Dr Gill Seyfang
Reader
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
United Kingdom
Biography
She is a Reader in Sustainable Consumption, and she lead a programme of research on 'grassroots innovations' for sustainability. She is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, linking sustainability policy agendas with ‘new economics’ theories and cutting-edge community-based practice.
Research Interest
Her research investigates the potential of these grassroots innovations to grow and spread from their green niches and influence wider society, examining alternatives to mainstream systems of provision, seeking to evaluate and demonstrate their contribution to a challenging 'new economics' vision of sustainable consumption and wider 'low-carbon lifestyles'.
