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Climate finance (2023)
Book Chapter
Knuth, S., & Taylor, Z. (2023). Climate finance. In International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley

Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown (2023)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Cox, S., Hofmann, S., Morris, J., Taylor, Z., & McElvain, B. (2023). Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown. Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2229462

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)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (2023). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815

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.

Pennsylvania’s Housing Justice Campaign’s Promising Win (2023)
Other
Bigger, P., & Knuth, S. (2023). Pennsylvania’s Housing Justice Campaign’s Promising Win

A Pennsylvania program builds a foundation for a just, low-carbon future by making home repair and retrofitting a public priority.

New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy (2022)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Behrsin, I., Levenda, A., & McCarthy, J. (2022). New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(3), 997-1013. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221108164

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)
Journal Article
Turley, B., Cantor, A., Berry, K., Knuth, S., Mulvaney, D., & Vineyard, N. (2022). Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 90, Article 102583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102583

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)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2023). Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies. Environment and Planning A, 55(6), 1548–1564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211062601

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)
Journal Article
Behrsin, I., Knuth, S., & Levenda, A. (2022). Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 762-786. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211006340

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)
Journal Article
Wei Zheng, H., Bouzarovski, S., Knuth, S., Panteli, M., Schindler, S., Ward, K., & Williams, J. (2023). Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence. Geopolitics, 28(1), 310-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1901084

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.

Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques (2020)
Journal Article
Payne, W., Knuth, S., & Mahmoudi, D. (2020). Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques. Urban Geography, 41(8), 1033-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1820678

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)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Stehlin, J., & Millington, N. (2020). Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1335-1343. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850024

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)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2020). ‘All that is Solid … ’. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24(1-2), 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739903

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 … ’.

Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition (2019)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2019). Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(2), 634-643. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1523001

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)
Journal Article
Cantor, A., & Knuth, S. (2019). Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 527-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18796510

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)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2019). Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18793973

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.