Dr David Ockwell

Biography

BSc 1st Class Hons in Environmental Economics and Evaluation (York); MSc Distinction in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation (LSE - ESRC funded); PhD in Environment and Politics (York - NERC/ESRC funded)

I teach, supervise doctoral students and provide policy advice on climate change policy with a particular focus on low carbon technology transfer and development, and on public engagement with climate change. I have led research collaborations with partners in developing countries (Kenya and India) and provided policy advice to inter-governmental organisations (including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, African Development Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat and OECD Environment Directorate) and governmental departments in developed and developing countries (including the UK, India and Chile).

Role

I am a Senior Lecturer in Geography, a Senior Fellow in the Sussex Energy Group at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) and am partner coordinator for Sussex University in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles

D.G. Ockwell, Alexandra Mallett, Raudiger Haum and Jim Watson (2010) "Intellectual property rights and low carbon technology transfer: the two polarities of diffusion and development", Global Environmental Change, 20: 729-738

Ivan Scrase and David G. Ockwell (2010) “The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy – an accessible introduction", Energy Policy 38(5): 2225-2233

David G. Ockwell, Lorraine Whitmarsh and Saffron O'Neill (2009) "Reorienting climate change communication for effective mitigation - forcing people to be green or fostering grass-roots engagement?" Science Communication 30: 305-327

D.G. Ockwell, J. Watson, G. MacKerron, P. Pal and F. Yamin (2008) "Key policy considerations for facilitating low carbon technology transfer to developing countries", Energy Policy 36 (11): 4104-4115

D.G. Ockwell (2008) "Energy and economic growth: grounding our understanding in physical reality", Energy Policy 36(12): 4600-4604

David G. Ockwell (2008) "'Opening up' policy to reflexive appraisal: a role for Q Methodology? A case study of fire management in Cape York, Australia", Policy Sciences 41(4): 263-292

David G. Ockwell and Yvonne Rydin (2006) "Conflicting Discourses of Knowledge: understanding the policy adoption of pro-burning knowledge claims in Cape York Peninsula, Australia", Environmental Politics 15(3): 379-398

Jon C. Lovett, Claire H. Quinn, David G. Ockwell, Robbie Gregorowski (2006) "Two cultures and the tragedy of the commons", African Journal of Ecology 44 (1): 1-5

David G. Ockwell and Jon C Lovett (2005) "Fire assisted pastoralism vs. sustainable forestry - the implications of missing markets for carbon in determining optimal land use in the wet-dry tropics of Australia", Journal of Environmental Management 75: 1-9

David G. Ockwell (2005) "Empirically analysing the implications of discursive democracy for environmental sustainability", International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 2, Common Ground open access peer reviewed journal

Beverly La Ferla, James Taplin, David G. Ockwell, Jon C. Lovett (2002) "Continental scale patterns of biodiversity: can higher taxa accurately predict African plant distributions?" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 138(2): 225-235

Books and book chapters

D. Ockwell and A. Mallett (eds.) (2012) Low Carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality, Routledge, Abingdon

Byrne, R., A. Smith, J. Watson and D. Ockwell (2012) Energy Pathways in Low Carbon Development: The Need to Go Beyond Technology Transfer, in D. Ockwell and A. Mallett (eds.) Low Carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality, Routledge, Abingdon

David G. Ockwell, Lorraine Whitmarsh and Saffron O'Neill (2010) "Behavioural insights: motivating individual emissions cuts through communication" in Constance Lever-Tracy (ed) (2010) Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society, Routledge, Cheltenham

Jon C Lovett and David G. Ockwell (Eds) (2010) A Handbook of Environmental Management. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Ockwell, D., and Y. Rydin. (2010) "Analysing dominant policy perspectives - the role of discourse analysis", in Jon C Lovett and David G. Ockwell (Eds) A Handbook of Environmental Management. Edward Elgar,Cheltenham

Claire H. Quinn and David G. Ockwell (2010) "The link between ecological and social paradigms and the sustainability of environmental management: A case study of semi-arid Tanzania", in Jon C Lovett and David Ockwell (Eds) A Handbook of Environmental Management. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Ivan Scrase and David G. Ockwell (2009) "Energy issues: framing and policy change", in Ivan Scrase and Gordon MacKerron (Eds.) Energy for the future, a new agenda, Palgrave,Basingstoke

Francis McGowan, David G. Ockwell, Gordon MacKerron, Jim Watson, Markku Lehtonen and Ivan Scrase (2009) "Global energy solutions?" in Ivan Scrase and Gordon MacKerron (Eds.) Energy for the future, a new agenda, Palgrave, Basingstoke

Commissioned policy reports

D.G. Ockwell (2012) Technology transfer for Green Growth in Africa. Chapter for 2012 African Development Report commissioned by the African Development Bank

D.G. Ockwell (2012) Adapting energy policy for climate change: Challenges and opportunities for LDCs, SVEs and SIDS. Commonwealth Secretariat

D.G. Ockwell, A. Sagar and H. de Coninck (2010) “Options to facilitate collaborative technology research and development” United Nations FCCC/SBSTA/2010/INF.11

D.G. Ockwell, A. Sagar and H. de Coninck (2010) “Options to facilitate collaborative technology research and development” Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Adopted as an official UN document to inform negotiations on a post Kyoto deal) – official document number: UN FCCC/SBSTA/2010/INF.11

D.G. Ockwell (2010) “Enhancing developing country access to eco-innovation. The case of technology transfer and climate change in a post-2012 policy framework” OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 12, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/5kmfplm8xxf5-en

D.G. Ockwell, J. Watson, A.M. Verbeken, A. Mallett and G. MacKerron (2009) “A blueprint for post-2012 technology transfer to developing countries” Sussex Energy Group Policy Briefing Note

A. Mallett, D.G. Ockwell, P. Pal, A. Kumar, Y.P. Abbi, R. Haum, G. MacKerron, J. Watson, G. Sethi. (2009) “UK-India collaborative study on low carbon technology transfer: Phase II - report to the Governments of India and UK” UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

D.G. Ockwell, A. Ely, A. Mallett, O. Johnson and J. Watson (2009) ”Low Carbon Development: The Role of Local Innovative Capabilities” Background paper for STEPS Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto

David G. Ockwell, Jim Watson, Gordon MacKerron, Prosanto Pal and Farhana Yamin, (2006), “UK-India Collaboration to Identify the Barriers to Low Carbon Technology Transfer” Report to the Governments of India and UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Jim Watson, Gordon MacKerron, David Ockwell and Tao Wang (2007) "Technology and carbon mitigation in developing countries: Are cleaner coal technologies a viable option?" Background paper for the 2007 United Nations Human Development Report

David G. Ockwell, Jon C. Lovett (2006) Common Pool Resource Synthesis Study commissioned by UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) Natural Resources Systems Programme (NRSP)

David G. Ockwell, Jon C. Lovett (2004) Common Pool Resource (CPR) scoping report commissioned by UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) Natural Resources Systems Programme (NRSP)

Entec UK (2003) A Growing Resource. Forestry and Woodland in the West Midlands commissioned by the Forestry Commission, Countryside Agency and Advantage West Midlands

Entec UK (2003) North West Woodland and Forest Industries Strategic Study and Action Plan commissioned by the Forestry Commission, Countryside Agency and the Northwest Development Agency

Entec UK (2003) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for REACT (Regeneration through Environmental ACTion) commissioned by the Countryside Agency

Entec UK (2003) Regional Sustainability Indicators commissioned by Yorkshire Forward

Entec UK (2003) Cost Benefit Analysis of Low Flow Alleviation commissioned by the Environment Agency

Entec UK (2003) Industry-level economic and social sustainability indicators for the UK water industry commissioned by UKWIR (UK Water Industries Research)

Entec UK (2002) Potential project based entry to the UK Emissions Trading Scheme commissioned by Scottish Water

Entec UK (2002) Regulatory Impact Assessment of the European Radioactive Discharges Strategy commissioned by the Scottish Executive

Entec UK (2002 Recommendations on approaches to sustainability reporting commissioned by National Grid

Entec UK (2002) Availability and pricing of low sulphur marine fuel commissioned by the European Commission

My research focuses on climate change policy with a particular interest in low carbon technology transfer and development, and on public engagement with climate change. 

I am currently PI on a £580,000 DFID (UK Dept for International Development) funded collaborative research project with the African Technology Policy Studies Network in Kenya (funded via the Climate Development Knowledge Network initiative). Through an examination of the uptake of Solar Home Systems in Kenya the project looks at how policy can facilitate the uptake of pro-poor, low carbon energy technologies in Least Developed Countries.

See the project web page for more detail http://steps-centre.org/project/low_carbon_development/ 

I convene an MSc module on Low Carbon Development and a 1^st year BA/BSc module on Environmental Management and Sustainable Development.

I also teach on an MA/MSc module on Climate Research Methods and provide guest lectures on an MSc course on Energy Policy for Sustainability.

I currently supervise four doctoral students across the following subject areas:

• Low carbon energy technology transfer and low carbon development
• Climate change and public responses in disaster management
• Public engagement with climate change

The geographic foci of my doctoral supervisees spans India, Chile, the US and the UK.

Ockwell, David and Mallett, Alexandra (2013) Low carbon innovation and technology transfer. In: Low carbon development: key issues. Key issues in environment and sustainability . Routledge. ISBN 9780415539012

Ockwell, David G and Mallett, Alexandra, eds. (2012) Low Carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781849712699

Watson, Jim, Byrne, Robert, Stua, Michele, Ockwell, David, Zhang, Xiliang, Zhang, Da, Zhang, Tianhou, Zhang, Xiaofeng, Ou, Xunmin and Mallett, Alexandra (2011) UK-China collaborative study on low carbon technology transfer: final report. Project Report. SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Byrne, Rob, Smith, Adrian, Watson, Jim and Ockwell, David (2011) Energy Pathways in Low-Carbon Development: From Technology Transfer to Socio-Technical Transformation. Working Paper. University of Sussex, Falmer.

Ockwell, D G, Sagar, A and de Coninck, H (2010) Report on options to facilitate collaborative technology research and development. Technical Report. United Nations, Brussels.

Ockwell, David G, Haum, Ruediger, Mallett, Alexandra and Watson, Jim (2010) Intellectual property rights and low carbon technology transfer: the two polarities of diffusion and development. Global Environmental Change, 20 (4). pp. 729-738. ISSN 0959-3780

Ockwell, David G, Haum, Ruediger, Mallett, Alexandra and Watson, Jim (2010) Intellectual property rights and low carbon technology transfer: conflicting discourses of diffusion and development. Global Environmental Change, 20 (4). pp. 729-738. ISSN 0959-3780

Lovett, Jon C and Ockwell, David G, eds. (2010) A handbook of environmental management. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781840642070

Ockwell, David, Watson, Jim, Mallett, Alexandra, Haum, Ruediger, MacKerron, Gordon and Verbeken, Anne-Marie (2010) Enhancing developing country access to eco-innovation: the case of technology transfer and climate change in a post-2012 policy framework. Working Paper. OECD Publishing, Paris.

Scrase, J Ivan and Ockwell, David G (2010) The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy - an accessible introduction. Energy Policy, 38 (5). pp. 2225-2233. ISSN 0301-4215

Ockwell, David, O'Neill, Saffron and Whitmarsh, Lorraine (2010) Behavioural insights: motivating individual emissions cuts through communication. In: Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Routledge, pp. 341-350. ISBN 9780415544764

Ockwell, David, Watson, Jim, Verbeken, Anne Marie, Mallett, Alexandra and MacKerron, Gordon (2009) A blueprint for post-2012 technology transfer to developing countries. Technical Report. University of Sussex, Falmer.

