Hello!

Welcome to my website. My name is Joseph Murphy and I’m an academic and writer based in the UK. I've been researching and writing about environmental issues and sustainable development for over 20 years. My work covers a wide range of topics which I explore in an interdisciplinary way using concepts and theories taken from across the social sciences. If you're interested, take a look around.

Topics

​​Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts

​​Improving dialogue between science and society

​​Using policy to shape social and technical innovation​

​Governing when power and authority are dispersed​​

​​Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies​

​​Walking as research methodology and political act

​​Towards a theory of environment and sustainability

Books

Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation

Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum, 31, 3, pp. 1-66

Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences

Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology

Governing Technology for Sustainability

At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland