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Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action (2024)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how top-down policy direction setting is interpreted and implemented within horizontal networks of practice. This is an under-investigated issue, yet vital for delivering ultimately transformative outcomes. It seeks to unpack... Read More about Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action.

Student responses to climate knowledge: Enabling climate concern to flourish (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper aims to examine a co-produced initiative implemented at the [University Name] between September 2022 and April 2023. The student-led project (Climate, Conversations and Cake: The 3C’s) addressed environmental and climate crisis aw... Read More about Student responses to climate knowledge: Enabling climate concern to flourish.

Exploring opportunities for public sector organisations to connect wellbeing to resource loops in a regional circular economy (2024)
Journal Article

This paper contributes towards our understanding of the role of public sector organisations in delivering circular economy (CE) goals, suggesting that such organisations seek to deliver social value when implementing CE activities. Through empirical... Read More about Exploring opportunities for public sector organisations to connect wellbeing to resource loops in a regional circular economy.

When the turbines stop: Unveiling the factors shaping end-of-life decisions of ageing wind infrastructure in Italy (2024)
Journal Article

Wind farms reaching their end of technical, or consent life, are increasing. One of the biggest emerging environmental sustainability issues faced by countries globally is what to do with this ageing infrastructure. This is an urgent issue across Eur... Read More about When the turbines stop: Unveiling the factors shaping end-of-life decisions of ageing wind infrastructure in Italy.

Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making (2023)
Journal Article

The making of low-carbon places is crucial for achieving decarbonisation, but where are such places made? In extending and combining existing research and ideas, the authors take electricity networks as their starting point to study what they term th... Read More about Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making.

Investigating energy infrastructure through the low carbon challenge: technologies, governance and socio-spatial effects (2022)
Journal Article

Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks* (2022)
Journal Article

Reconfiguring energy infrastructure networks to accommodate the expansion of renewable energy can have specific regional manifestations with regional advocacy being used to promote innovations and solutions on the ground. The paper introduces the ana... Read More about Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks*.

New development: Enhancing regional innovation capabilities through formal public service communities of practice (2022)
Journal Article

Public services have recently experienced a ‘perfect storm’: dealing with challenges including the task demands of Covid-19, increased financial pressures derived from the pandemic and its impact on future revenue flows, and obligations to meet carbo... Read More about New development: Enhancing regional innovation capabilities through formal public service communities of practice.

Reconfiguring energy flows: Energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks (2021)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how a regional perspective can offer an insightful frame to examine the distribution of agency in energy transitions, with particular reference to the widespread problem of restructuring electricity grid networks to accommodat... Read More about Reconfiguring energy flows: Energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks.

Understanding the effects of spatial planning on the deployment of on-shore wind power: Insights from Italy and the UK (2021)
Journal Article

Despite sustained interest in spatial planning approaches for steering renewable energy development, the effect of these practices remains poorly understood. This paper addresses this knowledge deficit through comparative analysis of the effects of s... Read More about Understanding the effects of spatial planning on the deployment of on-shore wind power: Insights from Italy and the UK.

Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment (2021)
Journal Article

Background: The paper explores how regional actors engage with energy systems, flows and infrastructures in order to meet particular goals and offers a fine-tuned analysis of how differences arise, highlighting the policy-relevant insights that emerg... Read More about Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment.

What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions (2021)
Journal Article

While energy transition processes are embedded in locally and regionally specific institutions, infrastructures and natural environments challenges remain in identifying the institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment, how they work and... Read More about What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions.

Mediating the form and direction of regional sustainable development: The role of the state in renewable energy deployment in selected regions (2020)
Journal Article

This paper analyses and critically discusses the role of regions in implementing renewable energy (RE) policies, examining the relationship between state policy and RE deployment. Using evidence from four case study regions, Apulia and Tuscany in Ita... Read More about Mediating the form and direction of regional sustainable development: The role of the state in renewable energy deployment in selected regions.

The material dimensions of renewable energy deployment: Understanding spatially uneven processes at the regional level in Italy and the UK (2018)
Thesis

This thesis examines the processes of transformation underway within energy systems, specifically the move towards a higher share of renewable energy technologies. It aims to improve our understanding of the regional level and its role in shaping the... Read More about The material dimensions of renewable energy deployment: Understanding spatially uneven processes at the regional level in Italy and the UK.

City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project (2017)
Book Chapter

Research findings from the EPSRC funded Retrofit 2050 project, aim to advance and explore the theoretical and practical understandings that underpin a shift to sustainability of UK's core city regions in 2050. Utilising a participatory back-casting a... Read More about City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project.

Understanding the material dimensions of the uneven deployment of renewable energy in two Italian regions (2017)
Journal Article

Drawing on empirical material from two Italian regions, we show how various material dimensions have affected the spatial distribution and deployment of renewable energy (RE), in particular solar and wind energy. The paper draws on an approach to the... Read More about Understanding the material dimensions of the uneven deployment of renewable energy in two Italian regions.

Retrofitting the built environment 'to save' energy: Arbed, the emergence of a distinctive sustainability transition pathway in Wales (2016)
Journal Article

Combining insights from research on systems innovation and sustainable transitions with multi-level governance perspectives, this paper examines the 'Arbed' domestic housing retrofit programmes in Wales. In so doing, the paper demonstrates the critic... Read More about Retrofitting the built environment 'to save' energy: Arbed, the emergence of a distinctive sustainability transition pathway in Wales.

Conceptualising low Carbon innovation systems: regions, materiality and networks (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern? (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter focuses the manner in which changing UK policies and priorities touch down and are reconstituted in two UK city-regions: Greater Manchester and Cardiff city-region and it is structured as follows. First, it briefly considers how national... Read More about Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?.

Innovation and policy for bioenergy in the UK: A co-evolutionary perspective (2015)
Journal Article

This paper analyses the role of niche innovation and regime interaction in the field of renewable energy in the UK. Adopting a co-evolutionary approach and a dynamic multi-level perspective on system innovation, the paper investigates niches developm... Read More about Innovation and policy for bioenergy in the UK: A co-evolutionary perspective.