A5018117370- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Critical Realism in Sociology
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Economic Zones and Regional Development
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Economic Theory and Policy
- International Development and Aid
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Lancaster University
2015-2024
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland)
2022
Delft University of Technology
2022
Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality
2020
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2015
In-Q-Tel
2009
In the policy discourses of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) European Commission (EC), modern biotechnology life sciences are represented as an emerging “bioeconomy” in which latent value underpinning biological materials products offers opportunity sustainable economic growth. This articulation development is scholarly field producing numerous “bio-concepts.” Over last decade or so, there have been a number attempts to theorize this relationship between...
• Targets and accounting for negative emissions should be explicitly set managed separately from existing future targets reduction. Failure to make such a separation has already hampered climate policy, exaggerating the expected contribution of in models, while also obscuring extent pace investment needed deliver emissions. Separation would help minimise impacts that promises deployments could have on reduction, arising effects as temporal trade-offs, excessive offsetting, technological...
As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought an abrupt halt, while others drastic...
In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state the UK met at University Campinas to participate in workshop on 'Responsible Innovation Governance Socially Controversial Technologies'. this Perspective we describe key reflections observations discussions, paying particular attention discourse responsible innovation cross-cultural perspective. We number important tensions, paradoxes opportunities that emerged over three days workshop.
Non-technical summary In the face of limited carbon budgets, negative emissions technologies (NETs) offer hopes removing greenhouse gases from atmosphere. It is difficult to determine whether prospect NETs significantly deterring or delaying timely action cut emissions. This paper sets out a novel theoretical perspective this challenge, enabling analysis that accounts for interactions between technologies, society and political economic power. The argues that, seen in light, scope substitute...
Digitalisation is likely to change established economic development processes. This raises questions about the distribution of potential welfare gains from industrialisation highlighted by, among others, UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 'sustainable industrialisation'. In parallel, and digitalisation must be made environmentally sustainable if other pressing sustainability goals, such as climate mitigation (SDG 13), are met. Yet, under current political system, efficiency in material...
Abstract Mitigating human‐induced climate change calls for a globalized of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand double transformation the social sciences – first, from ‘methodological nationalism’ to cosmopolitanism’ and, second, an empirical reorientation towards ‘cosmopolitization’ as force emerging cosmopolitan realities. One these realities is possible emergence, locally globally, ‘cosmopolitan communities risk’ in response ‘world at risk’. A key research...
A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for mobilities research. The multi-level perspective (MLP) justifiably leading approach in such research, with important connections to high-profile socio-technical systemic analyses within the paradigm. paper explores contributions that Foucauldian-inspired cultural political economy offers, going beyond central problems MLP, specifically regarding: productive concept of power affords analysis qualitatively novel dynamic...
ABSTRACT This paper explores environmental innovation in the largest emerging economy – China and its potential for contributing to global transitions low‐carbon, more sustainable patterns of development. It builds on earlier studies bringing alternative forms low(er)‐technology, ‘below‐the‐radar', ‘disruptive' and/or social into analysis. In addition, however, develops our understanding low‐carbon by paying particular attention issues changing power relations practices: theoretical that...
What is 'relational theorizing' in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing not doctrine or method, but set of analyses begin with relations rather than the putative essences constitutively autonomous actors. Second, has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, approach (IR) offer language space for increased productive engagement beyond Anglophone...
Abstract Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have been slow, climate crisis is intensifying, it increasingly likely that removing will be necessary meet internationally-agreed targets. Yet there are fears pursuing NETs might undermine other mitigation efforts, primarily reduction (rather than removal) of gas emissions. This paper discusses risk this phenomenon, named ‘mitigation...
This special issue seeks to deepen conversations at the intersections between mobilities research and a number of adjacent fields. Contributions explore how has emerged travelled along with range approaches concerned lived production socio-material orders, such as science technology studies, non-representational feminist theory, critical speculative design cosmopolitanism, name but few, while also intersecting many applied fields, transport planning policy, disability or disaster response....
In this study we look at everyday politics of electric bike mobility by exploring the social practices e-bike users in order to understand role e-bikes emerging low-carbon system China, asking 'where is E2W contemporary China?' We explore underlying political tensions two-wheeler examining family and informal journeys. argue that 'civilizational' government perspective provides a new way thinking about transition China.
Concerns have been raised that a focus on greenhouse gas removals (GGR) in climate models, scientific literature and other media might deter measures to mitigate change through reduction of emissions at source – the phenomenon ‘mitigation deterrence’. Given urgent need for action, any delay would be worrying. We convened nine deliberative workshops expose stakeholders futures scenarios involving mitigation deterrence. The examined ways which deterrence arise, how it could minimized....
Disruptive innovation offers significant promise regarding expedited global low-carbon transition, set against currently inadequate efforts. In order to appreciate its significance, however, disruptive must be analysed in the light of three key shifts perspective: an analysis system transition and itself terms power/knowledge; appraisal significance digital (similarly reconceptualised) embryonic convergence with innovation; a geographical focus on happening not (just) locations usually...
Agrofuels are increasingly sourced and sold as a socially environmentally beneficial solution to oil dependence. The promotion of sugar‐derived ethanol substitute for petroleum has thus been key state development international trade policies by B razil the E uropean U nion, respectively, subsequent investment leading energy food transnational corporations transformed socio‐spatial relations in new sites production. razilian rural worker testimonies, however, point large‐scale labour...
Since the global financial crisis of 2007/8, proliferating calls for a Keynesian Green New Deal have cast publicly (and environmentally) minded state as necessary driver technological innovation and social transformation, while, vice versa, has moved to political centre-stage. The history genesis this particular paradigm illustrate that some its most high-profile proponents selectively problematically frame twentieth-century Keynesianism 'public good'. It is important examine critically an...