Brian Davey

Brian Davey is a freelance ecological economist who lives in Nottingham and works closely with Feasta, the Dublin-based think tank for Sustainable Economics, on climate and energy issues. He is also co-ordinator of the cap and share campaign.

After Copenhagen

Copenhagen was supposed to be the last chance for humanity on an assumption that emissions in the future would continue to grow as they have in the past. But what if the future is one of contraction and disorganisation anyway?

By Brian Davey

/ 21 Dec 2009

Changing the lifestyle package

Climate change calls for a mobilisation of the population that alters our structure of motivations. And what of governance? It requires an eco-informed citizenry.

By Brian Davey

/ 15 Dec 2009

The mass psychology of climate change - scientists need 'attitude'

The media storm over the hacked CRU e-mails shows that staying above the mud fight is a forlorn hope

By Brian Davey

/ 2 Dec 2009

Climate Change: politics v reality

There's a lot of material in Anthony Giddens "The Politics of Climate Change". (Polity Press, Cambridge) Rather than attempting to cover it all, comprehensively, I take

By Brian Davey

/ 30 Apr 2009

The limits to growth: The real case for a green new deal

Brian Davey (Nottingham, Strategy for Losers): Green New Deals are clearly the new big idea. Governments need to spend to avert the worse kind of slump and it makes sense

By Brian Davey

/ 31 Oct 2008