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Sustainable production and consumption

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

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Sustainable production and consumption

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  1. Sustainable production and consumption Professor Mark Harvey Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation

  2. 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

  3. INTERLOCKING CHALLENGES AND CRISES Global climate change “Peak petro-chemicals” Socio-economic welfare Biodiversity Food crises Land use + water

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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