Journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 256-269Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12275
Keywords
decarbonisation; hybrid geographies; networks; scale; urban transformations
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- Bergen Research Foundation
- COST Action [CA16232]
- European Research Council [313478]
- University of Bergen
- Equinor
- European Research Council (ERC) [313478] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low-carbon urban transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear and hierarchical ontologies, and miss out on the long-standing development of more nuanced conceptions of scale within Human Geography. This paper aims to advance a relational understanding of scale in the analysis and evaluation of low-carbon urban initiatives (LCUIs). We wish to lay the path towards an innately geographical conceptualisation of low-carbon urban transformations more generally, in which cities are not seen as rigid and passive physical containers for decarbonisation initiatives, but rather as key nodes within vibrant socio-technical networks operating across multiple material sites. Using a case study of the transnational and translocal REACH (Reduce Energy use And Change Habits) project funded by the European Union as illustration, we argue that low-carbon urban transformations are immanently constituted of three sets of relational processes across scale, involving (1) politicisation, (2) enrolment and (3) the hybridisation of human and material agencies.
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