Contact details

Email: m.eames@psi.org.uk

Research group: Environment Group

Position: Research Fellow

Direct line: 020 7468 2227

Fax: 020 7388 0914

Postal address

Policy Studies Institute
100 Park Village East
London NW1 3SR

 

Education and Expertise

Education

D.Phil: Science and Technology Policy Studies, SPRU, University of Sussex, awarded 1995.

MSc: Science, Technology and Industrialisation, SPRU, University of Sussex, awarded July 1990.

BSc (Hons): Environmental Science, Second Class (Division One), School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, awarded July 1988.

Expertise

Malcolm was previously a Research Fellow at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex), and has also worked in the voluntary sector with a number of NGOs. His research interests span a range of environmental, sustainable development and technological policy issues, including: sustainable development (SD) research policy; participatory decision-making and technological assessment; foresight, futurity and socio-economic scenario building; the implementation of European environmental policies; environmental management and industrial pollution control; and, agricultural, food and biotechnological research policy.

 

Projects

Current projects

• Deliberative Mapping: piloting an innovative public consultation process with the case of xenotransplantation and organ failure, SPRU (Welcome Trust), June 2001-March 2003
• Keeping the Social in the Sustainable, JRF, December 2001 - April 2002
• INsurance, TEchnological Risk and Emerging Science and Technology policies (INTEREST), EU DG-Research, September 2001 - September 2002
• Regulatory Relief and Certified Environmental Management Systems, Environment Agency, February 2002-September 2002
• Sustainable development research, Phase II (the Sustainable Development Research Network), DEFRA, November 2000-March 2003

Recent projects

Other activities/responsibilities

Malcolm coordinates the Sustainable Development Research (SDR) Network (http://www.sd-research.org.uk)

 

Selection of recent publications

Eames M, A New Agenda for UK Sustainable Development Research, PSI, London, 2002

Schucht. S, Eames. M, Bültmann. A, Lulofs. K, 'Implementation of the European Municipal Waste Incineration Directive (89/429/EEC): Lessons From Four Member States', European Environment, Volume 11, Number 5, September-October 2001

Wätzold F, Bültmann A, Eames M, Lulofs K, Schucht S, 'EMAS and regulatory relief in Europe', European Environment, Volume 11, Number 1 January-February 2001

Eames M, 'The Large Combustion Plant Directive (88/609/EEC): An Effective Instrument for SO2 Pollution Abatement?', chapter in Implementing European Environmental Policy: the impacts of the Directives in Member States, M, Glachant (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2001

Eames M (et al), 'E-topia?', chapter in Digital Futures: Living in a dot.com world, Wilsden J (ed), Earthscan, March 2000

Berkhout F, Skea J and Eames M, Environmental Futures, Office of Science and Technology/Foresight Programme, London, March 1999.

 

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