Emeritus doesn’t translate to retired for ecological economist

Retirement is not slowing growth for Professor Emeritus Peter Victor; in fact, the ecological economist who is best known for his influential book Managing Without Growth, is busier than ever with a new book on economist Herman Daly and an active research agenda. By Elaine Smith Peter Victor may have stepped down from his academic responsibilities at York

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ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS INTERNSHIP WITH THE VATICAN

Ecological Economics, Commons Governance, and Climate Justice

Principal Investigator: Patricia Ellie Perkins. Funding: QES/Universities Canada. Term: 2018-2021. This Climate Justice Project aims to build a research network of 18 or more low and middle-income-country (LMIC) and Canadian emerging scholars (PhD researchers and post-doctoral fellows) working to address the injustices resulting from global climate change through participatory democratic governance. It will also introduce

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Normative Application for Ecological Economics and the Tools for Its Assessment

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) The research examined the relationship between complexity and ethics within the general framework of the moral foundations of ecological economics. The project extended the macroeconomic model LowGrow, including re-specification and/or re-estimation of equations with a capacity to represent Canada's fair share of planetary boundaries, disaggregation of investment, and

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