Climate finance
(2023)
Book Chapter
Outputs (30)
Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida (2023)
Journal Article
Amidst growing concerns for climate risks to US housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting crises of housing re/insurability and affordability in highly exp... Read More about Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida.
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown (2023)
Journal Article
As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the US housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regula... Read More about Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown.
An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city (2023)
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What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘pl... Read More about An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city.
Budgeting for climate justice? Contested futures of urban finance (2023)
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Pennsylvania’s Housing Justice Campaign’s Promising Win (2023)
Other
A Pennsylvania program builds a foundation for a just, low-carbon future by making home repair and retrofitting a public priority.
Review: The Thread of Energy (2023)
Journal Article
New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy (2022)
Journal Article
The critique of fossil fuel regimes has been a foundational concern for the field of political ecology, in its drives to expose the injustices and harms of energy extractivism and its early warnings of the climate crisis. However, it is increasingly... Read More about New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy.
Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States (2022)
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Governments, utilities, and energy companies are increasingly looking towards energy storage technologies to extend the availability of variable renewable power sources such as solar and wind. In this Perspective, we examine these fast-shifting devel... Read More about Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States.
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies (2021)
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Progressive movements today call for transformative state-led investment in renewable energy and other climate infrastructures—in the United States, a vision that confronts inherited legacies of austerity. I argue that a significant obstacle is the n... Read More about Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies.
Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry (2021)
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Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecologi... Read More about Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry.
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence (2021)
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This paper examines the socio-economic and geopolitical outcomes associated with infrastructure development across multiple scales. Starting from the premise that planetary socio-technical transformations in this vein have distinctly national drivers... Read More about Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence.
Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment (2021)
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Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques (2020)
Journal Article
The production, perception, and representation of urban space and urban property relations have been urgent “technological” questions since before the birth of urban geography as a discipline. The growth and differentiation of cities worldwide has be... Read More about Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques.
Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale (2020)
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In the face of climate destabilizations and breakdowns, debates about (de)growth and scale have been particularly significant within critical scholarship. These debates counterpose radically different political positionings, with implications for how... Read More about Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale.
‘All that is Solid … ’ (2020)
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As critical urbanists confront climate change, and prospective climate responses, we must ask crucial questions about the ‘lifetime’ of today’s urban fabrics and metropolitan forms. How durable or ephemeral will existing urban geographies prove in th... Read More about ‘All that is Solid … ’.
In Value’s Shadows: Devaluation as Accumulation Frontier (2019)
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Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition (2019)
Journal Article
In today’s populist moment, climate change response has become anything but “postpolitical.” The project to decarbonize energy supplies is generating ongoing political clashes today, including between competing forms of capital/ism. In the United Sta... Read More about Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition.
Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea (2018)
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Using a regional political ecology lens, this paper explores emerging geographies and politics of a “postnatural” ecomodernist turn in mainstream environmentalism. We examine the unfolding case of ecological restoration and renewable energy developme... Read More about Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea.
Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting (2018)
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In the 2010s, major US initiatives framed urban retrofitting as a decarbonization solution. These programs address an obtrusive legacy of industrial capitalism: its built environments shed energy and emissions when they fall into disrepair. Political... Read More about Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting.
“Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition (2018)
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Reimagining energy infrastructures for the 21st century increasingly means choosing between competing economic futures, a dilemma that is now provoking conflicts across many places and realms. In the United States, one critical clash is unfolding amo... Read More about “Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition.
Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy (2016)
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This paper argues that taking up questions of value can help political ecologists and economists develop a more powerful analysis of the green economy, as it introduces new urban, industrial, and technological dimensions into a self-identified green... Read More about Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy.
Book Review: The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law (2016)
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Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier (2015)
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The early 21st century witnessed a boom in green building in San Francisco and similar cities. Major downtown property owners and investors retrofitted office towers, commissioned green certification, and critically, explored how greening might pay.... Read More about Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier.
Legal Geographies of Finance, Editors' Introduction (2015)
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Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies (2015)
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Understanding global land transformations today requires greater attention to finance, and how financial institutions are making land and property into financial assets. Drawing on geographical political economy and scholarship on financialisation, I... Read More about Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies.
Addressing Place in Climate Change Mitigation: Reducing Emissions in a Suburban Landscape (2010)
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Universities and Climate Change Mitigation: Advancing Grassroots Climate Policy in the US (2007)
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