Outputs (119)

Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
Journal Article

By implementing nature-based solutions (NBS), cities generate value for their residents, such as health and wellbeing. We estimate the aggregate social value to urban residents of 85 NBS projects implemented across Europe and find that the majority y... Read More about Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities.

The Global Biodiversity Framework Needs a Robust Action Agenda (2022)
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Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises (2022)
Journal Article

Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural geography is full of relations which look like attachments. But attachment as a concept is mostly absent, used interchangeably with association, connection or simply re... Read More about Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises.

Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
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Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.

Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
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Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.

Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China (2022)
Journal Article

Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been viewed as being more deeply embedded in the fabric of places and the social relations of their food systems than conventional food networks, and have been regarded as ‘spaces of hope’ for addressing sustaina... Read More about Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China.

Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK (2022)
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Coal played a central part in the discussions at the COP26 conference on climate change held in Glasgow in 2021. Here it was established as the most deadly of the carbon fuels with the future of the planet depending upon its eradication. This was a c... Read More about Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK.

Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience (2022)
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How has environmental geography grappled with the inheritances of Western technoscience? On one hand, as a discipline, we are now well aware of science's entanglements with imperial projects and racist logics, not to mention the omissions and silence... Read More about Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience.

‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism? (2022)
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Following the 2019 general election, the Prime Minister claimed that leaving the EU would enable him to ‘get Brexit done’ and introduce policies to “level up” inequalities in a post-EU UK. There still is, however, considerable uncertainty as to exact... Read More about ‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism?.

Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique (2022)
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Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate energy access and resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not have reliable access to centralized energy networks both in rur... Read More about Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique.

Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains (2022)
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The increasing role of electricity as an energy carrier in decarbonising economies is driving a growing demand for electrical energy storage in the form of battery systems. Two battery applications driving demand growth are electric vehicles and stat... Read More about Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains.

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.

New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy (2022)
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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.

The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US Listings (2022)
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This paper explores the prominent and enduring brokerage role of Hong Kong in facilitating mainland Chinese companies’ US listings. We argue the brokerage role needs to be interpreted in both global and territorial dimensions. Situating Hong Kong in... Read More about The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US Listings.

Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa   (2022)
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Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite burgeoning street art scenes in many African countries since the early... Read More about Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa  .

FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction (2022)
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Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over the last decade or so, constituting novel ‘FinTech’ economies. Although FinTech is registering across critical social scientific research, insuf... Read More about FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction.

Unfreedom in Labour Relations: From a Politics of Rescue to a Politics of Solidarity? (2022)
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In this introduction to the Special Forum we seek to explore the possibilities for challenging labor unfreedoms through exercising solidarity. We critique the prevailing framings and dominant politics of ‘combatting modern-day slavery’ – or what we r... Read More about Unfreedom in Labour Relations: From a Politics of Rescue to a Politics of Solidarity?.

Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies (2022)
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This paper argues for engaging in multispecies storytelling with plants to better conceptualise the ethics and contested ecologies associated with biodiversity loss. It focuses specifically on proteas, the iconic species of South Africa's threatened... Read More about Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies.

Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil (2022)
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Evolutionary approaches to strategic coupling show how regions harness and match assets, then negotiate their alignment with lead firms. For regions intersected by multiple networks in the same industry, however, the reconfiguration of network-territ... Read More about Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil.