Brian Davey

Bio

"I trained as an economist in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At that time I was interested in development economics and particularly the economic development of India. I then worked for most of my life in local community activities and projects in Nottingham in the UK - for example I helped develop a research and resource centre for trade unions, community groups and voluntary welfare organisations. I also spent many years developing a community garden project for people with mental health problems. In the 1990s I also worked briefly in East Germany at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation trying to convey how to do community development work. For 25 years I have lived in a flat owned by a small housing co-operative. In the last few years I have returned to being an economist specialising in ecological and environmental issues - particularly climate change and energy issues and helped develop the idea of cap and share as a commons based approach to greenhouse gas mitigation. I now work closely with the Dublin based organisation Feasta, although I still live in the UK. Right at this moment I've become very interested in land economics too. So I've got experience of working with very small groups AND now I'm looking at some very big commons issues which are global in scope."