Spash, Clive, PhD
Clive Spash, PhD
Stellvertretender Institutsvorstand
WU Vienna University of Economics
Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development
Welthandelsplatz 1/D4
1020 Vienna, Austria
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Prof. Spash is an economist who writes, researches and teaches on public policy with an emphasis on economic and environmental interactions. His main interests are interdisciplinary research on human behaviour, environmental values and the transformation of the world political economy to a more socially and environmentally just system. His work has covered acidic deposition, ozone impacts on agriculture, human induced climate change and biodiversity. This has involved a range of disciplinary understandings: economics, political science, applied philosophy, history of thought, philosophy of science, ethics, social psychology, plant science, atmospheric science, toxicology and ecology. He pursues this interdisciplinary and integrative work within the context of social ecological economics.
Consultation hours
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Publications
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Journal article
| 2022 | Spash, Clive L. 2022. Three Decades of Environmental Values: Some Personal Reflections. Read more |
| 2022 | Spash, Clive L. 2022. Conservation in conflict: Corporations, capitalism and sustainable development. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. The contested conceptualisation of pollution in economics: Market failure or cost shifting success?. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L., Hache, Frédéric. 2021. The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. Conceptualising Nature: From Dasgupta to Degrowth. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. ‘The economy’ as if people mattered: Revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. A reply to Levrel and Martinet. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. Apologists for growth: Passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L., Guisan, Adrien. 2021. A future social-ecological economics. Read more |
| 2021 | Stoddard, Isak, Anderson, Kevin, Capstick, Stuart, Depledge, Joanna, Facer, Keri, Hache, Frédéric, Hoolohan, Claire, Hultman, Martin, Hällström, Niclas, Kartha, Sivan, Klinsky, Sonja, Kuchler, Magdalena, Lövbrand, Eva, Nasiritousi, Naghmeh, Newell, Peter, Peters, Glen, Sokona, Youba, Spash, Clive L., Stirling, Andy, Stilwell, Matthew, Williams, Mariama. 2021. Three decades of climate mitigation: Why haven’t we bent the global emissions curve?. Read more |
| 2021 | Spash, Clive L. 2021. A passiva revolução ambiental capitalista. Read more |
| 2021 | Brand, Ulrich, Muraca, Barbara, Pineault, Eric, Sahakian, Marlyne, Schaffartzik, Anke, Novy, Andreas, Streissler, Christoph, Haberl, Helmut, Asara, Viviana, Dietz, Kristina, Lang, Miriam, Kothari, Ashish, Smith Spash, Tone, Spash, Clive L., Brad, Alina, Pichler, Melanie, Plank, Christina, Velegrakis, Giorgos, Jahn, Thomas, Carter, Agela, Huano, Qingzhi, Kallis, Giorgos, Martinez Alier, Joan, Riva, Gabriel, Satgar, Vishwas, Teran Mantovani, Emiliano, Williams, Michelle, Wissen, Markus, Görg, Christoph. 2021. From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation. Read more |
| 2020 | Spash, Clive L. 2020. Editorial: Days of decision. Read more |
| 2020 | Spash, Clive L. 2020. Editorial: The Revolution will not be Corporatised!. Read more |
| 2020 | Spash, Clive L. 2020. A tale of three paradigms: Realising the revolutionary potential of ecological economics. Read more |
| 2020 | Spash, Clive L. 2020. The capitalist passive environmental revolution. Read more |
| 2019 | Spash, Clive L., Smith Spash, Tone. 2019. Of ecosystems and economies: Re-connecting economics with reality. Read more |
| 2019 | Spash, Clive L. 2019. Policies to reduce CO2 emissions: Fallacies and evidence from the United States and California. Read more |
| 2019 | Spash, Clive L. 2019. SEE beyond substantive economics: Avoiding false dichotomies. Read more |
| 2019 | Spash, Clive L. 2019. Social ecological transformation, whether you like it or not!. Read more |
| 2018 | Spash, Clive L. 2018. Facing the Truth or Living a Lie: Conformity, Radicalism and Activism. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L. 2017. Environmentalism and democracy in the age of nationalism and corporate capitalism. Read more |
| 2017 | Leonhardt, Heidrun, Juschten, Maria, Spash, Clive L. 2017. To Grow or Not to Grow? That Is the Question - Lessons for Social Ecological Transformation from Small-Medium Enterprises. Read more |
| 2016 | Spash, Clive L. 2016. The political economy of the Paris Agreement on human induced climate change: A brief guide. Read more |
| 2016 | Spash, Clive L. 2016. Social ecological transformation and the individual. Read more |
| 2016 | Spash, Clive L. 2016. This changes nothing: The Paris Agreement to ignore reality. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L. 2015. The dying planet index: Life, death and Man's domination of Nature. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L., Aslaksen, Iulie. 2015. Re-establishing an ecological discourse in the policy debate over how to value ecosystems and biodiversity. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L. 2015. The future post-growth society. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L. 2015. Tackling Climate Change, Breaking the Frame of Modernity. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L. 2015. Bulldozing biodiversity: The economics of offsets and trading-in Nature. Read more |
| 2014 | Spash, Clive L. 2014. Policy analysis: Empiricism, social construction and realism. Read more |
| 2014 | Spash, Clive L. 2014. Seeking sustainability. Read more |
| 2013 | Spash, Clive L. 2013. The Shallow or the Deep Ecological Economics Movement?. Read more |
| 2013 | Spash, Clive L. 2013. Changes Needed. Read more |
| 2013 | Lo, Yu Hong, Spash, Clive L. 2013. Deliberative monetary valuation: In search of a democratic and value plural approach to environmental policy. Read more |
| 2013 | Spash, Clive L. 2013. Influencing the perception of what and who is important in ecological economics. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. Green Economy, Red Herring. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. New foundations for ecological economics. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L., Ryan, A.M. 2012. Economic schools of thought on the environment: Investigating unity and division. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. Response and Responsibility. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L., Lo, Yu Hong. 2012. Australia's Carbon Tax: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?. Read more |
| 2012 | Ryan, A. M., Spash, Clive L. 2012. The awareness of consequences scale: An exploration, empirical analysis and reinterpretation. Read more |
| 2012 | Lo, A. Y. H., Spash, Clive L. 2012. How Green is your scheme? Greenhouse gas control the Australian way. Read more |
| 2011 | Ryan, Anthony M., Spash, Clive L. 2011. Is WTP an attitudinal measure?: Empirical analysis of the psychological explanation for contingent values. Read more |
| 2011 | Spash, Clive L. 2011. Social ecological economics: Understanding the past to see the future. Read more |
| 2011 | Spash, Clive L. 2011. Terrible economics, ecosystems and biodiversity. Read more |
| 2010 | Spash, Clive L. 2010. The Brave New World of Carbon Trading. Read more |
| 2010 | Spash, Clive L. 2010. Censoring science in research officially. Read more |
| 2009 | Anthony, Ryan, Spash, Clive L., Meesham, Thomas. 2009. Socio-economic and psychological predictors of domestic greywater and rainwater collection: Evidence from Australia. Read more |
| 2009 | Spash, Clive L., Urama, Kevin, Burton, Rob, Kenyon, Wendy, Shannon, Peter, Hill, Gary. 2009. Motives behind willingness to pay for improving biodiversity in a water ecosystem: Economics, ethics and social psychology. Read more |
| 2009 | Spash, Clive L. 2009. The new environmental pragmatists, pluralism and sustainability. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. Deliberative monetary valuation (DMV) and the evidence for a new value theory. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. How much is that ecosystem in the window? The one with the bio-diverse trail. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. Contingent valuation design and data treatment: If you can't shoot the messenger, change the message. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. A worthwhile academic life. Read more |
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L. 2007. The economics of climate change impacts à la Stern: Novel and nuanced or rhetorically restricted?. Read more |
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L. 2007. Changing climate, changing values, changing editors: "All change". Read more |
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L. 2007. Deliberative monetary valuation (DMV): Issues in combining economic and political processes to value environmental change. Read more |
| 2006 | Kallis, Giorgos, Videira, Nuno, Antunes, Paula, Guimarães Pereira, Ângela, Spash, Clive L., Coccossis, Harry, Corral Quintana, Serafin, delMoral, Leandro, Hatzilacou, Dionisia, Lobo, Gonçalo, Mexa, Alexandra, Paneque, Pilar, Pedregal Mateos, Belen, Santos, Rui. 2006. Integrated participatory assessment for water resource planning and governance. Read more |
| 2006 | Spash, Clive L. 2006. Non-economic motivation for contingent values: Rights and attitudinal beliefs in the willingness to pay for environmental improvements. Read more |
| 2006 | Spash, Clive L. 2006. Environmental values in the USA today. Read more |
| 2006 | Spash, Clive L., Vatn, Arild. 2006. Transferring environmental value estimates: Issues and alternatives. Read more |
| 2006 | Spash, Clive L., Vatn, Arild. 2006. Transferring environmental value estimates: Issues and alternatives. Read more |
| 2002 | Spash, Clive L., Biel, Anders. 2002. Social psychology and economics in environmental research. Read more |
| 2002 | Spash, Clive L. 2002. Informing and forming preferences in environmental valuation: Coral reef biodiversity. Read more |
| 2001 | Spash, Clive L. 2001. Broadening democracy in environmental policy processes. Read more |
| 2001 | Niemeyer, Simon, Spash, Clive L. 2001. Environmental valuation, public deliberation and their pragmatic synthesis: A critical appraisal. Read more |
| 2000 | Spash, Clive L. 2000. Multiple value expression in contingent valuation: Economics and ethics. Read more |
| 2000 | Spash, Clive L. 2000. Ecosystems, contingent valuation and ethics: The case of wetland re-creation. Read more |
| 2000 | ONeill, John, Spash, Clive L. 2000. Conceptions of value in environmental decision-making. Read more |
| 2000 | Spash, Clive L. 2000. Ethical motives and charitable contributions in contingent valuation: Empirical evidence from social psychology and economics. Read more |
| 1999 | Spash, Clive L. 1999. The development of environmental thinking in economics. Read more |
| 1998 | Spash, Clive L. 1998. Editorial. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L. 1997. The maintenance of natural capital: Motivations and methods. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L. 1997. Reconciling different approaches to environmental management. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L. 1997. Assessing the economic benefits to agriculture from air pollution control. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L. 1997. Ethics and environmental attitudes with implications for economic valuation. Read more |
| 1996 | Spash, Clive L. 1996. Human-induced climate change: The limits of models. Read more |
| 1995 | Spash, Clive L., Hanley, Nick D. 1995. Preferences, information and biodiversity preservation. Read more |
| 1995 | Spash, Clive L. 1995. The political economy of nature. Read more |
| 1995 | Hanley, Nick D., Spash, Clive L., Walker, Lorna. 1995. Problems in valuing the benefits of biodiversity preservation. Read more |
| 1994 | Spash, Clive L. 1994. Double CO2 and beyond: Benefits, costs, and compensation. Read more |
| 1994 | Spash, Clive L., Simpson, Ian A. 1994. Utilitarian and rights-based alternatives for protecting sites of special scientific interest. Read more |
| 1994 | Spash, Clive L. 1994. Trying to find the right approach to greenhouse economics: Some reflections upon the role of CBA. Read more |
| 1993 | Spash, Clive L. 1993. Economics, ethics, and long-term environmental damages. Read more |
| 1993 | Spash, Clive L., Simpson, Ian A. 1993. Protecting sites of special scientific interest. Read more |
| 1989 | Spash, Clive L., d'Arge, Ralph C. 1989. The greenhouse effect and intergenerational transfers. Read more |
Book (monograph)
Chapter in edited volume
| 2018 | Spash, Clive L., Theine, Hendrik. 2018. Voluntary Individual Carbon Trading - Friend or Foe?. Read more |
| 2018 | Spash, Clive L., Asara, Viviana. 2018. Ecological Economics: From nature to society. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L., Gattringer, Clemens. 2017. The Ethical Failures of Climate Economics. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L., Dobernig, Karin. 2017. Theories of (un)sustainable consumption. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L. 2017. Soziales, ökologisches und ökonomisches Wissen: Zum Synthetisierungspotenzial des Critical Realism. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L. 2017. Social Ecological Economics. Read more |
| 2016 | Spash, Clive L. 2016. Preface. Read more |
| 2015 | Fellner, Wolfgang, Spash, Clive L. 2015. The Role of Consumer Sovereignty in Sustaining the Market Economy. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L. 2015. The content, direction and philosophy of ecological economics. Read more |
| 2014 | Spash, Clive L. 2014. The Politics of Researching Carbon Trading in Australia. Read more |
| 2013 | Spash, Clive L. 2013. The economics of climate change impacts à la Stern: Novel and nuanced or rhetorically restricted?. Read more |
| 2013 | Spash, Clive L. 2013. The Economics of Boulding's Spaceship Earth. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. Towards the Integration of Social, Ecological and Economic Knowledge. Read more |
| 2011 | Spash, Clive L. 2011. Social ecological economics: Understanding the past to see the future. Read more |
| 2011 | Spash, Clive L. 2011. Carbon trading: A critique. Read more |
| 2009 | Spash, Clive L. 2009. Climate change need for new economic thought. Read more |
| 2009 | Baer, Paul, Spash, Clive L. 2009. Is Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis Defensible: A Critique of the Stern Review. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L., Carter, Claudia. 2008. Environmental valuation in Europe: Findings from the concerted action, EVE Policy Research Brief No. 11. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. The economics of climate change impacts à la Stern: Novel and nuanced or rhetorically restricted?. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. Deliberative monetary valuation: Literature, limitations and perspectives. Read more |
| 2008 | Spash, Clive L. 2008. Contingent valuation as a research method: Environmental values and human behaviour. Read more |
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L. 2007. Deliberative monetary valuation. Read more |
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L., Burton, Rob, Hill, Gary, Kenyon, Wendy, Urama, Kevin. 2007. Understanding the value of biodiversity in water ecosystems: Economics, ethics and social psychology. Read more |
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L. 2007. Problems in economic assessments of climate change with attention to the USA. Read more |
| 2005 | Spash, Clive L., Stagl, Sigrid, Getzner, M. 2005. Exploring alternatives for environmental valuation. Read more |
| 2005 | Spash, Clive L. 2005. Methods for calculating the costs and benefits of environmental change: A critical review. Read more |
| 2005 | Spash, Clive L. 2005. The development of environmental thinking in economics. Read more |
| 2002 | Spash, Clive L. 2002. Empirical signs of ethical concerns in economic valuation of the environment. Read more |
| 2002 | Spash, Clive L., Carter, Claudia. 2002. The valuation problem and non-market valuation theories (Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO). Read more |
| 2002 | Spash, Clive L., Carter, Claudia. 2002. Environmental valuation methods in rural resource management. Read more |
| 2001 | Spash, Clive L. 2001. Environmental impact of projects (Vol.1). Read more |
| 2001 | Spash, Clive L. 2001. Ecological economics (Vol.1). Read more |
| 2001 | Spash, Clive L. 2001. Air pollution and agricultural crop damage: Can Europe learn from the United States?. Read more |
| 2001 | Spash, Clive L. 2001. Limits to growth (Vol. 2). Read more |
| 2001 | Spash, Clive L. 2001. Evaluating the impacts of pollution. Read more |
| 2000 | Spash, Clive L., van der Werff ten Bosch, Jasper, Westmacott, Susie, Ruitenbeek, Jack. 2000. Lexicographic preferences and the contingent valuation of coral reef biodiversity in Curaçao and Jamaica. Read more |
| 2000 | Spash, Clive L. 2000. Assessing the benefits of improving coral reef biodiversity: The contingent valuation method. Read more |
| 1999 | Spash, Clive L. 1999. Reflections upon the role of moral sentiments in economics. Read more |
| 1999 | Spash, Clive L. 1999. Environmental and ecological political economy: Associations and journals. Read more |
| 1998 | Spash, Clive L., Aldred, J. 1998. Wildlife conservation. Read more |
| 1998 | Spash, Clive L. 1998. Investigating individual motives for environmental action: lexicographic preferences, beliefs and attitudes. Read more |
| 1998 | Spash, Clive L. 1998. Contingent valuation. Read more |
| 1998 | Spash, Clive L. 1998. Economic activity and analysis. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L. 1997. Environmental management without environmental valuation?. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L., Hanley, Nick. 1997. Preferences, information and biodiversity preservation. Read more |
| 1997 | Spash, Clive L., Faulkner, K. 1997. Agri-environmental policies: cross-achievement and the role for cross-compliance. Read more |
| 1995 | Spash, Clive L., Young, Andrew. 1995. Environmental imperatives and renewable sources of energy. Read more |
| 1995 | Lemons, J., Heredia, R., Jamieson, D., Spash, Clive L. 1995. Climate change and sustainable development. Read more |
| 1991 | dArge, Ralph C., Spash, Clive L. 1991. Economic strategies for mitigating the impacts of climate change on future generations. Read more |
Working/Discussion Paper
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L., Dobernig, Karin. 2017. Theories of (Un)sustainable Consumption. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L. 2017. The Need for and Meaning of Social Ecological Economics. Read more |
| 2017 | Leonhardt, Heidrun, Juschten, Maria, Spash, Clive L. 2017. To Grow or Not to Grow? That is the Question: Lessons for Social Ecological Transformation from Small-Medium Enterprises. Read more |
| 2017 | Spash, Clive L. 2017. Environmental Values in Conservation: Ethics, Economics and Pragmatism. Read more |
| 2016 | Spash, Clive L. 2016. The Paris Agreement to Ignore Reality. Read more |
| 2016 | Spash, Clive L., Gattringer, Clemens. 2016. The Economics and Ethics of Human Induced Climate Change. Read more |
| 2015 | Spash, Clive L. 2015. Bulldozing Biodiversity: The Economics of Optimal Extinction. Read more |
| 2014 | Fellner, Wolfgang, Spash, Clive L. 2014. The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignty in Economic and Neoliberal Thought. Read more |
| 2014 | Fellner, Wolfgang, Spash, Clive L. 2014. The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignity in Economic and Neoliberal Thought. Read more |
| 2014 | Spash, Clive L. 2014. The Politics of Researching Carbon Trading in Australia. Read more |
| 2014 | Spash, Clive L. 2014. Better Growth, Helping the Paris COP-out?: Fallacies and Omissions of the New Climate Economy Report. Read more |
| 2013 | Spash, Clive L. 2013. The Ecological Economics of Boulding's Spaceship Earth. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. Towards the Integration of Social, Economic and Ecological Knowledge. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. The Shallow or the Deep Ecological Economics Movement. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L., Aslaksen, Iulie. 2012. Re-establishing an Ecological Discourse in the Debate over the Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Read more |
| 2012 | Spash, Clive L. 2012. Ecological Economics and Philosophy of Science: Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology and Ideology. Read more |
| 2011 | Spash, Clive L., Lo, Alex Y. 2011. Articulation of Plural Values in Deliberative Monetary Valuation: Beyond Preference Economisation and Moralisation. Read more |
| 2011 | Spash, Clive L., Lo, Alex Yu Hong. 2011. Australia's Carbon Tax a Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) paper. Read more |
| 2010 | Spash, Clive L., Ryan, Anthony M. 2010. Ecological, Heterodox and Neoclassical Economics: Investigating the Differences. Read more |
| 2010 | Ryan, Anthony M., Spash, Clive L. 2010. Testing Kahneman's Attitudinal Hypothesis. Read more |
| 2010 | Ryan, Anthony M., Spash, Clive L. 2010. Measuring Beliefs Supportive of Environmental Action and Inaction: A Reinterpretation of the Awareness of Consequences Scale. Read more |
Popular science article
| 2007 | Spash, Clive L. 2007. Climate change: Need for new economic thought. Read more |
Teaching
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Projects
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Fields of research
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