Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy (PASSAGE)

本奖学金探讨在“绿色经济”的背景下，可持续发展与繁荣之间的关系。它旨在支持杰克逊教授完成两项主要任务。其中之一是综合近十年来探索可持续生活方式概念的研究成果。这项工作（最近通过ESRC资助的生活方式价值观和环境研究小组（RESOLVE）开发）已经开始研究人们的生活方式，社会价值观和环境之间的复杂关系。该研究金的第一个主要目标是以一种广泛的受众可以接受的方式整理和综合这些证据。 这一系列工作中出现的核心主题之一涉及对可持续性的关注与对繁荣的追求之间有时出现的紧张关系。当繁荣的概念建立在物质积累的思想基础上时，这种紧张关系尤为严重。但是，即使繁荣的框架有所不同，例如在福祉或我们繁荣的能力方面，经济增长的结构和消费主义的价值观往往会推动社会走向不可持续的结果。杰克逊教授就这一困境写了大量文章，最近的一本书是《没有增长的繁荣--有限星球的经济学》，引起了全世界的关注。这本书阐述了问题的动态。但它也指向结构性解决方案。该奖学金的第二个主要目的是进一步发展这些解决方案。特别是，该研究金将使杰克逊教授能够在与加拿大经济学家彼得维克托教授现有合作的基础上，开发绿色经济的宏观经济模型。该模型阐述了关键的经济关系，例如，在生态受到制约的经济中，消费、储蓄和投资之间、私营部门和公共部门之间、企业和家庭之间的关系。它探讨了有关金融市场结构、社区规模投资的作用、经济活动的性质以及不同所有制结构在绿色经济中的作用的关键问题。通过这样做，可以加深对向绿色经济过渡的理解。该模型开发完成后，将应用于五个具有不同发展阶段和结构的案例研究国家。

This Fellowship explores the relationship between sustainability and prosperity in the context of the 'green economy'. It aims to support Prof Jackson in two main tasks. One of these is to synthesise the research findings from almost a decade of work exploring the concept of sustainable lifestyles. This body of work (developed most recently through an ESRC funded Research group on Lifestyles Values and Environment (RESOLVE) has set out to examine the complex relationships between people's lifestyles, societal values and the environment. Collating and synthesising that evidence in an accessible way for a broad audience is the first main aim of the fellowship. One of the core themes that emerges from this body of work involves the tension that sometimes arises between concerns for sustainability and the pursuit of prosperity. This tension is particularly acute when concepts of prosperity are based on ideas of material accumulation. But even when prosperity is framed differently, for example in terms of wellbeing or our capabilities to flourish, the structures of economic growth and the values of consumerism tend to drive society towards unsustainable outcomes. Prof Jackson has written extensively about this dilemma, most recently in his book Prosperity without Growth - economics for a finite planet, which has attracted worldwide attention. The book sets out the dynamics of the problem. But it also points towards structural solutions. The second main aim of this fellowship is to develop these solutions further. In particular, the Fellowship will allow Prof Jackson to build on an existing collaboration with Canadian economist Prof Peter Victor to develop a macroeconomic model of the green economy. The model sets out the key economic relationships, for instance between consumption, savings and investment, between the private and the public sector, between enterprise and households, in an ecologically constrained economy. It explores key questions about the structure of financial markets, the role of community-scale investment, the nature of economic activity and the role of different ownership structures in a green economy. In doing so, it allows for an enhanced understanding of the transition to a green economy. Once the model is developed it will be applied to five case study countries, with different stages and structures of development.