Outputs (8)

Going Down The Local The Challenges Of Place-Based Net Zero Governance Final (2023)
Journal Article
Catney, P., Bedford, T., & Robinson, Z. (2023). Going Down The Local The Challenges Of Place-Based Net Zero Governance Final. Journal of the British Academy, 11(s4), 125–156. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011s4.125

Place-based decarbonisation is emerging as a significant element in the UK government’s net zero agenda, specifically through central government devolution deals. Such localised governance has the potential to reap social and economic benefits for co... Read More about Going Down The Local The Challenges Of Place-Based Net Zero Governance Final.

A holistic framework for reshaping urban energy infrastructure in Global South cities, a case study of the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt (2021)
Journal Article
Khalofa, Y., George, S., & Catney, P. (2021). A holistic framework for reshaping urban energy infrastructure in Global South cities, a case study of the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt

What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Doherty, & Catney. (2019). What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions. Social Movement Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1708311

The proliferation of environmental alternative action organization (EAAOs) is a defining feature of present-day environmentalism. The literature on sustainable materialism has celebrated this as an appropriate, effective, and above all, political str... Read More about What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions.

Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England (2019)
Journal Article
Catney. (2019). Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England. Town Planning Review, 339-358. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2019.24

Variations in the character, performance and impact of policies and practices to capture land value for the community are usually examined by analysing experience in different countries. Such international comparative research is cross-sectional and... Read More about Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England.

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance (2015)
Journal Article
Catney. (2015). Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15613357

The paper uses a case study of urban regeneration policy in Sheffield, UK, to explore local public entrepreneurship in a system of multi-level governance. Recent analyses of public entrepreneurs have directed attention to the macro-political structur... Read More about Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance.

Factors influencing perceptions of domestic energy information: Content, source and Process (2014)
Journal Article
Ormerod, R., MacGregor, S., Dobson, A., Catney, P., Robinson, Z., Ross, S., …Hall, S. (2014). Factors influencing perceptions of domestic energy information: Content, source and Process. Energy Policy, 455 - 464 (10). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.038

Big Society, little justice? Community energy and the politics of localism? (2013)
Journal Article
Catney, P., MacGregor, S., Dobson, A., Hall, S., Royston, S., Robinson, Z., …Ross, S. (2013). Big Society, little justice? Community energy and the politics of localism?. Local Environment, https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.792044

This paper challenges ‘Big Society (BS) Localism’, seeing it as an example of impoverished localist thinking which neglects social justice considerations. We do this through a critical examination of recent turns in the localist discourse in the UK w... Read More about Big Society, little justice? Community energy and the politics of localism?.

Community knowledge networks: An action-orientated approach to energy research (2013)
Journal Article
Robinson, Z., Ross, S., Catney, P., Dobson, A., Hall, S., Hards, S., …Ormerod, M. (2013). Community knowledge networks: An action-orientated approach to energy research. Local Environment, https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.748729

The Climate Change Act 2008 commits the UK to reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. With household emissions constituting more than a quarter of current total energy use in the UK, energy practices in the home have taken on... Read More about Community knowledge networks: An action-orientated approach to energy research.