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-economic welfare 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.