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2026

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540
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92

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Overview

Tim Jackson is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans topics related to sustainability, economics, and welfare systems with an emphasis on environmental and social dimensions.

The scientist has contributed to an extensive body of work across various publication venues, with significant output in Ecological Economics, where they have published eight papers. Other frequent publication venues include SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Political Science, Sustainable Earth Reviews, and Nature.

Tim Jackson's recent papers include:

  • "Degrowth can work - here's how science can help," 2022, Nature
  • "Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field," 2021, Ecological Economics
  • "Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss," 2020, One Earth
  • "The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity-A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada," 2020, Ecological Economics
  • "Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link," 2021, Ecological Economics

The scientist frequently collaborates with coauthors including Amy Isham, Kate Burningham, Peter A. Victor, Anastasia Loukianov, and Christine Corlet Walker. These collaborations reflect sustained partnerships across multiple publications.

The main subfields of study for Tim Jackson include:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Global and Planetary Change

Core topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Flow Experience in Various Fields
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Best Publications

  • Prosperity without growth : economics for a finite planet

    Tim Jackson

  • Prosperity without growth? : the transition to a sustainable economy

    TD Jackson

  • Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress

    Ida Kubiszewski;Robert Costanza;Carol Franco;Philip Lawn

  • Live Better by Consuming Less?: Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?

    Tim Jackson

  • Prosperity Without Growth

    Tim Jackson

  • The carbon footprint of UK households 1990–2004: A socio-economically disaggregated, quasi-multi-regional input–output model

    Angela Druckman;Tim Jackson

  • Household energy consumption in the UK: A highly geographically and socio-economically disaggregated model

    A. Druckman;T. Jackson

  • Motivating Sustainable Consumption

    TD Jackson

  • Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households

    Angela Druckman;Mona Chitnis;Steve Sorrell;Tim Jackson

  • An examination of the values that motivate socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours

    Miriam Dorothy Pepper;Tim Jackson;David Uzzell

  • Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

    Tim Jackson

  • Supply Loops and Their Constraints: The Industrial Ecology of Recycling and Reuse

    Roland Geyer;Tim Jackson

  • Wohlstand ohne Wachstum

    Tim Jackson

  • The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption

    Tim Jackson

  • Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life

    Tim Jackson

  • Turning lights into flights: Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for UK households

    Mona Chitnis;Steve Sorrell;Angela Druckman;Steven K. Firth

  • Consumption, sustainable welfare and human needs—with reference to UK expenditure patterns between 1954 and 1994

    Tim Jackson;Nic Marks

  • Who rebounds most? Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for different UK socioeconomic groups

    Mona Chitnis;Steve Sorrell;Angela Druckman;Steven K. Firth

  • Productivity and work in the ‘green economy’: Some theoretical reflections and empirical tests

    Tim Jackson;Peter Victor

  • Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature : Report to the United Nations for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference

    Robert Costanza;Gar Alperovitz;Herman Daly;Joshua Farley

  • Book reviewBlueprint for a green economy: by D. Pearce et al Earthscan Publications, London, UK, 1989, 192 pp, £6.95

    Tim Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephanie E. Cassin
Stephanie E. Cassin Toronto Metropolitan University
David Uzzell
David Uzzell University of Surrey
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
David Evans
David Evans University of Bristol
Juliet B. Schor
Juliet B. Schor Boston College
Roland Clift
Roland Clift University of Surrey
Andrew D. Paterson
Andrew D. Paterson University of Toronto
Sagar V. Parikh
Sagar V. Parikh University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sigrid Stagl
Sigrid Stagl Vienna University of Economics and Business
Andrea Pucci
Andrea Pucci University of Pisa

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