Abstract The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—including 17 interconnected
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets—is a global plan of action for …

This article aims to contribute to current discussions about “making cities inclusive, safe,
resilient, and sustainable”(SDG 11) by linking debates that are currently taking place in …

Understanding the intensification and expansion of extractive industries in contemporary
capitalism requires an approach attentive not only to the literal forms of extraction prevalent …

New private property investments in Africa's cities are on the rise, and they often take the
form of entirely new cities built up from scratch as comprehensively planned self-contained …

In a world in which rising powers are reconfiguring global development trajectories with
significant implications for their sustainability, it becomes increasingly important to …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

In the wake of the Paris Agreement on climate change, promises to phase out coal-fired
power have suggested cause for optimism around energy transition globally. However, coal …

Geographers tend to see energy systems as intricately interwoven with society and relatively
resistant to change. We argue that there is a danger of exaggerating the permanence and …

The urban energy transition represents a transformation of such magnitude that it will require
a re-examination of the fundamental relationship between societies and energy resources …

The sub-discipline of Political Ecology devotes much critical attention to the complex and
often pernicious socio-ecological impacts of mainstream development-developmentality …