John is a Senior Research Associate at SEI York. His work is concerned with issues related to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).

Key roles and achievements include:

- Leader of the Future Sustainability Programme for the York Centre. He currently manages a large programme of work on Sustainable Consumption and Production. He has built an academic reputation through the publication of a number of peer-reviewed papers.

John headed the research on one of the UK’s largest projects on resource flows and modelling techniques for SCP. This has involved developing a number of approaches to measure and monitor SCP including: the Ecological Footprint, the use of Physical Input-Output Tables, household expenditure models and using carbon dioxide emissions as a consumption indicator.

These approaches lead to the development of the Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP), a scenario modelling tool for evidence based policy in the UK.

John has appeared on Radio 4 news and discussion programmes, as well as the BBC2 “Politics Show”. He has been a keynote speaker at many national and international conferences including the UK launch of resource productivity framework, ICLEI “European Regions Conference”.

He also frequently engages in public debates held by a variety of organisations from local environmental networks to the Natural Environment Research Council.

John has written numerous policy reports on SCP issues for a wide range of audiences including several Government Departments, the Welsh Assembly, the European Environment Agency, regional development agencies and over 40 local authorities.

Publications

• Introducing the Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP) (2010)

• The Need for Sound Carbon Accounting in Scotland (2009)

• Companies on the Scale - Comparing and Benchmarking the Footprints of Businesses (2009)

• A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts (2009)

• Evaluating Sweden’s emissions: at home and abroad (2009)

• Environmental implications of urbanization and lifestyle change in China: Ecological and Water Footprints (2009)

• A research for improving national Ecological Footprints accounts (2009)

• Development of an Embedded Carbon Emissions Indicator - Producing a Time Series of Input-Output Tables and Embedded Carbon Dioxide Emissions for the UK by Using a MRIO Data Optimisation System (2008)

• Wales’ ecological footprint: Scenarios to 2020 (2008)

• Achieving low carbon and sustainable transport systems in Yorkshire and Humber (2008)

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Projects

• Eco-Region North West

  
  

• Ecological Budget

  
  

• Environmental assessment of Leeds city region housing policy

  
  

• Reducing carbon emissions in schools tool

  
  

• Scotland’s Global Footprint

  
  

• TravelCal

  
  

• UK Schools Carbon Footprint Scoping Study

  
  

• York Ecological Footprint

  
  

• Carbon Footprint of the NHS in England

  
  

• Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP)