Outputs (89)

Illuminating twenty-five years of poverty research through paradata and secondary analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper looked at poverty research over the 20th and 21st centuries, focussing on paradata and secondary analysis. In particular it discussed the work of Peter Townsend.

Can the capitalist state deliver environmental justice? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper disussed the contradictions between capitalism and achieving environmental justice.

Possibilities of paradata: Technologies and social practices - poverty surveys 60 years on (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discussed the difference between survey methods over the years.

Poverty in the UK: Advancing paradata analysis and open access (2014)
Report

This project aimed to provide open access to data from Peter Townsend’s 1967-68 Poverty in the UK (PinUK) landmark UK survey, and to enhance the capacity to use it, through innovative analysis of micro paradata and comparative analysis of macro parad... Read More about Poverty in the UK: Advancing paradata analysis and open access.

Life on a low income in austere times: Precarious budgets (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An analysis of the everyday ways of coping with poverty by those experiencing the impact of service cuts and economic decline.

Energy and social justice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A presentation as part of 'Big Green Week' in Bristol discussing energy issues in relation to social justice. The key issue, I propose, is the nationalisation of energy since private energy companies are making vast profits while many poor die in the... Read More about Energy and social justice.

Degrowth for sustainability, equality and poverty reduction: Some lessons from Cuba (2014)
Book Chapter

Increased economic growth has been widely and consistently advocated as a solution to poverty and inequality. Yet many environmentalists are opposed to limitless growth on the grounds that it is ecologically unsustainable. In particular, the ‘degro... Read More about Degrowth for sustainability, equality and poverty reduction: Some lessons from Cuba.

Achieving Environmental Justice: A Cross National Analysis (2014)
Book

This book addresses the topic of environmental justice, conceptualised as the aspiration for a healthy environment for all social groups, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision making. The work connects the global and the... Read More about Achieving Environmental Justice: A Cross National Analysis.

Life on a low income in austere times (2014)
Report

Following the ‘credit crunch’ 2007-2008, the UK entered the deepest recessionary conditions in living memory. As the liquidity from the financial services sector came to an abrupt halt, the investment ‘life blood’ of the economy in short supply, nume... Read More about Life on a low income in austere times.

Environmental justice in Cuba (2014)
Journal Article

An overview of Cuba's achievements and constraints in relation to environmental justice.

Environmental justice in Europe and Latin America (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A discussion of the politics and paradigms pertaining to environmental justice in Europe and Latin America.

Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Public support for human rights in the UK remains limited, partly as a result of misleading media coverage, as well as political hostility. The UK Human Rights Act, in particular, has been under sustained attack and is now... Read More about Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights.

La Justicia Ambiental (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A talk given to an open university in Cochabamba, Bolivia, regarding environmental inequality,the concept of environmental justice, and environmental injustices in different parts of the world.

Working class involvement in the Green Party (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A speech given to the Green Party national conference on how to be more inclusive of working class people.

Urban waste collection – An environmental justice issue? (2013)
Book Chapter

Despite recent attempts to improve urban waste management through increased recycling, insufficient attention has been paid to the social and distributional impacts of waste policy. This omission means that such changes appear to have reinforced envi... Read More about Urban waste collection – An environmental justice issue?.

Public attitudes to human rights (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A presentation of our research on UK public attitudes to human rights.

Inequity and the ecological crisis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Climate justice, energy justice, environmental justice

Public attitudes to human rights - Data synthesis (2012)
Report

This report identifies, summarises, evaluates and analyses the data that currently exist on British public attitudes to human rights, in general, and minority rights, in particular. Human rights will be considered in a broad sense, to include economi... Read More about Public attitudes to human rights - Data synthesis.

Public attitudes to human rights - Literature review (2012)
Report

n the UK, human rights have, for some time, been susceptible to difficulties of misunderstanding, lack of public awareness, misleading and inaccurate media coverage and political manipulation. The Human Rights Act, 1998 (HRA), in particular, has been... Read More about Public attitudes to human rights - Literature review.

Is socially-just degrowth compatible with a market economy? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A discussion of economic growth, sustainability and equity. The paper highlighted the sustainability issues inherant within capitalism.