Prof Peter Victor
Co-Investigator
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Peter A. Victor is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. He has worked for over 50 years in Canada and abroad on economy and environment as an academic, consultant and public servant. Peter is co-investigator within our systems analysis theme.
Peter A. Victor, author of Managing without Growth—Slower by Design, not Disaster, is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. He has worked for over 50 years in Canada and abroad on economy and environment as an academic, consultant and public servant. Dr. Victor was the founding president of the Canadian Society of Ecological Economics and a past-president of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science. Prior to becoming Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in 1996 he was Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environmental Science and Standards Division in the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.
Dr. Victor, whose research in ecological economics began in the 1960s, was a principal originator of environmentally extended input-output analysis. During the past few years, he has collaborated closely with Prof. Tim Jackson on the development of ecological macroeconomics building several stock-flow consistent, empirically grounded, systems dynamics models of national economies.
Dr. Victor maintains an active research program as the Project Director for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab at York University and advises researchers in several countries. He is a member of the Honorary Board of the David Suzuki Foundation, the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the Footprint Data Foundation and has served on many advisory boards in the public and private sectors.
Dr. Victor’s work on ecological economics has been recognised through the award of the Molson Prize in the Social Sciences by the Canada Council for the Arts in 2011, the Boulding Memorial Prize from the International Society for Ecological Economics in 2014, and his election to the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.
Recent Publications
2023, Escape from Overshoot: Economics for a Planet in Peril. New Society Publishers, Canada.
2021, Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World, His Life and Ideas, Routledge, UK.
2020 (with Tim Jackson), The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada, Ecological Economics, 177.
2020, Cents and nonsense: A critical appraisal of the monetary valuation of nature, Ecosystem Services, 42.
2019 (with Tim Jackson), Low Grow SFC: A stock-flow consistent ecological macroeconomic model for Canada, CUSP Working Paper, No 16.
2019, Managing Without Growth—Slower by Design, Not Disaster (2nd edition), Edward Elgar.
2018 (with Martin Sers), The Energy-Emissions Trap, Ecological Economics, 151, 10-2.
2017 (co-ed with Brett Dolter), The Handbook on Growth and Sustainability , Edward Elgar.
2017 (ed), The Costs of Economic Growth, Edward Elgar.
2016 (with Brett Dolter), Casting a Long Shadow, Ecological Economics, 127, 156-164.
2016 (with Tim Jackson) Does Slow Growth Lead to rising Inequality? Some Theoretical Reflections and Numerical Simulations, Ecological Economics, Vol. 121, 206-219
2015 (with Tim Jackson), Does credit create a ‘growth imperative’? A quasi-stationary economy with interest-bearing debt, Ecological Economics, December, Vo. 120, pp. 32-48
2015, Ecological Economics: A Personal Journey, Ecological Economics, Feature Article, January, Vol. 109, 93-100
2015 (with Tim Jackson), The Trouble with Growth, State of the World 2015, The Worldwatch Institute, Island Press, Washington
2015, Modelling a Low Growth Economy, Handbook of Ecological Economics, J. Martinez-Alier (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing
2014. “Economic Growth” in Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new paradigm, G. D’Alisa, F. Demaria, G.Kallis(ed), Routledge/Earthscan
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