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Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia (2015)
Journal Article
McGuirk, P., Bulkeley, H., & Dowling, R. (2016). Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(1), 145-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1084670

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.

Governance traps in climate change politics: re-framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights (2015)
Journal Article
Newell, P., Bulkeley, H., Turner, K., Shaw, C., Caney, S., Shove, E., & Pidgeon, N. (2015). Governance traps in climate change politics: re-framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 6(6), 535-540. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.356

There is a strong sense of malaise surrounding climate politics today. This has been created at least in part by factors such as the chasm between the scale of action required and the adequacy of current political commitments, stalemate in global neg... Read More about Governance traps in climate change politics: re-framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights.

Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption (2015)
Journal Article
Bell, S., Judson, E., Bulkeley, H., Powells, G., Capova, K., & Lynch, D. (2015). Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption. Energy Research and Social Science, 9, 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.08.027

Our paper investigates household practices that use electricity, their relation to systems of provision and the enactment of domestic sociality. The results of this research conducted in the UK shed light on puzzling variations in electricity consump... Read More about Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption.

Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises (2015)
Journal Article
Powells, G., Bell, S., Judson, E. P., Lyon, S. M., Wardle, R., Capova, K. A., & Bulkeley, H. (2016). Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises. Energy Efficiency, 9(3), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-015-9382-y

Managing the electricity network through ‘smart grid’ systems is a key strategy to address challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions and the replacement of ageing infrastructure networks in the UK. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have... Read More about Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises.

Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct (2015)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Powells, G., & Bell, S. (2016). Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct. Environment and Planning A, 48(1), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15596748

In the face of challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions and the replacement of aging infrastructure networks, new logics for the development of smart electricity systems are emerging amongst utility providers and public authorities. Whil... Read More about Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct.

Urban Carbon Governance Experiments: The Role of Australian Local Governments (2015)
Journal Article
McGuirk, P., Dowling, R., Brennan, C., & Bulkeley, H. (2015). Urban Carbon Governance Experiments: The Role of Australian Local Governments. Geographical Research, 53(1), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12098

Cities, and particularly urban local governments, are now widely recognised for their part in the complex, multilevel landscape of climate governance and carbon reduction. Nonetheless local government projects and initiatives are often framed as of l... Read More about Urban Carbon Governance Experiments: The Role of Australian Local Governments.

The co-construction of energy provision and everyday practice: integrating heat pumps in social housing in England (2015)
Journal Article
Judson, E. P., Bell, S., Bulkeley, H., Powells, G., & Lyon, S. M. (2015). The co-construction of energy provision and everyday practice: integrating heat pumps in social housing in England. Science & Technology Studies, 28(3), 26-53

Challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions, and electricity network constraints have led to a shift to new, efficient technologies for household energy services. Studies of such technological innovations usually focus on consumer informati... Read More about The co-construction of energy provision and everyday practice: integrating heat pumps in social housing in England.

An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions (2014)
Book
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., & Edwards, G. (2014). An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315763040

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of c... Read More about An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions.

Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes (2014)
Journal Article
McGuirk, P., Dowling, R., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes. Urban Studies, 51(13), 2717-2734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014533732

Urban local governments are important players in climate governance, and their roles are evolving. This review traces the changing nexus of Australia’s climate policy, energy policy and energy efficiency imperatives and its repositioning of urban loc... Read More about Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes.

Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England (2014)
Journal Article
Armstrong, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England. Geoforum, 56, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.06.015

Analyses of the politics of energy production have traditionally focused on issues of resource extraction and large scale generation. Yet questions of politics are just as critical when it comes to considering the development of ‘small’ energy – vari... Read More about Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England.

Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life (2014)
Journal Article
Powells, G., Bulkeley, H., Bell, S., & Judson, E. (2014). Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life. Geoforum, 55, 43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.04.014

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy consumption in the UK is increasingly linked to the introduction of uncontrollable sources of power, such as solar PV and wind, and the electrification of energy services (Darby, 2012; Department of Energ... Read More about Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life.

Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia (2014)
Journal Article
Dowling, R., McGuirk, P., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia. Cities, 38, 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2013.12.004

Transforming cities to a lower carbon future is one of the key challenges of contemporary urban governance. Retrofitting the city – or modifying existing urban infrastructures, buildings and daily life to suit different energy sources and different e... Read More about Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia.

Low-carbon Transitions and the Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure (2014)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Castán Broto, V., & Maassen, A. (2014). Low-carbon Transitions and the Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure. Urban Studies, 51(7), 1471-1486. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013500089

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has examined the role of cities in addressing climate change and the institutional and political challenges which they encounter. For the most part, in these accounts, the infrastructure networks, thei... Read More about Low-carbon Transitions and the Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure.

Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics? (2014)
Journal Article
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?.

Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city (2014)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Urban governance and climate change experiments. (2013)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H., & Caston Broto, V. (2013). Urban governance and climate change experiments. In H. Mieg, & K. Topfer (Eds.), Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development (72-87). Routledge

Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure (2013)
Journal Article
Castán Broto, V., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), 1934-1948. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12050

Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments... Read More about Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure.