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Professor Tim Jackson

Director, RESOLVE

Short Biography:

SHORT BIOGRAPHY: Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). His research interests focus on understanding the social, psychological and structural dimensions of sustainable living.
Tim joined the University of Surrey in January 1995 under an EPSRC Fellowship on energy and environment, after five years as Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute. In February 2000, he was appointed Professor of Sustainable Development, the first such chair to be created in the UK. From Jan 2003 to April 2005 he held an ESRC Fellowship on the social psychology of sustainable consumption. He founded RESOLVE in May 2006 with core funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). RESOLVE is a novel inter-disciplinary collaboration involving around 30 researchers across four departments (CES, Psychology, Sociology, Economics) in Surrey. Its aim is to develop a robust understanding of the links between lifestyle, societal values and the environment, and to provide evidence-based advice to policy-makers seeking to influence people's lifestyles and practices.
For over twenty years, Tim has been at the forefront of research and teaching in sustainability. In 1988 he pioneered a least-cost approach to carbon abatement for Friends of the Earth. In 1996 he co-authored (with Nic Marks) the first Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for the UK and has continued to work closely with the New Economics Foundation and others on measures of sustainable wellbeing at national and regional level. During the last decade, he has led numerous research and policy initiatives on sustainable consumption and production in the UK and abroad. From June 2004 to March 2006, he was the sole academic representative on the UK Sustainable Consumption Round Table and in 2006 published the Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption. Tim led the team which developed the Surrey Environmental Lifestyle Mapping (SELMA) model used to estimate the UK's 'carbon footprint' for the Carbon Trust. He is a co-author of the WorldWatch Institute's influential State of the World 2008 on sustainable economies.
In April 2004, Tim was appointed as Economics Commissioner to the UK Sustainable Development Commission (SDC). He contributed extensively to the 2005 UK Sustainable Development Strategy and is now leading the SDC's Redefining Prosperity programme. He is a member of UNEP's Sustainable Lifestyles Task Force, Defra's Sustainable Consumption and Production Advisory Group, the Environment Agency's Science Advisory Panel and the Carbon Trust/BSI Technical Advisory Group on carbon labelling. He chairs the 'New Energy Solutions' Advisory Board for Danish investment company BankInvest and is associate researcher on a Templeton Foundation project on 'The Pursuit of Happiness' at Emory University, Atlanta.
In addition to his academic and policy work, Tim is an award-winning playwright with numerous BBC radio credits to his name. His environmental drama The Cry of the Bittern won a Public Awareness of Science Drama Award in 1998. His most recent play, Variations, won the 2007 Grand Prix Marulic and is longlisted for the 2008 Sony Drama award.

Research Interests:

• Sustainable Lifestyles
• Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Sustainable Economic Wellbeing
• Low Carbon Energy Systems
• Religion and Sustainability

Research Collaborations:

• Research on Lifestyles, Environment and Society (RESOLVE)
• Barriers for energy changes among end consumers and households (BARENERGY) - EU FP7
• Sue Waste Consortium
• TARBASE - Carbon Vision Buildings
• Food Climate Research Network (FCRN)

Teaching:

• Sustainable Development (Module Leader)
• Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Ethics, Values and Sustainability (Module Leader)
• Environmental Economics

Books

• Sustainable Development (Module Leader) Jackson, T 2009. Prosperity without Growth – Economics for a Finite Planet. London: Earthscan.
• Peters, M, S Fudge and T Jackson (eds) (forthcoming). Low carbon communities: imaginative approaches to combating climate change locally. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Jackson, T (2006) Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption. London: Earthscan.
• Jackson, T, K Begg and S Parkinson (2001). Flexibility in Climate Policy - making the Kyoto Mechanisms work, Earthscan, London.
• Jackson, T (1996) Material Concerns - Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life. London: Routledge.
• Jackson, T (1993) Clean Production Strategies - developing preventive environmental management in the industrial economy. Boca Raton, Fl: Lewis Publishers.

Book Chapters

• Thomas Pellicer, R and T Jackson 2009. Reconstructing Cultures of Sustainable Consumption: towards a deconstruction of the global polity. Chapter 16 in Sudip Datta Banik and Saikat Kumar Basu (eds) Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation, 271-343.
• Jackson, T and M Pepper (forthcoming). Consumerism as Theodicy – an exploration of religions and secular meaning functions. In Thomas, L (ed) Consuming Paradise. Oxford: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Journal Papers

• Alexander, C, A Druckman, T Jackson and C Osinski 2009. Estimations of household material flows in deprived areas. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Waste and Resource Management 162 (WR3) 129-139.
• Atkinson, J, T Jackson and E Mullings-Smith 2009. Market influence on the low carbon energy refurbishment of existing multi-residential buildings. Energy Policy 37: 2582–2593.
• Bradley, P, C Thomas, A Druckman and T Jackson 2009. Accounting for food waste: comparative analysis within the UK. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Waste and Resource Management 162(WR1): 5-13.
• Dickinson, J, T Jackson, M Matthews and A Cripps 2009. The economic and environmental optimisation of integrating ground source energy systems into buildings. Energy 34: 2215-2222.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson (forthcoming). The bare necessities: how much household carbon do we really need? Ecological Economics. Accepted for publication.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson 2009. The carbon footprint of UK households 1990-2004: a socio-economically disaggregated, quasi-multiregional input-output model. Ecological Economics 68 (7): 2066–2077.
• Fudge S, T Jackson Y Mulugetta and M Peters (forthcoming) The political economy of energy regulation in the UK 1945-2008: paradigms and policy. Environmental Politics. Accepted for publication.
• Fudge S, T Jackson Y Mulugetta and M Peters (forthcoming) Reconciling markets and governance: energy regulation in the UK 1989-present. Energy Policy. Accepted for publication.
• Hogg, N and T Jackson 2009. Digital Media and Dematerialization An Exploration of the Potential for Reduced Material Intensity in Music Delivery. Journal of Industrial Ecology 13(1): 127-146.
• Jackson, T 2009. Beyond the Growth Economy. Journal of Industrial Ecology 13(4): 487-490.
• Jackson, T 2009. Recovery without Growth? Renewal 17(3): 43-56.
• Jackson, T and E Papathansopoulou 2008. Luxury or Lock-in? An exploration of unsustainable consumption in the UK: 1968 to 2000. Ecological Economics 68: 80-95.
• Papathanasopoulou, E and T Jackson 2009. Measuring fossil resource inequality—A case study for the UK between 1968 and 2000. Ecological Economics: in press.
• Papathanasopoulou, E and T Jackson 2008. Fossil resource trade balances: Emerging trends for the UK. Ecological Economics 66: 492-505.
• Pepper, M, T Jackson and D Uzzell 2009. An examination of the values that motivate socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours. International Journal of Consumer Studies 33:126-136.
• Pepper, M, T Jackson and D Uzzell (forthcoming) An examination of Christianity and socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviors. Environment and Behavior. Accepted for publication.
• Shaw, R, M Attree, T Jackson and M Kay 2009. The value of reducing distribution losses by domestic load-shifting: a network perspective. Energy Policy 37: 3159-3167.

Conference Papers

• Chitnis, M, A Druckman, L Hunt, S Milne and T Jackson 2009. Analysing the Role of Lifestyles in Determining UK Household Energy Demand and GHG Emissions: Predictions and Scenarios to 2050. Conference on Energy Economics and Technology. Long-term Energy Trends – Where will we be in 2050?, Dresden, Germany, April 3, 2009.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson 2009. The carbon footprint of the UK: Exploring its trends and drivers using a quasi-multi-regional input-output model. ESRC Stakeholder Seminar on Accounting for and Modelling the Pollution Content of Trade Flows, Carbon Footprints and other Indicators of Sustainable Development. Glamorgan Building, Cardiff, Wales.
• Druckman A and T Jackson 2009. The delights of data: deficiencies in the quagmire? Carbon Accounting Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 11 March 2009. www.carboncounting.org.uk
• Druckman, A and Jackson, T 2009. Where does all the carbon go? Mapping carbon lifestyles. SDRN Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference 2009. London 24 September 2009.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson 2009. The bare necessities: how much household carbon do we really need? 5th International Conference on Industrial Ecology. Transitions Toward Sustainability., Lisbon, Portugal, 21-24 June 2009.

Working Papers and Reports

• Abdallah, S, A Knuutila, T Jackson and Nic Marks 2009. The 2009 R-ISEW (Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Well-being) for all the English Regions. Report prepared for EMDA. London: New Economics Foundation.
• Abdallah, S, A Knuutila, E Neitzert, E Lawlor, A Esteban and T Jackson 2009. Scoping project for development Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Well-being. Report prepared for EMDA. London: New Economics Foundation.
• Bedford, T, P Collingwood, A Darnton, D Evans, B Gatersleben, W Abrahamse, W and T Jackson, 2009. Motivations for Pro-environmental Behaviour. A research report completed for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. London: Defra.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson 2009. The bare necessities: how much household carbon do we really need? RESOLVE Working Paper 05-09. Guildford: University of Surrey.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson 2009. Mapping our carbon responsibilities: more key results from the Surrey Environmental Lifestyle MApping (SELMA) framework. RESOLVE Working Paper 02-09. Guildford: University of Surrey.
• Druckman, A and T Jackson 2008. The Surrey Environmental Lifestyle MApping (SELMA) framework: development and key results to date. RESOLVE Working Paper 08-08, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
• Gatersleben, B, E White, W Abrahamse, T Jackson, D Uzzell 2009. Materialism and Environmental Concern. Examining Values and Lifestyle Choices among Participants of the 21st Century Living Project. RESOLVE Working Paper Series 01-09. Guildford: Surrey.
• Hayward, B, T Jackson and D Evans 2009. Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles - Analysis of UK respondents. Report to the UNEP GSSL. Guildford: RESOLVE.
• Jackson, T 2009. Prosperity without Growth? Steps to a sustainable economy. London: Sustainable Development Commission.
• Jackson, T 2009. Prosperity without Growth? An alternative perspective on economic recovery. Outreach Issues May 2009, 1-2.
• Jackson, T J Porritt, A Lees, V Anderson 2009. A Sustainable New Deal – a fiscal package for economic social and environmental recovery. London: Sustainable Development Commission.
• Jackson T, McBride N, Abdallah S, Marks N 2008. Measuring regional progress: regional index of sustainable economic well-being (R-ISEW) for all the English regions. London: New Economics Foundation.

Other publications

• Druckman, A, P Bradley, E Papathanasopoulou and T Jackson 2008. Measuring Progress towards Carbon Reduction in the UK. Ecological Economics. In press.
• Jackson, T 2008. The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyles. Chapter 4 in G Gardner and T Prugh State of the World 2008. Washington DC: WorldWatch Institute, 45-60.
• Jackson, T 2008. Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyle Change. Chapter 14 in Lewis A (ed) Handbook of Economic Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 335-362.
• Jackson, T 2008. Where is the Wellbeing Dividend? Nature, Structure and Consumption Inequalities. Local Environment. In press.
• Jackson, T and E Papathanasopoulou 2008. Luxury or Lock-in? - an examination of unsustainable consumption in the UK 1968 - 2000. Ecological Economics. In press.
• Jackson, T. 2007. Sustainable Consumption. In Handbook of Sustainable Development. Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 254-68.
• Jackson, T, E Papathanasopoulou, P Bradley and A Druckman. 2007 Attributing UK Carbon Emissions To Functional Consumer Needs: Methodology and Pilot Results. RESOLVE Working Paper Series 01-07, University of Surrey.
• Jackson, T and M Pepper. 2006. Consumerism as Theodicy: an exploration of secular and religious meaning functions in modern society. ISET International Conference on 'Countering Consumerism: secular and religious approaches': London Metropolitan University.
• Jackson, T, N McBride, and N Marks. 2006. "An Index of Sustainable Economic Wellbeing for the Yorkshire and Humber Region - a report for Yorkshire Futures." London: New Economics Foundation.
• Jackson, T 2005. Live Better by Consuming Less: is there a double dividend in sustainable consumption. Journal of Industrial Ecology 9(1-2), 19-36.
• Jackson, T 2005. Motivating Sustainable Consumption: a review of evidence on consumer behaviour and behavioural change. London: Policy Studies Institute.
• Jackson, T 2004. Negotiating Sustainable Consumption - a review of the consumption debate and its policy implications, Energy & Environment 15(6), 1027-1051.
• Jackson, T, W Jager and S Stagl 2004. Beyond Insatiability: needs theory, consumption and sustainability, Chapter 5 in Reisch, L. and I. Røpke (eds) Consumption - perspectives from ecological economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• Jackson, T 2004. Chasing Progress - beyond measuring economic growth. London: New Economics Foundation.
• Jackson, T 2003. Sustainability and the 'Struggle for Existence': the critical role of metaphor in society's metabolism, Environmental Values, 12(3), 289-316.
• Jackson, T 2002. Evolutionary Psychology in Ecological Economics: Consilience, Consumption and Contentment. Ecological Economics 41(2), 289-303

Television & Radio:

Tim is an experienced writer, presenter and broadcaster. He has appeared regularly in the UK and international media. Recent media engagements include his work for BBC Newsnight's Ethical Man series which culminated in a special edition of the prime-time Panorama programme in March 2007. The series charted the progress of Newsnight reporter Justin Rowlatt and his family as they reduced their direct carbon footprint by 40% in the space of single year, with Prof Jackson's guidance. A two-episode compilation of the series was broadcast on BBC World in November 2007.

Contact Details

Email	t.jackson@surrey.ac.uk
Telephone	+44 (0)1483 689072
Fax	+44 (0)1483 686671
Postal Address	Centre for Environmental Strategy Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences University of Surrey (D3) GU2 7XH United Kingdom
Websites	RESOLVE Sustainable Development Commission Economic & Social Research Council