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Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead? (2024)
Journal Article
Paddeu, D., Lyons, G., Chatterjee, K., & Calvert, T. (2024). Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead?. Transport Policy, 156, 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.07.015

Transport planning as a formalised profession is relatively young and there is no doubt it has evolved over time. In Europe, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans reflect a change in emphasis from keeping traffic moving to place-based, people-centric plan... Read More about Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead?.

Women’s labor-supply adjustment to the COVID-19 shock: An intersectional analysis (2023)
Book Chapter
Gezici, A. (in press). Women’s labor-supply adjustment to the COVID-19 shock: An intersectional analysis. In R. Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, & D. Castro Lugo (Eds.), Gender Inequality in the Global Labor Market: A Feminist Economics Approach. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this chapter, we use monthly Current Population Survey data from January 2018 through November 2022 to study the labor-supply adjustment of White, Hispanic, and Black women to the COVID-19 shock in comparison to their co-ethnic men by focusing on... Read More about Women’s labor-supply adjustment to the COVID-19 shock: An intersectional analysis.

What does a just transition mean for urban biodiversity? Insights from three cities globally (2024)
Journal Article
Mabon, L., Layard, A., De Vito, L., Few, R., Hatzisavvidou, S., Selomane, O., Marshall, A., Marciniak, G., & Moersberger, H. (2024). What does a just transition mean for urban biodiversity? Insights from three cities globally. Geoforum, 154, Article 104069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104069

Just transitions – responses to environmental change that minimise negative impacts on the most affected people and places, while ensuring nobody is left behind – are gaining scholarly and policy significance in areas beyond their original focus on c... Read More about What does a just transition mean for urban biodiversity? Insights from three cities globally.

Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Melia, S. Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more

How many times have system failures – technical, human or both – caused you loss, frustration or wasted time? Have you ever dealt with customer services or technical support who seemed powerless to fix the problem? Could these growing frustrations of... Read More about Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more.

Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study (2024)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Smith, I. (in press). Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study. Environmental Politics,

The potential for green community groups to respond effectively to climate change depends on the heterogeneity of preferences of individual member activists. Using a Q-methodology study of two groups in England, we propose an original typology of col... Read More about Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study.