Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (12)

Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance (2020)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B. (2021). Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance. Geoforum, 118, 130-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.12.008

‘Green’ forms of finance are deemed increasingly important in mitigating climate change. Despite growing calls to make financial flows consistent with Paris Agreement goals, to date little is known about the impact of ‘green finance’. Drawing on lite... Read More about Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance.

Power and politics in plastics research: A critique of ‘Whither plastics? petrochemicals, plastics and sustainability in a garbage-riddled world’ (2020)
Journal Article
Van Veelen, B., & Hasselbalch, J. (2020). Power and politics in plastics research: A critique of ‘Whither plastics? petrochemicals, plastics and sustainability in a garbage-riddled world’. Energy Research and Social Science, 61, Article 101445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101445

In his article ‘Whither Plastics?—Petrochemicals, plastics and sustainability in a garbage-riddled world’ , Michael Jefferson [1] discusses a number of recent issues around plastics, including plastics’ dependence on fossil fuels, its contribution to... Read More about Power and politics in plastics research: A critique of ‘Whither plastics? petrochemicals, plastics and sustainability in a garbage-riddled world’.

Assembling community energy democracies (2019)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B., & Eadson, W. (2020). Assembling community energy democracies. Voluntary Sector Review, 11(2), 225-243. https://doi.org/10.1332/204080519x15740562779512

Calls for greater ‘energy democracy’ foresee a greater role for voluntary sector activity – including through community groups’ ownership of energy projects – to help produce more open, participatory and just energy systems. This article offers a nov... Read More about Assembling community energy democracies.

What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond (2019)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B., Pinker, A., Tingey, M., Taylor Aiken, G., & Eadson, W. (2019). What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond. Energy Research and Social Science, 57, Article 101240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101240

Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) emerged in response to an identified lack of social science energy scholarship. The first publication in this journal asked ‘what can the social sciences bring to energy research?’. Since then, ERSS has become... Read More about What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond.

Community renewable energy: what does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on (2019)
Journal Article
Creamer, E., Taylor Aiken, G., van Veelen, B., Walker, G., & Devine-Wright, P. (2019). Community renewable energy: what does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on. Energy Research and Social Science, 57, Article 101223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101223

In 2008, Walker and Devine-Wright published a short article that is now a key way-marker in the field: ‘Community renewable energy: what should it mean?’. A decade on, in this Perspective we revisit Walker and Devine-Wright’s paper to re-examine its... Read More about Community renewable energy: what does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on.

Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance (2019)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., Langley, P., & van Veelen, B. (2020). Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 724-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856260

Growing emphasis on finance as key to decarbonization requires social science research that critically attends to the emergent and diverse forms taken by carbon finance. First, we pluralize research into carbon finance, building on existing work to i... Read More about Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance.

Caught in the middle? Creating and contesting intermediary spaces in low-carbon transitions (2019)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B. (2020). Caught in the middle? Creating and contesting intermediary spaces in low-carbon transitions. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(1), 116-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419856020

The distributed nature of renewable energy has given rise to new forms and scales of energy governance, in particular the emerging role of households and community organisations in generating and distributing renewable energy. Accompanying this trend... Read More about Caught in the middle? Creating and contesting intermediary spaces in low-carbon transitions.

Community Energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector (2018)
Journal Article
Creamer, E., Eadson, W., van Veelen, B., Pinker, A., Tingey, M., Braunholtz-Speight, T., …Lacey-Barnacle, M. (2018). Community Energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector. Geography Compass, 12(7), Article e12378. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12378

The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a con... Read More about Community Energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector.

What is Energy Democracy? Connecting social science energy research and political theory (2018)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B., & van der Horst, D. (2018). What is Energy Democracy? Connecting social science energy research and political theory. Energy Research and Social Science, 46, 19-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.010

In recent years the term ‘energy democracy’ has become increasingly popular, especially in the context of aspirations for a low-carbon transition that include wider socio-economic and political transformation. The emergence of ‘energy democracy’ is t... Read More about What is Energy Democracy? Connecting social science energy research and political theory.