Gerardo A. Torres Contreras

ORCID: 0000-0003-2520-7924
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Research Areas
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Plant and soil sciences
  • Agricultural and Food Production Studies
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Public Health and Social Inequalities
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Latin American rural development
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Public Health and Environmental Issues
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Economic and Social Development
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
  • Growth and nutrition in plants
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • International Development and Aid
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Social Media and Politics

King's College London
2025

University of Sussex
2021-2023

Institute of Development Studies
2021

Oxford Brookes University
2015

Abstract Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by change. There is now a considerable diverse literature on procedural, distributional intergenerational dimensions, including questions recognition in justice. Yet its meaning, scope practical implications are still contested. Importantly, broader landscape within which situated rapidly changing, bringing new challenges to understanding practice This...

10.1002/wcc.733 article EN Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change 2021-08-01

Abstract Tens of millions households across Europe struggle to afford adequate electricity and heating services reliable transportation, while recent high fuel prices could lead an increase in excess winter deaths. Tackling energy transport poverty is thus paramount policy importance. Here we document the drivers lived experiences United Kingdom, based on public focus groups expert interviews. We find a set policies that resonate with both planners members public, implying they have level...

10.1038/s41560-023-01196-w article EN cc-by Nature Energy 2023-02-06

Inclusive innovation addresses the challenges and aspirations of poor marginalised groups in society. Attention towards these is also important for social justice sustainable transitions. How can research insights from inclusive contribute to just transitions? In this paper, based on original mixed methods data, analysis built around levels inclusion applied empirically case smart local energy systems UK. Despite innovators acknowledging inclusiveness as significant their decarbonised,...

10.1016/j.eist.2023.100719 article EN cc-by Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2023-03-10

Experiences of poverty can manifest in multiple aspects everyday life, often interlinking ways. One example is 'double energy vulnerability', where a household faces both and transport simultaneously. This result trade-offs, prioritising one essential need (e.g., transport) makes accessing another impossible heating). Such decisions are not easily made, they have distinct spatio-temporal characteristics. They vary between space time across different members, stark inter- as well...

10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102728 article EN cc-by Global Environmental Change 2023-07-19

As wind energy investments expand across rural areas, unique class dynamics and accumulation patterns result from this industry. The ejido La Venta town has hosted farms since 1994, allowing us to analyse the effects of power on social difference, land control agrarian change. By drawing agricultural censuses 40 interviews with landowners, paper argues that shift control, through fostering land-based incomes, over long term. is enhanced differentiation benefitting landowners more than 20...

10.1080/03066150.2021.1873293 article EN The Journal of Peasant Studies 2021-04-13

In September 2017, the strongest earthquake in last century shook Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, region hosting largest concentration wind turbines Mexico. municipalities with over 1600 turbines, seismic shock affected 70% dwellings. After disaster, community organisations undertook efforts to foster collective processes territorial autonomy towns projects or expected host future. Drawing on participant ethnographic methods and long-term collaboration social movements, this article provides...

10.1177/19427786241313253 article EN cc-by Human Geography 2025-01-26

Policies for transitions to decarbonised energy and transport systems have implications social welfare. Here we firstly investigate, via focus groups, public support policies that poverty in a country with sizeable incidence of both, the United Kingdom (UK). We then examine which publics' policy preferences concur those wider group expert stakeholders (n = 47), observing concurrence top choices both for: (i) better transport; mandating improved efficiency (ii) rental housing (iii) new homes;...

10.1016/j.egycc.2023.100099 article EN Energy and Climate Change 2023-02-17

Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether how these are realised. Three case studies investigate ongoing infrastructure digitalisation processes accommodating commoning or enclosure, using a continuum of versus enclosure practices examine this question. Multi-sited fieldwork throughout the period 2021–22 used compare sectoral transitions in three European mid-sized cities: mobility Bergen...

10.5334/bc.292 article EN cc-by Buildings and Cities 2023-01-01

Abstract Wind energy expansion across rural areas interacts with various interests at the local level, generating multiple reactions within communities. The Eólica del Sur wind farm implementation pathway in Mexico is a paragon of different positions vis‐à‐vis this industry after trying to install 132 turbines other towns since 2006. This paper argues that there bias studies politics development favour oppositional voices, as opposed groups endorse or have stakes sector but neither support...

10.1111/joac.12527 article EN cc-by Journal of Agrarian Change 2022-12-13

En este artículo se abordan los programas institucionales im-plementados en contextos locales y la acción colectiva para el desarrollo de alimentos con arraigo territorial, desde enfoque Sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados (Sial). Se analiza caso un programa piloto producción cuitlacoche (Ustílago Maydis sp.) estado Tlaxcala, México, dos microempresas familiares involucradas ese hongo utilizado alimentación huma-na. parte hipótesis que apoyos a agricultura familiar empresarial las rurales...

10.22231/asyd.v12i2.148 article ES Agricultura Sociedad y Desarrollo 2015-06-30
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