Written at speed, apols for typos etc. Musings on what we may see and "what is to be done" (bracing for impact, mostly?) The situation is one of clusterfuckery, escalating to collective suicide. Keir Starmer, to absolutely nobody's surprise, is ditching the promise to spend £28bn per year on green investment. This promise, made by his... Continue Reading →
Unsayable truths and playing the game
So, Storm Isa is upon us. And BBC Radio 4's 1pm news has some climate adaptation professor on. The announcer asks what needs doing and while the guy alludes to the government not having done stuff in the past, what he doesn't do is come out and say any variation on this: "Look, it's kinda wasting your... Continue Reading →
1979 – Thatcher Government trying to ‘reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration’ in planning.
So, on 18 November 1979 the Sunday Times reported that "leaked Cabinet papers record the Government's efforts to 'reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration'(The Sunday Times, 18 November 1979). " (Lowe and Morrison, 1984: 86) I don't have digital access to the Sunday Times, sadly. But I do have access to the Times. And on October... Continue Reading →
2022 is gonna be hella interesting – roadmaps and guides to all this? My initial two cents
I saw this below on the Grauniad website today and tweeted that 2022 is gonna be hella interesting. I have MUCH else to be getting on with (Sarah, if you're reading this I have got about 3/4 of the crap out of the attic). But I want to throw an initial schema and a set... Continue Reading →
New video: #climate and energy policies of the UK become entwined, 2000 to 2009…
Most of my videos are rough as a badger's arse. This one, this is rougher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdF1Vcl1Ag Here's a version of the transcript I was stumbling over... Hello, This video will tell you a little bit about the entwining of climate and energy policies between 2000 and 2009 in the UK. There’s a story about what... Continue Reading →
“The business of rapid transition”
Better get the full disclosure in here - Prof Newell was external examiner on my PhD, and also a referee for the job I am about to start. So if this were totally pants, I would be unlikely to say so. This is not totally pants. It's not even a little bit pants (but MRDA,... Continue Reading →
‘Treasury Control’ and the British Environmental State: The Political Economy of Green Development Strategy in UK Central Government
This was damned good Craig, M. 2020. ‘Treasury Control’ and the British Environmental State: The Political Economy of Green Development Strategy in UK Central Government New Political Economy. 25 (1) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2018.1526269 As the epigram wants you to understand, this is not new. “Treasury control is something that you live under, that you suffer from, that you profit by; and... Continue Reading →
“Designing industrial strategy for a low carbon transformation”
Busch, J, Foxon, T. and Taylor, P. 2018. Designing industrial strategy for a low carbon transformation, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 29 (2018) 114–125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2018.07.005 Much meaty goodness in this comprehensive overview of green industrial policy and the literature around it... The authors "draw on and combine insights from neo-Schumpeterian (evolutionary) and ecological economics perspectives to... Continue Reading →
“The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway”
Another absolutely brilliant article, with serious conceptual chops. A thickening/broadening of TIS, forcing you to think more "within" a sector, seeing the different ways a mature/declining sector might go (or rather, actors within it might go - a real Theseus' ship situation there...) Andersen, A. and Gulbrandsen, M. 2020. The innovation and industry dynamics of... Continue Reading →
“Incumbent actors as niche agents”
Späth, P., Rohracher, H., and von Radecki, A., 2016. Incumbent actors as niche agents: the German car industry and the taming of the “Stuttgart E-mobility region”. Sustainability, 8 (3), 252. doi:10.3390/su8030252 I read this for more on the "how incumbents behave" question, and it didn't disappoint. As folks (including in articles I've read this month)... Continue Reading →
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