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Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions (2014)
Journal Article
Hou, J., Montgomery, C., & McDowell, L. (2014). Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions. Journal of Education for Teaching, 40(3), 300-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2014.903028

This article analyses the current situation of transnational higher education (TNE) in China by conducting a comprehensive documentary analysis. It first situates the phenomenon in global transnational mobility in higher education and then explores t... Read More about Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions.

Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics? (2014)
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Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., & Silver, J. (2014). Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?. Political Geography, 40, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.003

This paper takes as its starting point the argument that infrastructure networks cannot merely be thought of as the backdrop against which climate politics is played out in the city, but are instead fundamental to the ways in which this is conducted.... Read More about Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?.

The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector (2014)
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Tummons, J. (2014). The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2014.872918

The problematisation of the professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector tends to focus on the discourses that the standards embody: discourses that are posited as being based on a restricted or technicist model of professio... Read More about The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector.

Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city (2014)
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McGuirk, P., Bulkeley, H., & Dowling, R. (2014). Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city. Geoforum, 52, 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.007

This paper addresses the governance of transitions to lower carbon cities. Drawing on both governmentality and neo-Gramscian perspectives, we chart and explore the diverse objects, subjects, means and ends evoked as governmental programs, or hegemoni... Read More about Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city.

Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments (2014)
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Bulkeley, H., Edwards, G. A., & Fuller, S. (2014). Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments. Global Environmental Change, 25, 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.009

Debates about climate justice have mainly occurred at the international scale, and have focussed on the rights and responsibilities of nation-states to either be protected from the effects of climate change, or to take action to reduce emissions or s... Read More about Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments.

The effectiveness of interventions targeting specific out-of-home food outlets: protocol for a systematic review (2014)
Journal Article
Hillier-Brown, F., Moore, H., Lake, A., Adamson, A., White, M., Adams, J., …Summerbell, C. (2014). The effectiveness of interventions targeting specific out-of-home food outlets: protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-17

Background: Eating out of the home has been associated with higher intakes of energy and fat and lower micronutrient intakes, as well as the development of obesity. Out-of-home food outlets (OHFOs) and the foods obtained from these outlets are an ide... Read More about The effectiveness of interventions targeting specific out-of-home food outlets: protocol for a systematic review.

Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea (2014)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. (2014). Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea. Ocean Development and International Law, 45(1), 84-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00908320.2014.867193

Heightened attention is being paid to the Northwest Passage, the waters that flow among the islands of northern Canada and that, in the next decades, may be amenable to commercial navigation. Most debates regarding the Passage's legal status focus on... Read More about Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea.