Professor Peter North

Professor of Alternative Economies Geography and Planning

    Research

    Research Overview

    My research focuses on social movements that develop alternatives to 'capitalism', within a diverse economies framework. I am interested in thinking about links between economies, livelihoods and environments that are not exploitative and which provide an alternative to forms of 'growth' and 'development' that may not be sustainable in the long term. I am interested in conceptualisations of local economic development that facilitate action against dangerous climate change, and how we might develop social and solidarity economies. At heart, I want to know what it means to 'live well' in the Anthropocene, while enabling future generations and other species to do the same. More recently, I have been developing an interest in these ideas in contemporary Poland in the context of post-socialism.

    Social and Solidarity Economies


    Diverse Economies

    Postsocialism

    Research Group Membership

    Research Grants

    The Solidarity Economy North and South: Energy, Livelihood and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Society

    BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

    March 2012 - September 2014

    Developing the Low Carbon Economy on Merseyside

    ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

    July 2009 - July 2011

    Building the Low Carbon Economy on Merseyside: Follow on funding

    ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

    April 2012 - May 2013

    Challenges to local economic development in an era of climate change and peak oil

    ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

    October 2006 - April 2009

    Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply (ARCOES)

    ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

    November 2011 - October 2017

    The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation

    EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND

    April 2012 - September 2015

    Remembering Liverpool Labour Council 1983-87

    THE BARRY AMIEL & NORMAN MELBURN TRUST (UK)

    August 2012 - October 2012