scholarly journals Book review: Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Andrea Schapper
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
The Uk

Building a low-carbon economy: The inaugural report of the UK Committee on Climate Change

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Fankhauser ◽  
David Kennedy ◽  
Jim Skea
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Carbon Economy

Knowledge Co production and Behavioural Change, Collaborative approaches for promoting low carbon mobility

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Barr ◽  
Gareth Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Productive Process ◽  
Emergent Literature ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personal Travel

Behavioural change has become regarded as a key tool for policy makers to promote behavioural change that can reduce carbon emissions from personal travel. Yet academic research has suggested that promoting low carbon travel behaviours, in particular those associated with leisure and tourism practices, is particularly challenging because of the highly valued and conspicuous nature of the consumption involved. Accordingly, traditional top-down approaches to developing behavioural change campaigns have largely been ineffectual in this field and this chapter explores innovative ways to understand and develop behavioural change campaigns that are driven from the bottom upwards. In doing so, we draw on emergent literature from management studies and social marketing to explore how ideas of service dominant logic can be used to engage consumers in developing each stage of a behavioural change campaign. Using data and insights from research conducted in the south-east of the UK, we outline and evaluate the process for co-producing knowledge about low carbon travel and climate change. We illustrate how behavioural change campaign creation can be an engaging, lively and productive process of knowledge and experience sharing. The chapter ends by considering the role that co-production and co-creation can have in developing strategies for low carbon mobility and, more broadly, the ways in which publics understand and react to anthropogenic climate change.

Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L Muinzer
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Subnational governance for the low carbon energy transition: Mapping the UK’s ‘Energy Constitution’

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1176-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L Muinzer ◽  
Geraint Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Geographic Context ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Subnational Governance ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

The UK has a ‘national’ strategy to decarbonise its energy sector, yet the transfer of key responsibilities to its Devolved Administrations has meant that they control many of the powers that determine the rate and extent of the decarbonisation process. This reflects an asymmetrical distribution of legal responsibilities that has cast a complex range of powers ‘downward’ from the national sphere to subnational scales and which plays a crucial role in shaping the agency at different levels of the UK’s energy governance. This paper provides a detailed exploration of the UK’s ‘Energy Constitution’ as a means of examining the way in which the complex legal framework of devolution shapes the spatial organisation of the UK’s low carbon transition. Previous research on the low carbon transition has remained largely ‘lawless’ and as such has tended to overlook how the legal regimes governing energy both produce space and are shaped by its geographic context. The paper therefore develops a more nuanced understanding of the spatiality, territorialisation and scaling of UK energy governance to highlight a nexus of ambiguity and partial power allocation distributed across a plurality of overlapping ‘legal’ jurisdictions. This raises fundamental questions over how UK constitutional arrangements reify the territoriality of energy governance and structure the relationships between national and subnational multi-level decarbonisation processes.

scholarly journals Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Barr ◽  
Justin Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
New Form ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk

The growth of community-based Transition Town initiatives in countries like the UK, USA and Canada is popularly perceived to represent a broad, socially inclusive and grounded approach to tackling environmental problems in place-based communities. In focusing on resilience as a core theme, so-called re-localisation initiatives attempt to adopt consensus based approaches to decision making and to highlight the need for an ‘inner transition’ of the self that encourages closer connections between individuals and nature. In this way, Transition has been framed as a new form of social and environmental movement that is re-casting community and political relations for a low carbon and post ‘Peak oil’ future. Yet despite these emergent philosophies of Transition and the considerable scholarship being generated on the role and success of such initiatives, there is an urgent need to situate and analyse Transition within broader understandings of environmental activism. Using data from a two year research project on ‘Values in Transition’, this paper argues that the praxis and spatial complexity of Transition can be understood more deeply through a narrative lens. In mobilising critical scholarship on environmental activism, the paper calls for a ‘Transition Geographies’ that views re-localisation as a dynamic and complex coalescence of competing narratives that sit between traditional forms of environmental activism and directive initiatives for individual behaviour change. As such, the paper highlights the ways in which this new form of environmental activism is shaping praxis across space, and the implications this has for those advocating re-localisation as a strategy for tackling climate change and resource scarcity.

scholarly journals Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Gunningham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Energy Law ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractThere is a compelling argument for developing a low carbon emissions trajectory to mitigate climate change and for doing so urgently. What is needed is a transformation of the energy sector and an ‘energy revolution’. Such a revolution can only be achieved through effective energy governance nationally, regionally, and globally. But frequently such governance is constrained by the tensions between energy security, climate change mitigation and energy poverty. At national level, there is a chasm between what is needed and what governments do ‘on the ground’, while regionally and globally, collective action challenges have often presented insurmountable obstacles. The article examines what forms of energy law, regulation and governance are most needed to overcome these challenges and whether answers are most likely to be found in hierarchy, markets, or networks.

scholarly journals Range and severity of a plant disease increased by global warming

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (22) ◽  
pp. 525-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Evans ◽  
Andreas Baierl ◽  
Mikhail A Semenov ◽  
Peter Gladders ◽  
Bruce D.L Fitt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Stem Canker ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Climate Change Model ◽  
The Uk

Climate change affects plants in natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout the world but little work has been done on the effects of climate change on plant disease epidemics. To illustrate such effects, a weather-based disease forecasting model was combined with a climate change model predicting UK temperature and rainfall under high- and low-carbon emissions for the 2020s and 2050s. Multi-site data collected over a 15-year period were used to develop and validate a weather-based model forecasting severity of phoma stem canker epidemics on oilseed rape across the UK. This was combined with climate change scenarios to predict that epidemics will not only increase in severity but also spread northwards by the 2020s. These results provide a stimulus to develop models to predict the effects of climate change on other plant diseases, especially in delicately balanced agricultural or natural ecosystems. Such predictions can be used to guide policy and practice in adapting to effects of climate change on food security and wildlife.

Securing Decarbonisation and Growth

2019 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. R54-R60
Author(s):  
Dimitri Zenghelis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
The Uk

Executive SummaryThe need to decarbonise the economy in order to slow the pace of climate change is now recognised as one of the most pressing international policy challenges. While the UK cannot by itself materially affect global climate change, it has an opportunity to play an influential role, both by persuading others of the need for action but also by reshaping its domestic economy to benefit from a low-carbon transition.Far from hampering competitiveness, adoption of a coordinated policy approach to climate change today would generate positive benefits for the UK economy, especially if it addresses the multiple market failures that promote pollution and places decarbonisation at the heart of structural economic policy.Desirable strategies would include public support for research, development, and deployment of new technologies, and measures to foster an environment where innovation can rapidly shift the economy from dirty to clean production systems. Focusing UK industrial strategy on securing strong domestic supply chains for green products and services, for example, could help create an early mover advantage in rapidly growing global market sectors. Interventions could include the establishment of a National Infrastructure Bank to support decarbonisation in crucial sectors such as energy and transport, and would also need to encompass measures to assist structural adjustment in affected industries and their workforces.

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