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Sustainable production and consumption
Professor Mark Harvey
Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation
Current relevant research
• Transition to a sustainable bioeconomy (ESRC)– Sustainable transport: energy and engines– Beyond the petro-chemical technology platform
• ESRC Centre for Research and Engagement in Sustainable Behaviour (possibly).– Macro-, meso-, and micro- framework for behavioural
analysis• Eating• Sheltering• Washing and watering• Moving and communicating
“Peak petro-chemicals”
Global climate change
Food crises
Land use + water
Biodiversity
Socio-economicwelfare
INTERLOCKING CHALLENGES AND CRISES
Instituting economies
• Market-led modes of innovation and consumption are inadequate to the six challenges
• Range of political instruments, national and international– Mandates, fiscal incentives, legal constraints, public
procurement, public provision, etc. – Innovation through “directed evolution”
• Governments, NGOs, incumbent and new entrant firms, scientists – a complex interaction of multiple actors and interests.
• “Consumers”, social practices, groupings: interdependent systems of provision and end-use.
Sustainable consumption and production
• Distributed and interdependent innovation towards sustainability: systems of provision and consumption
• Sustainability AND growth versus sustainability as a restriction of consumption, localisation, etc.
• Collective and political choices – rather than individual moral or market choice
• “Triangular affairs” (state and market actors, consumer organisations/groupings) – at least.