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About this episode

In this episode, Paul Behrens discusses the role of demand management in reducing unsustainable consumption and its impact on climate change.

Paul Behrens is British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford and Reapra Senior Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre there. He is an industrial ecologist examining how the ways we produce our lives and the things we consume in them are related to environment stress, especially climate change. In this episode, we discuss the role of demand management in averting ecological disaster - demand management here referring to reducing or changing unsustainable consumption p...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Fabian

Guest: Paul Behrens

Topics covered

• sustainability
• climate change
• demand management
• ecological disaster
• industrial ecology

Keywords

• sustainability
• climate change
• demand management
• ecological disaster
• industrial ecology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oxford, Wellbeing Research Centre, British Academy

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