Dr Philip Lawn

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Location: Law Commerce (3.44)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Research and consultancy

Publications

Books

Lawn, P.A., 2007. Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics, Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Book chapters

Lawn, P.A., 2010. Ecological Economics: the impact of unsustainable growth. In Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society. UK: Routledge, pp. 94-120.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. Final thoughts on reconciling the goals of ecological sustainability and full employment. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 345-379.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. An empirical assessment of ecological tax reform and the double dividend. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 241-267.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. Green national accounting: the good, the bad, and the ugly. In Flinders Essays in Economics and Economic History. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, pp. 91-135.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. Why focus on the connection between the environment and employment?. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 3-23.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. The potential conflict between ecological sustainability and full employment. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 24-93.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Genuine progress in Australia: time to rethink the growth objective. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 91-125.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. Why is gross domestic product an inadequate indicator of sustainable welfare?. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 35-46.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Genuine progress in India: some further growth needed in the immediate future but population stabilisation needed immediately. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 191-227.

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Books

Lawn, P.A., 2007. Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics, Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Book chapters

Lawn, P.A., 2010. Ecological Economics: the impact of unsustainable growth. In Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society. UK: Routledge, pp. 94-120.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. The potential conflict between ecological sustainability and full employment. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 24-93.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. Green national accounting: the good, the bad, and the ugly. In Flinders Essays in Economics and Economic History. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, pp. 91-135.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. Final thoughts on reconciling the goals of ecological sustainability and full employment. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 345-379.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. An empirical assessment of ecological tax reform and the double dividend. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 241-267.

Lawn, P.A., 2009. Why focus on the connection between the environment and employment?. In Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 3-23.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. Why is gross domestic product an inadequate indicator of sustainable welfare?. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 35-46.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. What is the Genuine Progress Indicator and how is it typically calculated?. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 47-68.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. In defence of the Genuine Progress Indicator. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 69-88.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. Genuine progress across the Asia-Pacific region: comparisons, trends, and major influences. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 333-361.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. An introduction to the Asia-Pacific region. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 3-34.

Hong, V., Clarke, M., & Lawn, P.A., 2008. Genuine progress in Vietnam: the impact of the Doi Moi reforms. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 299-330.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Benefit-cost analysis and project evaluation. In Social and economic potential of sustainable development. Ukraine: Sumy University Books, pp. 147-165.

Wen, Z., Yang, Y., & Lawn, P.A., 2008. From GDP to GPI: quantifying thirty-five years of development in China. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 228-259.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Genuine progress in India: some further growth needed in the immediate future but population stabilisation needed immediately. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 191-227.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Genuine progress in Australia: time to rethink the growth objective. In Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Studies Using the Genuine Progress Indicator. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 91-125.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Efficient and sustainable resource use; the consumer surplus, the producer surplus, and the social surplus; the role of markets. In Social and economic potential of sustainable development. Ukraine: Sumy University Books, pp. 133-147.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Economics of renewable resource use. In Social and economic potential of sustainable development. Ukraine: Sumy University Books, pp. 180-191.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Economics of non-renewable resource use. In Social and economic potential of sustainable development. Ukraine: Sumy University Books, pp. 165-180.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. Benefit-cost analysis as a basis of project evaluation. In Social and Economic Potential of Sustainable Development (in Russian). Sumy, Ukraine: University Book, pp. 536-553.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. The Economics of Renewable Resource Use. In Social and Economic Potential of Sustainable Development (in Russian). Sumy, Ukraine: University Book, pp. 572-593.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. The Economics of Non-renewable Resource Use. In Social and Economic Potential of Sustainable Development (in Russian). Sumy, Ukraine: University Book, pp. 554-571.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources. In Social and Economic Potential of Sustainable Development (in Russian). Sumy, Ukraine: University Book, pp. 519-535.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Introduction. In Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED, pp. 3-12.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Eco-efficiency indicators applied to Australia and their policy relevance. In Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED, pp. 344-375.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. An assessment of alternative measures of sustainable economic welfare. In Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED, pp. 139-165.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Sustainable development: concept and indicators. In Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED, pp. 13-50.

Refereed journal articles

Lawn, P.A., 2011. Is steady-state capitalism viable?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1219, 1-25.

Lawn, P.A., 2010. The need to move to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy to resolve the climate change dilemma. International Journal of Green Economics, 4(4), 393-428.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2010. The end of economic growth? A contracting threshold hypothesis. Ecological Economics, 69, 2213-2223.

Lawn, P.A., 2010. Facilitating the transition to a steady-state economy: Some macroeconomic fundamentals. Ecological Economics, 69, 931-936.