Ockwell, David, Whitmarsh, Lorraine and O'Neil, Saffron (2009) Reorienting climate change communication for effective mitigation - forcing people to be green or fostering grass-roots engagement? Science Communication, 30 (3). pp. 305-327. ISSN 1075-5470

Scrase, Ivan, Kern, Florian, Lehtonen, Markku, MacKerron, Gordon, Martiskainen, Mari, McGowan, Francis, Ockwell, David, Sauter, Raphael, Smith, Adrian, Sorrell, Steven, Wang, Tao and Watson, Jim (2009) Energy policy implications. In: Energy for the Future: A New Agenda. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke & New York, pp. 239-250. ISBN 9780230221512

Scrase, Ivan and Ockwell, David (2009) Energy issues: framing and policy change. In: Energy for the future, a new agenda. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230221512

McGowan, Francis, Ockwell, David, MacKerron, Gordon, Watson, Jim, Lehtonen, Markku and Scrase, Ivan (2009) Global energy solutions? In: Energy for the future: A New Agenda (Energy, Climate and the Environment). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230221512

Ockwell, David, Ely, Adrian, Mallett, Alexandra, Johnson, Oliver and Watson, Jim (2009) Low Carbon Development: The Role of Local Innovative Capabilities. Working Paper. STEPS Centre, Falmer.

Mallett, Alexandra, Ockwell, David G, Pal, Prosanto, Kumar, Amit, Abbi, Y P, Haum, Ruediger, MacKerron, Gordon, Watson, Jim and Sethi, Girish (2009) UK-India collaborative study on low carbon technology transfer: Phase II Final Report. Technical Report. Department of Energy and Climate Change, London.

Ockwell, David G (2008) Energy and economic growth: grounding our understanding in physical reality. Energy Policy, 36 (12). pp. 4600-4604. ISSN 0301-4215

Ockwell, David G (2008) 'Opening up' policy to reflexive appraisal: a role for Q methodology? A case study of fire management in Cape York, Australia. Policy Sciences, 41 (4). pp. 263-292. ISSN 0032-2687

Ockwell, David G, Watson, Jim, MacKerron, Gordon, Pal, Prosanto and Yamin, Farhana (2008) Key policy considerations for facilitating low carbon technology transfer to developing countries. Energy Policy, 36 (11). pp. 4104-4115. ISSN 0301-4215

Watson, Jim, MacKerron, Gordon, Ockwell, David and Wang, Tao (2007) Technology and carbon mitigation in developing countries: Are cleaner coal technologies a viable option? Background paper for Human Development Report 2007. Discussion Paper. United Nations, Brussels.

Ockwell, David, Watson, Jim, MacKerron, Gordon, Pal, Prosanto and Yamin, Farhana, et al (2007) UK-India collaboration to identify the barriers to the transfer of low carbon energy technology: Final report. Project Report. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London.

Ockwell, David and Rydin, Yvonne (2006) Conflicting discourses of knowledge: understanding the policy adoption of pro-burning knowledge claims in Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Environmental Politics, 15 (3). pp. 379-398. ISSN 0964-4016

Lovett, Jon C, Quinn, Claire H, Ockwell, David G and Gregorowski, Robbie (2006) Two cultures and tragedy of the commons. African Journal of Ecology, 44 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 0141-6707

Ockwell, David and Lovett, Jon C (2005) Fire assisted pastoralism vs. sustainable forestry: the implications of missing markets for carbon in determining optimal land use in the wet-dry tropics of Australia. Journal of Environmental Management, 75 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0301-4797

Ockwell, David (2005) Empirically analysing the implications of discursive democracy for environmental sustainability. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 2 (2). pp. 173-182. ISSN 1832-2077

La Ferla, Beverly, Taplin, James, Ockwell, David and Lovett, Jon C (2002) Continental scale patterns of biodiversity: can higher taxa accurately predict African plant distributions? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 138 (2). pp. 225-235. ISSN 0024-4074