Living Well Within Limits

How much energy is required to meet human needs, satisfy necessary human development, and improve overall well-being? Professor Julia Steinberger is part of a team that has researched this, and found that we could dramatically improve the wellbeing of everyone on the planet with less than half of our current energy use. Public Services are what allow us to reduce, any kind of resource use, any kind of environmental impact, and still live good lives. Professor Julia Steinberger’s research examines the connections between resource use, and societal performance. She is interested in quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use and socioeconomic parameters, and identifying development pathways to guide the transition to a low carbon society.