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Multicultural China: A Statistical Yearbook (2014). (2014)
Book
Guo, R., Bulag, U., Crang, M., Heberer, T., Hwang, E.-G., Millward, J., Rossabi, M., Postiglione, G., Shih, C.-Y., Tapp, N., & Guo, L. (Eds.). (2014). Multicultural China: A Statistical Yearbook (2014). Springer Verlag

This book provides a collection of annual data on China’s 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, livelihood, agriculture, industry, education, science and technology, culture, sports, and public he... Read More about Multicultural China: A Statistical Yearbook (2014)..

Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives? (2014)
Book Chapter
Luque, A., McFarlane, C., & Marvin, S. (2014). Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives?. In M. Hodson, & S. Marvin (Eds.), After Sustainable Cities? (74-90). Routeldge

Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis (2014)
Book
Langley, P. (2014). Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199683789.001.0001

•Extensive empirical coverage of the financial crisis management interventions in US and UK in 2007 and 2011 •Provides an innovative contribution to conceptual debates in cultural economy and social studies of finance. •A multidisciplinary source of... Read More about Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis.

Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity (2014)
Journal Article
Bridge, G. (2015). Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity. The Geographical Journal, 181(4), 328-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12114

‘Energy security’ has quickly assumed a significant place in the lexicon of policy. Like other handy couplets for characterising socio-natural relations (such as carrying capacity and resource scarcity), energy security is a powerful framing device:... Read More about Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity.

Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures (2014)
Journal Article
Goldstein, J., & Johnson, E. (2015). Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures. Theory, Culture and Society, 32(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414551032

Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and comi... Read More about Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures.

Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU (2014)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Botticello, J., Calestani, M., & Krzywoszynska, A. (2016). Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(3), 541-555. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776414554489

Europe has set out its plans to foster a ‘green economy’, focused around recycling, by 2020. This pan-European recycling economy, it is argued, will have the triple virtues of: first, stopping wastes being ‘dumped’ on poor countries; second, reusing... Read More about Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU.

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.

Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Peppard, C. Z. (2014). Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 1(6), 533-547. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1043

A discourse on water ethics has emerged as a field linking practical water demands, social practices, and hydrological constraints to philosophic norms. The field arose parallel to growing, global understandings of the interconnected nature of water... Read More about Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance.

Embedding Fairtrade in South Africa: Global Production Networks, National Initiatives and Localized Challenges in the Northern Cape (2014)
Journal Article
Hughes, A., McEwan, C., Bek, D., & Rosenberg, Z. (2014). Embedding Fairtrade in South Africa: Global Production Networks, National Initiatives and Localized Challenges in the Northern Cape. Competition & Change, 18(4), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1179/1024529414z.00000000062

This article contributes to debate on the evolving expressions of business responsibility in emerging market economies and developing economies by exploring and theorizing the ways in which the Fairtrade standard for supply chains is being re-worked... Read More about Embedding Fairtrade in South Africa: Global Production Networks, National Initiatives and Localized Challenges in the Northern Cape.

Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. (2014)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2014). Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(4), 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt017

My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal economy, their various spatialities and geographies, and to iden... Read More about Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways..

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.

Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions. (2014)
Book
Anderson, B. (2014). Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions. Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579443

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transform... Read More about Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions..

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.