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Professor Harriet Bulkeley's Outputs (116)

Changing climate, changing geographies? (2024)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & McFarlane, C. (online). Changing climate, changing geographies?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Article e12718. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12718

Ever since climate change came to occupy a place on the research and policy landscape in the 1980s, geography and geographers have been at the forefront of understanding its dynamics and social, economic, ethical, and political consequences. In this... Read More about Changing climate, changing geographies?.

Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities (2024)
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Rochell, K., Bulkeley, H., & Runhaar, H. (2024). Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities. Local Environment, 29(9), 1204-1220. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2353047

Nature – based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being positioned within global discourses concerning how urban sustainability challenges can be addressed. To better understand to what extent, how, by whom and with what potential implications NBS are... Read More about Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities.

Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa (2024)
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Rochell, K., Bulkeley, H., & Runhaar, H. (2024). Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa. Buildings and Cities, 5(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.379

Globally, various frames of urban nature circulate, each emphasising particular challenges and natural solutions in the climate context. Yet which actors and dynamics shape their translation to the African context remains unclear. This paper explores... Read More about Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa.

Double dividend? Transnational initiatives and governance innovation for climate change and biodiversity (2023)
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Bulkeley, H., Betsill, M., Fransen, A., & VanDeveer, S. (2023). Double dividend? Transnational initiatives and governance innovation for climate change and biodiversity. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 39(4), 796-809. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grad046

Growing recognition of the need to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together is leading to shifts in the global environmental governance landscape such that these two traditionally separate domains are increasingly interlinked. This proces... Read More about Double dividend? Transnational initiatives and governance innovation for climate change and biodiversity.

Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions? (2023)
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Papari, C., Toxopeus, H., Polzin, F., Bulkeley, H., & Menguzzo, E. V. (2024). Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?. Environmental Science and Policy, 151, Article 103598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103598

We analyze the potential of the European Union (EU) Taxonomy (ET) for Sustainable Activities to mobilize investments for the sustainability transition toward urban nature-based solutions (UNBS). We map the current investment landscape of UNBS in Euro... Read More about Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?.

Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
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Fransen, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective. Global Environmental Politics, 24(1), 76–99. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00726

Transnational governance initiatives (TGIs) are increasingly recognized as central actors in the governing of climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, their role in linking these domains has yet to be explored. As the climate crisis comes to be inc... Read More about Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective.

Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme (2023)
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Kavonic, J., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme. Local Environment, 28(7), 900-917. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2190349

Over the past five years, there have been growing calls for transformative responses to sustainability challenges, supported by increased transformative action in the pursuit of environmental justice. In parallel to this development within the policy... Read More about Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme.

The condition of urban climate experimentation (2023)
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Bulkeley, H. (2023). The condition of urban climate experimentation. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1), Article 2188726. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2023.2188726

As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed towards responses of sufficient scale and magnitude for the crises at hand. The imperative is to move beyond experimentation. Yet some... Read More about The condition of urban climate experimentation.

Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
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Bockarjova, M., Botzen, W. W., Bulkeley, H. A., & Toxopeus, H. (2022). Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities. Scientific Reports, 12(2022), Article 19833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23983-3

By implementing nature-based solutions (NBS), cities generate value for their residents, such as health and wellbeing. We estimate the aggregate social value to urban residents of 85 NBS projects implemented across Europe and find that the majority y... Read More about Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities.

Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
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Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., Kiss, B., Luque-Ayala, A., Voytenko Palgan, Y., McCormick, K., & Wamsler, C. (2023). Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1113(3), 599-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2130867

Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.

Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
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Armstrong, A., Bulkeley, H., Tozer, L., & Kotsila, P. (2023). Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides. Urban Geography, 44(8), 1747-1767. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2125669

Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.

Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe (2022)
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Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., van der Jagt, A., Toxopeus, H., Xie, L., & Runhaar, H. (2022). Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe. Global Environmental Change, 74, Article 102521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102521

The notion that pathways can be identified and followed towards more sustainable futures has become an increasingly prevalent idea across the science and policy of global environmental change. Focusing on the debate within literatures on socio-techni... Read More about Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe.

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change (2022)
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Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., & Xie, L. (2022). Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change. Global Environmental Politics, 22(3), 81-103. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00658

Multiple visions for how urbanism can respond to the climate crisis and foster sustainability have emerged on the international agenda, including the ecocity, low-carbon city, smart city, and resilient city. These competing visions have been joined b... Read More about Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change.

Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity (2022)
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Xie, L., Bulkeley, H., & Tozer, L. (2022). Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity. Environmental Science and Policy, 132, 119-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.017

Sustainable innovation has been widely acknowledged as the key driver for societal transitions towards sustainability. Recently, there have been widespread calls to mainstream nature-based solutions (NBS), a form of socio-ecological-technical innovat... Read More about Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
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Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society, 50(3), 494-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335

rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
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Bulkeley, H. (2021). Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City. Environmental Politics, 30(1-2), 266-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1880713

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban... Read More about Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.

Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden (2020)
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Bulkeley, H., & Stripple, J. (2021). Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden. New Political Economy, 26(6), 937-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1810219

The question of how the urgent transformation in fossil fuel based economies might be realised has come to occupy an increasingly prominent place within the social sciences. The challenge here is often cast in terms of how one or more existing system... Read More about Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden.

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance (2020)
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Xie, L., & Bulkeley, H. (2020). Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance. Environmental Science and Policy, 110, 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.04.002

In this paper, we examine how cities are working with nature-based solutions for biodiversity. Drawing on a sample of 199 nature-based solutions across Europe, we identify how cities work with nature-based solutions to conserve nature, restore nature... Read More about Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance.

Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings (2019)
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Tozer, L., & Bulkeley, H. (2020). Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings. Energy Policy, 136, Article 111042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111042

This paper expands the toolkit available to consider the effectiveness of urban climate responses by examining political effectiveness in the implementation of urban decarbonization initiatives. By focusing on the politics of implementation, this app... Read More about Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings.

Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance (2019)
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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.

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making (2019)
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Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Collier, M. J., Kendal, D., Bulkeley, H., Dumitru, A., …Pintér, L. (2019). Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making. Bioscience, 69(6), 455-466. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz042

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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Kirshner, J., Baker, L., Smith, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa. Geoforum, 103, 114-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.013

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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Stripple, J., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö. Political Geography, 72, 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.04.001

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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Bulkeley, H. (2019). Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619829920

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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Bulkeley, H. (2019). Reflections on Navigating Climate’s Human Geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 38-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619829934

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.

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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Kumar, A., Ferdous, R., Luque-Ayala, A., McEwan, C., Power, M., Turner, B., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.005

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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Romero-Lankao, P., Bulkeley, H., Pelling, M., Burch, S., Gordon, D., Gupta, J., …Munshi, D. (2018). Urban transformative potential in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change, 8(9), 754-756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0264-0

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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Bulkeley, H., Marvin, S., Palgan, Y. V., McCormick, K., Breitfuss-Loidl, M., Mai, L., …Frantzeskaki, N. (2019). Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?. European Urban and Regional Studies, 26(4), 317-335. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776418787222

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?.

Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation (2017)
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Edwards, G., & Bulkeley, H. (2018). Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(2), 350-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817747885

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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Bulkeley, H., Coenen, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hartmann, C., Kronsell, A., Mai, L., …Voytenko Palgan, Y. (2016). Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 13-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.003

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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Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

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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Edwards, G., & Bulkeley, H. (2017). Urban political ecologies of housing and climate change: the ‘Coolest Block’ Contest in Philadelphia. Urban Studies, 54(5), 1126-1141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015617907

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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Bickerstaff, K., Hinton, E., & Bulkeley, H. (2016). Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies. Environment and Planning A, 48(10), 2006-2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16653403

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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Bulkeley, H., McGuirk, P., & Dowling, R. (2016). Making a Smart City for the Smart Grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks. Environment and Planning A, 48(9), 1709-1726. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16648152

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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McLean, A., Bulkeley, H., & Crang, M. (2016). Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin. Urban Studies, 53(15), 3246-3263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015612984

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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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?.

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.

Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Carmin, J., Castán Broto, V., Edwards, G. A., & Fuller, S. (2013). Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses. Global Environmental Change, 23(5), 914-925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.010

Ever since climate change came to be a matter of political concern, questions of justice have been at the forefront of academic and policy debates in the international arena. Curiously, as attention has shifted to other sites and scales of climate ch... Read More about Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses.

Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Tuts, R. (2013). Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change. Local Environment, 18(6), 646-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.788479

Climate change processes pose significant challenges to development in cities across West Africa. These processes shape and mediate urban vulnerability across urban areas and hinder wider development efforts across these cities. This paper reviews th... Read More about Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change.

Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Castán Broto, V. (2013). Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(3), 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00535.x

In this paper, we argue for an approach that goes beyond an institutional reading of urban climate governance to engage with the ways in which government is accomplished through social and technical practices. Central to the exercise of government in... Read More about Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change.

The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester (2013)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester. Urban Studies, 50(7), 1403-1422. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013480967

Making a low carbon economic future for the UK has been declared a key priority by both the previous Labour government and also the current coalition government. Yet there is a large gap between the symbolic representations of a low carbon future and... Read More about The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester.

