Clive Spash´s lecture in Brno

As part of our project focuses on the Investigation of the political and socio-economic context of climate change education, we invited Prof. Clive Spash and his partner Tone Smith to Brno.

Clive Spash is an economist who writes, researches and teaches 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.

On February 18th 2025, Prof. Clive Spash gave a lecture on the introduction to ecological economics. While the economy is generally based on growth, ecological economists emphasized the need to address limits to economic growth and respect for biophysical limits. Rather than simply reforming markets, the ecological crisis became recognized as requiring systemic change. Social and ecological problems are connected by common causal mechanisms that can only be addressed by changing the structure of actual economies. This requires a revolution in economic thought away from the narrow perspective that “the economy” is a singular form in the guise of capitalism. Once rejected, the alternative forms of economies as social provisioning systems become an objective offering the potential for better, more just, equitable and sustainable systems that meet the needs of all, both human and non-human.

You can watch his presentation here.