Core Project Team Miriam Kennet, Project Director and Sustainable Procurement Specialist
Howard Johnson, Public Procurement Specialist
Rose Bridger, Food and Supply Chain Specialist
Economics and Procurement Advisors
Volker Heinemann, Sustainable Economics and Audit Advisor
Philip Lawn, Economics Advisor
Graham Woodison, Procurement Advisor
Sectoral Advisors
Sustainable Buildings
Craig Simmons, Sustainable Development Advisor
Jon Bootland, Sustainable Procurement and Development Advisor, specialist for one client
Prof. Ian Cooper, Sustainable Infrastructure Advisor specialist for one client
Jonathan Essex, Sustainable Infrastructure Specialist
Adrian Windisch, Sustainable Development Practitioner
Aviation and Transport
John Whitelegg, Sustainable Transport Advisor
John Stewart, Sustainable Aviation Advisor
Pedestrianisation and Sustainable Communities
Mayer Hillman, Pedestrianisation and Sustainable Communities Advisor
Technology
Howard Johnson, Public Procurement Specialist (see above)
Paul Kennet, International Procurement and Technology Advisor
Howard Johnson
Experience Summary
Economic development senior executive, experienced in supply chain development, cultural and healthcare industries, inward investment and export promotion. Project managed the NE bid for the 2009 Ryder cup. Skilled at developing a strategy to sustain client confidence using creative solutions and commercial opportunities. 1st person at NDC to realise economic potential of health. Recognised pioneer of "aftercare" investor development programme in England. Personal sales contract targets were exceeded by 350% in last reporting year of supply chain work.
Key Skills Initiative building: able to create quick, effective frameworks for new activities. Marketing and Presentation: customer relationship, presentation, negotiation, PR Organisation and planning: project management, prioritisation and partnership skills. Consultancy and Supply chain: public procurement/service provision, company diagnostic, Management and training: run staff, budgets and overseas offices, teamwork and motivation. Other: wide cultural / commercial understanding of countries and sectors.
Career Highlights: * Public Procurement for the NE Social Enterprise Partnership for 3 years with extensive experience of the nature and constraints of sustainability in procurement across different sectors through the RDAs and by central and local government.
* Established aftercare as a consultancy grade product of economic development. This led to a national programme in 1995, attracted academic interest and was widely copied. Consultant to Copenhagen, Estonian, Bulgarian and Slovenian governments on investor development.
* Responsible for the investment of several companies in the North East, whilst at the Invest in Britain Bureau and as manager of NDC's European sales and marketing team.
* Helped TTTV access funding to grow Signpost (deaf TV signing/programming). * 4 years help for NE maker/designers of quality giftware, valued at £100,000. * Lobbied past Treasury guidelines to win TRW Valves, lobbied past Home Office guidelines to win extended stay conditions for Hong Kong investors. Congratulated by FCO for tactful but effective running of Hong Kong investment during the negotiations, 83-85.
* Awarded "Best partnership project" at Golf Foundation national awards 2002, for NE Extra Golf.
Relevant training: Selling to the NHS (2000), Public procurement (1997), Various with NESEP (2003+) Career History Selected Action Research Projects over the past 3 years North East Social Enterprise Partnership (NESEP), March 2003 - April 2006 Howard Johnson has run the North East Social Enterprise Partnership (NESEP's) public procurement activity for the last 3 years, bringing a focus that is both systematic and opportunity driven. He co wrote the original procurement strategy which had 3 main themes - Building market share for social enterprise through the replication and service extension of the NE sector's best practice companies. - Influencing buyers and raising their awareness of social enterprise. This involves building timely relationships with buyers, senior managers, their consortia and facilitating organisations and promoting evaluation tools which change behaviours such as Local Multiplier 3 - Exploring new areas for social enterprise to operate in and helping develop social enterprise solutions and partnerships.
Key stakeholders at national government and regional level see this NE work as in the vanguard of social enterprise development. Public procurement is 1 of 4 key themes in the newly revised national strategy for social enterprise. Service Extension of existing social enterprise suppliers. April 2003 to date. Building market share by replicating best practice business models in another geographic area has been successfully achieved with Sunderland Homecare Associates. That company now has daughter companies in North Tyneside, Newcastle and Manchester. An alternative approach is to extend the services of an existing social enterprise into new business areas. For example, a community security and CCTV company is now a strategic partner to local authorities on call centre - related options analysis for local authorities and housing associations. Introducing Local Multiplier 3 (LM3) to NE England, June - November 2003, ongoing LM3 reveals the impact on a local economy of the local authorities' (or other organisations') own expenditure decisions, expressed through 2 stages of the supply chain and expressed as a multiplier ratio per pound spent. Developed by the New Economics Foundation, LM3 was taken up by Northumberland County Council in 2003 and will be rolled out across the 25 local authorities of NE starting in 2006. Once local authorities understand what the effect of their own spending, it changes behaviours and allows targets for raising local spend to be set. Joint venture approaches to construction/ground maintenance contracts: Nov 2004-5. Co-operating with the private sector on construction contracts must be undertaken selectively, it is an approach which can all too easily be diluted into tokenism. When successful, there are mutual benefits plus the potential to introduce a new contracting dynamic into construction. I worked on two innovative approaches to contracts during 2005.
1992 to 1997 Manager Investment Services NDC (Newcastle) First comprehensive "aftercare" programme for existing investors in the country for Northern Development Company (NDC). Set out; objectives, targets, liaison policy, monitoring and client management procedures. Worked with wide regional partnership to optimise expansion potential for existing investors in NE. Also to embed them in competitive regional supply chains. Trained secondees, colleagues and many UK and overseas agencies. Public procurement scoped. I was seconded to CURDS in 1997 to explore RDO/ university linkages using call centres as an initial focus point. 1990 to 1992 Manager European Operations NDC (Newcastle) Promoted the region as a base for investment from Europe. Managed 3 HQ staff plus overseas offices in Norway, Germany and Sweden to a budgeted business plan of £60,000. Telemarketing, overseas visits, inward missions, multiplier and long term client cultivation, inward visits and PR, the main tools. Successes; TRW Valves, Schurpack, Geolab and EDB. Rose Bridger
Food system consultant I have been working on local and sustainable food systems for over 5 years, with a particular focus on partnership working and the West Yorkshire area. Key areas of work are:
Sustainable public procurement · Coordinated research and report for Phase 1 of Bradford's Education Contract Services PSFPI (Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative) project. Project manager and case study author for Phase 2; · Working with Grassroots Food Network on Yorkshire Forward Supply Chain Mapping project led by ADAS and commissioned by Yorkshire Forward. Authored chapter on best practice around the UK and case study on supply chain issues with major NHS supplier for forthcoming project report; · Currently working with Green Economics Institute on food procurement and supply chain issues including conference I partnership with CIPS and IPSERA, the European Supply Chain Institute; · Supply chain development workshops at events including Bradford Food Network ‘Food in Schools' day and Social Enterprise Support Centre food procurement workshop. Supporting local food projects and networks · Research and promotion of local produce outlets and BradFood report into developing markets for local produce for B-FIT (Bradford and District Food Information Trust); · Successful funding applications including Defra PSFPI, IGD Farmers Fund and Rural Business Networks; · B-FIT and Calderdale & Kirklees Food Futures quarterly newsletters and local recipe booklet; · Involvement in local food policy and strategy development including the ‘Local Food' working group of the Yorkshire and the Humber SSFF; · Consultant to B-FIT and GFN and final report editing for EU Interreg IIIB Sustainable Open Space project which brings together relevant organisations from the sub-region with partners in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands · Healthy recipe development and cooking demonstrations with community groups. Developing regional ethnic food sector · Co-ordination of market research and report for Grassroots Food Network's ‘Growing a Local Asian Foods Market' project supported by the Institute of Grocery Distribution's Farmers Fund; · Ethnic foods market research, including development of Halal supply chain, for Business Link West Yorkshire.
1996 - 97 Environment Officer, Kirklees Council Environment Unit Developed communication strategy for Kirklees Agenda 21, worked with community groups on practical projects, assisted with staff training on sustainability issues and administered grant programme. Publications authored: · Quarterly Local Agenda 21 newsletter · Local Agenda 21 presentations for Executive Board · Guide to Environmental Grant Fund · Promotional booklet for Environmental Grant Fund projects
1993 - 1996 London Agenda 21 Network Officer - London Ecology Centre Secured Environmental Action Fund grant and matching funds to develop a London Agenda 21 Network. This encompassed London local authorities, voluntary groups and businesses. In April 1996 I organised ‘Linking Up London', a conference in partnership with UNED UK which brought together about 300 delegates from NGOs' business and local authorities. Publications authored in this role included: · quarterly ‘Sustainable London' newsletter · short guides to Local Agenda 21 and Habitat II (co-authored with David Morgan) · London Local Agenda 21 report in collaboration with Association of London Government and London Ecology Centre
Volker Heinemann
Professional Qualification: Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, ACA (2002) 1.1.2 1.1.3 Education: 1993 - 1995 University of Goettingen, Germany, Faculty of Economics Masters degree in Economics. Include economic theory and policy, public finance, economics of development and marketing, public finance and development. Thesis related to the EU budget
1992-1993 University of Nottingham, Faculty of Social Sciences Econometrics, European community studies and international trade.
1989.1992 University of Goettingen, Faculty of Economics
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Milton Keynes, UK
Audit work for national and international entities/groups including all aspects of consolidation and international financial reporting standards. SarbanesOxley related work. taxation and consulting work for medium sized businesses, including pension funds and groups of companies, including trust related work and insolvency work.
Management Accountantancy background, Rampenlicht GmbH, Kassel, Germany Administrative and organisational work for a concert and corporate event organiser.
La Discussion SA, Chillan, Chile Editorial office of a local newspaper in Chillan, Chile, South America.
Paul Kennet
Managing Director, Technical Equipment Supply Company based in Denmark.
Voluntary work Co-ordination of feeding programme for a group of schools in South Africa
Philip Lawn Australia
I am an ecological economist who lecturers in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Public Finance, Public Sector Economics, and Ecological Economics. I have also taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, and Labour Economics at the introductory and intermediate levels and a topic called Sustainable Development that is part of the Flinders University Globalisation program. I undertook my PhD at the School of Economics and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. As an ecological economist, my research interests include: · sustainable development (SD) - theory and practice · economic and uneconomic growth - the development of the concepts of the optimal scale and maximum sustainable scale of macroeconomic systems · green national accounting and SD indicators - economic and non-economic · international trade and the environment · globalisation issues · environmental macroeconomics - the incorporation of an environmental constraint into macroeconomic models (in particular, the IS-LM-BP framework) · the development of policy instruments and institutional mechanisms to simultaneously achieve the distinct policy goals of economic efficiency, distributional equity, and ecological sustainability · resource scarcity and resource prices - theory, simulation studies, and empirical evidence · an examination of the complementarity/substitutability of natural and human-made capital and its resource policy implications · ecological tax reform · achieving full employment in a low-growth or steady-state economy.
· John Lewis Prize for Geography 1 in 1988;
· Shell Prize for best third year economics student in 1990.
RESEARCH FIELDS. · Ecological Economics; Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Sustainable Development ¾ theory, practice, and policy; "green" national accounting; the development of integrated economic, social, and environmental indicators; environmental macroeconomics; international trade and the environment.
My edited book (2006), Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing: ISBN 1-84542-099-3) With contributions from some of the most eminent scholars in the field, my new book covers a broad range of indicators relating to national accounts, aggregate welfare, natural capital, ecosystem health, and human-environment interactions. In addition, the various methods of measuring a nation's sustainable development performance are analysed as well as the means by which they can be developed and improved. Books. Lawn, P. (2000), Toward Sustainable Development: An Ecological Economics Approach, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida. Lawn, P. (ed.) (2006), Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Lawn, P. (forthcoming), Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Lawn, P. and Clarke, M. (forthcoming), Measuring Genuine Progress: An Application of the Genuine Progress Indicator, Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA. Book chapters and reviews (numerous) Refereed journal articles. Lawn, P. (1998), "In Defence of the Strong Sustainability Approach to National Accounting", Environmental Taxation and Accounting, 3 (1), pp. 23-47. Lawn, P. and Sanders, R. (1999), "Has Australia Surpassed its Optimal Macroeconomic Scale? Finding Out With the Aid of Benefit and Cost Accounts and a Sustainable Net Benefit Index", Ecological Economics, 28 (2), pp. 213-229. Lawn, P. (1999), "On Georgescu-Roegen's Contribution to Ecological Economics", Ecological Economics, 29 (1), pp. 5-8. Lawn, P. (2000), "Ecological tax reform: Many know why but few know how", Environment, Development, and Sustainability, 2, pp. 143-164. Lawn, P. (2001), "Scale, prices, and biophysical assessments", Ecological Economics, 38, pp. 369-382. Lawn, P. (2001), "Goods and services and the dematerialisation fallacy: Implications for sustainable development indicators and policy", International Journal of Services, Technology, and Management, 2, pp. 363-376. Lawn, P. (2002), "Full employment in a low-growth or steady-state economy: A consideration of the issues", Australian Bulletin of Labour, 28 (1), pp. 20-38. Lawn, P. (2002), "Grounding the ecological economics paradigm with ten core principles", International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance, and Ecology, 2 (1), pp. 1-21. Lawn, P. (2003), "On Heyes' IS-LM-EE proposal to establish an environmental macroeconomics", Environment and Development Economics, 8 (1), pp. 31-56. Lawn, P. (2003) "A theoretical foundation to support the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and other related indexes", Ecological Economics, 44 (1), pp. 105-118. Lawn, P. (2003), "Environmental macroeconomics: Extending the IS-LM model to include an environmental equilibrium curve", Australian Economic Papers, 42 (1), pp. 118-134. Lawn, P. (2003) "Growth, technological progress, and