A5054042285- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Rural development and sustainability
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Service and Product Innovation
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Social Media and Politics
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Cardiff University
2016-2025
King Edward VII Hospital
2024
Edwards (United Kingdom)
2023
University of Oxford
2011-2015
Australian National University
2003-2013
University of Birmingham
2003
Heightened concerns about long-term sustainability have of late enlivened debates around the circular economy (CE). Defined as a series restorative and regenerative industrial systems, parallel socio-cultural transformations arguably received less consideration to date. In response, this paper examines contributions human geographical scholarship can make CE debates, focusing on ‘generative spaces’ diverse practices. Concepts infrequently discussed within geography such product service...
Sustainable consumption is a key concept in the sustainable development paradigm, which calls for individuals high-incomes countries to consider, and take action on, environmental impacts of their household practices. Within recent international policy framings, part an efficiency-focussed rationalisation discourse, representing distinct theories environment, state individual. This paper considers how this discourse resonates upon very citizens it has been constructed affect. 'Alternate'...
Despite occupying a central place in the sustainable development paradigm, calls for individuals high-income countries to adopt patterns of consumption have failed gain ground past decade. The low uptake public messages that emphasise links between environment and home are caused by plethora 'barriers action', which range from individual circumstances norms structures. This article argues addition these barriers, consideration how read react information is important. Based on interviews with...
Scepticism about climate change now appears a pervasive social phenomenon. Research to date has examined the different forms that scepticism can take, from outright denial general uncertainty. Less is known what sceptics value and believe beyond their doubt, as well how "entrenched" such beliefs are. In response, this paper discusses research into public reactions projected in Australian Capital Region. Using Q Methodology qualitative data, it outlines five discourses of explores impact...
Debates about how to foster green/environmental citizenship have been central environmental politics research in the past few decades. While a great deal of this work draws its tenets from liberal political theory more recently researchers adopted broadly post-structural analytical frameworks explore diverse forms (environmental) are formed and enacted. But what can does 'green governmentality' literature contribute our understanding citizenship? In exploring such question, some key...
Abstract There is now no doubt that current global production-consumption-disposal systems are threatening the fundamental conditions of existence on this planet. In response, pressing need for total system transformation has gained civic and political traction, feeding into long-standing debates interventions aimed at recalibrating prevailing economic social practices. One such debate intervention circular economy (CE). Here, advocates argue linear resource energy use must be reconfigured...
Circular Economy (CE) is now a key governance framework that aims to reconfigure how value extracted from resources. Despite its widespread uptake, CE commentary date tends towards descriptive and/or celebratory. In response, in this paper I outline some ways environmental politics researchers have much contribute research, arguing current examples of policies and practices potentially accelerate resource use into century. A weakness proponents frame us all as particular forms...
Abstract The current enthusiasm for the circular economy (CE) offers a unique opportunity to advance impact of research on sustainability transitions. Diverse interpretations CE by scholars, however, produce partly opposing assessments its potential benefits, which can hinder progress. Here, we synthesize policy‐relevant lessons and directions sustainable identify three narratives—optimist, reformist, skeptical—that underpin ambiguity in assessments. Based 54 key scholars’ insights, needs:...
Domestic eco-efficient technologies, such as recycling bins and compact florescent light bulbs, are integral to the eco-modernisation project. To date, however, little research has examined their role in production of 'sustainable citizens'. In response, this paper explores productivities commonplace domestic objects. It draws on qualitative into a Sydney-based sustainable living programme called 'GreenHome', examine how participants' environmental ethics became articulated through objects'...
Although reducing levels and impacts of contemporary consumption production has been a pivotal socioenvironmental goal for decades, global resource use continues to grow rapidly, particularly across the Asia-Pacific region. Responses such as ‘10 Year Framework Programmes on Consumption Production Patterns’ (10YFP)—an outcome 2012 Rio+20 Summit—suggest that nothing short highly coordinated multilevel concerted efforts are required begin address trends. However, some commentators fear 10YFP...
Assessing the social risks associated with climate change requires an understanding of how humans will respond because it affects well societies adapt. In case rapid or dangerous change, particular interest is potential for these responses to cross thresholds beyond which they become maladaptive. To explore possibility such thresholds, a series scenarios were presented U.K. participants whose subjective recorded via interviews and surveyed using Q methodology. The results indicate initially...
Summary This paper describes the challenges faced, and opportunities identified, by a multidisciplinary team of researchers developing novel closed loop system to recover valuable metals reduce e‐waste, focusing on mobile phones as case study. approach is contrasted with current top‐down approaches making transition circular economy (CE). The aim research presented here develop product service (PSS) that facilitates recovery functional components from phone circuit boards. To create holistic...
Transitions toward a circular economy require nuanced understanding of how change plays out in households relation to the role consumers and daily consumption practices. However, little policy research attention has been paid complexities achieving necessary transformations everyday cultures possible challenges faced by citizens householders economy. As result, we know about practices are already emerging life can be scaled up across society. Additionally, critical gaps exist concerning...
To highlight critical perspectives on the Circular Economy (CE) this conversation with Manisha Anantharaman and Sonia Dias considers often-overlooked Global South everyday dynamics of circular transformation. In conversation, we, Mary Kersty, chat (Sciences Po), a scholar in approaches to sustainability circularity, Sonia, sociologist who works for WIEGO (Women Informal Employment: Globalizing Organizing), about key issues debates concerning change that emerge from their work India Latin...
This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first second reviews in series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors work featured these — plus others whose was not but should have been were invited to respond them, talk about their own other people’s work, enter into conversations process other/new within beyond what could be called ‘food geographies’. These coded, edited, arranged, discussed rearranged produce a fragmentary,...
In the UK, there now exist hundreds of low-carbon community groups (LCCGs) that aim to decrease collective resource consumption and/or generate renewable energy through diverse social and environmental interventions. These have in recent years become subject political attention funding schemes, underpinned by beliefs LCCGs are key fostering resilience climate change meeting national-level greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. While previous research into has focused on drivers, barriers...
The project of “sustainable consumption” encompasses broader concerns about how individual well-being and quality life have been superceded by the quest for sustained economic growth. In 1999, current UK Labour government revised their sustainable development approach, conceptually placing “people at centre” arguing holistic strategies, thereby suggesting some redress above concerns. light this conceptual shift, article inquires state consumption policy practice in United Kingdom. Focusing...
‘Consumption’ is a central concept in the global environmental sustainability agenda. However, one important argument from Agenda 21 — that all social actors must now practise ‘sustainable consumption’— has been publicly and politically marginalised high‐income countries such as Australia. Geographers potentially have role bringing consumption back onto agenda by constructing critical geography of consumption. Such research can help understand how contextual use natural resources perceived...