Professor Mark Harvey has been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship for a research project entitled: The food-energy-climate change trilemma: developing a neo-Polanyian analysis
The world is facing three historically unprecedented problems:
- anthropogenic climate change,
- the depletion of finite energy and material resources such as oil
- a growing population with increasing and changing demand for food.
These three problems are deeply interconnected, combining together in ‘the food-energy-climate change trilemma’.
Understanding how this trilemma is developing in different parts of the world is critical to finding possible solutions, but it presents a challenge to social science. Mark Harvey’s fellowship project will be comparing how the different politico-socio-economies of the USA, Europe, China and Brazil are responding to the trilemma. His research team will include a senior research officer, and an ESRC doctoral student. The project begins in October this year and runs until 2016.
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Applications are invited for two European Research Council funded Senior Research Officer Posts in the Department of Sociology, to undertake research on the new field of consumption work. The positions have become available as part of Professor
