Clive Spash

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Clive L. Spash (2010)

Clive Laurence Spash (born March 10, 1962 in Reading , Great Britain ) is a British ecological economist . Since 2010 he has held the chair for Public Policy and Governance at the WU Vienna . He is also the editor-in-chief of Environmental Values .

Life and career

Spash is the son of David Isaac and Patricia Spash, née Fitzgerald.

Clive Spash studied Economics at the University of Stirling in Scotland and Interdisciplinary Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Canada . He then did his doctorate in the USA at the University of Wyoming .

From 1996 to 2001 he was director of the Research for the Environment (CRE) institute at the University of Cambridge .

Spash was President of the European Society for Ecological Economics from 2000 to 2006 . Before that, he had been its vice-president for four years (1996–2000).

From 2006, Spash was Chief Executive Officers' Science Leader of CSIRO , Australia's government agency for scientific and industrial research. After trying to publish a critical article on emissions trading - which had already gone through the peer-reviewed process - the agency intervened and pushed for changes. The behavior of the authority led to controversial discussions within the scientific community, and the renowned journal Nature also reported in detail on the incident. In the course of the dispute, Spash left the agency in late 2009.

research

Spash is an influential scientist within ecological economics. She regularly publishes specialist articles in the journal Ecological Economics . In 2017 Routledge published the Handbook of Ecologial Economics, which he edited . Spash also takes a public position and participates in debates. He is a vehement critic of the growth economy and instead advocates a transformation of the global economy. So-called "green growth" is also not an alternative. Only an economic system that no longer relies on growth but on degrowth is a sustainable model.

In his work, Spash deals critically with many aspects of neoclassical environmental economics and propagates a clear distinction between ecological economics and mainstream economics. As a critic of economic valuation , he made a significant contribution to the development of deliberative monetary valuation . He was equally skeptical about biodiversity offsetting and European emissions trading .

In numerous works Spash also deals with the philosophy of science , especially with questions of ontology , epistemology and methodology , where he appears as a representative of Critical Realism . Basically, he uses critical-realistic positions in his work to substantiate arguments of ecological economics.

Publications (selection)

  • Clive L. Spash (Ed.): Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2017.
  • Clive L. Spash, Karin Dobernig: Theories of (Un) sutainable Consumption. In: Clive L. Spash (Ed.): Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2017, pp. 203-213.
  • Clive L. Spash, Clemens Gattringer: The Ethical Failures of Climate Economics. In: Adrian Walsh, Sade Hormio, Duncan Purves (Eds.): The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2017, pp. 162–182.
  • Clive L. Spash: This changes nothing: The Paris Agreement to ignore reality. In: Globalizations. Volume 13, No. 6, 2016, pp. 928-933.
  • Clive L. Spash: The Brave New World of Carbon Trading. In: New Political Economy. Volume 15, No. 2, 2010, pp. 169-195.
  • Clive L. Spash: Censoring science in research officially. In: Environmental Values. Volume 19, No. 2, 2010, pp. 141-146.
  • Clive L. Spash: Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics. Routledge, London 2002.
  • Martin O'Connor, Clive L. Spash: Valuation and the Environment: Theory, Methods and Practice. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 1999.
  • Clive L. Spash: The political economy of nature. In: Review of Political Economy. Volume 7, No. 3, 1995, pp. 279-293.
  • Clive L. Spash, Ian A. Simpson: Utilitarian and rights-based alternatives for protecting sites of special scientific interest. In: Journal of Agricultural Economics. Volume 45, No. 1, 1994, pp. 15-26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prabook.com
  2. ↑ wu.ac.at
  3. ↑ clivespash.org
  4. ^ Environmental Values. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ clivespash.org
  6. ↑ Curriculum Vitae . In: Clive L. Spash . April 26, 2015 ( clivespash.org [accessed June 5, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Dan Harrison EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT: Scientist Quits CSIRO amid censorship claims. December 3, 2009, accessed June 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Stephen Pincock: Australian agency denies gagging researchers . In: Nature . November 6, 2009, ISSN  1744-7933 , doi : 10.1038 / news.2009.1068 ( nature.com [accessed June 5, 2018]).
  9. ^ Stephen Pincock: Australian agency moves to calm climate row . In: Nature . November 13, 2009, ISSN  1744-7933 , doi : 10.1038 / news.2009.1083 ( nature.com [accessed June 5, 2018]).
  10. ^ Stephen Pincock: Researcher quits over science agency interference . In: Nature . December 4, 2009, ISSN  1744-7933 , doi : 10.1038 / news.2009.1126 ( nature.com [accessed June 5, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Stephen Pincock: Australian agency denies gagging researchers . In: Nature . November 6, 2009, ISSN  1744-7933 , doi : 10.1038 / news.2009.1068 ( nature.com [accessed June 5, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society , accessed May 30, 2018.
  13. ↑ woz.ch
  14. ↑ geo.de
  15. ↑ boell.de
  16. ↑ woz.ch
  17. ^ Clive L. Spash: The shallow or the deep ecological economics movement? In: Ecological Economics . tape 93 , p. 351-362 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ecolecon.2013.05.016 .
  18. ↑ Clive L. Spash: Deliberative monetary valuation (DMV): Issues in combining economic and political processes to value environmental change . In: Ecological Economics . tape 63 , no. 4 , p. 690-699 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ecolecon.2007.02.014 .
  19. ↑ Clive L. Spash: Bulldozing biodiversity: The economics of offsets and trading in Nature . In: Biological Conservation . tape 192 , p. 541-551 , doi : 10.1016 / j.biocon.2015.07.037 .
  20. ^ Clive L. Spash: The brave new world of carbon trading . In: New Political Economy . tape 15 , no. 2 , p. 169-195 , doi : 10.1080 / 13563460903556049 .
  21. ↑ Clive Spash: Social, ecological and economic knowledge: On the synthesizing potential of critical realism . In: Urs Lindner, Dimitri Mader (eds.): Critical Realism meets Critical Social Theory Ontology, Explanation and Criticism in the Social Sciences . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8394-2725-5 , p. 217-242 .
personal data
SURNAME Spash, Clive
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spash, Clive Laurence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ecological economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , UK