sustainable development: preliminary evidence of Australia's sustainable development performance", International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2 (2), pp. 139-161. Lawn, P. (2003) "To operate sustainably or to not operate sustainably? ¾ that is the long-run question", Futures, 36 (1), pp. 1-22. Lawn, P. (2003), "Environmental macroeconomics: An introduction to the IS-LM-EE model", ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics, 1 (2), pp. 7-19. Lawn, P. (2003) "How important is natural capital in terms of sustaining real output? Revisiting the natural capital/human-made capital substitutability debate", International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 3 (4), pp. 418-435. Lawn, P. (2004), "Escala y globalizacion: des elementos clave no atendidos en la Cumbre Mundial para el Desarrollo Sustenable 2002" (Spanish version of "Scale and globalisation: The two key issues unaddressed at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development"), Carta de Politicas Publicas, 39 (6), August-September 2004, pp.10-16. Lawn, P. (2004), "Response to ‘Income, investment, and sustainability' by William J. Mates", Ecological Economics, 48 (1), pp.5-7. Lawn, P. (2004), "Facilitating a higher level of sustainable income by restoring comparative advantage as the principle governing international trade", ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, Special Issue on "Consumption and Employment", 3 (1), pp. 15-34. Lawn, P. (2004), "What would John Maynard Keynes make of current international governance arrangements and the rising globalisation phenomenon?", International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance, and Ecology, 3 (1/2), pp. 58-76. Lawn, P. (2004), "The sustainable development concept and indicators: an introductory essay", Special Issue of the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 3 (4), pp. 199-234. Lawn, P. (2004), "Using the Fisherian concept of income to guide a nation's macro-investment policy", Special Issue of the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 3 (4), pp. 339-352. Lawn, P. (2004), "Environment, workplace, and employment: an introduction", International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, 1 (1), pp. 4-39. Lawn, P. (2004), "Reconciling the policy goals of full employment and ecological sustainability", International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, 1 (1), pp. 62-81. Lawn, P. (2004), "The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: another opportunity to address the scale and globalisation issues gone begging", ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics, 2 (4), pp. 78-89. Lawn, P. (2004), "A comment on the independence of allocation, distribution, and scale", International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 4 (4), pp. 296-303. Lawn, P. (2004), "How well are resource prices likely to serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?", International Journal of Sustainable Development, 7 (4), pp. 369-397. Lawn, P. (2005), "Comparing the optimal depletion time of a non-renewable resource under Malthusian flow scarcity conditions and Malthusian stock scarcity conditions", ICFAI Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2 (1), pp. 62-70. Lawn, P. (2005), "Is a democratic-capitalist system compatible with a low-growth or steady-state economy?", Socio-Economic Review, 3, pp. 209-232. Lawn, P. (2005), "An assessment of the valuation methods used to calculate the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and Sustainable Net Benefit Index (SNBI)", Environment, Development, and Sustainability, 7 (2), pp. 185-208. Lawn, P. (2005), "Full employment and ecological sustainability: comparing the NAIRU, Basic Income, and Job Guarantee approaches", International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, 1 (3/4), pp. 336-353. Clarke, M. and Lawn, P. (2005), "Measuring Victoria's genuine progress: A Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Victoria", Economic Papers, 24 (4), pp. 368-389. Lawn, P. (2005), "Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve exist?: A theoretical perspective", Mechanisms of Economic Regulation: International Scientific Journal, 3. Lawn, P. and Clarke, M. (2006), "Comparing Victoria's genuine progress with that of the Rest-of-Australia", Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 10 (2). Lawn, P. (2006), "Using the Fisherian concept of income to guide a nation's transition to a steady-state economy", Special Issue of Ecological Economics on "Ecological economics at the cutting edge in Australasia", 56 (3), pp. 440-453. Lawn, P. (forthcoming), "A theoretical investigation into the likely existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve", International Journal of Green Economics. Clarke, M. and Lawn, P. (forthcoming), "Comparing Australia's genuine progress to its economic growth performance", International Journal of Green Economics. Lawn, P. (forthcoming), "Achieving ecological sustainability with the introduction of a Sustainability Guarantee", International Journal of Global Energy Issues. Lawn, P. (forthcoming), "A stock-take of green national accounting initiatives", Social Indicators Research. Currently under review. Clarke, M. and Lawn, P., "An analysis of Victoria's genuine progress", Journal of Socio-Economics. Lawn, P., "What value is Gross Domestic Product as a macroeconomic statistic of national income, well-being, and environmental stress?", International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics. Clarke, M. and Lawn, P., "Is measuring genuine progress at the sub-national level useful?', Ecological Economics. Referee of articles for the following journals: · Ecological Economics (11 papers) · Australian Economic Papers (1 paper) · Economic Papers (1 paper) · International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance, and Ecology (4 papers) · Futures (2 papers) · International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (7 papers) · International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment (8 papers) · Journal of Environmental Management (1 paper) · International Journal of Green Economics (3 papers) · ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics (3 papers) · Environmental Science and Policy (1 paper) Member of the Editorial Boards of the following journals: · ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics · International Journal of Green Economics Guest Editorships 1.1.4 Guest Editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2004. The Special Issue was on "The policy-guiding value of sustainable development indicators" and features articles on the following SD indicators: · Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) · Genuine Savings · Eco-efficiency · Fisherian Income as a national investment policy benchmark · Ecological Footprint · National Headline Indicators for New Zealand. Executive Editor of the International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment (IJEWE) I am the Executive-Editor of a new Inderscience journal called the International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment (IJEWE). The first issue of IJEWE is due in early 2005. IJEWE will provide a refereed international forum for discussion and analysis of the effect that achieving ecological sustainability will have on employment/unemployment and the nature of the workplace.
