New Publications

There was a piece in the Economist last week that looked at an OECD / University of Utrecht account of the conditions of life in 25 countries since 1820.   A part of this says: For the most part, the findings...

My latest review essay is now published in EER: Exploring a transformative orientation to sustainability in universities: a question of loose and tight framings.  It is available here c/o Taylor & Francis. This is the Abstract: This review essay examines three...

In the Summer, the Economist's Free Exchange column had a feature on the economics of renewable energy which suggested that the costs of wind and (especially) solar power are much more problematic that thought.   The article begins: "... whereas...

I wrote recently about a dire presentation at the recent ECER conference where ESD was taken to task for being overly-anthropocentric.  The speaker, Helen Kopnina of the University of Amsterdam and the Hague University of Applied Science, spoke up for...

This is the title of a paper that Paul Vare and I have written for the Teachers: Agents of Change project, funded by the EU, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and the Czech Development Agency. This...

You can access WWF Scotland's ageing, but still rather fine, Linking Thinking report here.  It was written by Stephen Sterling, Paul Maiteny, Deryck Irving and John Salter.  Is it for you?  Well, the authors say that if you, or your institution or organisation are: interested...

After Sustainability Denial, Hope, Retrieval is a new book by John Foster.  The blurb says: Dangerous climate change is coming. Some people still deny that it is happening, others that it is now too late to prevent it. Both denials spring...

There's a new report from the HEA on: The Role of Hefce in Teaching and Learning Enhancement: A Review of Evaluative Evidence.  It does not make good reading. This report was commissioned by the HEA in 2013 at Hefce's request, with the...

According to a report in the Guardian 1,875 non-native species were counted in Great Britain in 2012 – a figure increasing by 10 species a year, it seems.  282 of these have become invasive. The parliamentary report, Invasive Non-native Species, says there...

Nature, as well as obviously being 'for itself', is essential to human welfare and crucial to our global economy.  Despite this, the value of natural capital is consistently taken for granted.  The UK's Natural Capital Committee (NCC) has recently published...