He engages actively (including via workshops and other face-to-face activities) with policy, business and third-sector practitioners in the development of this work, including on projects with Defra, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, and Scottish Natural Heritage to develop links between UK consumption and biodiversity impact. He also sits on the steering group and undertakes research for the NETpositive Initiative which is developing tools to introduce small and medium sized enterprise to economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Recently, Chris led research linked to the Green Economy Coalition’s Measure What Matters project which specifically aimed to seek alignment between corporate- and national-scale indicator development and monitoring processes.
He is Co-Investigator on the major York-based IKnowFood project, leading work on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of UK food supply chains and links to UK food security and resilience.
Chris has written and contributed to a number of policy-focused reports and academic publications linked to supply chain impact assessment, consumption-based accounting, and footprinting techniques.
He comes from an ecology background, having completed a PhD in Fisheries Management in January 2011 which made use of agent-based modelling approaches, which will be utilised in an upcoming project involving Agent-based Computational Economics, and has a broader interest in the study and simulation of complex systems and in particular the interplay between biological and environmental systems and society.
- Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains
- Att se hela bilden. Klimatpåverkan från hushållens konsumtion: köttkonsumtionen och flyget
- Environmental impact assessment of wheat straw based alkyl polyglucosides produced using novel chemical approaches
- Linking consumption to production: the case of soy
- The state of corporate and government water reporting in India
- New project explores how to secure the UK’s food future
- New climate calculator keeps track of your carbon footprint
- Q&A: Chris West and Simon Croft on contributing to the Living Planet Report 2016
- Birds, bugs and blanket bogs: climate change threatens entire ecosystem
- The post-2015 agenda: what happens when the rubber hits the road?
- The biodiversity impacts of trade: Exploring the impact of consumption on biodiversity
- Local scale initiative for a resource efficient community – the case of the Hökarängen community
- Biomass for Food and Fuel in Scotland
- Measure what matters
- Adaptation Without Borders - understanding the indirect impacts of climate change RCR03 TG10