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Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning (2023)
Journal Article
Harrington, E., Bell, K., McEwen, L., & Everett, G. (2023). Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning. Journal of Extreme Events, 9(02n03), https://doi.org/10.1142/s234573762350001x

Climate change-related extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, requiring urgent action to effectively plan for them. While disabled women are one group likely to be disproportionately and negatively affected by disasters, they a... Read More about Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning.

Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, K., & Bevan, G. (2021). Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities. Local Environment, 26(10), 1205-1220. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1970728

There is a resurgent interest in, and debate about, inclusive environmentalism. Within this context, it has been alleged that Extinction Rebellion (XR) exclude Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class people. To understand more about... Read More about Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities.

The failure of lifestyle environmentalism and the promise of the Green New Deal for working-class people (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, K., & Bevan, G. (2021). The failure of lifestyle environmentalism and the promise of the Green New Deal for working-class people. The Journal of Working-Class Studies, 6(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v6i1.6465

There is an urgent need to address a range of environmental issues, including climate change, but the policies enacted to date have usually done nothing to address class inequities and have often led to increased working-class disadvantage. The cause... Read More about The failure of lifestyle environmentalism and the promise of the Green New Deal for working-class people.

The tree of participation: A new model for inclusive decision-making (2021)
Journal Article
Bell, K., & Reed, M. (2022). The tree of participation: A new model for inclusive decision-making. Community Development Journal, 57(4), 595–614. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsab018

Community development often involves organizing participatory decision-making processes. The challenge is for this to be meaningful. Participatory decision-making has the potential to increase the transparency, accountability, equity and efficienc... Read More about The tree of participation: A new model for inclusive decision-making.

Review of Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development (2020)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2021). Review of Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development. Community Development Journal, 56(3), 541-543. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsaa016

Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development provides a global view of how these ways of achieving change can reinforce each other. It is comprised of case examples from around the world, including Canada, Palestine, South Africa... Read More about Review of Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development.

Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities (2018)
Journal Article
Kitson, J., Williamson, S. J., Harper, P. W., McMahon, C. A., Rosenberg, G., Tierney, M. J., …Gautam, B. (2018). Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities. Energy, 160, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.219

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper proposes a DC microgrid system, comprising multiple locally available renewable energy sources in an off-grid rural community, based on a commissioned field study carried out in a rural, off-grid village in Nepal, which... Read More about Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities.

Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2017). Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy

A discussion of the work of Fidel Castro in relation to sustainability in Cuba. When Fidel Castro became President of Cuba in 1959, the country's environment was in ruins as a result of hundreds of years of US and Spanish colonial exploitation of nat... Read More about Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy.

‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2017). ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability. Urban Planning, 2(4), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i4.1006

© 2017 by the author. While there is wide agreement on the need to move towards fairer and more sustainable societies, how to best achieve this is still the source of some debate. In particular, there are tensions between more market-based/technologi... Read More about ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2016). Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia. Journal of Political Ecology, 23(1), 71-92. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.v23i1

'Green Economy' and 'Living Well ('Vivir Bien)' have emerged as contending macro-policies in the search for a future direction that meets human needs whilst respecting environmental limits. There are a number of different interpretations of each conc... Read More about Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia.