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Bridge, Gavin, Bouzarovski, Stefan, Bradshaw, Michael J. and Eyre, Nick (2013) Geographies of energy transition : space, place and the low-carbon economy. Energy Policy, 53 . pp. 331-340. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066 ISSN 0301-4215.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066
Abstract
This paper makes a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the ‘Geographies of Energy Transition: security, climate, governance' hosted by the authors between 2009 and 2011, which initiated a dialogue between energy studies and the discipline of human geography. Focussing on the UK Government's policy for a low carbon transition, the paper provides a conceptual language with which to describe and assess the geographical implications of a transition towards low carbon energy. Six concepts are introduced and explained: location, landscape, territoriality, spatial differentiation, scaling, and spatial embeddedness. Examples illustrate how the geographies of a future low-carbon economy are not yet determined and that a range of divergent – and contending – potential geographical futures are in play. More attention to the spaces and places that transition to a low-carbon economy will produce can help better understand what living in a low-carbon economy will be like. It also provides a way to help evaluate the choices and pathways available.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Geography, Energy conservation, Renewable energy sources, Carbon dioxide mitigation, Energy policy, Environmental policy, Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Economic aspects | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Energy Policy | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0301-4215 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | February 2013 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 53 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 331-340 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) |
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