Search Results - "Taylor Aiken, Gerald"

Where next for managed retreat: Bringing in history, community and under‐researched places by Taylor Aiken, Gerald, Mabon, Leslie

“…Managed retreat—the purposive and coordinated movement of people away from climate risks—has risen in importance, discussion and urgency in recent years. As…”
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A critical view on the role of scale and instrumental imaginaries within community sustainability transitions research by Schmid, Benedikt, Taylor Aiken, Gerald

“…Research has recently focused on various under‐the‐radar sustainability‐oriented community initiatives to understand and support bottom‐up dynamics of…”
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Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach by Taylor Aiken, Gerald, Middlemiss, Lucie, Sallu, Susannah, Hauxwell‐Baldwin, Richard

“…In a 2011 contribution to this journal, Walker examined the ways that community is routinely employed in carbon governance, suggesting the need for more…”
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Putting community to use in environmental policy making: Emerging trends in Scotland and the UK by Holstead, Kirsty, Taylor Aiken, Gerald, Eadson, Will, Braunholtz‐Speight, Tim

“…Community is frequently called upon in policy to meet environmental challenges. It is increasingly recognised that the success of these environmental…”
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The politics of community: Togetherness, transition and post-politics by Aiken, Gerald Taylor

“…This article excavates the role, function and practices of community within Transition, a grassroots environmentalist movement. It does so to pursue a quest…”
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A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland by Kumar, Ankit, Taylor Aiken, Gerald

“…Community renewable energy (CRE) represents a growing empirical and academic turn towards community‐based sustainability and climate change interventions. This…”
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Community renewable energy: What does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on by Creamer, Emily, Taylor Aiken, Gerald, van Veelen, Bregje, Walker, Gordon, Devine-Wright, Patrick

“…In 2008, Walker and Devine-Wright published a short article that is now a key way-marker in the field: ‘Community renewable energy: what should it mean?’. A…”
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Transformative mindfulness: the role of mind-body practices in community-based activism by Schmid, Benedikt, Taylor Aiken, Gerald

“…This article emerges from the simple observation that community-based social and environmental activists often engage with practices of mindfulness, either…”
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(Local-) community for global challenges: carbon conversations, transition towns and governmental elisions by Taylor Aiken, Gerald

“…This article addresses the narrowing interpretation of community when governmentalised: that of community's elision with local. First it surveys five broad…”
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Community as tool for low carbon transitions: Involvement and containment, policy and action by Taylor Aiken, Gerald

“…This paper introduces the Heideggerian terms Zuhanden and Vorhanden to studies of community low carbon transitions. It sets apart Zuhandenheit community as…”
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What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond by Van Veelen, Bregje, Pinker, Annabel, Tingey, Margaret, Taylor Aiken, Gerald, Eadson, Will

“…Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) emerged in response to an identified lack of social science energy scholarship. The first publication in this journal…”
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Interventions on Democratizing Infrastructure by van Veelen, Bregje, Rella, Ludovico, Taylor Aiken, Gerald, Judson, Emily, Gambino, Evelina, Jenss, Alke, Parashar, Ankur, Pinker, Annabel

“…The proliferation of civic demands for democratisation through material infrastructures, including those pertaining to energy, water, currency, and transport,…”
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Governing through community: Transformative geographies from the bottom up by Schmid, Benedikt, Smith, Thomas S. J., Taylor Aiken, Gerald

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Transformative pragmatism: How a diversity of Leitbilder is harnessed for rural transformation in Réiden, Luxembourg by Doerr, Jan‐Tobias, Taylor Aiken, Gerald

“…This article attempts to further a geographical theory of socio‐ecological transformation. Understanding transformation has previously focused on regions,…”
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Polysemic, Polyvalent and Phatic: A Rough Evolution of Community With Reference to Low Carbon Transitions by Taylor Aiken, Gerald

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Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions by Aiken, Gerald Taylor, Eadson, Will, Hobson, Kersty, Dinnie, Liz

“…•Community initiatives are often charged with scaling-up.•Scaling-up of communities often appears as vicarious.•Appreciating vicarious scale also has important…”
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Social Innovation and Participatory Action Research: A way to research community? by Taylor Aiken, Gerarld

“…This paper seeks to outline a methodological approach that can be used in order to help understand such movements, and more fundamentally, the role of…”
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What can energy research bring to social science?: Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond by van Veelen, Bregje, Pinker, Annabel, Tingey, Margaret, Aiken, Gerald Taylor, Eadson, Will

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Environmental publics by Aiken, Gerald Taylor

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Book Review: Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions by Aiken, Gerald Taylor

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