Maurie Cohen

Maurie Cohen

Maurie Cohen is Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute, co-founder and Executive Board Member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), and editor of the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy. His books include Sustainability; The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy; and Exploring Sustainable Consumption. He holds a PhD in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.

GTI Contributions
Searching for Solidarity
GTI Forum
Searching for Solidarity
February 2021

The Power of Sorrow
GTI Forum
The Power of Sorrow
Contribution to GTI Forum After the Pandemic: Which Future?
July 2020


Maurie Cohen
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable "On Degrowth"
An exchange on the viewpoint The Degrowth Alternative
February 2015

Maurie Cohen
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable "On the Sharing Economy"
An exchange on the essay Debating the Sharing Economy
October 2014

The Decline and Fall of Consumer Society?
Viewpoint
The Decline and Fall of Consumer Society?
May 2014

Recent demographic, economic, social, cultural, and resource trends may foretell the decline of consumer society in the US. The question then becomes what system will come next.

With commentary by Julian Agyeman, John Ehrenfeld, Emily Huddart-Kennedy, and William Rees