Ian Gough CASE, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London School of Economics

Biography

Ian Gough, FAcSS, has been Visiting Professor in CASE since 2009. He is also an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Emeritus Professor at the University if Bath. His past books include The Political Economy of the Welfare State; A Theory of Human Need; Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies. His latest book titled Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing, was published in October 2017. He is an originator of the term ‘eco-social policy’ and has published numerous articles in this broad field.

Ian Gough's current research interests are:

Human need theory
Theories of sufficiency
Social aspects of Climate change
Eco-social policy
Inequality and ecological sustainability

Ian's latest projects include:

Latest

CASEpapers

Fair decarbonisation of housing in the UK: A sufficiency approach

22 March 2024

Ian Gough, Stefan Horn, Charlotte Rogers and Rebecca Tunstall

This paper addresses a neglected aspect of the UK housing crisis: how to rapidly but fairly decarbonise the housing stock to meet tough net zero targets while meeting housing needs of the entire population. To do so the ... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Fair decarbonisation of housing in the UK: A sufficiency approach

06 March 2024

Ian Gough (CASE, LSE), Rebecca Tunstall (University of York), Charlotte Rogers (CASE, LSE), Stefan Horn (UCL)

CASEreports

SUMMARY – Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

14 February 2020

Tania Burchardt, Abigail Davis, Ian Gough, Katharina Hecht, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers

There is widespread public and political concern about economic inequality in the UK today but relatively little research exploring people’s opinions about high incomes, wealth and what it means to be rich. This innovati... Read more...

CASEreports

Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

14 February 2020

Abigail Davis, Katharina Hecht, Tania Burchardt, Ian Gough, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers

London is home to vast and visible economic inequality, where the richest 10 per cent own 61 per cent of overall wealth, while at the same time four in ten Londoners do not earn enough for what is considered by the publi... Read more...

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy Seminar

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy

03 November 2016

Ian Gough (CASE, LSE)

The overlap between environmental pressures and degradation on the one hand and the ‘social dimension’ of inequality and human wellbeing on the other hand is of immense importance but under-researched. There is a yawning... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Social Policies to reconcile lower emissions with social equity

05 November 2014

Ian Gough (CASE, LSE)

CASEpapers

Climate Change and Sustainable Welfare: An Argument for the Centrality of Human Needs

30 July 2014

Ian Gough

Since climate change threatens human wellbeing across the globe and into the future, we require a concept of wellbeing that encompasses an equivalent ambit. This paper argues that only a concept of human need can do the ... Read more...

CASEpapers

The distribution of total greenhouse gas emissions by households in the UK, and some implications for social policy

01 July 2011

Ian Gough, Saamah Abdallah, Victoria Johnson, Josh Ryan-Collins and Cindy Smith

This paper maps the distribution of total direct and embodied emissions of greenhouse gases by households in the UK and goes on to analyse their main drivers. Previous research has studied the distribution of direct emis... Read more...

CASEpapers

Fiscal costs of climate mitigation programmes in the UK: A challenge for social policy?

01 June 2011

Samuel Marden and Ian Gough

This paper asks whether the policies and programmes enacted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will compete with other goals of public policy, in particular social policy goals. The Climate Change Act 2008 has ... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Climate Mitigation Programmes: Some implications for social policies

08 December 2010

Ian Gough (CASE, LSE)

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

Decarbonising the welfare state

19 May 2010

Ian Gough (CASE, LSE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Climate Change and Social Policy

21 January 2009

Ian Gough (CASE, LSE)