ingeniería.
Moshtaq, N.
, Kreiner, I.
, Brouwers-Ren, L.
, & Franco-García, M-L. (2019).
Towards social sustainability of industrial parks: The Dutch case. In
4° Congreso de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental AMICA - 5th International Conference of Greening of Industry Network: 28, 29 y 30 de octobre de 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Ciudad de México (pp. 236-244). [ID 609] UNAM, Instituto de Ingeniería.
Franco-García, M-L., Carpio-Aguilar, J., & Rincón-Moreno, J. (2019).
How does sustainability reporting pay back? In
4° Congreso de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental AMICA - 5th International Conference of Greening of Industry Network: 28, 29 y 30 de octobre de 2019, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Ciudad de México (pp. 250-252). [ID 638] UNAM, Instituto de Ingeniería.
UT Research Information System
Education
Aside teaching in the MEEM and minor Crossing Borders programs I am open for delivering guess lectures to engaging students and colleagues on collaborative activities associated to sustainability.
Affiliated Study Programmes
Master
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
(building no. 10), room 1153
Hallenweg 17
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
1153
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands