Resources
The following publications were prepared as part of work developing the research agenda of the JUST Centre:
- 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.
- 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