Challenges to Local Economic Development in an Era of Climate Change and Peak Oil
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Geography
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
North P
(2010)
Eco-localisation as a progressive response to peak oil and climate change - A sympathetic critique
in Geoforum
Description | The seminar series effectively reviewed how localities could respond to emerging issues around climate change and resource depletion which have since them manifested themselves in a range of local climate change polcicies. |
Exploitation Route | A range of local climate change activists, ngos, social movement organisations, and local authorities have engaged in a range of local climate change polcicies. |
Sectors | Environment |
Description | This seminar series spun out a range of other projects by the PI and other researchers who took part in them, in particular the Low Carbon Liverpool project and the ESRC Research Seminars Competition: "Sustainability transitions: rethinking everyday practices, identities and livelihoods", PI Dr Gavin Brown, University of Leicester. |
First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
Sector | Energy,Environment |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |