Read our conversation with Simon Sharpe, a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, where he talks about his new book ‘Five Times Faster’ and rethinking the science, economics and diplomacy of climate change.
Fourth in the series on biophysical economics, we talk to Prof. Carey W. King about his research goals centered on rigorous interpretations of the past to determine the most probable future energy pathways and how he attempts to reach these goals by bridging the gaps between economic and biophysical worldviews of economic growth and structural change.
Third in the series on biophysical economics, we talk to Prof. Fischer-Kowalski about her pioneering work on the widely used metric for material and energy flows, where she also elaborates on the reasons why she thinks we have entered a period of socio-ecological transformation.
Second in the series on biophysical economics, we talk to Roldan Muradian about the various neoclassical conceptual frameworks to analyse earth’s ecosystem and their pitfalls. We also discuss why he is arguing against utilitarian environmentalism.
Exploring the field of biophysical economics, we talk to Lina about how her research traverses the whole energy chain: from exploring issues of energy extraction (through the concept of energy return on energy invested) to exploring issues of why we use energy in the way we do.