A5043251311- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Irish and British Studies
- Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- History of Science and Natural History
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Public Policy and Administration Research
University of Manchester
2016-2025
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2022-2023
Victoria University of Wellington
2023
University of Chicago
2023
Santa Fe Institute
2023
Cambridge University Press
2012-2020
New York University Press
2020
Kinokuniya
2020
University of Dayton
2019
Liverpool John Moores University
2019
In the face of global urbanisation and climate change, scientists are increasingly using cities to experiment with more resilient forms urban infrastructure. Experimentation represents practical dimension adaptation; it is what happens in practice when policymakers, researchers, businesses communities charged finding new paths. This paper traces one particular lineage experimentation resilience ecology, which rejects possibility external control over a system, casting planning administrative...
Abstract The increasing threat of climate change has created a pressing need for cities to lower their carbon footprints. Urban laboratories are emerging in numerous around the world as strategy local governments partner with public and private property owners reduce emissions, while simultaneously stimulating economic growth. In this article, we use insights from laboratory studies analyse notion urban they relate experimental governance, carbonization agenda transition low‐carbon...
Living labs and co-production are increasingly popular strategies for universities to address sustainability challenges yet the links between them remain largely implicit. This paper discusses potential of living provide a holistic iterative framework knowledge. The University Lab initiative was launched in 2012 transform Manchester campus into site applied teaching research around sustainability. Its goal students academics engage with opportunities work Estates staff their environmental...
Abstract This article reviews developments in ‘mobile methodologies’, looking at the theory, technologies and practice of mobile methods. We focus specifically on methods where research subject researcher are motion ‘field’, seek to understand what difference can make research. Drawing broader mobilities paradigm, we identify key tenets methodologies, then discuss role that such as geographical information systems play opening up this new approach The past present work has utilised methods,...
Cousins, J. A., P. Sadler, and Evans. 2008. Exploring the role of private wildlife ranching as a conservation tool in South Africa: stakeholder perspectives. Ecology Society 13(2): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02655-130243
With growing urbanisation the sustainability of cities has become increasingly important. Although have been using indicators for a long time it is only in last decades that attempts made to collate into sets reflect many different aspects required assess city. The aim this paper review evolution monitoring sustainable urban development order understand how ‘new’ suggested by UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are and challenges they may face them. reveals previous indicator emphasised...
Informal transport is vital to billions of people living in rapidly growing cities the Global South, yet increasingly marginalised as governments legislate against modes that do not conform ideals “modern city.” Using an innovative combination GPS and qualitative methods, this paper investigates how estimated 145,000 boda‐boda motorcycle taxis Kampala, capital Uganda, provide mobility income for its inhabitants. While careful over‐romanticise informality African cities, we argue there a...
Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the seamless connection of urban services infrastructure by digital technologies (Hollands 2008, Viitanen Kingston 2014), but there is scant evidence concerning their ability enhance well-being, build just equitable communities, reduce resource consumption waste generation, improve quality or lower carbon emissions (Cavada et al. 2015). This special issue addresses gap between pipedream practice smart cities,...
The wisdom of ‘smart’ development increasingly shapes urban sustainability in Europe and beyond. Yet, the ‘smart city’ paradigm has been critiqued for favouring technological solutions business interests over social inclusion innovation. Despite rhetoric ‘citizen-centred approaches’ ‘user-generated data’, level stakeholder engagement public empowerment is still question. It unclear how smart city initiatives are developing common visions according to principles sustainable development. This...
Cities must change rapidly to address a range of sustainability challenges. While urban experimentation has prospered as framework for innovation, it struggled stimulate broader transformation. We offer novel contribution this debate by focusing on what municipalities learn from and how drives organisational change. The practicalities received relatively little attention, despite the recognised importance learning within literature experiments central role in enabling research gap, drawing...
Learning that transcends participation processes is critical if public engagement to translate into a legacy of enhanced environmental citizenship. However, lack empirical evidence has limited discussion date largely 'aspirational' claims. This paper offers the first rigorous examination whether does generate beyond-process social learning. Initially we review literature on and citizenship identify key dimensions We then re-visit well-worked case study an innovative process Hampshire waste...
Despite its broad definition, the concept of sustainability has become central to regeneration policy in UK. A growing body research, however, suggests that goals urban and sustainable development are not being integrated practice. Ambiguity surrounding what ‘sustainability’ actually means is often cited as reason why projects fail achieve goals. We seek make an innovative contribution this debate, arguing does a positive difference practice, it necessary develop approaches capture these...
This paper brings together two previously disengaged literatures on affect and place in order to investigate the importance of embodiment transforming spaces into places. sharp relief mismatch between policy rhetoric sense outputs regeneration schemes which often seem deliberately efface these affective connections. The outlines idea ‘rescue geography’ as a technique for capturing embodied relationship communities urban prior redevelopment. A case study using walked interviews Birmingham’s...