The subject coverage of IJEWE includes: · Reconciling the potential conflict between ecological sustainability and full-employment · Ecological sustainability and changing industry structure · Ecological sustainability and changing forms of employment · Ecological sustainability and the changing skills formation of the workforce · Ecological sustainability and the changing workplace and workplace relations · Ecological sustainability, employment, and ecological tax reform · Ecological sustainability, employment, and international trade · Ecological sustainability, green technologies, and competitive advantage · Ecological sustainability and enterprise/corporate management
Commissioned reports. Lawn, P. and Clarke, M. (2005), "Victoria: Doing better than the rest of Australia but with considerable room for improvement: A Genuine Progress Indicator report on Victoria (1986-2003) and its performance relative to the remainder of Australia". This report was prepared for the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project (ARC Project # LP0348013). Conference and Seminar Papers.(extensive)
Working Papers in Economics. Lawn, P. (1997), "The Ecological Economic Notion of an Optimal Macroeconomic Scale: What is It? What Are Some of its General Implications?", Griffith University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 15, April 1997. Lawn, P. (1997), "A Sustainable Net Benefit Index for Australia, 1966-67 to 1994-95", (with R. Sanders), Griffith University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 16, June 1997. * Note: I resuscitated the Working Paper Series in Economics for the School of Economics, Flinders University at the beginning of 2001. Lawn, P. (2001), "Establishing an environmental macroeconomics by including an environmental equilibrium curve in the IS-LM model", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No.2001-01, July 2001. Lawn, P. (2001), "Environmental macroeconomics: An introduction to the IS-LM-EE model", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No.2001-02, July 2001. Lawn, P. (2001), "Facilitating a higher level of sustainable income by restoring comparative advantage as the principle governing international trade", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2001-03, July 2001. Lawn, P. (2001), "How important is natural capital for sustaining real output? Revisiting the natural capital/human-made capital substitutability debate", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2001-07, September 2001. Lawn, P. (2001), "Full employment in a low-growth or steady-state economy: A consideration of the issues", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2001-08, November 2001. Lawn, P. (2001), "Preliminary evidence of Australia's sustainable development performance", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2001-09, November 2001. Lawn, P. (2002), "An assessment of recently developed indicators of sustainable economic welfare", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-01, April 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "An analysis of the valuation methods used to calculate the index of sustainable economic welfare, genuine progress indicator, and sustainable net benefit index", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-05, August 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "Comparing the optimal depletion time of a non-renewable resource under Malthusian flow scarcity and Malthusian stock scarcity conditions", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-06, October 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "How well do resource prices serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-07, October 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "Aggregate production possibilities and long-run sustainability scenarios", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-08, December 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "Reconciling the policy goals of full employment and ecological sustainability", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-09, December 2002. Lawn, P. (2003), "Role and limitations of markets in achieving a sustainable society: Why ecological engineers should take note", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2003-01, January 2003. Lawn, P. (2003), "What would John Maynard Keynes make of the current globalisation phenomenon?", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2003-02, February 2003. Lawn, P. (2003), "Scale and globalisation: The two key issues unaddressed at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2003-03, March 2003. Lawn, P. (2003), "Is a democratic-capitalist system compatible with a low-growth or steady-state economy?", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2003-04, June 2003. Lawn, P. (2003), "On the policy guiding value of sustainable development indicators", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2003-05, November 2003. Lawn, P. (2003), "On environment, workplace, and employment", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2003-06, December 2003. Lawn, P. (2004), "Using Fisherian income to guide a nation's macro-investment policy", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2004-01, January 2004. Lawn, P. (2004), "A comment on the independence of allocation, distribution, and scale", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2004-02, January 2004. Lawn, P. (2004), "Policies to achieve full employment and ecological sustainability", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2004-03, May 2004. Lawn, P. (2004), "Environmental management, organisational modes, and sustainable development", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2004-04, June 2004. Lawn, P. (2004), "Eco-efficiency indicators for Australia and their policy relevance", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2004-05, July 2004. Lawn, P. (2004), "Comparing the NAIRU, Basic Income, and Job Guarantee approaches to achieving full employment and ecological sustainability", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2004-06, October 2004. Lawn, P. (2005), "A theoretical analysis of the Environmental Kuznets", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-01, April 2005. Lawn, P. and Clarke, M. (2005), "Measuring Victoria's Genuine Progress: A Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Victoria", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-02, May 2005. Lawn, P. and Clarke, M. (2005), "Comparing Australia's genuine progress to its economic growth performance", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-03, May 2005. Lawn, P. and Clarke, M. (2005), "Comparing Victoria's genuine progress with that of the Rest-of-Australia", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-04, May 2005. Lawn, P. (2005), "A survey of green national accounting", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-05, October 2005. Lawn, P. (2005), "A Sustainability Guarantee: A policy package to achieve ecological sustainability", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-06, November 2005. Lawn, P. (2005), "What value is Gross Domestic Product as a macroeconomic statistic?", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2005-07, December 2005. Research Grants. · Flinders University Small Grant ($7,680) to conduct research on a project entitled: "Alternative indicators of sustainable development: assessing Australia's sustainable development performance for the period 1965-2001". Papers etc. generated from the work funded by the Small Grant include: Refereed journal articles. Lawn, P. (2003) "A theoretical foundation to support the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and other related indexes", Ecological Economics, Volume 44, Number 1, pp. 105-118. Lawn, P. (2003) "Growth, technological progress, and sustainable development: preliminary evidence of Australia's sustainable development performance", International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 139-161. Lawn, P. (2003) "To operate sustainably or to not operate sustainably? ¾ that is the long-run question", Futures, Volume 36, Number 1, pp. 1-22. Lawn, P. (2005), "Comparing the optimal depletion time of a non-renewable resource under Malthusian flow scarcity conditions and Malthusian stock scarcity conditions", ICFAI Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 62-70. Lawn, P. (2005), "An assessment of the valuation methods used to calculate the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and Sustainable Net Benefit Index (SNBI)", Environment, Development, and Sustainability, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 185-208. Working Papers in Economics. Lawn, P. (2002), "An assessment of recently developed indicators of sustainable economic welfare", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-01, April 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "An analysis of the valuation methods used to calculate the index of sustainable economic welfare, genuine progress indicator, and sustainable net benefit index", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-05, August 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "Comparing the optimal depletion time of a non-renewable resource under Malthusian flow scarcity and Malthusian stock scarcity conditions", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-06, October 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "How well do resource prices serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-07, October 2002. Lawn, P. (2002), "Aggregate production possibilities and long-run sustainability scenarios", Flinders University Working Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 2002-08, December 2002.
Jonathan Essex
Professional Qualifications: · Chartered Environmentalist (SocEnv) 2005 · Chartered Member of Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE, CEng) 1999
Education and Training · MSc Environmental Decision Making, Open University, 2002 - 2004. Research Dissertation into Sustainability Principles for Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships. · MSc Development Management, Open University, 2001 - 2003. Research Project: Global Sustainability, a Future Framework. · BSc Civil Engineering, First Class, Durham University, 1994 ·
Jonathan Essex is a Sustainability Consultant with qualification and experience in sustainability, development and construction sector. This includes post-graduate qualifications in Development Management and Environmental Decision Making with research on principles and frameworks for cooperation and visioning to achieve sustainability. Jonathan is experienced in collaboration to develop policy initiatives in development (Bangladesh, Vietnam), in business (WSP), through voluntary organisations and with professional institutions. Jonathan has eight years experience in team leadership and project management roles, most recently developing policy and institutional development (better governance) in Bangladesh and leading small research projects in the UK. He is experienced in strategy development, stakeholder participation and sustainability tools and frameworks. He has particular experience in the formation and engagement of partnerships and working in inter-disciplinary teams. Jonathan has a wide knowledge of sustainability innovations and processes, working with private sector clients, NGOs, local/national governments and range of funding agencies, in the UK and overseas. He is an active member of the Institute of Civil Engineers Environment & Sustainability Board and the Green Economics Institute. In October 2005 Jonathan became an independent consultant (www.aim2sustain.co.uk) and now concentrates on research and development within the areas of sustainability strategy and decision-making from governmental level to sustainable lifestyle change, and sustainable construction. Jonathan is interested in exploring the links between economics and sustainability, and between policy and practice.
Professional Experience Independent Consultant, Aim2Sustain, From October 2005 · Sustainability Research. Collaborative research and development to improve sustainability approaches that underpin lifestyle change, and improve linkages and tools for developing sustainability policy. · ICE Funded Enabling Research (From October 2005): Investigating the constraints on sustainable procurement within the UK construction industry, through investigating the links from national policy to projects, and best practice in the UK and overseas. Included a review of different tools and methodology used. · Consultant to Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology, Heriot Watt University. Developing mechanisms to embed appropriate standards and global sustainability perspectives into under-graduate engineering courses, developed concept for a roundtable sustainability event in Cairo. · Sustainable Housing. Product development and consultancy to improve take-up of sustainable housing and home improvement in the UK. WSP International Management Consulting, Principal Consultant, July 2001-Sept 2005 Overseas consultancy assignments, MSc study, strategy and business development · Head Office Core Team: Strategy, Systems, Business Development (March 2001 to date). Led proposals including successful sustainability, and development programmes in Bangladesh, Yemen, Indonesia and Malawi. Coordinator of UK study programmes for Sudanese, Kenyan, Bangladeshi and Indian delegates. Strategy for sustainability and environmental consulting and business and sector analysis. · Environmental and Management Advisor to Bangladesh Government (14 months total): DFID assistance to transport sector in Bangladesh. Developed Environmental Manual on environmental assessment and linking to social appraisal, environmental management on site, and new environmental indicators for all transport projects. Led production of ‘Management Manuals' to clarify plans, duties and operations of 14,000 government staff following re-organisation. Developed concept, dialogue and agreed structure and processes for coordination of Foreign Aided Projects now the basis for donor and government agreement. Environmental consultant for design of 15 year Swedish assistance to improve local governance and rural development in Bangladesh (strategic environmental assessment, final monitoring and evaluation and programme document). · Quality Management and Environmental Representative (1999 to date). Developed and manages company accredited Quality and Environmental Management system and procedures, change management programme. · Communications/Systems Advisor, DFID funded Rural Transport Project, Vietnam (2001-2002, 6 months) Strategy and facilitated production of pilot rural transport database and framework, strategies for communication and improved national coordination. Member of Review Team to develop project implementation strategy. · Internal Reviewer, DFID funded Rural Access Programme, Nepal (2 months, 2001). Used DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to propose links from policy to practice.
· WSP Taskforce 2005-2006 Member (2000-2001). Member of WSP-wide future looking research and strategy team. Delivered presentations to WSP Executive Committee and plc Board on improved internal communication and technical innovation. Co-delivered two WSP Young Consultants Conferences.
· responsibility for Sennar Dam Rehabilitation in Sudan (July 1998 - June 2002) as UK and Interim Site Manager, West Quay Reconstruction in Great Yarmouth (1998-2001) and Clinetown Slipway Rehabilitation in Sierra Leone (1998-2001) as UK Manager and for the design review in China.
· Project Engineer, included responsibilities for Hurricane Rehabilitation, Bahamas (2001), Technical Assistance to Government of Bangladesh (2000) and Ferry Terminal, Tanzania (1998-1999). As Project Engineer for Jamestown Wharf, St Helena (2000) and Infrastructure Rehabilitation in the Bahamas (2001) was responsible for production and review of environmental study and impact assessment respectively.
Graduate engineer, including roles as: Estimator for Balfour Beatty Rail to develop an innovative estimating system (1997); Site/Section Engineer responsible for bridge and structures in East London (1996-1997); Designer for civil works of power stations including Thai mini hydropower projects; gas-fired and combined heat and power plants in UK; waste-to-power plant in Thailand (1994-1996); and Sponsored Engineer (1992 - 1994).
Voluntary Positions · Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Environment and Sustainability Board (from 2002). Reviewer for ‘Engineering Sustainability' journal, coordinated ICE response to government consultations. Reviewed sustainability research. · ICE Presidential Commission: Engineers without Frontiers (from 2004). Investigated future role of the engineer in sustainability, development and poverty reduction. · Advisory Committee, Green Economics Institute (2005 - date) · Chair, Open University Development and Environment Society (2003 - date) · Coordinator of Sustainability Redhill and Steering Committee of Reigate and Banstead Cycle Forum (1998 - date)
CV for Graham Woodison Key Experience An experienced Commercial Manager and Senior Buyer with strong negotiating skills, who has 20-years experience buying a wide range of commodities for international technology companies in IT and Telecoms, and selling a range of services and products. Negotiated contracts from $10k up to $48m. Developed supplier partnerships and supply chains, nationally and internationally. Effective manager, able to develop good team spirit and empower individuals to meet and exceed agreed goals. Uses industry knowledge to build good relationships and the buy-in of managers and staff to devise and adopt new and improved methods of working, including creating a commercially orientated culture to save money and make good use of resources. Experienced in writing RFIs, RFQs and negotiating long-term supply agreements. Written Local and Global contracts; aggressively renegotiated supplier contracts to gain better terms, whilst maintaining good will. Achievements: Equant Saving Annual Spend Commodity 20% $11m Maintenance - Network and IS Field Service Workshops - 101 countries and remote locations 48% €1.8m Maintenance - Field Service Maintenance - Network and IS - Ireland 15% $6.4m Warehousing and Value Added Services - Europe 30% $6m HR Services - Recruitment - Europe 50% $1m Equipment Repair Supplier - Europe · Set up Third Party Maintenance Suppliers in Europe to supplement Field Engineering, to reduce headcount. · Guest Speaker and Panelist at Interlog 2004 Supply Chain Conference, held in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Increased turnover from £650k to £3.8m in 4 years, reduced stock levels by identifying scrap, and reducing mean time to repair of circuit boards and computer peripheral units - printers, modems, etc. Introduced multi-warehousing system to enable tracking of all engineers in-boot stocks and enabling more accurate global stock valuation. Responsible for 85 people distributed throughout the world, consisting of hardware engineers, Software Applications Technologists and Technical Trainers. Responsible for turning around the customer service operation and procuring a world-wide network of maintenance contractors to install and support systems in the field. Identified suppliers for different regions to support Logica networked systems. Wrote heads of agreement that detailed clear responsibilities for both sides. The suppliers had to be brought up to speed quickly to support intense sales drives in different regions. Suppliers had to be carefully vetted as systems were to be supplied to security sensitive organisations.
Craig Simmons, BSc MSc FErgS CPsychol EurErg Technical director and co-founder of Best Foot Forward Ltd Craig Simmons is Co-founder and Technical Director of Best Foot Forward (BFF), a sustainability consultancy based in Oxford, England. This year BFF received the prestigious Queen's Award for its work in the field of sustainable development. Craig is technical adviser on most BFF work, and has led several key projects, most notably BFF's input into the European Common Indicators Programme. He is a member of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute and sits on the Global Footprint Network Standards Committee. Craig is in demand as a speaker and adviser on environmental issues. He is author of numerous technical and popular articles on sustainability and co-author, with Mathis Wackernagel and Nicky Chambers, of Sharing Nature's Interest; ecological footprints as an indicator of sustainability. Craig is currently co-authoring a book on sustainable communities, which follows his work on zero-emission development and defining the ZED-standards for building (The ZED Standards, Dunster, B., Twinn, C. and Simmons, C., in Building for a Future; pub Green Building Press 2004). He has contributed to several books on eco-housing and green lifestyles including Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings, S. Roaf, pub. RIBA Enterprises; Ecohouse 2, S. Roaf et al, pub. Architectural Press, and Best Practice in Environmental Assessment, P. Nijkamp et al, pub. Routledge (in press). BFF are recognised internationally for their expertise in ecological footprint analysis, energy and materials accounting. BFF specialise in providing analytical tools and consultancy services and have undertaken more than 100 projects for government, business and civil sector organisations. BFF have focused their efforts in Europe but have undertaken projects as far afield as Africa.
1.1.5 Key Publications Ed. P Nijkamp, M Deakin, G Mitchell (in press) (Contributor) Best Practice in Environmental Assessment Routledge Best Foot Forward, 2005 Stepping Forward: a resource flow and ecological footprint study of the South West of England Best Foot Forward. http://www.steppingforward.org.uk/
Lewis, K., Simmons, C. and Griffiths, P. I. J. 2004 Towards a standardized methodology for ecological footprint analysis of sub-national regions 13th World Clean Air and Environmental Protection Congress Dunster, B., Twinn, C. and Simmons, C. 2004 The ZED Standards Building for a Future; Autumn 2004 Green Building Press Vergoulas, G. and Simmons, C. 2004 An ecological footprint analysis of Essex, East England Best Foot Forward Bill Dunster Associates 2004 (Contributor) From A to ZED; realizing zero (fossil) energy development Bill Dunster Associates Curry, R., Simmons, C. and McDaid, C. 2004 Northern Limits: A resource flow and ecological footprint of Northern Ireland Envirocentrehttp://www.northern-limits.com Barrett, J., Cherrett, N., Birch, R. and Simmons, C. 2004 An analysis of the policy and educational application of the ecological footprint WWF-UK http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/analysisfootprint.pdf Birch, R., Weidmann, T., Barrett, J. and Simmons, C. 2004 Ecological Footprint of North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire SEI Yorkhttp://www.york.ac.uk/inst/sei/IS/Lincolnshire_Report.pdf Roaf, S. 2003 (Contributor) Contributor: Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings RIBA Enterprises Roaf, S., Fuentes, M., and Thomas, S. 2003 (Contributor) Ecohouse 2 Architectural Press Simmons, C. and Jenkins, N. 2003 Brechin and surrounds household footprint survey Best Foot Forward http://www.angus.gov.uk/localagenda21/Final Brechin Household Footprint Survey - final.pdf Simmons, C. 2003 The Regional Stepwise ecological footprint model - a conceptual framework REGIONET Conference http://www.iccr-international.org/regionet/ Simmons, C. 2003 Footprinting in Scotland Proceedings of the SustainableScotland Network QuarterlyMeeting jointly organised withWWF Scotland, March 2003http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/ecofootscotland.pdf Barrett, J., and Simmons, C. 2003 FLAT- An Ecological Footprint of the UK: Providing a Tool to Measure the Sustainability of Local Authorities SEI Yorkhttp://www.york.ac.uk/inst/sei/odpm/ODPM%20Main%20Report.pdf Vergoulas, G. and Simmons, C. 2003 Sustainable States: HowEnvironmentally sustainable is Jersey? An ecological footprint and biocapacity analysis Best Foot Forward Best Foot Forward 2002 Wales' Ecological Footprint WWF Wales http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/walesfootprint.pdf Best Foot Forward 2002 City Limits - A resource flow and ecological footprint analysis of Greater London Best Foot Forward http://www.citylimitslondon.com Simmons, C. 2002 An Ecological Footprint Analysis of Five Scottish cities Best Foot Forward Simmons, C. 2002 It's in the bag: An estimate of the effect on CO2 emissions of the Irish Plastic Bag tax Best Foot Forward WWF-UK and Best Foot Forward 2002 Holiday Footprinting: A practical tool for responsible tourism WWF-UK Simmons, C. 2001 Beyond recycling towards zero waste The Parliament Magazine Lewan, L. and Simmons, C. 2001 The use of Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Analyses as Sustainability Indicators for Sub-national Geographical Areas: A Recommended Way Forward European Common Indicators Programme http://www.sustainable-cities.org Best Foot Forward 2001 Herefordshire's Footprint Project Carrot http://www.projectcarrot.org/publications/hef.pdf Lewis, K., Simmons, C. and Chambers, N. 2000 An Ecological Footprint Analysis of Different Packaging Systems Best Foot Forward Best Foot Forward 2000 Island State - a resource flow and ecological footprint analysis of the Isle of Wight Best Foot Forward Chambers, N., Simmons, C. & Wackernagel, M. 2000. Sharing Nature's Interest: ecological footprints as an indicator of sustainability Earthscan, London. Lewis, K. and Simmons. C. 1999 Two Feet - Two Approaches: A Component-based model of ecological footprinting Ecological Economics 32:3 Chambers, N. and Simmons, C. 1999 Footprinting UK Households- How big is your ecological garden? Local Environment 3:3 1997-Present Numerous articles on environmental issues for publications such as The Guardian, Sustainability Review, The Land is Ours, Sustainability 2000
Adrian Windisch
KEY COMPETENCIES Responsible for setting out and supervising the construction of roads, drainage, retaining walls and structures. 1996 Member of RedR - Engineers for Disaster Relief.
1995 MSc. in Engineering for Development; water supply, sanitation and infrastructure at Southampton University. Dissertation on water treatment in Guyana, South America.
1988 Graduate Member of ICE - Institution of Civil Engineers
. 1988. B.Eng. (Hon.) Sandwich Degree in Civil Engineering at Westminster University.
EXPERIENCE RECORD 2006 Costain Take off for tender purposes drawings at AWE Aldermarston. 2005 Wooldridge, set out foundations and drainage in Whitley 2005 Laing O'Rourke, responsible for groundworks for flats in Oxford 2005 Sunseed Desert Technology, Project Manager of an environmental chaity in Spain for 2 months 2005 Sustrans supervised the construction of three cycle paths in the Luton area 2004 Benson, set out and supervised groundworks on a school in Oxfordshire 2004 Sustrans supervised the construction of cycle paths in Dunstable and Luton 2003 Marron Construction, groundworks for a new Waitrose in Newbury 2003 Chaseside Construction, set out foundations for houses in Windlesham 2003 Bowmer & Kirkland, building a new Waitrose in Newbury 2003 Warings Construction, Supervised and set out groundworks for £3 million building within Reading University. 2001/2 Balfour Beatty Construction, Supervising a team responsible for construction and checking setting out for two buildings and external works at GreenPark, Reading. Ensuring flow of information from consultants to subcontractors with RFI's, CVI's and meetings. Senior engineer and temporary works coordinator. 2001 H.N.Edwards, Set out the basement of the Arc, part of South Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke. 2001 Natta, Set out and supervised construction of foundations and drainage for 8 houses in Reading, and groundworks for an office block in Walton on Thames. 2001 Alan Meech Const, Set out piles for two houses in Maidenhead. 2000 CCP, Site Manager for rebuilding a garden center in Marlow. 2000 FDL, Set out and supervised; an r.c. basement for parking below a block of flats, retaining wall and drainage. Waybridge, London. 2000 L&B, Set out and supervised groundworks at Spitalfields, London. 2000 Stacey, Set out and supervised for a new service station on the M1 at Toddington. 1999 Sunseed Desert Technology. Maintained buildings, a dam and irrigation line for a charity conducting research on the environment and appropriate technology in the south of Spain. 1999 Health Projects Abroad. Built a school and repaired a well in rural Tanzania with community participation. Looked after the Health and Safety of European volunteers, taught and learned skills from the community. 1998 Pearce/Hudstones, Set out and supervised drainage, foundations, kerbs and roadworks for a college in Hays. 1998 Newlands Construction, Set out and supervised groundworks in Woking. 1998 RedR. Assisted Librarian, contacted agencies, members and those wanting to join. 1998 Matrix R. Set out and supervised drainage at flats in Hatfield. 1997 John Martin Construction, Senior Engineer responsible for setting out and supervising the construction of drainage, retaining walls and kerbs at Bluewater Shopping Center, Kent. 1997 Killoran, Set out groundworks for a factory in Enfield, London. 1997 O'Shea, Did an ‘as built' survey of an office block in the City of London. 1997 Cinnamonds, Set out groundworks for a bird sanctuary in Barnes, London. 1994 Halcrow/ Southampton University. Studied operation and maintenance of a water treatment plant in Guyana, South America. 1993 Brent Highways. Assistant Resident Engineer for road improvements. 1990 Brent Structures. Checked and designed steel, masonry and r.c. structures 1989 Ross and Partners. Designed concrete buildings and prepared drawings. 1987 Douglas Contractors. Sandwich. Assisted in construction by ‘slipform' in the London Docklands, and a car park built by ‘lift slab' in Southampton. 1986 Nuttalls. Sandwich student. Assisted in the construction of the M25. Also worked on side roads, landscaping and ducts.
INTERESTS Chair of Trustees of Environmental Charity - Sunseed Desert Technology. Reading, country walks and travel. Studying and teaching martial arts - Aikido. Environmental issues.
CV Professor John Whitelegg BA PhD LLB Experience Summary Ministry of Urban Development, Housing and Traffic in Dusseldorf, Germany, as a visiting Professor of Transport at Roskilde University in Denmark and in India where he made a special study of non-motorised transport. John is the Managing Director of Eco-Logica Ltd, a transport consultancy based in Lancaster. He also has 2 academic appointments:
1. Professor of Sustainable Transport at Liverpool John Moores University 2. Professor in the Department of Biology at York University and Leader of the Implementing Sustainability Group at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York At the Stockholm Environment institute John is responsible for co-ordinating cross centre programme on sustainability, transport and air quality. This brings together the research capability of over 100 staff in Tallin (Estonia), Stockholm, Boston (USA), York (UK) and Bangkok.
John left Lancaster University in 1993 to set up his own company, Eco-Logica Ltd, a Lancaster-based consultancy specialising in sustainable transport, environmental audit and review, life cycle analysis and corporate environmental strategies. From 1990 until 1993 John was Head of Department of Geography at Lancaster University and Director of the University's Environmental Epidemiology Research Unit. This unit carried out extensive research on the links between traffic levels and illness, demonstrating a statistically significant relationship between high traffic volumes and high levels of illness. He has written eight books and over 50 papers on transport and environment topics. His books include "Transport for a sustainable future: the case for Europe" published by Wiley in 1993 and "Traffic Congestion: is there a way out? published by Leading Edge Press in 1992. "Critical Mass: transport, environment and society in the 21st Century was published in October 1997, "Greening the Built Environment" (Earthscan, London) in 1998 and the Earthscan Reader in World Transport Policy and Practice (2003).
John is Founding Editor of the journal "World Transport Policy and Practice" and has acted as a consultant to the government of Australia and governments and community groups in Israel, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Slovenia and Poland. He also works with community groups in Calcutta on air pollution and transport and has advised the State government of West Bengal to retain and expand the tram system and to retain cycle rickshaws and hand pulled rickshaws as an alternative to new road construction. John has worked in detail on alternatives to some of Britain's largest road schemes (e.g. the Birmingham Northern Relief Road) and on large scale infrastructure projects overseas e.g. the Oresund Bridge linking Sweden with Denmark, Trans European Road Networks and the Trans -Israeli Highway. In 2005 he completed a project on sustainable development in China with recommendations to government on sustainable resource use and taxation.
John has worked for a large number of private and public sector clients on environmental and transport strategies. They include British Airways, BICC Cables Ltd, Surrey County Council, Countryside Commission/Agency, Scottish Homes and Pfizer Ltd. He has been a consultant to DGXI in the European Commission in Brussels on the implementation of environmental strategies in small and medium sized enterprises and on environmental strategies in road freight transport and in the design of the 6th Environmental Action Programme for the European Union. He has produced commuter strategies and transport plans for Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Surrey County Council (County Hall), Guildford Borough Council and Riverside NHS Trust in central London. Current projects include transport strategies for Surrey County Council, car-free tourism strategies for East Sussex County Council and Harewood Hall (Leeds) and a countryside transport strategy for Durham County Council. He has produced transport plans for Swindon Borough Council, Guildford Borough Council and Derby City Council. More recently he has worked as a consultant for the Social Exclusion Unit (Cabinet Office) in preparing the report: "Making the Connections: transport and social exclusion".
John Stewart 1998 - Executive Chair HACAN ClearSkies (London-based organisation opposing further expansion of Heathrow Airport) 1990 - 1997 Chair ALARM UK (national campaign opposing road building) 1987 - 1990 Chair, ALARM (All London Against the Road Building Menace)
2004 - : Vice President UECNA (European Organisation campaigning against aviation expansion in Europe) 2001 - : Chair Transport 2000 2000 - : Chair AirportWatch, Chair UK Noise Association 1997 - 2005: Board Member TransportforAll (disability transport organisation) 1996 - 2005: Chair Slower Speeds Initiative 1994 - 2000: Chair RoadPeace (road safety organisation) 1992 - 2001: Board Member Transport 2000 1989 - 1997: Board Member Pedestrians Association
Publications (include):
Road Block, ALARM UK, 1995 Rough Crossing, The Pedestrians Association, 1998 Roads for People - Policies for Liveable Streets, Fabian Society, 2001 The Night Flight Question - A Practical Way to Tackle Night Noise in Europe, UECNA/GreenSkies, 2005 2006: The Year of the Aviation Review, AirportWatch, 2006 The Two Faces of BAA, AirportWatch, 2006
Mayer Hillman Personal details 1949-54 University College London: School of Architecture. 1954-56 University College London: Department of Town Planning. 1967-70 University of Edinburgh: Faculty of Social Sciences.
