Will Eadson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 284385 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Will Eadson |
| NOMBRES | Will |
| APELLIDO | Eadson |
| FIRMA | EADSON W |
| AFILIACIONES | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2158-7205 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
State-orchestrated green path development? Industrial decarbonisation in Teesside and the Humber
The challenge of industrial decarbonisation is compounded in localities and regions where carbon-based path dependency coheres multiple sectors and path dynamics. Framed within a Geographical Political Economies (GPE) perspective of new energy spaces, this paper develops an enriched green path development framework to explore opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solutions within two of the UK's most carbon-intensive industrial regio…
Just business? Rethinking the role of small and medium enterprise climate action through a just transition lens
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical to achieving climate action goals but are neglected in policy and academic debates. Current SME climate and energy policies are failing to address the complexity and vulnerability of SMEs in the transition to a low carbon economy, often treating these organisations as a homogeneous group, with dominant narratives that appeal to economic or moral imperatives to decarbonise, without recognising…
What is an urban just transition? Grappling with an unsettled concept in an industrial region
As global decarbonisation pressures grow, so do calls for ‘just transition’. Urban and regional governments are exploring what this means for their jurisdictions. This article investigates how urban policy makers make sense of just transition, and the implications for its understanding in urban policy. We adopt Q-methodology to examine sensemaking for policy stakeholders in a UK industrial region, producing a new analytical conception of sensemak…
Path development politics
Relational approaches to employability
As policymakers consider how best to respond to increased labour market volatility in post-Covid-19 economies, there is concern that vulnerable groups such as lone parents may be left behind, and consensus that we need to develop more responsive and person-centred approaches to employability. Drawing on Cottam’s (2011, 2018) work on ‘relational welfare’, and the principles of the capabilities approach that underly it, this article discusses the e…
Decarbonising industry
Deep decarbonisation of extractive and foundational industries will involve widespread social and economic change. Research on previous industrial restructuring has demonstrated that resultant changes will be geographically uneven, especially without countervailing state intervention. Such change has been shown to matter for both the nature and location of work in those industries as well as for the wider wellbeing of places. Concentrations of ec…
Crisis and opportunity
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Their aggregate emissions are significant, and they are disproportionately affected by climate impacts, including extreme weather events. SMEs also play a vital role in shaping the environmental behaviours of individuals, communities, and other businesses. However, these organisations have been largely neglected by climate policies across all lev…
Green and just regional path development
Path development and path creation are prevalent concepts in efforts to understand regional economic change and innovation. A recent focus has been on ‘green’ path development: industrial change associated with environmentally beneficial products and services. This provides a moment to take stock of the path development literature to date and ask: What or who is it for? In this article we use the concept of just transition to explore ways that (g…
Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions
Community initiatives are often charged with scaling-up: growing, deepening their impacts, and seeding off new projects. The desire to scale-up comes from both within the community initiatives themselves, and is also encouraged by all levels of policy, from local government, to national and international frameworks such as the IPCC. This paper adds to critiques of this agenda, by leaning on human geography writings on scale, and introducing the c…
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability
Policymakers in liberal welfare states like the UK have prioritised extending the reach of compulsory activation to target vulnerable jobseeker groups, such as lone parents. However, such interventions - especially when combined with intensified welfare conditionality - appear to have had limited positive effects on lone parents' employability, while often negatively impacting wellbeing. This article argues that the problem is a disconnect betwee…
Zero carbon as economic restructuring
Strategies to reduce carbon emissions are set to be a powerful force of economic restructuring, creating new economic opportunities, and also disruption and divestment for some firms and sectors. A pressing issue for ‘just transitions’ is whether low carbon economic restructuring will challenge or reinforce prevailing geographies of spatial inequality and labour market (dis)advantage. In this article we return to the economic restructuring litera…
Collaborative innovation and activation in urban labour markets
Policymakers in the UK, having long supported centralised and marketised models of governance and delivery in the field of labour market activation, have recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of more localised, collaborative approaches to organising public services. Evidence from other European welfare states suggests that the case in favour of localised innovation may be particularly compelling in urban labour markets, where there can be po…
Assemblage-democracy
This article furthers political geographic thinking on democracy by generating and employing a conceptualisation of ‘assemblage-democracy’. Bringing an assemblage perspective to democratic thinking brings to the fore three key dimensions: the co-constitution of material and non-material connections; connectivity and associations, in particular engagement with multiple heterogeneous ‘minoritarian’ publics; and the (re)construction of spatial confi…
Collaborative Innovation in Labor Market Inclusion
This article deploys the concept of “collaborative innovation” to discuss key stakeholders’ and service users' experiences of innovative labor market inclusion services. We draw on work by Sørensen and Torfing (2011, 2016, 2017) to frame collaborative innovation as a distinctive approach to the coproduction of services that respond to user needs, and highlight the importance of governance and leadership practices that foster mutual learning and b…
State, community and the negotiated construction of energy markets
This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisation and correction, while emphasising how negotiation, mediation and translation are pervasive throughout. Our starting point is an exploration of the role of the state in managing processes of social…
What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond
Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services
The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of “work‐first” activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffec…
Community energy
The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a contested, capacious, and flexible term, “community energy” is commonly presented as singular, bounded, and localised. In this paper, we challenge this conception of community energy by considering evide…
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on …
Putting community to use in environmental policy making
Community is frequently called upon in policy to meet environmental challenges. It is increasingly recognised that the success of these environmental interventions relies on community awareness and action. But what this emphasis on community does, and what the impacts are, are often neglected, or left uncritiqued. To explore this issue, we surveyed literature from the UK across four distinct environmental domains-energy, urban greenspace, water, …
Water and the City
Iain White, London, Routledge, 2010, 210 pp., £29.99 (pbk), ISBN 978041555333 9 Water is ‘indispensable ‘stuff’ (Swyngedouw, 2004, p. 1) and as such, water provision and control lie at the heart of
Green and just regional path development
Path development and path creation are prevalent concepts in efforts to understand regional economic change and innovation. A recent focus has been on ‘green’ path development: industrial change associated with environmentally beneficial products and services. This provides a moment to take stock of the path development literature to date and ask: What or who is it for? In this article we use the concept of just transition to explore ways that (g…
Zero carbon as economic restructuring
Strategies to reduce carbon emissions are set to be a powerful force of economic restructuring, creating new economic opportunities, and also disruption and divestment for some firms and sectors. A pressing issue for ‘just transitions’ is whether low carbon economic restructuring will challenge or reinforce prevailing geographies of spatial inequality and labour market (dis)advantage. In this article we return to the economic restructuring litera…
Community energy
The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a contested, capacious, and flexible term, “community energy” is commonly presented as singular, bounded, and localised. In this paper, we challenge this conception of community energy by considering evide…
What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on …
Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services
The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of “work‐first” activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffec…
Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions
Community initiatives are often charged with scaling-up: growing, deepening their impacts, and seeding off new projects. The desire to scale-up comes from both within the community initiatives themselves, and is also encouraged by all levels of policy, from local government, to national and international frameworks such as the IPCC. This paper adds to critiques of this agenda, by leaning on human geography writings on scale, and introducing the c…
State, community and the negotiated construction of energy markets
This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisation and correction, while emphasising how negotiation, mediation and translation are pervasive throughout. Our starting point is an exploration of the role of the state in managing processes of social…
Assemblage-democracy
This article furthers political geographic thinking on democracy by generating and employing a conceptualisation of ‘assemblage-democracy’. Bringing an assemblage perspective to democratic thinking brings to the fore three key dimensions: the co-constitution of material and non-material connections; connectivity and associations, in particular engagement with multiple heterogeneous ‘minoritarian’ publics; and the (re)construction of spatial confi…
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability
Policymakers in liberal welfare states like the UK have prioritised extending the reach of compulsory activation to target vulnerable jobseeker groups, such as lone parents. However, such interventions - especially when combined with intensified welfare conditionality - appear to have had limited positive effects on lone parents' employability, while often negatively impacting wellbeing. This article argues that the problem is a disconnect betwee…
Putting community to use in environmental policy making
Community is frequently called upon in policy to meet environmental challenges. It is increasingly recognised that the success of these environmental interventions relies on community awareness and action. But what this emphasis on community does, and what the impacts are, are often neglected, or left uncritiqued. To explore this issue, we surveyed literature from the UK across four distinct environmental domains-energy, urban greenspace, water, …
State-orchestrated green path development? Industrial decarbonisation in Teesside and the Humber
The challenge of industrial decarbonisation is compounded in localities and regions where carbon-based path dependency coheres multiple sectors and path dynamics. Framed within a Geographical Political Economies (GPE) perspective of new energy spaces, this paper develops an enriched green path development framework to explore opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solutions within two of the UK's most carbon-intensive industrial regio…
Crisis and opportunity
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Their aggregate emissions are significant, and they are disproportionately affected by climate impacts, including extreme weather events. SMEs also play a vital role in shaping the environmental behaviours of individuals, communities, and other businesses. However, these organisations have been largely neglected by climate policies across all lev…
Water and the City
Iain White, London, Routledge, 2010, 210 pp., £29.99 (pbk), ISBN 978041555333 9 Water is ‘indispensable ‘stuff’ (Swyngedouw, 2004, p. 1) and as such, water provision and control lie at the heart of
Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services
The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of “work‐first” activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffec…
Community energy
The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a contested, capacious, and flexible term, “community energy” is commonly presented as singular, bounded, and localised. In this paper, we challenge this conception of community energy by considering evide…
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on …
Putting community to use in environmental policy making
Community is frequently called upon in policy to meet environmental challenges. It is increasingly recognised that the success of these environmental interventions relies on community awareness and action. But what this emphasis on community does, and what the impacts are, are often neglected, or left uncritiqued. To explore this issue, we surveyed literature from the UK across four distinct environmental domains-energy, urban greenspace, water, …
State, community and the negotiated construction of energy markets
This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisation and correction, while emphasising how negotiation, mediation and translation are pervasive throughout. Our starting point is an exploration of the role of the state in managing processes of social…
What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond
Collaborative Innovation in Labor Market Inclusion
This article deploys the concept of “collaborative innovation” to discuss key stakeholders’ and service users' experiences of innovative labor market inclusion services. We draw on work by Sørensen and Torfing (2011, 2016, 2017) to frame collaborative innovation as a distinctive approach to the coproduction of services that respond to user needs, and highlight the importance of governance and leadership practices that foster mutual learning and b…
Zero carbon as economic restructuring
Strategies to reduce carbon emissions are set to be a powerful force of economic restructuring, creating new economic opportunities, and also disruption and divestment for some firms and sectors. A pressing issue for ‘just transitions’ is whether low carbon economic restructuring will challenge or reinforce prevailing geographies of spatial inequality and labour market (dis)advantage. In this article we return to the economic restructuring litera…
Collaborative innovation and activation in urban labour markets
Policymakers in the UK, having long supported centralised and marketised models of governance and delivery in the field of labour market activation, have recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of more localised, collaborative approaches to organising public services. Evidence from other European welfare states suggests that the case in favour of localised innovation may be particularly compelling in urban labour markets, where there can be po…
Assemblage-democracy
This article furthers political geographic thinking on democracy by generating and employing a conceptualisation of ‘assemblage-democracy’. Bringing an assemblage perspective to democratic thinking brings to the fore three key dimensions: the co-constitution of material and non-material connections; connectivity and associations, in particular engagement with multiple heterogeneous ‘minoritarian’ publics; and the (re)construction of spatial confi…
Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions
Community initiatives are often charged with scaling-up: growing, deepening their impacts, and seeding off new projects. The desire to scale-up comes from both within the community initiatives themselves, and is also encouraged by all levels of policy, from local government, to national and international frameworks such as the IPCC. This paper adds to critiques of this agenda, by leaning on human geography writings on scale, and introducing the c…
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability
Policymakers in liberal welfare states like the UK have prioritised extending the reach of compulsory activation to target vulnerable jobseeker groups, such as lone parents. However, such interventions - especially when combined with intensified welfare conditionality - appear to have had limited positive effects on lone parents' employability, while often negatively impacting wellbeing. This article argues that the problem is a disconnect betwee…
Relational approaches to employability
As policymakers consider how best to respond to increased labour market volatility in post-Covid-19 economies, there is concern that vulnerable groups such as lone parents may be left behind, and consensus that we need to develop more responsive and person-centred approaches to employability. Drawing on Cottam’s (2011, 2018) work on ‘relational welfare’, and the principles of the capabilities approach that underly it, this article discusses the e…
Decarbonising industry
Deep decarbonisation of extractive and foundational industries will involve widespread social and economic change. Research on previous industrial restructuring has demonstrated that resultant changes will be geographically uneven, especially without countervailing state intervention. Such change has been shown to matter for both the nature and location of work in those industries as well as for the wider wellbeing of places. Concentrations of ec…
Crisis and opportunity
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Their aggregate emissions are significant, and they are disproportionately affected by climate impacts, including extreme weather events. SMEs also play a vital role in shaping the environmental behaviours of individuals, communities, and other businesses. However, these organisations have been largely neglected by climate policies across all lev…
Green and just regional path development
Path development and path creation are prevalent concepts in efforts to understand regional economic change and innovation. A recent focus has been on ‘green’ path development: industrial change associated with environmentally beneficial products and services. This provides a moment to take stock of the path development literature to date and ask: What or who is it for? In this article we use the concept of just transition to explore ways that (g…
Just business? Rethinking the role of small and medium enterprise climate action through a just transition lens
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical to achieving climate action goals but are neglected in policy and academic debates. Current SME climate and energy policies are failing to address the complexity and vulnerability of SMEs in the transition to a low carbon economy, often treating these organisations as a homogeneous group, with dominant narratives that appeal to economic or moral imperatives to decarbonise, without recognising…
What is an urban just transition? Grappling with an unsettled concept in an industrial region
As global decarbonisation pressures grow, so do calls for ‘just transition’. Urban and regional governments are exploring what this means for their jurisdictions. This article investigates how urban policy makers make sense of just transition, and the implications for its understanding in urban policy. We adopt Q-methodology to examine sensemaking for policy stakeholders in a UK industrial region, producing a new analytical conception of sensemak…
Path development politics
State-orchestrated green path development? Industrial decarbonisation in Teesside and the Humber
The challenge of industrial decarbonisation is compounded in localities and regions where carbon-based path dependency coheres multiple sectors and path dynamics. Framed within a Geographical Political Economies (GPE) perspective of new energy spaces, this paper develops an enriched green path development framework to explore opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solutions within two of the UK's most carbon-intensive industrial regio…
Political science (14 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Corporate governance (9 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Public relations (8 obras) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras)