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Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. (2015)
Book Chapter
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. In J. Michie, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Why the Social Sciences Matter (60-76). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter shows that the social sciences are critical to the challenge of turning wastes to resources via materials recovery and recycling. For wastes to become resources they have to become products, bought and sold in markets. Economics and the... Read More about Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU..

Atmospheric Methods (2015)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B., & Ash, J. (2015). Atmospheric Methods. In P. Vannini (Ed.), Non-representational methodologies: Re-Envisioning Research. Routledge

Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin (2015)
Journal Article
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.

The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market. (2015)
Book Chapter
Bradshaw, M., Dutton, J., & Bridge, G. (2015). The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market. In P. Ekins, M. Bradshaw, & J. Watson (Eds.), Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (291-305). Oxford University Press

Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems. (2015)
Book Chapter
Bridge, G., & Bradshaw, M. (2015). Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems. In P. Ekins, M. Bradshaw, & J. Watson (Eds.), Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (52-72). Oxford University Press

Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer in South Africa (2015)
Journal Article
Hughes, A., McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2015). Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer in South Africa. Geoforum, 67, 148-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.07.011

This paper presents a critical engagement with current initiatives for ethically-labeled goods in South Africa, thus offering an intervention in a literature on ethical consumption that has previously prioritized the global North. Through an intervie... Read More about Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer in South Africa.

Geographies of humanitarian violence (2015)
Journal Article
Lopez, P. J., Bhungalia, L., & Newhouse, L. S. (2015). Geographies of humanitarian violence. Environment and Planning A, 47(11), 2232 - 2239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15613330

Violence and humanitarianism are conventionally understood to be in opposition to one another. And yet, humanitarianism is also deeply entangled with violence—not only in tending to the after effects of human or natural catastrophe, but, at times, al... Read More about Geographies of humanitarian violence.

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn? (2015)
Book
Marvin, S., Luque-Ayala, A., & McFarlane, C. (Eds.). (2016). Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730554

Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems fac... Read More about Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?.

Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier (2015)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2015). Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 48(3), 626-644. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12205

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.