Promoting community renewable energy in a corporate energy world

PA Strachan, R Cowell, G Ellis… - Sustainable …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale, decentralized and community‐owned renewable energy is widely
acknowledged to be a desirable feature of low carbon futures, but faces a range of …

Opening up the “local” to analysis: exploring the spatiality of UK urban decentralised energy initiatives

P Devine-Wright, B Wiersma - Local Environment, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Debates surrounding the decarbonisation of energy systems in developed societies have
been overlaid with controversy about the merits of decentralised or “community” energy …

Decentralising energy: comparing the drivers and influencers of projects led by public, private, community and third sector actors

B Wiersma, P Devine-Wright - Contemporary Social Science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The potential contribution of decentralised energy (DE) to the low carbon transition has
received increasing policy and scholarly attention. However, a predominant emphasis upon …

Sub-national government and pathways to sustainable energy

R Cowell, G Ellis, F Sherry-Brennan… - … and Planning C …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In an effort to understand how to promote more sustainable forms of energy provision,
researchers have begun addressing the scale of political and governance processes, yet the …

Drivers of and barriers to urban energy in the UK: a Delphi survey

G Sherriff - Local Environment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A survey of energy activity in urban areas in the UK was carried out in 2012 with the aim of
better understanding the range of activity in this field and of aiding decision-making to …

Urban energy initiatives: the implications of new urban energy pathways for the UK

YJ Rydin, C Turcu, K Chmutina… - Network Industries …, 2012 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Planning and the challenge of decentralised energy: a co-evolution perspective Yvonne Rydin,
Bartlett School of Planning, Univer Page 1 1 Planning and the challenge of decentralised …

Energy in the locality: a case for local understanding and action

C Turcu, Y Rydin, B Pilkey - Local Environment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We live in an urbanising world occurring on the background of rapid population growth. Both
these phenomena contribute to an ever-expanding and changing built environment, which …

Success in international decentralised urban energy initiatives: a matter of understanding?

K Chmutina, G Sherriff, CI Goodier - Local environment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Many towns and cities worldwide have begun implementing decentralised urban energy
systems. Aiming to reduce their carbon emissions, many utilise not only technological …

'Localism'and the Environment: Effective Re-scaling for Sustainability Transition?

R Cowell - Reconsidering Localism, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter presents the principal lines of criticism that have been mounted against localist
agendas within eco-political thinking. It describes the ways in which local arenas may …

[图书][B] Social science perspectives on climate change

D Canter - 2017 - books.google.com
Although it is generally accepted that the climate is changing for the worse and that human
activities are a major contributing factor in that change, there is still only marginal response …