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Recently I wrote an article (Hudson, 2022) [See link here - should get you through to it until November 2nd 2022]. Someone kindly got in touch and asked if there were an accompanying checklist. There wasn’t, but there is now. Or rather, there’s my version – take this below and make your own. On checklists... Continue Reading →
https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1572487907440476160 On November 25th 2015, then-Chancellor George Osborne did something environmentalists can only dream of - he properly enraged the carbon capture and storage lobby. How? He killed off a £1bn competition for 2 CCS projects. Was this the end for CCS? It sure looked like it could be. But exactly 3 years later, the... Continue Reading →
I often rant, sorry, "offer calm, considered and reasoned critiques" about academics who study nonsense badlystudy important things badlystudy important things well but write in turgid academese These things make me angry. But for once, I am angry after reading an academic paper, not about any of the above (because it is paper which studies... Continue Reading →
I am to be an expert interviewee (I know, I know, I laughed too) in a project about climate change and "getting to net zero" barriers opportunities, blah blah. And reading over the project info they sent, and the sets of things I am supposed to pick as barriers, it occurs to me that this... Continue Reading →
Last week I gave a seminar as part of the Sussex Energy Group’s seminar series. This was, for me, a Big Deal, because the Sussex Energy Group is a very cool collection of scholars, mostly from the Science Policy Research Unit but also from University of Sussex (the clue is in the name) more broadly.... Continue Reading →
Times are tough. Today I did something I'm proud of, something that helped other people in a couple of ways. This is a blog about that. As part of The Job, (a very good job, one I am grateful to have), I am doing a bit of seminar-conducting. One problem with seminars is that either... Continue Reading →
Sorry if what follows is banal, but it was new to me. Ah, bless Facebook... The word "constructive," it occurs to me after more than half a century on t'planet, is deployed by people who don't want to engage with criticism of what their cherished organisation has (not) been doing. So, if I point out... Continue Reading →
Let's start with an under-rated tweet. https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1483901631615971345 Yeah, that's me half an hour ago and I would already struggle to tell you how I came across Sayer 1992. Oh, wait, it was the 2003 paper on Regional Development Agencies and Clusters (reading it for The Job). We are pattern-making machines. We see causation when there... Continue Reading →
There's a new edited volume, "Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance," which I can heartily recommend (and thanks to Earthscan for sending me a hard copy). The wonderful New Books Network let me interview the editors as a podcast, and have also given permission for a transcript (which the interviewees have lightly edited/changed)... Continue Reading →
This paper is a response to six criticisms made of the authors' "baby" - the Technlogical Innovation Systems appraoch. Markard, J., Hekkert, M and Jacobsson, S. 2015. The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 16, 76–86 They take each one in turn, give what seems to be to my inexpert... Continue Reading →
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