Presenting at Summer School and ISEE/Degrowth Conference, Oslo I will be presenting at the summer school on Monday and then taking part in two events with presentations and discussion panels. The first on Wednesday will be with Arild Vatn, Corinna Dengler, Inge Røpke where the topic is ecological economics as a discipline. Arild and I will give short presentations and then Corinna and Inge will give their positions before general discussion. The second event is focussed on my book, see the flyer, and will involve debate and discussion before opening to the floor. The panellists are: Sarah Ware, Eva Fraňková, Nick Fitzpatrick and Joshua Farley.
Centre for Social Ecological Economics (SEEcentre) Currently being established (website under construction). The SEEcentre will be run by Tone Smith as director and Clive Spash as research director. We will be based in Hurdal ecovillage, Norway with the aims of connecting theory to practice.
The road to Social Ecological Economics Pt.1 This free to download article is the first part of an interview style article on the development of my critical and realist perspective on understanding social-ecological crises. It covers economic education, orthodoxy vs heterodoxy, ecological vs environmental economics, climate economics and criticism of IAMs, Nordhaus, Toll, Stern, cost-benefit analysis, environmental values, ethics and a few other things… Part of a series where Jamie Morgan explores the academic history behind ideas and topics relating to critical realism. He’s done some nice interviews with critical realists like Andrew Sayer, Ted Benton (Pt1) and Tony Lawson, amongst others. My own is going to be in two parts and this is the first. It covers my academic life up until around the early 2000s. So, the two parts will be roughly a quarter century each. More than you ever wanted to known! 🙂
Destroying Nature to Save It and Other Economic Fallacies of the Green Transition On 15th January 2025 at Vienna University of Economics & Business (WU), I gave my last lecture and did so at a public event in the series called “WU Matters, WU Talks”. The event some introductory remarks and warm-up audience interactions by the moderator Ines Omann. I then presented and after my talk there was a panel discussion with: Ursula Bittner, Spokesperson and Economic Expert, Greenpeace Jutta Kill, Researcher and Activist, World Rainforest Movement (WRM) Vincent Liegey, Researcher, Cargonomia Budapest Christina Plank, Researcher, Institute for Development Research, BOKU University This was followed by questions form the audience. There were over 350 people in attendance and a standing ovation given at the end! The full event (2 hrs) is here posted largely unedited by WU. I have posted an edited version of my lecture (20 mins) which is available here.
Foundations of Social Ecological Economics: The Fight for Revolutionary Change in Economic Thought. Manchester: University Press. NOW IN PAPERBACK at Price: £25.00PLUS30% OFF! If you register for MUP’s newsletterCLICK HERE. This two page description of the CONTENTS gives chapter and section titles. Advanced Acknowledgment “This book, written in crystal-clear style, develops the most profound philosophical discussion ever held of ecological economics.” Joan Martinez-Alier, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona. “A brilliant contribution to a radical paradigm of social ecological economics concerned with both disciplinary and social-ecological transformation as necessary conditions for achieving a world in which we all, and all other species, can flourish.’” Tony Lawson, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, University of Cambridge. “The book is deeply rooted in the theory of science, offering a very enlightening text about fundamental issues for science that too often are glossed over or misunderstood.” Arild Vatn, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Award
Clive Spash & John Piccolo (SCB President)
Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) European Distinguished Service Award 2024 The SCB Europe Board voted to award Prof. Clive L. Spash the DSA for his long-standing commitment to the SCB Mission of conserving Earth’s biological diversity. The DSA was presented at the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology, 19 June 2024 in Bologna, Italy, followed by deliver of a plenary lecture by Prof. Spash entitled “Co-opting Conservation: Biodiversity Economics & the Financialisation of Nature”.
Forthcoming and Recent: Articles, Chapters and Papers
Clive L. Spash and Benjamin Baumgartner (2025) Challenging the economic mainstreaming of sustainability and social-ecological crises. In Realizing an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability: The Contributions of Radical Ecology and Heterodox Economics. Edited by Arturo Hermann. Abingdon: Routledge. pp.18-38 Chapter 2
Clive L. Spash (2025) Autonomy and freedom in individual to societal transformation. In Anitra Nelson (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. Abingdon: Routledge. pp.196-210 Chapter 15.
Clive L. Spash (2024) Social ecological transformation of economies: Where the environmental movement went wrong and what is needed. In Joe Gray and Eileen Crist (eds), Cohabiting Earth: Seeking a Bright Future for All Life, pp.63-78. New York: SUNY Press.
Clive L. Spash & Amelia Fuselier (2023) Cost shifting, competition and economic structure. In Encyclopaedia of Ecological Economics. Edited by Ramos-Martín, J. & Padilla Rosa, E. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing pp.87-93.
Clive L. Spash, Adrein Guisan & Carlotta Verita (2023) Social Ecological Economics. In Encyclopaedia of Ecological Economics. Edited by Ramos-Martín, J. & Padilla Rosa, E. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing pp.468-474.
Discussion Papers
My recent working/discussion papers are now generally posted on Research Papers in Economics (external link, free to download). For a complete chronological listing, including all such papers, past and present, see Discussion/Working Papers.
