Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
MS, Columbia University, 1987

Research Interest

My research is located at the intersection of environmental social science, sustainability science, and environmental policy. Primary areas of activity focus on sustainable consumption, alternative mobility futures, sociotechnical transition management, the social dimensions of industrial ecology, and the politics of environmental expertise. I serve as the editor of a new electronic journal called Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy (information available at http://ejournal.nbii.org).

Selected Recent Publications

Cohen, M. J. “Transition Management, Sustainable Systems Innovation, and the Challenge of Countervailing Trends: The Case of Personal Aeromobility,” Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 2008, 20(6), in press.

Cohen, M. J. “Sustainable Consumption Research as Democratic Expertise,” Journal of Consumer Policy, 2006, 29(1), pp. 67-77.

Cohen, M. J. “The Critical Appraisal of Automobility: Moving Towards Sustainable Systems Innovation,” Mobilities, 2006, 1(1), pp. 23-38.

Cohen, M. J., “Ecological Modernization and its Discontents: Can the American Environmental Movement Overcome Its Resistance to Technology?” Futures, 2006, 38(5), pp. 528-547.

Cohen, M. J., “Consumer Credit, Household Financial Management, and Sustainable Consumption,” International Journal of Consumer Studies, 2006, 31(1), pp. 57-65.

Tukker, A., M. J. Cohen, U. de Zoysa, E. Hertwich, P. Hofstetter, A. Inaba, and S. Lorek, “Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption,” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2006, 10(1), pp. 9-14.

Cohen, M. J. and J. Howard, “Success and its Price: The Institutional and Political Foundations of Industrial Ecology,” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2006, 10(1), pp. 79-88.

Cohen, M. J., “Sustainable Consumption American Style: Nutrition Education, Physical Activity, and Financial Literacy,” International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 2005, 12(4), pp. 407-418.

Tukker, A. and M. J. Cohen, “Industrial Ecology and the Automotive Transport System: Can Ford Shape the Future Again?” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2004, 8(3), pp. 14-17.