Greenwood, Dr Dan

Postal: Centre for the Study of Democracy,dan greenwood
University of Westminster,
32-38 Wells Street
London, W1T 3UW
Email: D.Greenwood2@westminster.ac.uk
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Biography

Dr. Dan Greenwood is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and a participant in the Governance and Sustainability research and teaching programme.

Dr Greenwood holds a PhD in political theory/ political economy from University of Westminster, an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (University of Sussex) and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of Oxford). He has previously taught politics at the Universities of Glasgow and Gloucestershire.

Recent publications

(2012, forthcoming) ‘The challenge of policy coordination for sustainable socio-technical transitions: the case of the zero carbon homes agenda in England’ Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

(2011) 'The Problem of Coordination in Politics: What Critics of Neoliberalism Can Draw from Its Advocates' Polity, 43 (1), pages 36-57.

2010 'Facing Complexity: Democracy, Expertise and the Discovery Process', Political Studies, 58 (4), 769–788. 

2010 'Markets, Large Projects and Sustainable Development: Traditional and New Planning in the Thames Gateway', Urban Studies, 47 (1): 105-119 (with P. Newman).

2008 ‘Non-Market Coordination: towards an ecological response to Austrian economics’, Environmental Values, 17 (4): 521-541.

2007 ‘From Market to Non-Market: an autonomous agent approach to central planning’, Knowledge Engineering Review, 22 (4) 349-360. Abstract also published in S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (eds.) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, p.771.

2007 ‘Planning and Know-How: the relationship between knowledge and calculation in Hayek's case for markets’, Review of Political Economy 19 (3): 419-434

2007 ‘The Halfway House: democracy, complexity and the limits to markets in green political economy’, Environmental Politics, 16 (1) 73-91

2006 ‘Commensurability and Beyond: from Mises and Neurath to the future of the socialist calculation debate’, Economy and Society, 35 (1) 65-90

Copies of the above publications are available from Westminster Research

Research projects

Dr. Greenwood's research concerns the evaluation of governance and policy, with a focus on issues of sustainable development. His current projects cover:

  • An analysis of the zero carbon homes policy agenda in the U.K. (with funding from the Quintin Hogg Foundation). See the report ‘Really Zero: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Zero Carbon Homes Agenda in England.’
  • UK environmental and climate change governance in a comparative, international perspective
  • Political science as a discipline and methodological innovation for inter-disciplinary policy analysis
  • The ‘socialist calculation problem’ and the development of novel approaches to economic modelling, particularly relating to the economics of climate change.
  • Curriculum development on the theme of ‘Governance for Sustainable Development’ Westminster coordinator of EU FP7 project in partnership with four universities: University of Lodz (Poland), University of Crete (Greece), Vet Agro Sup Institut (France), University of Applied Management (Germany) (Agreement No 510751-LLP-1-2010-1-PL-ERASUMS-ECDEM)

Teaching

  • Governance and Politics of Sustainable Development
  • Policy Analysis
  • Political Theory
  • Research Methods

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