Revisiting the urban politics of climate change (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Betsill, M. (2013). Revisiting the urban politics of climate change. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 136-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755797

In our 2005 paper, Rethinking Sustainable Cities, we made a case for the increasing significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability. Taking a multilevel governance perspective, we argued that the ‘urban’ governance of climate p... Read More about Revisiting the urban politics of climate change.

Global cities and the politics of climate change. (2012)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H., & Schroeder, H. (2012). Global cities and the politics of climate change. In P. Dauvernge (Ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing

Bringing climate change to the city: towards low carbon urbanism? (2012)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., & Edwards, G. (2012). Bringing climate change to the city: towards low carbon urbanism?. Local Environment, 17(5), 545-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.681464

In this paper, we reflect on the role of cities in responding to climate change over the two decades since the historic agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We find a growth in the scale and nature of municipal resp... Read More about Bringing climate change to the city: towards low carbon urbanism?.

A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities (2012)
Journal Article
Castán Broto, V., & Bulkeley, H. (2012). A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities. Global Environmental Change, 23(1), 92-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.07.005

Cities are key sites where climate change is being addressed. Previous research has largely overlooked the multiplicity of climate change responses emerging outside formal contexts of decision-making and led by actors other than municipal governments... Read More about A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities.

Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives (2012)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Andonova, L., Backstrand, K., Betsill, M., Compagnon, D., Duffy, R., …VanDeveer, S. (2012). Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives. Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, 30(4), 591-612. https://doi.org/10.1068/c11126

With this paper we present an analysis of sixty transnational governance initiatives and assess the implications for our understanding of the roles of public and private actors, the legitimacy of governance ‘beyond’ the state, and the North–South dim... Read More about Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives.

Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change (2012)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2012). Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change. Environment and Planning A, 44(10), 2428-2444. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44678

Within debates about the emergence and nature of governance, it has become commonplace to debate the whereabouts and possibilities of authority. Traditionally, authority is conceived as a property of some actor or institution and is regarded as divis... Read More about Governance and the geography of authority: modalities of authorisation and the transnational governing of climate change.

Cities and subnational governments. (2011)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H. (2011). Cities and subnational governments. In J. Dryzek, R. Norgaard, & D. Schlosberg (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford University Press

Governing urban low carbon transitions. (2010)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., & Maassen, A. (2010). Governing urban low carbon transitions. In H. Bulkeley, V. Castan Broto, M. Hodson, & S. Marvin (Eds.), Cities and Low Carbon Transitions. London

Planning Governance of Climate Change . (2009)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H. (2009). Planning Governance of Climate Change . In S. Davoudi, J. Crawford, & A. Mehmood (Eds.), Planning for Climate Change Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners. Earthscan

Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation (2009)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Gregson, N. (2009). Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation. Environment and Planning A, 41(4), 929-945. https://doi.org/10.1068/a40261

This paper connects research on home-based consumption with research on waste policy and governance. We argue that, in order to meet the enhanced goals of waste reduction specified in Waste Strategy for England 2007, UK municipal waste policy needs a... Read More about Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation.

Modes of governing municipal waste (2007)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Watson, M., & Hudson, R. (2007). Modes of governing municipal waste. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), 2733-2753. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38269

From recent debates on governance and governmentality, two key analytical imperatives arise: the need to engage simultaneously with the structures and processes of governing, and the need to recognise the plurality and multiplicity of governing sites... Read More about Modes of governing municipal waste.

Urban Sustainability: learning from best practice? (2006)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2006). Urban Sustainability: learning from best practice?. Environment and Planning A, 38(6), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37300

In the quest for sustainable development, numerous examples of ‘best practice’ have been created and circulated in national and international arenas. Yet despite the vast array of examples, demonstration projects, case studies, and the like, little i... Read More about Urban Sustainability: learning from best practice?.

Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks (2005)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2005). Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks. Political Geography, 24(8), 875-902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.07.002

This paper seeks to develop an alternative account of the geographies of environmental governance to those current conceptions which tend to take space and scale for granted as pre-given, contained, natural entities. Through an engagement with the de... Read More about Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks.

Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (2003)
Book
Bulkeley, H., & Betsill, M. (2003). Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance. Routledge

The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Climate change is one of the most challenging issues of our time. As key sites in the production and management of emissions of greenhouse gases, cities will be crucial for the implementation... Read More about Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance.

Governing climate change: the politics of risk society? (2001)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2001). Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 26(4), 430-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00033

This paper examines how the politics of climate change have taken shape within Australia through the construction and contestation of concepts of obligation and responsibility. Beck's risk society thesis offers a conceptual starting point from which... Read More about Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?.