Prof. Tim Jackson
 | Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the newly-awarded ESRC Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). Funded under the TSEC (Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy) programme, the aim of RESOLVE is to develop a robust understanding of the links between lifestyle, societal values and the environment. In particular, RESOLVE aims to provide evidence-based advice to policy-makers in the UK and elsewhere who are seeking to understand and to influence people's energy-related behaviours and practices. Tim sits on the UK Sustainable Development Commission and chaired their former Economics Steering Group. In addition to his academic work he is a professional playwright with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.
Tim read Mathematics at Cambridge, and has postgraduate degrees in Philosophy and in Physics. He joined the University of Surrey in January 1995, after five years working as a senior researcher on energy and environmental issues at the Stockholm Environment Institute. In April 2000, he was appointed Professor of Sustainable Development at Surrey, the first such chair to be created in the UK. Between January 2003 and April 2005, Tim was awarded a professorial research fellowship on the social psychology of sustainable consumption, supported by the ESRC's Sustainable Technologies Programme. Tim's recent research interests have focused on the relationship between lifestyle, wellbeing and the environment. He has a particular interest in the energy and carbon impacts of lifestyle and has explored both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of this relationship. Tim has also pioneered the development of 'adjusted' national accounts ('green GDP') and written extensively on the conceptual and empirical dimensions of the relationship between wellbeing and sustainability. In March 2004, Tim was appointed to the UK Sustainable Development Commission as chair of the Economics Steering Group. In November 2004, he was appointed as the sole academic representative on the UK Sustainable Consumption Round Table. He also sits on the Whitehall Wellbeing Working Group, Defra's Sustainable Consumption and Production Evidence Base Advisory Group and Defra's Behaviour Change Forum. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, an Associate of the New Economics Foundation and sits on the advisory board of the Sustainable Development Research Network.
Professional Affiliations
Selected publications: Jackson, T (2009). Prosperity without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet. London:Earthscan. Thomas Pellicer, R and T Jackson (2009). Reconstructing Cultures of Sustainable Consumption: towards a deconstruction of the global polity. Chapter 16 in Sudip Datta Banik and Saikat Kumar Basu (eds) Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation, 271-343. Jackson, T. (2008) Where is the Wellbeing Dividend? Nature, Structure and Consumption Inequalities. Local Environment 13(8), 703-724 Jackson, T. (2008) The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyles. Chapter 4 in G Gardner and T Prugh State of the World 2008. Washington DC: WorldWatch Institute, 45-60. Jackson, T 2008. Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyle Change. Chapter 14 in Lewis A (ed) Handbook of Economic Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 335-362. Jackson, T. (2007) Sustainable Consumption. Chapter 16 In Atkinson, G, S Dietz and E Neumayer (eds). A Handbook of Sustainable Development, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 254-268. Jackson, T (2006) Consuming Paradise? Towards a socio-cultural psychology of Sustainable Consumption. Chapter 25 in Jackson, T (ed) Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption. London: Earthscan. Jackson, T (2006) Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, London: Earthscan. Jackson, T (2005) Motivating Sustainable Consumption: a review of the evidence on consumer behaviour and behavioural change. A report to the Sustainable Development Research Network. London: Policy Studies Institute. Jackson, T. (2004) Consuming Paradise? Unsustainable Consumption in Cultural and Social-Psychological Context, in Hubacek, K, A Inaba and S Stagl (eds) Driving Forces of and Barriers to Sustainable Consumption, Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Leeds, 5 th -6 th March 2004. Jackson, T, W Jager and S Stagl (2004). Beyond Insatiability: needs theory, consumption and sustainability, in Reisch, L. and I. Røpke (eds) The Ecological Economics of Consumption. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Jackson, T and E Papathanasopoulou (2004). Energy Implications of Household Consumption Patterns: an input-output approach with reference to UK expenditure patterns 1968-2000. Paper presented to the International Society of Ecological Economics conference, Montreal, July 2004.
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