Hello!
Welcome to my website. My name is Joseph Murphy and I’m an academic and writer based in the Highlands of Scotland. I've been researching and writing about environmental issues and sustainable development for over 25 years. My work covers a wide range of issues which I analyse using ideas and evidence from the social and natural sciences.
My interest in environment and sustainability began when I was a teenager and led to related degrees at the University of Durham and University of Hull. After completing these I worked at various UK universities including as Senior Research Fellow at Mansfield College (University of Oxford) and Professor/Chair in Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Today I work as a independent scholar focusing on topics where I think progress is most likely to contribute to a better world. I am currently working on gender and environment, and imperialism and sustainability.
If you're interested, take a look around.
My interest in environment and sustainability began when I was a teenager and led to related degrees at the University of Durham and University of Hull. After completing these I worked at various UK universities including as Senior Research Fellow at Mansfield College (University of Oxford) and Professor/Chair in Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Today I work as a independent scholar focusing on topics where I think progress is most likely to contribute to a better world. I am currently working on gender and environment, and imperialism and sustainability.
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
Research methodologies and political action
Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
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
Research methodologies and political action
Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
Books
Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
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Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum, 31, 3, pp. 1-66
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Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
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Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
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Governing Technology for Sustainability
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At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland
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For more information about my publications follow the 'books' and 'all publications' links at the top of the page.
For more on citations and how other academics use my work see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3xnzwwoAAAAJ&hl=en
