Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
The relation between money system design and sustainability transition. Money as an actant. Differences between General Purpose Money and Special (Limited) Purpose Money. Economic Pluralism. Current research takes place within a 5-year project funded by FORMAS, led by colleagues at Lund University and involving parners in Brazil, Canada and the UK as well as at Maastricht Sustainability Institute, which explores the scope for using Digital (local block-chain-based) Special Purpose Money to help attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and support sustainability transitions.
Research interests
Development of a set of papers to be published in a special feature issue of Sustainability Science on Special Purpose Money, Sustainability and the SDGs. These cover: (i) incompatabilities between General Purpose Money and Sustainability Transitions; (ii) the relationship between GPM, growth of the illegal economy and unsustainable development (together with Professors Ray Hudson and Gabriella Spinelli); (iii) insights from the iLEU (digital SPM) initiative in the context of the UIA-funded SPIRE project; and (iv) a multi level perspective on transitions to economic and monetary pluralism. The issue will be published, Spring 2023.
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D. Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
1 Oct 1978 → 30 Apr 1987
Award Date: 24 Sept 1984
Undergraduate, Department of Geography, University of Durham
1 Oct 1975 → 28 Jun 1978
Award Date: 28 Jun 1978
Lund Univ, Lund University, Ctr Sustainabil Studies LUCSUS
1 Jan 2012 → 30 Aug 2017
Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Durham
1 Jan 1995 → 30 Sept 2006
INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration)
1 Jan 1993 → 15 Jan 1995
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
1 May 1987 → 31 Dec 1992
Keywords
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Economic Geography
- Sustainable development
- Socio-ecological metabolism
- Sustainability transitions
- JA Political science (General)
- Political Economy
- Sociology of Development
- Policy innovation
- HB Economic Theory
- Institutional economics
- Monetary innovation
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Call for papers: “Special Purpose Money for Sustainability”
Hornborg, A., Paulsson, A., Spinelli, G. & Weaver, P. M., 10 Jan 2022, In: Sustainability Science. 17, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Sustaining and Growing Social Innovations Using Integrated Development Models: Experiences from the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan
Weaver, P., Marks, M., Skropke, C., Hogan, L. & Spinelli, G., 1 Jul 2021, Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises in Economic and Social Development. Briar-Lawson, K., Miesing, P. & Ramos, B. (eds.). New York, USA: Oxford University Press, p. 96-132 37 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic
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Experimenting with a structured approach to building complementary economies for community resilience and positive social impact using digital social currencies and social valuation of transactions
Weaver, P. & Spinelli, G., 11 Sept 2019, p. 1-18. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Academic
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Making a Case for Creating Living Labs for Aging-in-Place: Enabling Socially Innovative Models for Experimentation and Complementary Economies
Weaver, P., Marks, M., Victor, C. & Spinelli, G., 2 Apr 2019, In: Frontiers in Sociology. 4, p. 1-16 16 p., 19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Transformative social innovation and (dis)empowerment
Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J. M., Pel, B., Weaver, P., Dumitru, A., Haxeltine, A., Kemp, R., Jorgensen, M. S., Bauler, T., Ruijsink, S. & O'Riordan, T., Aug 2019, In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 145, p. 195-206 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access