Rising energy costs expose the instability of our energy system and underline the urgency of
transitioning towards decentralized renewable energy provision. Many European countries …

As new municipalism comes of age, prefixes proliferate: from democratic and autonomist to
post-growth and care municipalisms. How do all these variegations relate to each other and …

Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of
the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting …

This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as
material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology …

Recent decades have seen substantial increase in efforts to appease environmental
challenges and to foster sustainability in business and society. As a direct result, numerous …

Cities are critical sites for understanding, and potentially ameliorating, the effects of global
ecological change, the climate emergency and natural resource depletion. Contemporary …

What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government
in countries such as the UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; …

The past few years have seen the rediscovery by political and media commentators of areas
in post‐industrial Britain characterised as “left behind”. It is rarely acknowledged that this …

Trees have been growing on millions of hectares of abandoned farmland in Russia for
decades but have only recently become an issue of political and public controversy. This …

Unlike development strategies for prosperous regions and their prioritisation of high-tech
sectors, alternative strategies for left behind places are suggested that shift to foundational …