Peter Victor

Peter Victor is a Professor in Environmental Studies at York University.  He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science, Canada’s oldest science organization having served as its President from 2000 to 2004. He was the founding President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and is a member of many boards and committees including the Ontario Government’s Advisory Committee on Transboundary Science, the Advisory Panel of TruCost, the Board of the David Suzuki Foundation, and the Advisory Committee on the National Accounts for Statistics Canada. Peter's current research is an inquiry into managing without growth, using LOWGROW, a systems model of the Canadian economy for exploring the interplay of growth, employment, poverty, and the environment. His book Managing Without Growth: Smaller by Design, Not Disaster was published in 2008 by Edward Elgar Publishing. In 2011 he was selected as one of two winners of the prestigious Molson Prize for "continuing to find new ways to manage economic growth that are easier on the planet and population."

Read Peter Victor's essay, "Bigger isn't Better."

Read the Article, "Prosperity Without Growh is Possible."

Watch "Managing Without Growth," A System Change Lecture for the Council of Canadians.