PUBLICATIONS

As our work progresses, publications are arising from our research themes and cross-cutting projects. We produce working papers, journal articles, evidence submissions to government enquiries, essays, books and book chapters. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive a monthly digest in your inbox.  If you want to hear more frequently from us, you can subscribe to email updates from the website directly.


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The Routledge Handbook of Green Finance

The Routledge Handbook of Green Finance offers an authoritative overview of green finance—its characteristics, principles, mechanisms, and the interplay within environmental, social, and governance measurements. The handbook also critiques existing practices and poses future research questions.

Audiobook | Post Growth—Life After Capitalism, narrated by Tim Jackson
2023 |

We are pleased to announce the release of the audiobook edition of Tim Jackson’s prize-winning book “Post Growth—Life After Capitalism”. Through his own narration, Tim brings a personal touch to the profound themes of Post Growth, offering an accessible and engaging experience for audiences to absorb his insights on the go.

Handbook on Pro-Environmental Behaviour Change | Edited Collection

This timely Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of research on changing behaviour to become less environmentally harmful. Exploring how well-designed, contextually appropriate behaviour change interventions can work, it charts a path that challenges traditional assumptions to maximise environmental impact.

Ecological Macroeconomics | Book chapter by Peter Victor in Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics
2023 |

This account of ecological macroeconomics begins with its origins, including the development of some of its defining components by key contributors, followed by an overview of recent research in ecological macroeconomics with an emphasis on models. It concludes with a set of research questions that give some idea of possible future directions for the discipline.

Escape from Overshoot: Economics for a Planet in Peril | Book by Peter A. Victor
2023 |

Earth is in overshoot. The relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of “progress” has stressed the planet beyond its limits. This richly illustrated book by CUSP co-investigator Prof Peter A Victor describes the current predicament and how economics can help find a path to a post-growth future.

The Political Economy of Street Trees | Book Chapter by John Henneberry and Phil Catney

Phil Catney and John Henneberry use evolving policy and practice around protection and management of street trees as a vehicle for examining the relations between the competing paradigms of corporatism and neoliberalism, and the ways that they are expressed ‘on the ground’.

Unprecedented?—How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy | Book by Will Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor and Martina Tazzioli

A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. By CUSP researchers Will Davies, Nick Taylor, and PERC colleagues.

A Commoners’ Climate Movement | Book Chapter by Lucy Stone, Gustavo Montes de OcaIan and Ian Christie

This book chapter as part of the edited collection ‘Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local action in theory and practice’ draws from Elinor Ostrom’s scholarship on managing commons and a wider literature reviewto make the case for cooperative community-based action in the domains of community energy, agriculture and transport.

Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World—His Life and Ideas | Book by Peter A Victor
2021 |

As the first biography of Professor Herman Daly, this book provides an in-depth account of one of the leading thinkers and most widely read writers on economics, environment and sustainability. Drawing on extensive interviews with Daly and in-depth analysis of his publications and debates, Peter Victor presents a unique insight into Daly’s life from childhood to the present day, describing his intellectual development, inspirations and influence.

Dear World Leaders—A response to children’s letters about climate change | A Book for Children
2021 |

This is a book which is set out to help children learn about climate change and support them in understanding some of the solutions to the many problems the world is facing. The cross-institutional project was led by Prof Aled Jones at the Global Sustainability Institute. It includes lesson plans and activities for children to help them think about the world with climate change, how they can be active in responding to its challenges and what might happen over the next ten years.

Post Growth — Life After Capitalism | By Tim Jackson
2021 |

Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability—and left us ill prepared for life in a global pandemic. Weaving together philosophical reflection, economic insight and social vision, Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism—a place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition.

Children, Citizenship and Environment, #SchoolStrike Edition | By Bronwyn Hayward

A new, significantly revised second edition of Bronwyn Hayward’s acclaimed book Children Citizenship and Environment is out now. Our CUSP co-investigator from Canterbury University NZ and colleagues examine how students, with teachers, parents, and other activists, can learn to take effective action to confront the complex drivers of the current climate crisis, including: economic and social injustice, colonialism and racism.

Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches for Policy | Edited by Kate Oakley and Mark Banks
2020 |

New edited collection by CUSP investigator Kate Oakley and Mark Banks, critiquing the current model of the creative economy and considering sustainable alternatives; exploring the complex interactions between cultural prosperity, employment quality and leisure; and showcasing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on creative economy assessment.

This is Not Normal—The Collapse of Liberal Britain | By Will Davies
2020 |

This book by CUSP co-investigator Will Davies takes stock of a historical moment that no longer recognises itself. Davies tells the story of the apparently chaotic and irrational events, and extracts their underlying logic and long-term causes. What we are seeing are the effects of the 2008 financial crash, the failure of the British neoliberal project, the dying of Empire, and the impact of the changes that technology and communications have had on the idea of the public sphere as well as the power of information.

Resources, Financial Risk and the Dynamics of Growth | By Roberto Pasqualino and Aled Jones

New book by CUSP researchers Roberto Pasqualino and Aled Jones, presenting a novel stock and flow consistent global impact assessment model (ERRE) designed by the authors to address the financial risks emerging from the interaction between economic growth and environmental limits under the presence of shocks.

A Vision for Europe

A Vision for Europe | New DiEM25 edited collection w chapter by Tim Jackson
2019 |

Tim Jackson contributing to a new edited collection by the European Think tank DiEM25: A Vision for Europe. “With contributions from some of the world’s foremost thinkers, artists and politicians covering the full spectrum of concerns for the future of the Union, A Vision for Europe presents realistic and viable alternatives to the mainstream barrage of dreadful prospects—a true vision for Europe.”

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason | By Will Davies
2018 |

Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years? How can the history of ideas help us understand our present? In this far-reaching exploration of our new political landscape, CUSP co-investigator Will Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world.

Managing Without Growth—Slower by Design, Not Disaster (2nd edition) | By Peter Victor

Revised second edition of Peter Victor’s influential book. Human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet, this book explains why long-term economic growth is infeasible, and why, especially in advanced economies, it is also undesirable. Simulations developed with Tim Jackson, show that managing without growth is a better alternative.

Circularity Thinking: Systems thinking for circular product and business model (re)design

Circularity Thinking | Book chapter by Fenna Blomsma and Geraldine Brennan

How does one determine which of the many strategies associated with circular economy are appropriate to pursue? In this chapter Fenna Blomsma and Geraldine Brennan apply systems thinking to outline four steps that aid in identifying where and why waste is being generated in the current system, and what the available circular strategies are.

Measuring Up – how the UK is performing on the SDGs | Report

UKSSD publishing first comprehensive assessment of the UK’s performance against the SDGs. With support from CUSP on SDG 17, highlighting a significant danger of the UK quality of life getting worse if action is not taken.

Policy Challenges around Sustainable Lifestyles

Policies for Sustainable Consumption | Book chapter by Tim Jackson and Carmen Smith
2018 |

Tim Jackson’s chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour has been updated for the second edition of the international, multi-disciplinary and partly new collection, edited by Alan Lewis. It summarises the challenge inherent in recent policy debates about sustainable consumption, focusing in particular on what might be involved in negotiating the kinds of lifestyle changes that are implied by the radical reductions in carbon emissions that are required to mitigate climate change.

Economic Science Fictions | Edited by Will Davies

From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, CUSP co-investigator Will Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalise economic thinking.

The Social Effects of Global Trade | Book chapter by Simon Mair, Angela Druckman and Tim Jackson

As part of a new compilation of groundbreaking work on social indicators, Simon Mair, Angela Druckman and Tim Jackson have contributed a chapter examining how globalisation since 1990 has shaped fairness in the Western European clothing supply chain.

Prosperity without Growth—Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow | By Tim Jackson
2017 |

The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates its arguments and considerably expands upon them. Tim Jackson demonstrates that building a ‘post-growth’ economy is not Utopia—it’s a precise, definable and meaningful task. It’s about taking simple steps towards an economics fit for purpose.