Dr Andrew Flynn - Associate Member of BRASS

Career Experience and Qualifications

Dr Andrew Flynn is an associate member of BRASS from the School of City and Regional Planning. He was educated at the Univeristy of Essex and recieved his PhD from London University. Andrew joined Cardiff University in 1995 as a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning. Prior to this Andrew worked as a senior lecturer in Environmental Policy at the University of Hull. Andrew is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning.

Research Areas of Interest

Environmental regulation; Business responses to sustainable development; Food regulation.

Research Projects

Dr Flynn is currently working on a range of BRASS related projects including Accounting for Taste: Contested Accountability and Regulation in Food and the eco-footprinting project.

Links to BRASS projects

• Ecological Footprinting
• Technical Transformations in the Food Consumption and Production Programme
• Environmental Input-Output Tables

BRASS Working Papers

• Looking Up, Looking Down: Responsibilities for Climate Change in the UK Food Supply Chains 
• Exploring the UK red meat supply chain       
• Measuring sustainability: the role of ecological footprinting in Wales, UK
• The Food Standards Agency: making a difference?
• Innovation and the food supply chain: a case study of chicken
• The battle for the consumers: building relationships in a new phase of contested accountability in the UK food chain
• The food supply chain and innovation: a case study of potatoes
• A sustainable development agenda for the second term of the Welsh Assembly Government
• Living differently?: an assessment of the first four years of the Welsh Assembly Government's sustainable development duty
• Waste policy in Wales: the case of construction and demolition waste

Publications

Recent Publications

• A Collins, A Flynn and A Netherwood, Reducing Cardiff's Ecological Footprint, WWF, March 2005.
• Bishop, K and Flynn, A Sustainable Development in Wales: Schemes, Structures, Debate and Delivery, Contemporary Wales, Vol 17, p92-112, 2004.
• G Hayes, H Arden, A Flynn, 'Environmental Policy' in H Compston (ed) Handbook of Public Policy in Europe: Britain, France and Germany, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp265-74.
• A Flynn, 'Environmental Policy' in B Jones et al (eds) Politics UK 5th edn, Harlow, Pearson Education Ltd, 2004, p693-718.
• A Flynn, Living Differently? An assessment of the Welsh Assembly's Sustainable Development Scheme, WWF, September 2003.
• A Flynn, A Netherwood and K Bishop, 'Multi-level governance and sustainable development in Wales, W Lafferty and M Narodoslawsky' (eds), Regional Sustainable Development in Europe. The challenge of multi-level co-operative governance, ProSus, 2003, pp68-89.
• A Flynn, T Marsden and E Smith, 'Food Regulation and Retailing in a New Institutional Context', The Politcal Quarterly, Vol 74, No 1, p38-46, 2003.

Teaching Commitments

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning and teaches on a number of courses including: Environmental Assessment; Environmental Management and Regulation; Environmental Management in Practice; Planning and Government.

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Contact Details

Tel: 029 20 874851
Fax: +44 (0) 29 2087 4845
Email: FlynnAC@cardiff.ac.uk
Room number: 2.64

Department of City and Regional Planning,
Cardiff University,
Glamorgan Building,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
CF10 3WA.

Cardiff Business School,
Cardiff University,
Aberconway Building,
Colum Drive,
CARDIFF,
CF10 3EU
UK