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Website launched for Tim Jackson's ESRC Professorial Fellowship PASSAGE
Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy (PASSAGE) is a Professorial Fellowship held by Prof Tim Jackson and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The overall aim of the fellowship is to explore the relationship between prosperity and sustainability and to develop research on the green economy. Visit the new website here.
Ian Christie gives presentation at Cardiff University, 1 May 2014
The Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group is now in its final few months after a programme of research that began in 2011. The presentation by Ian Christie, Fellow of SLRG and the Centre for Environmental Strategy at University of Surrey, will outline the projects within the Group's programme...Read more
Surrey Research Insight talks to Kate Burningham
In the latest interview for Surrey Research Insight's: SRI Talks to Series, Kate Burningham discusses her paper 'Flood risk, vulnerability and environmental justice: evidence and evaluation of inequality in a UK context', which is particularly relevant in the light of the recent flooding in the UK, and answers questions about her academic background and motivations as well as her work for the SLRG project ELiCiT: Exploring lifestyle changes in transition. Read the interview on the SRI website.
SLRG study by Emily Creamer published in Local Environment
The SLRG research paper on Community-led Climate Change Initiatives in Remote Rural Scotland, by Emily Creamer, has now been published in International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, ...Read more
SLRG Director Tim Jackson joins renowned international think-tank on sustainability
Professor Jackson looks forward to a close involvement with this influential group of diplomats, scientists, economists and business leaders from around the globe. He will contribute in particular to two of the club’s current workstreams: 1) a new approach to economics and the financial sector, and...Read more
"Austerity, Stimulus or Post-growth for Europe", Brussels: 21 March 2014
On 21 March 2014 Tim Jackson will be speaking at the EU project workshop RESPONDER's final conference on "Austerity, Stimulus or Post-growth for Europe". In this final conference the RESPONDER project team revisits the propositions of Sicco Mansholt, President of the European Commission in 1972-73, to explore the complex relations between economic growth and sustainability, and what they mean for dealing with the European crisis....Read more
Tim Jackson to give keynote provocation on "Sustainable prosperity", London 20 Feb 2014
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and British Academy (BA) are co-hosting a scoping workshop designed to explore issues around a sustainable prosperity. This interactive event aims to bring a diverse range of people and perspectives together to discuss novel ideas and fresh approaches to the issue of building an economy that fosters sustainable prosperity...Read more
Jonathon Porritt to give presentation at the University of Surrey, 13 Feb 2014
Distinguished writer, campaigner and co-founder of the Forum for the Future, Jonathon Porritt to give a presentation at the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey. The lecture "Making a better world" takes up the themes of his new book THE WORLD WE MADE (Phaidon, 2013)...Read more
Tim Jackson featured in new short documentary by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
"Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources" lays out an alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth — an economy where the goal is enough, not more...Read more
Seminar by Birgitta Gatersleben, D Uzzell & N Murtagh, 11 February 2014
The role of technology in promoting energy conservation - a psychological perspective
The Environmental Psychology Research Centre studies people-environment relationships. Over the years it has been involved in many multidisciplinary research projects providing a psychological perspective on environmental issues. Today’s presentation will focus on a recently completed EPSRC funded project REDUCE which was led by CCSR and involved researchers from CES and Psychology...Read more
Tim Jackson and Ian Christie to speak at the Sustainable Development Research Network Annual Conference, 28 January 2014
This year's conference looks at the progress and challenges of meeting the various sustainable development goals the UK has committed to and explores whether the right tools, research programmes, policies and approaches are available and put into place...See Tim's talk here
