Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Description

The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity is an internationally leading research organisation core-funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and the Laudes Foundation. It takes the form of a rich international network, drawing together expert partners from academic and non-academic institutions as co-producers of the work programme.

The Centre's guiding vision for sustainable prosperity is one in which people everywhere have the capability to flourish as human beings—within the ecological and resource constraints of a finite planet. A prosperous society is concerned not only with income and financial wealth, but also with the health and wellbeing of its citizens, with their access to good quality education, and with their prospects for decent and rewarding work. Prosperity enables basic individual rights and freedoms. But it must also deliver the ability for people to participate meaningfully in common projects. Ultimately, prosperity must offer society a credible and inclusive vision of social progress. The over-arching goal of the Centre is to contribute to that essential task.

The Centre's work programme is organised around five core themes: Meanings and moral framings of the good life; the role of the arts and culture in delivering prosperity; Political and organisational dimensions of sustainable prosperity; Social and psychological understandings of the good life; and Systems analysis to explore narratives of sustainable prosperity. The findings of the research themes are drawn together through a rich portfolio of engagement across business, government and civil society.

The Centre is acting as the secretariat for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth. The All-Party Parliamentary Group provides a platform for cross-party dialogue on shared and lasting prosperity in a world of environmental, social and economic limits. It aims to contribute to a growing international debate on redefining prosperity and developing new measures of progress. The All-Party Parliamentary Group's membership is drawn from both Houses and all main political parties.

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Founding year

2016

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University of Surrey
Guildford

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