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Using Art and Everyday Objects to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda (2014)
Journal Article
Nabulime, L., & McEwan, C. (2014). Using Art and Everyday Objects to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Development in Practice, 24(2), 272-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2014.884539

This paper argues for the importance of enabling dialogue between women and men about taboo subjects of sex and sexuality in HIV/AIDS prevention. It reports the findings of a project that sought to use art (specifically sculpture) for creating dialog... Read More about Using Art and Everyday Objects to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

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.

Living in the Anthropocene: Business as usual, or compassionate retreat? (2014)
Book Chapter
Brown, P. G., & Schmidt, J. J. (2014). Living in the Anthropocene: Business as usual, or compassionate retreat?. In T. W. Institute (Ed.), State of the world 2014 : governing for sustainability (63-71). Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-542-7_6

Human activity is changing the earth at a global scale. Atmospheric carbon dioxide reached 400 parts per million (ppm) in 2013, and there are no policies in place to prevent it from passing 450 ppm. This makes it highly unlikely that the 2009 Copenha... Read More about Living in the Anthropocene: Business as usual, or compassionate retreat?.

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?.

False Promises: The contours, contexts, and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada (2014)
Journal Article
Matthews, N., & Schmidt, J. J. (2014). False Promises: The contours, contexts, and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada. Water governance, 2(2), 21-40. https://doi.org/10.7564/14-ijwg61

‘Good water governance’ in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada emerged in different political contexts of, respectively, communism and democracy. Yet both espouse similar principles of participation, transparency and accountability. Drawing on multiple metho... Read More about False Promises: The contours, contexts, and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada.

Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of South African sustainable wildflower harvesting (2014)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Hughes, A., & Bek, D. (2014). Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of South African sustainable wildflower harvesting. Geoforum, 52, 206-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.09.010

Corporate efforts to demonstrate ‘sustainability’ within production networks are driving a continued demand for new metrics. This raises questions concerning which experts will be enlisted in their creation, what data and calculative methods they wil... Read More about Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of South African sustainable wildflower harvesting.

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.

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.

Water Management and the Procedural Turn: Norms and Transitions in Alberta (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2014). Water Management and the Procedural Turn: Norms and Transitions in Alberta. Water Resources Management, 28(4), 1127-1141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0544-z

Water management reforms promoting deliberative, decentralized decision making are often accompanied by procedures designed to accommodate a range of stakeholder perspectives. This paper considers the role of political and ethical norms affecting thi... Read More about Water Management and the Procedural Turn: Norms and Transitions in Alberta.

Why ‘place’ matters in the development and impacts of Fairtrade production (2014)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Hughes, A., Bek, D., & Rosenberg, Z. (2014). Why ‘place’ matters in the development and impacts of Fairtrade production. Food Chain, 4(1), 78-92. https://doi.org/10.3362/2046-1887.2014.007

This paper examines the importance of place for the cultural and environmental dynamics shaping Fairtrade cooperatives. It draws on a case study of the Eksteenskuil Agricultural Cooperative (EAC) in South Africa's Northern Cape, which supplies Fairtr... Read More about Why ‘place’ matters in the development and impacts of Fairtrade production.

Historicising the hydrosocial cycle (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2014). Historicising the hydrosocial cycle. Water alternatives, 7(1), 220-234

This paper examines the historical claims made in support of the hydrosocial cycle. In particular, it considers how arguments advancing the hydrosocial cycle make historical claims regarding modernist conceptions of what water is (i.e. H2O) and its f... Read More about Historicising the hydrosocial cycle.

Equipping entrepreneurs: consuming credit and credit scores (2014)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2014). Equipping entrepreneurs: consuming credit and credit scores. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 17(5), 448-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2013.849592

On-line products that make an individual's credit score an object of consumption and equip credit consumers with the capacity to improve their score are shown to exemplify two sets of dynamic tendencies to change in mass market consumer credit. First... Read More about Equipping entrepreneurs: consuming credit and credit scores.