Lawn, P.A., 2010. On the Ehrlich-Simon bet: Both were unskilled and Simon was lucky. Ecological Economics, 69, 2045-2046.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Macroeconomic policy, growth, and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 22(6), 1418-1423.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. How much progress has been recently made in India? Finding out with the use of a Genuine Progress Indicator. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 7(3), 311-331.

Clarke, M. & Lawn, P.A., 2008. Is measuring genuine progress at the sub-national level useful?. Ecological Indicators, 8(5), 573-581.

Clarke, M. & Lawn, P.A., 2008. A policy analysis of Victoria's Genuine Progress Indicator. The Journal of Socio-economics, 37(2), 864-879.

Lawn, P.A., 2008. Response to "income, sustainability and the 'microfoundations' of the GPI". International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 4(1), 59-81.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. What Value is Gross Domestic Product as a Macroeconomic Indicator of National Income, Well-Being, and Environmental Stress?. International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, 8(S07), 22-43.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. Achieving ecological sustainability with the introduction of a 'Sustainability Guarantee'. International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 28(1), 111-133.

Lawn, P.A., 2007. A stock-take of green national accounting initiatives. Social Indicators Research, 80(2), 427-460.

Clarke, M. & Lawn, P.A., 2007. Comparing Australia's genuine progress to its economic growth performance. International Journal of Green Economics, 1(3-4), 513-531.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Ecological tax reform and the double dividend of ecological sustainability and low unemployment: an empirical assessment. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 2(4), 332-358.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. A theoretical investigation into the likely existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve. International Journal of Green Economics, 1(1/2), 121-138.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2006. Comparing Victoria's genuine progress with that of the rest-of-Australia. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 10(2), 115-138.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Using the Fisherian concept of income to guide a nation's transition to a steady-state economy. Ecological Economics, 56(3), 440-453.

Clarke, M. & Lawn, P.A., 2006. A response to 'comment on measuring Victoria's genuine progress: a genuine progress indicator (GPI) for Victoria' (critical essay). Economic Papers, 25(3), 298-300.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. Comparing the optimal depletion time for a non-renewable resource under Malthusian flow scarcity conditions and Malthusian stock scarcity conditions. The ICFAI Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2(1), 62-70.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. An assessment of the valuation method's used to calculate the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and Sustainable Net Benefit Index (SNBI). Environment Development and Sustainability, 7(2), 185-208.

Clark, M. & Lawn, P.A., 2005. Measuring Victoria's Genuine Progress: A Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Victoria. Economic Papers, 24(4), 368-389.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. Full employment and ecological sustainability: comparing the NAIRU, Basic Income, and Job Guarantee approaches. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 1(3-4), 336-353.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. Is a democratic-capitalist system compatible with a low-growth or steady-state economy?. Socio-Economic Review, 3(2), 209-232.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. A comment on the independence of allocation, distribution and scale. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 4(4), 298-303.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Environment, workplace and employment: an introduction. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 1(1), 4-39.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. What would John Maynard Keynes make of current international governance arrangements and the rising globalisation phenomenon?. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 3(1-2), 58-76.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Using the Fisherian concept of income to guide a nation's macro-investment policy. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 3(3-4), 339-352.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. To operate sustainably or not to operate sustainability? - That is the long-run question. Futures, 36(1), 1-22.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. The sustainable development concept and indicators: an introductory essay. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 3(3-4), 199-234.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. The 2002 World Summit on sustainable development: another opportunity to address the scale and globalization issues gone begging. ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics, 2(4), 78-89.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Response to William J. Mates' "income, investment and sustainability". Ecological Economics, 48(1), 5-7.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Reconciling the policy goals of full employment and ecological sustainability. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 1(1), 62-81.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. How well are resource prices likely to serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?. International Journal of Sustainable Development, 7(4), 369-397.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Facilitating a higher level of sustainable income by restoring comparative advantage as the principle governing international trade. ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 3(1), 15-34.

Lawn, P.A., 2003. On Heyes' IS-LM-EE proposal to establish an environmental macroeconomics. Environment and Development Economics, 8(1), 31-56.

Lawn, P.A., 2003. A theoretical foundation to support the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and other related indexes. Ecological Economics, 44(1), 105-118.

Lawn, P.A., 2003. Environmental macroeconomics: an introduction to the IS-LM-EE model. ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics, 1(2), 7-19.

Lawn, P.A., 2003. Environmental macroeconomics: extending the IS-LM model to include an 'environmental equilibrium' curve. Australian Economic Papers, 42(1), 118-134.

Lawn, P.A., 2003. Growth, technological progress, and sustainable development: preliminary evidence of Australia's sustainable development performance. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2(2), 139-161.

Lawn, P.A., 2002. Full employment in a low-growth or steady-state economy: a consideration of the issues. Australian Bulletin of Labour, 28(1), 20-38.

Lawn, P.A., 2002. Grounding the ecological economics paradigm with ten core principles. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 2(1), 1-21.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Scale, prices and biophysical assesment. Ecological Economics, 38(3), 369-382.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Ecological Tax Reform: Many know why but few know how. Environment Development and Sustainability, 2(2), 134-164.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Goods and Services and the Dematerialisation Fallacy: Implications for Sustainable Development Indicatiors and Policy. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 2(3,4), 363-376.

Journal articles

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Foreword. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 2(2-3), 133-134.

Conference publications

Lawn, P.A., 2002. Reconciling the policy goals of full employment and ecological sustainability. 4th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 9th National Conference on Unemployment.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. The Role and Limitations of Markets in Achieving a Sustainable Society: Why Ecological Engineers Should Take Note. International Ecological Engineering Conference: Conference Proceedings.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Preliminary Evidence of Australia's Sustainable Development Performance. Workshop on Sustainable Development Indication: Workshop Proceedings.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Protecting Environmental and Workplace Standards by Restoring Comparitive Advantage as the Principle Governing International Trade. Pathways to Sustainability: Theory and Practice.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Environmental Macroeconomics: Extending the IS-LM Model to Include an Environmental Equilibrium Curve. The Australian Macroeconomics Workshop, 2001.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. How Important is Natural Capital in Sustaining Real Output? Revisiting the Natural Capital / Human-made Capital debate. 30th Annual Conference of Economists, Perth 2001.

Other public research outputs

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2008. Sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific: studies using the genuine progress indicator (Joint editor), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics (Editor), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub.

Lawn, P.A., 2006. International journal of environment, workplace, and employment (Editor), Geneva: Inderscience Enterprises.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. A sustainability guarantee: a policy package to achieve ecological sustainability.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. International journal of environment, workplace, and employment (Editor), Geneva: Inderscience Enterprises.

Lawn, P.A. & Clarke, M., 2005. A Survey of Green National Accounting.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. A theoretical analysis of the environmental Kuznets curve.

Lawn, P.A., 2005. What Value is Gross Domestic Product as a Macroeconomic Statistic?.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (IJESD) (Editor), United Kingdom: Inderscience Publishers.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. International journal of environment, workplace, and employment (Editor), United Kingdom: Inderscience Enterprises.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Comparing the Nairu, basic income, and job guarantee approaches to achieving full employment and ecological sustainability.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Environmental management, organisational modes, and sustainable development.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Policies to achieve full employment and ecological sustainability.

Lawn, P.A., 2004. Using fisherian income to guide a nation's macro-investment policy.

Lawn, P.A., 2003. Is a democratic-capitalist system compatible with a low-growth or steady-state economy?. School of Business Economics Research Series (03-04).

Lawn, P.A., 2003. On environment, workplace and employment. School of Business Economics Research Series (03-06).

Lawn, P.A., 2003. What would John Maynard Keynes make of the current globalisation phenomenon?. School of Business Economics Research Series (03-02), (2003-02).

Lawn, P.A., 2003. Scale and globalisation: the two key issues unaddressed at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. School of Business Economics Research Series (03-03).

Lawn, P.A., 2003. Role and limitations of markets in achieving a sustainable society: why ecological engineers should take note. , (2003-01).

Lawn, P.A., 2003. On the policy-guiding value of sustainable development indicators. School of Business Economics Research Series (03-05).

Lawn, P.A., 2002. Aggregate production possibilities and long-run sustainability scenarios. , (2002-08).

Lawn, P.A., 2002. An analysis of the valuation methods used to calculate the index of sustainable economic welfare, genuine progress indicator and sustainable net benefit index.

Lawn, P.A., 2002. An assessment of recently developed indicators of sustainable economic welfare.

Lawn, P.A., 2002. Comparing the optimal depletion time of a non-renewable resource under Malthusian flow scarcity and Malthusian stock scarcity conditions. , (2002-06).

Lawn, P.A., 2002. How well do resource prices serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?. , (2002-07).

Lawn, P.A., 2002. Reconciling the policy goals of full employment and ecological sustainability. , (2002-09).

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Environmental Macroeconomics: An Introduction to the IS-LM-EE model.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. How Important is Natural Capital in Sustaining Real Output? Revisiting the Natural Capital / Human-made Capital Substitutability Debate.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Full Employment in a Low-Growth or Steady-State Economy: A Consideration of the Issues.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Facilitating a Higher Level of Sustainable Income by Restoring Comparative Advantage as the Principle Governing International Trade.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Establishing an Environmental Macroeconomics by Including an Environmental Equilibrium Curve in the IS-LM Framework.

Lawn, P.A., 2001. Preliminary Evidence of Australia's Sustainable Development Performance.

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