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New chapter on Institutional Mapping
One of the research methods I find the most interesting is Institutional Mapping. It’s a funny old thing: frequently used in consultancy but not in academia; as intensely useful as it is deeply subjective; and very poorly codified. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Report, ReSSI Project
Tagged Economic Development, Governance, Institutional Mapping, Methodology, Project Updates, Research Impact
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New challenges and thinking for spatial planning systems
Last week I participated in an ESPON Workshop, titled New challenges and thinking for spatial planning systems: Insights from ESPON projects. It was an opportunity to share some of the findings of the ReSSI project to European planners and other … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, ReSSI Project, Uncategorized
Tagged Economic Development, Governance
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Data is power
Oh Facebook, again? To understand why any of this matters, you have to rewind to 2015. That’s when Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were going around the world preaching the gospel of online video. Video, they said, was the … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Business Strategy, capitalism, Data, Governance, Management
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Politics, measurement and morals: the biodiversity offsets trilogy
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, back in August the third paper derived from my PhD was published in New Political Economy. It was quite an important moment for me, not just from a work point of view, … Continue reading
Biodiversity offsets – the moral judgement angle
The third paper emerging from my PhD has recently been published, in the journal New Political Economy. It is titled Failure to Expand? Socio-Technical Practices and Moral Judgement in Markets for Biodiversity Offsets, and it is co-authored with Jennifer Ferreira. Yes, I … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Markets, Publications
Tagged Biodiversity offsets, Biodiversity offsetting, Case studies, Governance, Sustainability
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Economies, and what to do with them
A while ago I was challenged to write a thought piece for Social Business, a relatively new but very interesting academic journal. I decided to talk a bit about the failed promises of CSR, and what to do about them. … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Publications
Tagged Case studies, CSR, Economic Development, Governance, Performance, Sustainability
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Biodiversity offsets: political markets
Earlier this month I published an article with my colleague Dr Jennifer Ferreira in the Review of Social Economy, titled Political markets? Politics and economics in the emergence of markets for biodiversity offsets. It is a companion piece to the 2017 paper … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Markets, Publications
Tagged Biodiversity offsets, capitalism, Governance, Sustainability
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Delivering sustainable and inclusive regional economic development
As mentioned last week, today (10th April 2018) the ReSSI team is delivering a workshop to discuss the findings and policy implications of the findings of the ReSSI project to stakeholders in the West Midlands. This includes Coventry City Council, … Continue reading
Regional Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Development – Report
Apologies for the long silence. I have been away on paternity leave, after the arrival of baby Ferreira Mk II. It has been, in turn, a wonderful, exhausting and exhilarating couple of months. Our second little Research Assistant is ready … Continue reading
Compensation for biodiversity losses: can varied approaches deliver?
This article was first published in the Biodiversity Offsets blog. Offsetting biodiversity: widespread and varied A visit to the SpeciesBanking website shows that the practice of compensating for biodiversity losses is widespread. Offsetting biodiversity losses is an increasingly important … Continue reading
Posted in Markets, Responsible Business
Tagged Biodiversity offsets, Governance, Sustainability
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