PhD (Economics)(UQ), MA (Urban Geog)(Univ of Brit. Col), BSc (Hons) 

Senior Lecturer, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University

Contact Details for Dr Peter Daniels

Research Expertise

• Climate change - economic and social strategies and policy (Australia and international)
• Ecological economics and ecological modernisation
• Environmental and ecological economics and policy
• Industrial ecology
• Integrated water management (material flow accounting) and economics - South East Queensland
• Material and energy flow analysis and accounting
• Sustainability indicators
• Sustainable development, religion, environemental ethics, social sustainability
• Urban and household metabolism (environmental resource flow analysis); sustainable consumption

Current Teaching Areas 

• 1161AES/64 Environmental Economics (Year 1; Convenor)
• 2271AES Research Methods in Social Science (Year 2; Co-convenor)
• 2281AES Economics and Natural Resources (Year 2, Co-Convenor )
• 3351AES Ecological Economics (Year 3; Co-convenor)
• 7401AES Environmental Economics (Masters; Convenor)

Selected Publications 

• Daniels, P. (2005) "Social Development and the Green Techno-economic Paradigm - Prospects for Lower Income Countries." International Journal of Social Economics 32, [in print].
• Daniels, P. (2005) Economic systems and the Buddhist world view : the 21st century nexus. Journal of Socioeconomics 34, 245-268.
• Daniels, P. (2003). Buddhist economics and the environment - Material flow analysis and the moderation of society's metabolism. International Journal of Social Economics 30, 8-33.
• Daniels, P. (2002) "Approaches for Quantifying the Metabolism of Physical Economies : Part 2 - A Comparative Survey", Journal of Industrial Ecology, 6, 1 pp.65-88.
• Daniels, P. and Moore, S. (2001) "Approaches for Quantifying the Metabolism of Physical Economies : Part I - Methodological Overview", Journal of Industrial Ecology, 5, 4, pp.69-93.
• Daniels, P. L. (1999) "Economic gains from technology-intensive trade : An empirical assessment", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23, 4, pp.427-447.
• Picton, T. and Daniels, P. (1999) "Ecological restructuring for sustainable development", Ecological Economics, 29, pp.405-425
• Picton, T. and Daniels, P. (1998) "Ecological restructuring and the Australian economy", Australian Journal of Environmental Management, 5, pp200-211.
• Daniels, P. L. (1998) "Economic change, the environment and Buddhism in Asia", International Journal of Social Economics, 25, 6/7/8, p968-1004.