Paul Ekins (born 1950) is a prominent British academic in the field of sustainable economics. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He is a former member of the Green Party.
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Political career
Ekins was a prominent member of the UK Green Party (now the Green Party of England and Wales) in the 1970s and 80s. The Green Party was a Green Political party in the United Kingdom The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW (Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr is the principal Green political party in England and Wales. He left in 1986 after controversy over reforms he and others were promoting to streamline Green Party structures. This group, known as 'Maingreen', was seen as a forerunner of the moves to reform the party’s internal structures by a later group known as Green 2000. Green 2000 was a movement to streamline the constitutional arrangements of the Green Party of England and Wales in the early 1990s with the stated aim of getting a green government [1]
Career after politics
Ekins has been a prominent green academic in the field of sustainable economics. He has also worked as a consultant. [2]
In 1996, he set up Forum for the Future with Sara Parkin and Jonathon Porritt. Forum for the Future is a British Sustainable development charity. Sara Parkin is a former Green Party of England and Wales activist Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is an English Environmentalist and Writer. [3] The Forum says: “When Paul Ekins set up the Sustainable Economy Unit as part of Forum for the Future back in 1996, he argued that ‘many of today’s environmental problems are really economic problems in disguise, and getting the economics right lies at the heart of any solutions agenda. ’ He aimed ‘to show that radical moves towards environmental sustainability are compatible with prosperity’. This remains a central part of Forum’s mission. ”[4]
He now works as head of the Environment group at the Policy Studies Institute. The Policy Studies Institute is a British think-tank It was formed in 1978 through the merger of the former Centre for the Study of Social Policy and Political and Economic Planning [2]
He is also a specialist adviser to the Environmental Audit Select Committee of the British House of Commons. The Environmental Audit Select Committee is a select committee of the British House of Commons. The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords [2] He is a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. [2] In 1994, Ekins received a UN Environment Programme Global 500 Award ”for outstanding environmental achievement”. The UN Environment Programme (or UNEP) coordinates United Nations environmental activities assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies [2]
Academic career
Paul Ekins took a Ph. D. in economics at Birkbeck, University of London. Birkbeck University of London, sometimes referred to by its former (and still legal name Birkbeck College or by the abbreviation BBK, is a constituent college He became Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Westminster, in October 2002. The University of Westminster is a university in London, England, formed in 1992 as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, which allowed [2] His academic work is focused on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. [2]
His contributions include work on the conceptualisation and measurement of environmental sustainability, the adjustment of the national accounts to take account of environmental impacts, environmental taxes and ecological tax reform, and environment and trade. [2]
He has written or edited six books. His most recent work is Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (Routledge, London, 2000). [2]
See also
External links
- Policy Studies Institute
- Forum for the Future
- Works by or about Paul Ekins in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
References
- ^ Wall, Derek, Weaving a Bower Against Endless Night: An Illustrated History of the Green Party, 1994
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Policy Studies Institute Policy Studies Institute Biography
- ^ Press Notice footnote from Forum for the Future
- ^ Forum for the Future Annual Report 2006, p6
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