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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.

City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project (2017)
Book Chapter
De Laurentis, C., Eames, M., Hunt, M., & Dixon, T. (2017). City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project. In M. Eames, T. Dixon, M. Hunt, & S. Lannon (Eds.), Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World (207--226). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119007241.ch13

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
De Laurentis, C., & Pearson, P. J. G. (2022). Understanding the material dimensions of the uneven deployment of renewable energy in two Italian regions. Energy Research and Social Science, 36, 106-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.009

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
De Laurentis, C., Eames, M., & Hunt, M. (2017). Retrofitting the built environment 'to save' energy: Arbed, the emergence of a distinctive sustainability transition pathway in Wales. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 35(7), 1156-1175. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X16648332

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.

Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern? (2015)
Book Chapter
De Laurentis, C., Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Thompson, M. (2015). Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?. In Retrofitting Cities: Priorities, Governance and Experimentation (18). London: Routledge

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
De Laurentis, C. (2015). Innovation and policy for bioenergy in the UK: A co-evolutionary perspective. Regional Studies, 49(7), 1111-1125. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.834320

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.

The importance of regional scenarios for low carbon transitions: The case of Wales (2015)
Journal Article
Georgakaki, A., De Laurentis, C., & Eames, M. (2015). The importance of regional scenarios for low carbon transitions: The case of Wales. International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 11(2), 97-114. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCIS.2015.068611

This paper examines the complexities of modelling a regional energy system in the context of Wales, and in the process, examines the role of regions in low carbon transitions. Despite a wealth of studies at national level, it can be challenging to de... Read More about The importance of regional scenarios for low carbon transitions: The case of Wales.

Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance (2014)
Book Chapter
Carla, D. L., & Cooke, P. (2014). Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance. In M. K. Goodman, & C. Sage (Eds.), Knowing Brand Wales (205--225). Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702-10

As the first industrial nation, the UK was one of the earliest countries to experience the industrialisation of agriculture, a process that led to an increase in productivity, with more and more food produced by fewer and fewer people. As a result of... Read More about Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance.

Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability (2014)
Report
Eames, M., De Laurentis, C., Hunt, M., Lannon, S. C., & Dixon, T. (2014). Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability. EPSRC

What would a sustainable future look like for Cardiff and South East Wales? This report describes three distinctive long term (2050) city regional futures: i) Connected Cardiff; ii) Compact Cardiff–Wilderness Valleys; and iii) Orchard Cardiff Ci... Read More about Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability.