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.
