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Andy Gouldson Prof Andy Gouldson

Professor of Sustainability Research; Director - ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics & Policy

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36417
Email address: a.gouldson@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.117

Biography

Andy Gouldson has nearly 20 years of experience working on a wide range of issues relating to environmental policy and management. He is professor of sustainability research, and from January 2006 to June 2009 was Director of the Sustainability Research Institute, at the University of Leeds. He is currently a Director of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and is leading a project on the prospects for a low carbon, climate resilient regional economy for the Centre for Low Carbon Futures.

Andy is an inter-disciplinary environmental social scientist whose work combines aspects of geography and environment, politics and policy, economics and management and science and technology studies. His main area of expertise relates to the influence of different forms of policy and governance on businesses, on economic development and on the relationships between environment, economy and society. He has also worked extensively on the management of environmental risks and on theories of ecological modernisation and environmental justice. Much of his work has focused on issues relating to air pollution, and more recently he has focused on the management of the risks associated with climate change and on enhancing the prospects for a transition towards a low carbon economy. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with government, regulatory agencies, businesses, pressure groups and local communities.

Prior to joining the University of Leeds in January 2006, Andy spent 10 years at the LSE, and for the last 7 years he has been a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has been Editor of the journal Environmental Policy and Governance (formerly European Environment) since 1991.

Publications

  • Lange, B; Gouldson, A (2010) Trust-based environmental regulation., Sci Total Environ, 408, pp.5235-5243. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.052
  • Gouldson, A; Morton, A; Pollard, SJT (2009) Better environmental regulation - contributions from risk-based decision-making, SCI TOTAL ENVIRON, 407, pp.5283-5288. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.013
  • Paavola, J; Gouldson, A; Kluvankova-Oravska, T (2009) The Interplay of Actors, Scales, Frameworks and Regimes in the Governance of Biodiversity, Environmental Policy and Governance, 19, pp.148-158. doi:10.1002/eet.505
  • Murphy, J; Gouldson, A (2009) Integrating Environment and Economy through Ecological Modernisation? An assessment of the impact of environmental policy on industrial innovation, In: Mol, A; Sonnenfeld; D; Spaargaren; G (Ed) The Ecological Modernization Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice, Routledge.
  • Gouldson, A; Hills, P; Welford, R (2008) Ecological modernisation and policy learning in Hong Kong, GEOFORUM, 39, pp.319-330. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.07.002
  • Gouldson, A (2008) Understanding business decision making on the environment, ENERG POLICY, 36, pp.4618-4620. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.09.047
  • Gouldson, A; Lopez-Gunn, E; Van Alstine, J; Rees, Y; Davies, M; Krishnarayan, V (2008) New, Alternative and Complementary Policy Instruments and the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive, European Environment, 19, pp.359-370. doi:10.1002/eet.491
  • Gouldson, AP; Sullivan, R (2007) Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers: Examining the Value of Government-led Reporting on Corporate Environmental Performance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 14, pp.263-273. doi:10.1002/csr.148
  • Gouldson, AP; Sullivan, R (2007) Corporate Environmentalism: Tracing the Links between Policies and Performance Using Corporate Reports and Public Registers, Business Strategy and the Environment, 16, pp.1-11. doi:10.1002/bse.543
  • Gouldson, A; Lidskog, R; Wester-Herber, M (2007) The battle for hearts and minds? Evolutions in corporate approaches to environmental risk communication, ENVIRON PLANN C, 25, pp.56-72. doi:10.1068/c0617j
  • Gouldson, A; Bebbington, J (2007) Corporations and the governance of environmental risk, ENVIRON PLANN C, 25, pp.4-20. doi:10.1068/c0614j
  • Gouldson, A (2006) Do firms adopt lower standards in poorer areas? Corporate social responsibility and environmental justice in the EU and the US, AREA, 38, pp.402-412.
  • Gouldson, AP (2005) Regulatory Styles and the Evolving Influence of Environmental Regulations in the UK, In: Ketola, T (Ed) Environmental Economy (Ympäristöekonomia), Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku..
  • Gouldson, AP (2005) Voluntary Environmental Regulation and the Imperatives, Incentives and Capacities for Technological Change: The case of the EU Eco-Audit Regulation (EMAS) in the UK, In: Norbert-Bohm, V; de Bruijn, T (Ed) Industrial Transformation: Environmental Policy Innovation in the United States and Europe, MIT Press, Boston.
  • Gouldson, A (2004) Risk, regulation and the right to know: Exploring the impacts of access to information on the governance of environmental risk, SUSTAIN DEV, 12, pp.136-149. doi:10.1002/sd.237
  • Gouldson, A (2004) Cooperation and the capacity for control: regulatory styles and the evolving influence of environmental regulations in the UK, ENVIRON PLANN C, 22, pp.583-603. doi:10.1068/c0312j
  • Berkhout, F; Gouldson, AP (2003) Shaping, Modulating, Adapting: Perspectives on technology, environment and policy, In: Berkhout; F; Leach; M; Scoones; I (Ed) Negotiating Environmental Change: Advances in environmental social science, Edward Elgar.
  • Gouldson, AP (2003) EU Policy and the Development of Renewable Energy Technologies, In: Douthwaite, R (Ed) Ireland's Transition to Renewable Energy, Feasta / Green Books.
  • Bailey, P; Gouldson, AP; Haq, G (2002) Mind the Gap! Comparing ex-ante and ex-post assessments of the costs of complying with environmental regulation, European Environment, 12, pp.245-256. doi:10.1002/eet.303
  • Murphy, J; Gouldson, AP (2000) Environmental policy and industrial innovation: integrating environment and economy through ecological modernisation, Geoforum, 31, pp.33-44. doi:10.1016/S0016-7185(99)00042-1
  • Gouldson, AP; Roberts, P (2000) Integrating Environment and Economy: Strategies for Regional and Local Government,Routledge.
  • Gouldson, AP; Murphy, J (1998) Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation,James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd, pp.0-224.
  • Gouldson, AP; Murphy, J (1997) Ecological modernisation: economic restructuring and the environment, The Political Quarterly, 68, pp.74-86.
  • Gouldson, AP; Murphy, J (1996) Ecological modernisation and the European Union, Geoforum, 27, pp.11-21. doi:10.1016/0016-7185(96)00002-4
  • Welford, R; Gouldson, AP (1993) Environmental Management and Business Strategy,Pitman Publishing.
  • Gourmelen, N; Shepherd, A; Angus, DA; Fisher, QJ; Gouldson, A (Not yet published) Quantifying the success of onshore CO2 capture and storage, Nature Geoscience, .
  • Gouldson, AP; Newell, P; Bailey, I (Not yet published) Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: A Critical Analysis, Antipode, .