Paul Weaver

About

Paul Weaver is a Professorial Research Fellow at ICIS. He is also an Adjunct Professor at LUCSUS, Lund University, Sweden, a Special Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Director of Research at Groundswell Research Associates, UK.

He is an economic geographer and sustainability science practitioner with special interest in cross-cutting sectors, such as energy, materials, waste, and transport, and in integrative methodological approaches, such as systems analysis, transition analysis, ecological economics, industrial ecology, and sustainability assessment. He has strong interests in the relationships between innovation systems and sustainability transition and has authored or edited several books on the issues involved, including Sustainable Technology Development (2000) and Eco-Restructuring (1998). He was a mentor to the Natural Edge Project Team as well as a contributor to their award-winning book The Natural Advantage of Nations (2005).   

Trained originally as a geographer (BA Hons., Geography, First Class, University of Durham, 1978), Paul obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute for Transport Studies (Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, 1984). He has worked previously at the University of Leeds (1981-87), IIASA (1987-1992), INSEAD (1993-1995), and the University of Durham (1995-2006).

Paul has been a principal or lead investigator in several major international projects, such as AIRP-SD (FP5), MATISSE (FP6), ADAM (FP6), VISION RD4SD (FP7) and GLOBIS (FP7). He has recently completed his input into a DEFRA-sponsored project, EMBED, which has been gathering evidence on the value-added to decision- and policy- makers in England of taking an Ecosystems Approach. His contributions to the ongoing VISION and GLOBIS projects are continuing.