Kerryn Higgs
University of Tasmania, Australia
Biography
Kerryn Higgs’ first degree was BA (Hons) at Melbourne University, where she won the prize for History and English. She later studied Ecology and Environmental Philosophy at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Hobart, and completed her cross-disciplinary PhD there in 2011. Her PhD thesis was adapted into a book published in 2014 by MIT Press, Collision Course: Endless growth on a finite planet. She is an Associate with UTAS, a Fellow of the Club of Rome and a freelance writer.
Abstract
Abstract : Economic growth, world trade and the liquidation of nature