• Environmental Policy and planning - human interactions (consumption and production) with the natural environment and its policy and planning implications.
• Urban Sustainability – biophysical analysis of urban activities (i.e., urban metabolism analysis); Interactions between social and spatial characteristics and the use of natural resources (energy and materials) and waste generation.
• Sustainability Science – the theory, and potential policy and planning implications; Interregional sustainability; The implications of global environmental trends to local sustainability.
• Bio-physical / ecological Accounting and policy supporting tools –sustainability indicators; Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA); Material Flows Analysis (MFA); Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kissinger, M. and Rees, W.E. (2010). An interregional ecological approach for modelling sustainability in a globalizing world—Reviewing existing approaches and emerging directions. Ecological Modelling 221(21):2615-2623.
Kissinger, M., Rees, W.E. and Timmer, V. (2011) Interregional Sustainability: Governance and Policy in an Ecologically Interdependent World. Environmental Science and Policy 14(8), 965-976.
Kissinger, M. (2013) Approaches for calculating a nation's food ecological footprint, the case of Canada. Ecological Indicators 24: 366-374
Moore, J., Kissinger, M. and Rees, W.E. (2013). An Urban Metabolism Assessment and Ecological Footprint of Metro Vancouver. Journal of Environmental Management. 24: 51-6.
Stossel, Z., Kissinger, M. and Meir, A. (2015) Measuring the biophysical dimension of urban sustainability. Ecological Economics. 120: 153-163.
Kissinger , M. and Dickler, S (2016) Interregional bio-physical connections - a 'footprint family' analysis of Israel's beef supply system. Ecological Indicators. 69: 882-891.
Dor,A. and Kissinger,M (2016) A multi-year, multi-scale analysis of urban sustainability. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 62: 115-121.
Kissinger, M., Sussmann, C., Dorward, C., & Mullinix, K. (2019). Local or global: A biophysical analysis of a regional food system. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 34(6), 523-533.
Kissinger, M., & Stossel, Z. (2019). Towards an interspatial urban metabolism analysis in an interconnected world. Ecological Indicators, 101, 1077-1085.
Freidman, D., and Kissinger, M (2019). A multi-scale analysis of interregional sustainability: Applied to Israel's food supply. Science of the Total Environment, 676, 524-534.
Ravits-Wyngaard, S., and Kissinger, M. (2019) Materials flow analysis of a desert food production system: The case of bell peppers. Journal of Cleaner production. 227, 512-521.‏