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Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making (2023)
Journal Article
Holmes, T., De Laurentis, C., & Windemer, R. (2023). Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Geography, 77(3), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2023.2206407

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.

Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks* (2022)
Journal Article
De Laurentis, C. (2023). Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks*. Landscape Research, 48(2), 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2022.2047910

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
Walpole, G., Bacon, E., Beverley, K., De Laurentis, C., Renfrew, K., & Rudd, J. (in press). New development: Enhancing regional innovation capabilities through formal public service communities of practice. Public Money and Management, 42(8), 668-671. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2021.2021658

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
De Laurentis, C., & Cowell, R. (2022). Reconfiguring energy flows: Energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 24(4), 433-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2008235

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
Cowell, R., & De Laurentis, C. (2023). Understanding the effects of spatial planning on the deployment of on-shore wind power: Insights from Italy and the UK. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 66(2), 241-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.1987866

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
De Laurentis, C., & Pearson, P. J. (2021). Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 11(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-021-00295-4

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
De Laurentis, C. (2021). What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions. Local Environment, 26(5), 632-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1904859

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
De Laurentis, C. (2020). Mediating the form and direction of regional sustainable development: The role of the state in renewable energy deployment in selected regions. European Urban and Regional Studies, 27(3), 303-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420904989

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
De Laurentis, C. The material dimensions of renewable energy deployment: Understanding spatially uneven processes at the regional level in Italy and the UK. (Thesis). Cardiff University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9642500

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.