Publications

The following publications have been generated out of early work in the project.

Sherilyn MacGregor, Matthew Paterson and Helen Holmes (2024) Why we need connected strategies for net zero and levelling up. Academy of Social Sciences, comment and analysis.
Emily Morrison (2024) A five-point plan for a green and fair future. The Young Foundation blog.
Carolyn Snell and Lucie Middlemiss (2023) The Climate Challenge: Making Net Zero Socially Inclusive, Social Policy Association blog post.
Joshua Emden (2023) More than money: moving towards a relational approach to retrofitting. IPPR blog.
Lucie Middlemiss and Diana Ivanova (2023) Looking at the data differently to highlight those left in the cold, Shorthand story.
Alex Nurse, Alessia Calafiore, and Richard Dunning (2023) 15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory, The Conversation, 17 February.
Team members have also already produced toolkits for use by those pursuing community level low carbon living, see the Local Authority Consumption Accounts website.
Team members have produced a blog with The Manchester Urban Institute (2024) Co-producing research: 6 key considerations. The Manchester Urban Institute.
Jacob Ainscough (2022) ‘Levelling up’ the UK is a golden opportunity for climate action – but the government is failing. The Conversation.
Jacob Ainscough (2023) We asked the British public what they really think about net zero – here’s what we found. The Conversation.
Morrison et al. (2024) Our journey to net zero: Understanding household and community participation in the UK’s transition to a greener future. The Young Foundation blog.
Alex Nurse et al. (2024) A Manifesto for Liverpool City Region. Heseltine Institute.

Publications involving team members feeding into the JUST research agenda.

Ambrosio-Albala, P., Upham, P., Bale, C. S. E., & Taylor, P. G. (2020). Exploring acceptance of decentralised energy storage at household and neighbourhood scales: A UK survey. Energy Policy, 138, 111194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111194
Bell, D. (2004). Environmental Justice and Rawls’ Difference Principle. Environmental Ethics, 26(3), 287–306. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200426317
Bolton, E., Bookbinder, R., Middlemiss, L., Hall, S., Davis, M., & Owen, A. (2023). The relational dimensions of renovation: Implications for retrofit policy. Energy Research & Social Science, 96, 102916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102916
Bouzarovski, S. (2022). Just Transitions: A Political Ecology Critique. Antipode, 54(4), 1003–1020. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12823
Bouzarovski, S., Damigos, D., Kmetty, Z., Simcock, N., Robinson, C., Jayyousi, M., & Crowther, A. (2023). Energy justice intermediaries: Living Labs in the low-carbon transformation. Local Environment, 0(0), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2238747
Bouzarovski, S., & Simcock, N. (2017). Spatializing energy justice. Energy Policy, 107, 640–648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.064
Calafiore, A., Dunning, R., Nurse, A., & Singleton, A. (2022). The 20-minute city: An equity analysis of Liverpool City Region. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 102, 103111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.103111
Catney, P., MacGregor, S., Dobson, A., Hall, S. M., Royston, S., Robinson, Z., Ormerod, M., & Ross, S. (2014). Big society, little justice? Community renewable energy and the politics of localism. Local Environment, 19(7), 715–730. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.792044
Evans, J., & Karvonen, A. (2014). ‘Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!’—Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(2), 413–430. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12077
Gormally, A. M., Pooley, C. G., Whyatt, J. D., & Timmis, R. J. (2014). “They made gunpowder … yes down by the river there, that’s your energy source”: Attitudes towards community renewable energy in Cumbria. Local Environment, 19(8), 915–932. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.810206
Gormally, A. M., Whyatt, J. D., Timmis, R. J., & Pooley, C. G. (2012). A regional-scale assessment of local renewable energy resources in Cumbria, UK. Energy Policy, 50, 283–293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.015
Lewis, P., Ainscough, J., Coxcoon, R., & Willis, R. (2023). The messy politics of local climate assemblies. Climatic Change, 176(6), 76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03555-8
MacGregor, S. (2021). Finding transformative potential in the cracks? The ambiguities of urban environmental activism in a neoliberal city. Social Movement Studies, 20(3), 329–345. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1677224
MacGregor, S., Paterson, M., & Holmes, H. (n.d.). Why we need connected strategies for net zero and levelling up. Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved February 9, 2024, from https://acss.org.uk/why-we-need-connected-strategies-for-net-zero-and-levelling-up
MacGregor, S., Walker, C., & Katz-Gerro, T. (2019). ‘It’s what I’ve always done’: Continuity and change in the household sustainability practices of Somali immigrants in the UK. Geoforum, 107, 143–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.013
MacKinnon, D., Afewerki, S., & Karlsen, A. (2022). Technology legitimation and strategic coupling: A cross-national study of floating wind power in Norway and Scotland. Geoforum, 135, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.008
Middlemiss, L., Snell, C., Morrison, E., Chzhen, Y., Owen, A., Kennedy, K., Theminimulle, S., & Carregha, T. (2023). Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: A just transition to Net Zero. Social Policy and Society, 22(4), 763–783. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746423000180
North, P. (2020) Responding to COVID-19 in the Liverpool City Region. Building Back Better: What Role for the Liverpool City Region Economic Recovery Panel? Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool.
North, P., Nurse, A., & Barker, T. (2017). The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism. Environment and Planning A, 49(8), 1797–1815. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16686353
Nurse, A., & Dunning, R. (2020) Responding to COVID-19 in the Liverpool City Region. Cycling and Walking: A Faster Route to a Safer and Stronger Liverpool City Region. Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool.
Owen, A., Middlemiss, L., Brown, D., Davis, M., Hall, S., Bookbinder, R., Brisbois, M. C., Cairns, I., Hannon, M., & Mininni, G. (2023). Who applies for energy grants? Energy Research & Social Science, 101, 103123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103123
Paterson, M. (2021). In Search of Climate Politics. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/in-search-of-climate-politics/C7A9A41385614D553869603D91ABA6E6
Pike, A., Béal, V., Cauchi-Duval, N., Franklin, R., Kinossian, N., Lang, T., Leibert, T., MacKinnon, D., Rousseau, M., Royer, J., Servillo, L., Tomaney, J., & Velthuis, S. (2023). ‘Left behind places’: A geographical etymology. Regional Studies, 0(0), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2167972
Simcock, N., MacGregor, S., Catney, P., Dobson, A., Ormerod, M., Robinson, Z., Ross, S., Royston, S., & Marie Hall, S. (2014). Factors influencing perceptions of domestic energy information: Content, source and process. Energy Policy, 65, 455–464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.038
Thew, H., Middlemiss, L., & Paavola, J. (2020). “Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations. Global Environmental Change, 61, 102036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102036
Watson, M., Browne, A., Evans, D., Foden, M., Hoolohan, C., & Sharp, L. (2020). Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach. Global Environmental Change, 62, 102072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102072
Willis, R., Ainscough, J., Bryant, P., Goold, L., Livermore, M., & Tosal, C. (2024) Citizen and specialist co-design of energy policy: The case of home energy decarbonization in the UK. Environmental Science and Policy, 155, 103706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103706
MacKinnon, D., Béal, V., & Leibert, T. (2024) Rethinking 'left-behind' places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2291581