Sustainable Consumption Institute

Abstract

This issue stems from a symposium in memory of Ken Green held at Manchester Business School on 22 and 23 April 2010. Ken Green was Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Manchester and a member of TASM's Editorial Board as well as a contributor (his TASM papers are listed at the end of this Editorial). He carried out pioneering research on innovation and environmental sustainability, especially the study of sustainability households and food systems. (Ken Green's key articles and books on sustainability are listed at the end of this Editorial; the early papers up to 2000 focus on firm R&D and supply chain management issues, while post-2000, he was involved with household consumption and sociotechnical systems perspectives.) He also played a major role is establishing the Manchester University Sustainable Consumption Institute and the ESRC, Defra and Scottish Government-funded Sustainable Practices Research Group.

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