Timothy Smith

Professional headshot of Timothy Smith posed in front of trees.
Professor
[email protected]
+1 612 624 6755
224A BioAgEng Building

1390 Eckles Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise (NiSE)
Education
  • Ph.D. - Forest Resources, Penn State University. 1998.
  • M.B.A. - Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University. 1996.
  • B.S. - Finance, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder. 1993.

Areas of Interest

Corporate sustainability, product stewardship, sustainable systems policy and market adoption

Teaching

  • ESPM/MGMT 3604/5604: Environmental Management Systems & Strategy
  • SSM 2001: Systems Thinking and Analysis
  • IBUS 3080: Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility (Global Enrichment, Costa Rica)

Research

Dr. Timothy M. Smith is a professor of sustainable systems management and International Business at the University of Minnesota, where he is also the founding director of the NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise at the Institute on the Environment. Throughout his career, he has developed integrative approaches to sustainable systems performance measurement and decision-making within the contexts of supply chain management, product/process design, marketing, and public policy. Smith’s research has been published in a broad array of top-tier scholarly journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Bioresource Technology, Global Environmental Change, International Journal of Life-Cycle Assessment, Energy Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Research. His work has also been highlighted in Bloomberg, The Conversation, Huffington Post, The Guardian, GreenBiz, Sustainable Brands, and other trade and local press. Dr. Smith has served on the faculty at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica (2007; 2017) and held the rotating chair in sustainable entrepreneurship at Wageningen University, Netherlands (2011). He teaches undergraduates, graduate students and executives in courses on sustainability management systems and strategy, systems thinking and analysis, and corporate sustainability and social responsibility – earning him numerous awards for teaching excellence and community engagement. Dr. Smith also actively advises governmental agencies on energy and public procurement policies and consults numerous companies and organizations on advancing sustainability.

Select Publications

  • Kim, T., Jin, Z., Smith, T., Liu, L., Yang,&., Yang, Y., Peng, B., Phillips, K., Guan, K., Hunter, L., Zhou, W., Quantifying nitrogen loss hotspots and mitigation potential for individual fields in the US Corn Belt with a metamodeling approach. Environmental Research Letters, Accepted Manuscript, http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0d21.
  • Brauman, K.A., Goodkind, A.L., Kim, T., Pelton, R.E., Schmitt, J. and Smith, T.M., 2020. Unique water scarcity footprints and water risks in US meat and ethanol supply chains identified via subnational commodity flows. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), p.105018.
  • Li, M., Yang, Y., Smith, T.M. and Wilson, E.J., 2020. Wind can reduce storage-induced emissions at grid scales. Applied Energy, 276, p.115420.
  • Yang, Y., Hobbie, S.E., Hernandez, R.R., Fargione, J., Grodsky, S.M., Tilman, D., Zhu, Y.G., Luo, Y., Smith, T.M., Jungers, J.M. and Yang, M., 2020. Restoring abandoned farmland to mitigate climate change on a full earth. One Earth, 3(2), pp.176-186.
  • Yang, Y., Liu, B., Wang, P., Chen, W.Q. and Smith, T.M., 2020. Toward sustainable climate change adaptation. Journal of Industrial Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12984.
  • Yang, Y., Pelton, R.E., Kim, T. and Smith, T.M., 2019. Effects of spatial scale on life cycle inventory results. Environmental Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b03441.
  • Yang, Y., Reilly, E.C., Jungers, J.M., Chen, J. and Smith, T.M., 2019. Climate benefits of increasing plant diversity in perennial bioenergy crops. One Earth, 1(4), pp.434-445.
  • Kim, S., Pelton, R.E., Smith, T.M., Lee, J., Jeon, J. and Suh, K., 2019. Environmental Implications of the National Power Roadmap with Policy Directives for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). Sustainability, 11(23), p.6657.
  • Peng, S., Yang, Y., Li, T., Smith, T.M., Tan, G.Z. and Zhang, H.C., 2019. Environmental Benefits of Engine Remanufacture in China’s Circular Economy Development. Environmental science & technology, 53(19), pp.11294-11301.
  • Hill, J., Goodkind, A., Tessum, C., Thakrar, S., Tilman, D., Polasky, S., Smith, T., Hunt, N., Mullins, K., Clark, M. and Marshall, J., 2019. Air-quality-related health damages of maize. Nature Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0261-y.
  • Eryilmaz, D., Apland, J., Smith, T.M., 2019. Dynamic Electricity Pricing – Modeling Manufacturer Response and an Application to Cement Processing. Energy and Environment Research, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.5539/eer.v9n2p1. 12. Kim, S., Kim, T., Smith, T.M., Suh, K., 2018. Environmental Implications of Eco-Labeling for Rice Farming Systems. Sustainability, doi:10.3390/su10041033.
  • Jordan, N.R., Dorn, K.M., Smith, T.M., Wolf, K.E., Ewing, P.M., Fernandez, A.L., Runck, B.C., Williams, A., Lu, Y. and Kuzma, J., 2017. A cooperative governance network for crop genome editing: The success of governance networks in other areas could help to find common ground for applying genome editing in agriculture. EMBO reports, DOI 10.15252/embr.201744394.
  • Li, M., Smith, T.M., Yang, Y. and Wilson, E.J., 2017. Marginal Emission Factors Considering Renewables: A Case Study of the US Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) System. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(19): 11215-11223.
  • Smith, T.M., Goodkind, A.L., Kim, T., Pelton, R.E., Suh, K. and Schmitt, J., 2017. Subnational mobility and consumption-based environmental accounting of US corn in animal protein and ethanol supply chains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(38), pp.E7891-E7899.