Olivier Petit : Thank you for taking the time to talk about your vision of social ecological economics. Let us start with your academic background. Could you reflect on the different stages of your journey, because you spend some time in the US, UK, Australia, returned to Europe in 2009, worked in Norway and then Austria. Clive Spash : My primary concern for decades has been the environment and environmental problems. I did a fund raising campaign to "save the tiger" in 1972. At university I ...