Architect PhD (Soc Sc); Diploma in Town Planning (London). Former Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Fellow of the RTPI. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
1992- Policy Studies Institute, Senior Fellow Emeritus. 1970-92 Policy Studies Institute, formerly Political and Economic Planning (Senior Fellow and Head of the Environment and Quality of Life Research Programme). 1967-70 University of Edinburgh Planning Research Unit (Research Fellow). 1954-67 Dinerman, Davison and Hillman (private architectural practice). Experience Summary Dr. Hillman has been at the Policy Studies Institute (formerly PEP), London, for 36 years - from 1970 to 1992 as the Head of the Institute's Environment and Quality of Life Research Programme and, since then, as Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute. His studies have been concerned with transport, urban planning, energy conservation, health promotion, road safety and environment policies. Throughout his professional career, he has called for environmentally-conscious attitudes to inform public policy. He has highlighted the moral imperative of taking account of the wider social ramifications of policy and the need to incorporate consideration of the rights of future as well as of present generations. In 1990, he was one of the first proponents of carbon rationing as the only realistic way for the world's population to limit damage from climate change and is appalled at the lack of urgency in tackling this issue effectively at the political level. He is the author or co-author of over 40 books and other major publications on the subject of his research. Of particular relevance to this application are:
Selected Publications ‘Towards the Linear New Town' in Essays in Local Government Enterprise (ed. E. Hillman), The Merlin Press, 1965. Personal Mobility and Transport Policy (with Irwin Henderson and Anne Whalley), Political and Economic Planning, 1973. Transport Realities and Planning Policy (with Irwin Henderson and Anne Whalley), Political and Economic Planning, 1976. ‘Movement Systems in British New Towns' (with Stephen Potter), in International Urban Growth Policies: New Town Contribution, G. Golany (ed.), John Wiley, 1978. Walking is Transport (with Anne Whalley), Policy Studies Institute, 1979. Energy and Personal Travel: obstacles to conservation (with Anne Whalley), Policy Studies Institute, 1983; Conservation's Contribution to UK Self Sufficiency, Heinemann Educational Books, 1984; Environmental Perspectives and the Quality of Life, 1995-2010, United Kingdom, A report for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions, 1990; Reviving the City: towards sustainable urban development (with Tim Elkin and Duncan McLaren), Friends of the Earth and Policy Studies Institute, 1991; ‘A Prominent Role for Walking and Cycling in Future Transport Policy' (with Johanna Cleary) in Travel Sickness: The Need for a Sustainable Transport Policy for Britain (eds. John Roberts, Johanna Cleary, Kerry Hamilton and Judith Hanna), Lawrence and Wishart, 1992; Wealth Beyond Measure: An atlas of new economics (with Paul Ekins and Robert Hutchison), Gaia Books Ltd., 1992; Cycling: towards health and safety, A report for the British Medical Association, Oxford University Press, 1992. Speed Control and Transport Policy (with Stephen Plowden), Policy Studies Institute, June 1996. ‘In Favour of the Compact City' in The Compact City: A sustainable urban form (eds. M. Jenks, E. Burton and K. Wiiliams), E. and F.N. Spon, 1996; ‘Developing an Integrated Transport Policy', Memorandum of Comment on the Government Consultation Document on An Integrated Transport Policy, October 1997. Curbing shorter car journeys: prioritising the alternatives, Friends of the Earth, March 1998. ‘The implications of climate change for the future of air travel', Written Statement for the Terminal 5 Inquiry, Government of London, 1998. ‘Why climate change must top the agenda' and ‘Carbon Budget Watchers' in Town and Country Planning (in special issue on Climate Change edited by Mayer Hillman), October 1998. ‘Ethical implications of climate change for personal lifestyles', Ethical Record, pp.10-14, September 2001. ‘Climate Change and Sustainable Transport Policy', Municipal Engineering, 2003. How we can save the planet (with Tina Fawcett), Penguin Books, 2004. How to save the planet: our last chance to prevent climate catastrophe (with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan), St. Martin's Press, (in press).
Profile for Joan Watson Joan Watson works as an advisor, facilitator and consultant. She specialises in Ethical procurement, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Finance & Operations and change management Joan has a solid background in Policy development and Consultancy for both Environmental & Ethical issues and the impact of these on the Private sector and on local and regional communities. She has over 18 years experience in Corporate Finance, Procurement and Taxation, 10 of these as head of Finance Control Procurement and Treasury operations for Carlton ITV. Her legacy was the setting up of the CSR initiative which key role was to ensure that sustainable value from ethical activities was fed back into the community. She currently Heads up the Environmental & Ethical at the procurement specialists, State Of Flux. Direct Pecuniary Interests: None Indirect Pecuniary Interests: CEO, YCTV (a community based youth initiative) Non Pecuniary Interests: Member of Paddington Development Creative Hub, ITP member
Introducing Purchasing Supply and Management Limited
Purchasing and Supply Management Ltd (PSM) was founded four years ago by Miriam Kennet and this builds on thirty years of purchasing experience of public and private sector purchasing and supply chain management at the highest levels and in the International arena.
Projects have included managing the setting up of an outsourcing operation globally for for large national and globalTelecom Companies and managing the global procurement and supply teams. The company experience is particularly focused on high technology and research and development of cutting edge technological advance and development and the implications for development and regulation. The company also has experience is at the focus for a global hub of consultants interested in Sustainable Development.
Miriam Kennet is at the forefront of research, both published and ongoing, on the discourse of Sustainable Development. She has advised CIPS the Institute of Purchasing and Supply in the UK, her paper on Sustainable Development perverse incentives was selected by IPSERA the European Purchasing Institute for their annual conference in Archamps in France. Miriam also is an advisor to CIPS on their diversity panel. She is running a conference with the Head of CIPS Ian Taylor who specialised in Corporate Social Responsibility.
As the Director of Purchasing and Supply Management, Miriam Kennet was recently a main speaker at the World Council of Business and Sustainable Development in Geneva, both addressing and sitting on a permanent advisory board of global CEO's and government heads and government agencies internationally.
Research, analysis and writing
One of the key benefits of PSM is the high level of writing skills of PSM's staff and associates. For example, we note that Jonathan Porritt has endorsed the high standard of publications and the International Journal of Green Economics edited by Miriam Kennet and Volker Heinemann. This ability is also demonstrated by the role of PSM staff and associates in the review and publication in the International Journal of Green Economics, for which the Director of PSM acts as Editor. Miriam Kennet also co-edited a book on Green Economics, called ‘Beyond Supply and demand to meeting people's needs' which is just going into its second edition and has just written an article on the current state of this discourse and its philosophical underpinning which was described by two professors as a marvellous article.
Project Management The company has 300 years of experience of project management between them 60 years of project management experience including directing large multinational teams of many people across time zones and across companies. This includes experience of using the latest project management approaches and tools such as Microsoft Project. The project management experience of PSM is available to this project in the form of Miriam Kennet (Project Director) and through inputs from Graham Woodison, Paul Kennet,Rose Bridger, Ian Chambers, Karl Faustman and Alan Fenwick.
