Environmental, Ecological and Extinction Accounting, Governance and Economics Research Group

Addressing 21st century environmental, ecological and extinction challenges arising from the climate crisis, global warming, ecological and ecosystem degradation, biodiversity collapse, mass species extinctions, and water scarcity.

About

The EEEAGER Group is an inclusive community which integrates environmental, ecological and extinction researchers from other business and governance-related disciplines including financial management, management, marketing, strategy, international business, logistics, human resource management, and operations, as well as from other academic disciplines. All our research activities contribute to Cardiff Business School’s Public Value strategy.

The EEEAGER Group acts as a forum for international and interdisciplinary researchers from academia and practice in the fields of accounting, governance and economics to meet, share ideas and work collaboratively to address the environmental and ecological challenges faced by organisations across all sectors and their stakeholders today.

Such collaborative research will lead to the development of theoretical and practical frameworks, tools, mechanisms and solutions that can be applied in practice to solve, or at least progress, towards solutions to these challenges.

The EEEAGER Group will contribute to the School’s objective of producing internationally excellent research by providing a forum for like-minded researchers from around the world to meet, exchange ideas, collaborate on research projects, write and publish papers and books together, apply for research funding and produce research outputs of the highest quality in world-leading international journals.

The EEEAGER Group’s work will also lead to substantial impacts on organisations, society and the environment.

The History of the EEEAGER Group

The EEEAGER Group provides a physical home at Cardiff Business School for the existing online EAGR (Extinction Accounting and Governance Research) Network which was established in January 2021 during the pandemic as an online network of international and interdisciplinary researchers who run regular online seminars under the title ‘IFEAR4FUTURE’. We are continuing this online seminar series with regular seminars and discussants throughout the year.

Meet the team

Management team

Director and Founder

Co-directors

• Professor Warren Maroun
• Dr Longxiang Zhao
• Dr Mira Lieberman

Academic staff members

Associated scholars

• Dr Peter Beusch
• Professor Silvio Bianchi
• Marita Blomkvist
• Dr Olga Cam
• Professor Garry Carnegie
• Associate Professor Dannielle Cerbone
• Professor Antonio Corvino
• Associate Professor Frederica Doni
• Mr Dusan Ecim
• Dr Abeer Hassan
• Dr Kristina Jonall
• Associate Professor Scott Longing
• Dr Karen McBride
• Professor Christopher Napier
• Professor Carlos Noronha
• Assistant Professor Giacomo Pigatto
• Professor Gunnar Rimmel
• Dr Lee Roberts
• Assistant Professor Zhang Ruopiao
• Dr Lana Sabelfeld
• Dr Mohamed Saeudy
• Professor Hannu Schadewitz
• Sandy Sio Hou In
• Associate Professor Wayne Van Zijl

Postgraduate students

• Martina Macpherson

Events

Inaugural EEEAGER Conference

We are pleased to announce that the EEEAGER Group will host the inaugural conference on 11-12 April 2024 at Cardiff Business School.

Given the urgent need to address climate change, biodiversity loss and species extinctions, this conference offers a forum for researchers to share their research and seek solutions to these challenges. Further, this conference will assist in developing international research collaborations, as well as the development and implementation of new frameworks.

Keynote speaker

We are delighted to welcome Dr Paul Jepson, CreditNature Ltd. as the inaugural conference keynote speaker.

Dr Paul Jepson is an internationally recognised thought leader in nature conservation policy and practice. His mission is to mobilise technology and entrepreneurship to make nature recovery investable and, with this, build confidence in humanity's capacity to navigate the linked climate and nature emergencies. As Head of Innovation and Science at CreditNature Ltd, he leads on the development of ecosystem analytics and the design of Digital Nature Assets designed to 'unlock' nature-positive investment.

Paul is a pragmatic conservationist with a scholarly edge and a deep-seated passion for innovation, whose diverse 40-year career has spanned the government, civil society, academia, and private sectors in the UK, Indonesia, and Brazil. He formerly directed Oxford University’s MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, and held Senior Research Fellowships at the Saïd Business School and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is a highly published academic in the area conservation governance, co-founder of the field of Conservation Culturomics, and author of 'Rewilding: the radical new science of ecological recovery' (MIT Press).

Dr Jepson’s presentation will be on ‘Accounting for a Nature Positive Future: The Design, Prospect, and Challenges of Digital Nature Assets’.

Book launch

During the conference there will be a book launch by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing of a new book Protecting natural capital and biodiversity in the agri-food sector.

We look forward to welcoming Martina Macpherson, Head of ESG Product Management at SIX, who will talk about her chapter on "Addressing Systemic Issues in the Agriculture, Food and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Value Chain and the Role Global Investors Can Play for More Secure Eco-System Services".

There will be two copies of the book awarded as 'Best Paper' Awards.

The two prizes are as follows:

• Best Environmental Accounting and Finance Paper: In honour of the late Professor Rob Gray
• Best Accounting and Finance for Biodiversity Paper: In honour of the late Professor Michael John Jones

• Online Seminar (7 June 2024, 15:00-17:00): July Carolina Rojas Gomez, Universidad Nacional De Colombia 'Agroecological design as coexistence between the human and the non-human: reflections on biocultural memory'

Past events

• Seminar (2 February 2024): John Peirce, Cardiff Business School 'A New Measure of Quality in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Industry'