All Outputs (115)

Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance (2019)
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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.

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making (2019)
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Nature-based solutions offer an exciting prospect for resilience building and advancing urban planning to address complex urban challenges simultaneously. In this article, we formulated through a coproduction process in workshops held during the firs... Read More about Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making.

A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa (2019)
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The rapid global deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies since the early 2000s has attracted sustained attention. Solar PV has become an increasingly established, widespread and flexible form of electricity generation. In the research lang... Read More about A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa.

Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö (2019)
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As the politics of climate change shift from the design of international institutions to the pursuit of decarbonisation across multiple sites, researchers are increasingly calling attention to the geography and politics of transitions. We suggest tha... Read More about Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö.

Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics (2019)
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Just as global institutions and environmental assessment processes embark on the latest effort to integrate more social science into global environmental change research, it appears that the social sciences of climate change are unable or unwilling t... Read More about Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics.

Reflections on Navigating Climate’s Human Geographies (2019)
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In this reflection, I take up a variety of open questions and remaining concerns raised by the set of commentaries concerning the implications of the paper for: how we regard climate change as an issue; how knowledge systems might be changed to enabl... Read More about Reflections on Navigating Climate’s Human Geographies.

Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (2018)
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Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa (2018)
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Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-... Read More about Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Urban transformative potential in a changing climate (2018)
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The SDGs and CitiesIPCC offer an unprecedented opportunity for urban transformation, but bold, integrated action to address the constraints imposed by economic, cultural and political dynamics is needed. We move beyond a narrow, technocentric view an... Read More about Urban transformative potential in a changing climate.

Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city? (2018)
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The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demons... Read More about Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?.

Conversations with Lesley Head about Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Reconceptualising Human‐Nature Relations (2018)
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Energy and Society: a critical perspective (2018)
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Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation (2017)
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Seeking to govern the city in relation to climate change is a political project that at once imagines the present in terms of the future and the future in terms of the present. The urban politics of climate change has brought multiple visions of the... Read More about Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation.

Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions (2016)
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Urban Living Labs (ULL) are advanced as an explicit form of intervention delivering sustainability goals for cities. Established at the boundaries between research, innovation and policy, ULL are intended to design, demonstrate and learn about the ef... Read More about Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions.

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
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As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Urban political ecologies of housing and climate change: the ‘Coolest Block’ Contest in Philadelphia (2016)
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Urban authorities and a range of private and civil society actors have come to view housing as a key arena in which to address climate change whilst also pursuing wider social, economic and environmental objectives. Housing has been a critical area f... Read More about Urban political ecologies of housing and climate change: the ‘Coolest Block’ Contest in Philadelphia.

Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies (2016)
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Policy efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of domestic energy consumption have, over the last three decades, been dominated by an almost dichotomous reading of the relationship between technology and social change. On the one hand, there is a conc... Read More about Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies.

Making a Smart City for the Smart Grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks (2016)
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In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of the ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured and contested remain in the shadows of analyses which have been primarily concerned with the management... Read More about Making a Smart City for the Smart Grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks.

Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin (2015)
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A growing body of literature has emerged that examines cities as key sites for socio-technical experimentation with a variety of initiatives and interventions to reduce carbon emissions, upgrade ageing infrastructure networks and stimulate economic d... Read More about Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin.

Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia (2015)
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In the political geography of responses to climate change, and the governance of carbon more specifically, the urban has emerged as a strategic site. Although it is recognized that urban carbon governance occurs through diverse programs and projects—... Read More about Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia.