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The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A. (2017). The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk. Environment and Planning A, 49(12), 2835-2852. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17732341

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Studies of urban disaster and climate change risk have increasingly invoked governmentality as a theoretical frame for understanding how urban risk governance functions. This article argues that the use of governmentalit... Read More about The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk.

Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US (2017)
Journal Article
Evensen, D., Stedman, R. C., O'Hara, S., Humphrey, M., & Andersson-Hudson, J. (2017). Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US. Environmental Research Letters, 12(12), Article 124004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f7e

In decision-making on the politically-contentious issue of unconventional gas development, the UK Government and European Commission are attempting to learn from the US experience. Although economic, environmental, and health impacts and regulatory c... Read More about Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US.

What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atagher, P., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2017, September). What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. Presented at 7th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, Seville, Spain

Solid biomass collection such as firewood rests mostly on women and children in settings where traditional fuels dominates household energy choices. A 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) report estimated that 3.5 million people globally rely on soli... Read More about What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria.

(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., Forsyth, I., Giraud, E., & Potts, T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344

In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics.

The water-energy-food nexus in Kazakhstan: challenges and opportunities (2017)
Journal Article
Karatayev, M., Rivotti, P., Sobral Mourão, Z., Konadu, D. D., Shah, N., & Clarke, M. (in press). The water-energy-food nexus in Kazakhstan: challenges and opportunities. Energy Procedia, 125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.064

The concept of the water, energy, food nexus is extremely relevant to Kazakhstan as the country faces population growth, economic progress and environmental challenges such as water scarcity, desertification, and climate change. Furthermore, poor sec... Read More about The water-energy-food nexus in Kazakhstan: challenges and opportunities.

Mapping and the citizen sensor (2017)
Book
Foody, G., See, L., Fritz, S., Mooney, P., Olteanu-Raimond, A.-M., Costa Fonte, C., & Antoniou, V. (2017). G. Foody, L. See, S. Fritz, P. Mooney, A.-M. Olteanu-Raimond, C. C. Fonte, & V. Antoniou (Eds.). Mapping and the citizen sensor. Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bbf

Maps are a fundamental resource in a diverse array of applications ranging from everyday activities, such as route planning through the legal demarcation of space to scientific studies, such as those seeking to understand biodiversity and inform the... Read More about Mapping and the citizen sensor.