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View article: Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons Governance
Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons Governance Open
Energy communities (ECs) have emerged as a new class of ‘prosumers’ in energy transitions. ECs’ ability to sell electricity back to the grid is increasingly curtailed, meaning they are left with decisions on how best to use this common poo…
View article: Opinion Dynamic and Social Clustering in a 2D Space: An Agent Based Experiment
Opinion Dynamic and Social Clustering in a 2D Space: An Agent Based Experiment Open
This paper studies the impact of movement and interactions of individuals on opinion dynamics and polarisation within a two-dimensional (2D) space. By extending the Attraction-Repulsion Model (ARM), we explore how agents form opinion clust…
View article: Properties of air: Wind resourcification via assetization in the republic of Ireland
Properties of air: Wind resourcification via assetization in the republic of Ireland Open
The wind has profound cultural and economic value and plays an increasingly important role in today's economic system. Despite this, wind remains under-conceptualised as a resource in accounts of energy transition. This paper traces the re…
View article: Social tipping dynamics in the energy system
Social tipping dynamics in the energy system Open
This paper reviews evidence on how the fast growth in renewable energy technologies can trigger social tipping dynamics that potentially accelerate a system-wide energy transition. It does so by reviewing a variety of literature across sev…
View article: Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects
Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects Open
Renewable energy infrastructures, such as wind and solar farms, require land on which they can be deployed. While politics and conflicts over accessing land for renewables are well documented, the role, conditions and potential agency of l…
View article: Comment on esd-2023-25
Comment on esd-2023-25 Open
Abstract. The fast growth in renewables has led to an economic tipping point for the adoption of renewables. However, we do not observe a corresponding reduction in fossil fuel demand. The tipping point has not led to a system-wide energy …
View article: Social tipping dynamics in the energy system
Social tipping dynamics in the energy system Open
The fast growth in renewables has led to an economic tipping point for the adoption of renewables. However, we do not observe a corresponding reduction in fossil fuel demand. The tipping point has not led to a system-wide energy transition…
View article: Reclaiming the Windy Commons: Landownership, Wind Rights, and the Assetization of Renewable Resources
Reclaiming the Windy Commons: Landownership, Wind Rights, and the Assetization of Renewable Resources Open
The ‘second phase’ of the energy transition involves large-scale rollout of renewables, raising wider questions about arrangements for the management and ownership of such resources and how costs and benefits should be distributed. Ideas a…
View article: 100 Social Sciences and Humanities priority research questions for renewable energy in Horizon Europe
100 Social Sciences and Humanities priority research questions for renewable energy in Horizon Europe Open
This report presents 100 research questions that have been identified by scientific experts as key priorities for Social Science and Humanities (SSH) research on renewables, in order to inform and support EU-funded research and innovation …
View article: Public Support for Renewables
Public Support for Renewables Open
The extent to which renewables gain public support and are able to attract adequate private or public investment is key to their further uptake. Although individuals and some groups have expressed concerns about specific renewable energy p…
View article: Who owns the wind? : community wind co-ops to combat commodification
Who owns the wind? : community wind co-ops to combat commodification Open
The threat of potentially catastrophic climate change has led to 195 countries pledging to keep global average temperature rise well below 2°C based on pre-industrial levels. Wind energy technology has developed to a point where it can mak…
View article: Boulevard to broken dreams, part 2: implementation of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's response to the gathering storm
Boulevard to broken dreams, part 2: implementation of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's response to the gathering storm Open
This is the second part of the essay on the circumstances that led the World Bank to embrace norms and operational policies for environmental and indigenous people's protection in the late 1980s, as traced through the turbulent history of …
View article: ‘Scale-ups’ are the true engines of growth – Professor Robert Wade
‘Scale-ups’ are the true engines of growth – Professor Robert Wade Open
An interesting read from last Tuesday’s Financial Times (12 April). Professor of Political Economy and Development Robert Wade replies to Philip Stephens’ article on free trade entitled “US politics is closing the door on free trade” where…
View article: Fiscal compact treaty adds to chaos in Europe – Robert Wade
Fiscal compact treaty adds to chaos in Europe – Robert Wade Open
Robert Wade’s recent letter to the Financial Times highlights an overlooked ‘shock’ that is negatively affecting growth prospects in Europe.
View article: Get profit share to support a more equal income distribution – Robert Wade
Get profit share to support a more equal income distribution – Robert Wade Open
In Robert Wade’s latest letter to the Financial Times (published 20 August), he argues for broader capital ownership to curb inequality – a move he believes could appeal to the whole UK political spectrum.
View article: Robert Wade takes umbrage at defence of corporate managers and short-termism in the Financial Times
Robert Wade takes umbrage at defence of corporate managers and short-termism in the Financial Times Open
Robert Wade submitted the following letter to the Financial Times in response to an article titled ‘Shortsighted complaints about short-term capitalism’ by Sebastian Mallaby, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Disappointed …
View article: Living where you don’t make the rules: Development in Palestine – one of the world’s last colonies
Living where you don’t make the rules: Development in Palestine – one of the world’s last colonies Open
This personal reflection on the economic occupation of the West Bank was originally written by Robert Wade in December 2013. An abridged version later appeared as ‘Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale’ in the London Review of Books.
View article: “Wow!” – Robert Wade’s glowing review of Carles Boix, Political Order and Inequality
“Wow!” – Robert Wade’s glowing review of Carles Boix, Political Order and Inequality Open
This is one of those rare books which elicits a “Wow!” at the sight of the table of contents, a “Wow!” when one reaches the end several days later, and many more in between. I imagine that Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations provoked a similar …
View article: ID Professors speak out on Greek exit
ID Professors speak out on Greek exit Open
James Putzel and Robert Wade have both voiced opinion in the Financial Times about the Greek exit (or Grexit) from the Euro, accusing the troika (EC-ECB-IMF) of forcing out far-left factions by stealth in favour of compliant governments.