Heather Lovell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 331654 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Heather Lovell |
| NOMBRES | Heather |
| APELLIDO | Lovell |
| FIRMA | LOVELL H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1164-0356 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 303 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Institutional Amnesia and Public Administration
Existing research suggests that a lack of institutional memory causes history to repeat in problematic ways within public administration agencies. However, this claim has not been well supported by theory or data that illuminates the process and effects of history repeating. To remedy this, the nascent concept of institutional amnesia is presented here as a means of theorizing repetitions of public administrative history. A sequential explanatory…
Invisible actions in the energy system
With increasing levels of household solar across Australia, Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) have emerged as an innovative solution for electricity grid management. The use of VPPs on electricity markets promise benefits to aggregators, householders, and electricity networks. Orchestration is a central element of VPPs and describes the coordination of disparate Consumer Energy Resources (CER) such as household solar PV and batteries. This paper identi…
Political Science's Engagement With the Sustainability Challenge
The implications of sustainable development are far reaching, and yet many areas of academic scholarship were slow to deeply engage with it. This is a problem because, in practical terms, it can generate a false sense of calm, of business as usual, and a failure to rise to the integrative challenge of balancing the trade‐offs across sustainability's economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Conceptually it is also problematic as, properly u…
Expert views on the legitimacy of renewable hydrogen certification schemes
In this article, we draw on findings from a mixed-methods international survey of experts in the energy sector ( n = 179) to better understand the role of legitimacy theory in informing the development of renewable hydrogen standards, certification, and labelling (SCL). The investigation is viewed through two conceptions of legitimacy: the sociological legitimacy of increasing the availability of renewable hydrogen technologies and the normative …
Remote sensing of night‐time lights and electricity consumption
Night‐time light (NTL) satellite imagery can provide unique insights into the energy sector. Nevertheless, there are limited studies that have systematically reviewed the literature on the relationship between electricity consumption and NTL. Therefore, this paper aims to provide a systematic review of studies that have explored this relationship. The review identified over 200 regression models estimating electricity consumption using NTL satell…
Policy mobilities and the policy cycle
This paper adds to scholarship on policy mobilities by borrowing a typology and set of ideas from political science about the different stages of the policy making process, namely agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision making, implementation, and evaluation. To date policy mobilities scholarship has mostly not been explicit about which stage of the policy process is being examined. We therefore provide a structure for analysing mobile polic…
Understanding Energy Innovation
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective.
Frustration, confusion and excitement
Smart grid knowledges and the state
In this paper we call for a closer analysis of the role of the nation state in shaping the geographies of knowledge created through public–private infrastructure collaborations, focusing on the empirical case of smart grids. We draw on contributions from economic geographers and political scientists, identifying an empirical and analytical blind spot around how states shape knowledge production and mobility in regulated infrastructure economies. …
The absences in climate’s human geographies
This short commentary explores two absences in Bulkeley’s (2019) human geographies of climate change. First, the absence of other environment problems, signifying how in the debate about climate change our response often acts to crowd out other problems. Second, in considering the temporal boundaries of climate’s human geographies, the absence of the future, which is increasingly being brought into being by scenarios, visualizations and creative …
Singular memory or institutional memories? Toward a dynamic approach
The ability of the civil service to act as a reservoir of institutional memory is central to the pragmatic task of governing. But there is a growing body of scholarship that suggests the bureaucracy is failing at this core task. In this article, we distinguish between two different ways of thinking about institutional memory: one “static” and one “dynamic.” In the former, memory is singular and held in document form, especially by files and proce…
The Emergence, Articulation and Negotiation of a New Food Industry Initiative in Rural Australia
This article reports on research to track and trace the development and diffusion of a new initiative for clustering a diverse range of agro-food businesses located in the rural state of Tasmania, Australia. The initiative is termed 'FermenTasmania'. To structure our analysis, our research team leveraged the concepts of boundary objects and organisations, and the Triple Helix model of innovation; testing these sociological concepts and model as a…
Salmon, sensors, and translation
This paper explores the emerging role of Big Data in environmental governance. We focus on the case of salmon aquaculture management from 2011 to 2017 in Macquarie Harbour, Australia, and compare this with the foundational case that inspired the development of the concept of 'translation' in actor-network theory, that of scallop domestication in St Brieuc Bay, France, in the 1970s. A key difference is the salience of environmental data in the con…
How do meters mediate? Energy meters, boundary objects and household transitions in Australia and the United Kingdom
Rural laboratories and experiment at the fringes
Sensing Reality? New Monitoring Technologies for Global Sustainability Standards
In the 1990s, civil society organizations partnered with business to “green” global supply chains by setting up formal sustainability standard-setting organizations (SSOs) in sectors including organic food, fair trade, forestry, and fisheries. Although SSOs have withstood the long-standing allegations that they are unnecessary, costly, nondemocratic, and trade-distorting, they must now respond to a new challenge, arising from recent developments …
Policy failure mobilities
This paper concerns the movement of negative lessons and worst practice in public policy. It focuses on a relatively new branch of scholarship – policy mobilities – which explores the global movement of policies. Within policy mobilities research there is concern about an empirical bias towards successful policies: there has been insufficient attention to whether policy failures might also be mobile. Ideas and concepts about policy failure from p…
Mobile policies and policy streams
Are policy failures mobile? An investigation of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program in the State of Victoria, Australia
This article is about a case of policy failure and negative lesson drawing, namely the implementation of a mandatory smart metering programme - the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program - in the State of Victoria, Australia, in the period 2009-2013. The article explores the framing of policy failure, and the ways in which failed polices might be mobile. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program provides an important empirical counterbalance…
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the mobilisation of desires, and the articulation of dissent. Using case studies from the US, Australia, and Europe, the book examines the creation and contestation of new forms of cultural politics - of ho…
The Role of International Policy Transfer Within the Multiple Streams Approach
This article draws on Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach ( MSA ) to consider international, not just domestic, flows of policy. It is argued that using the MSA in conjunction with international policy transfer and mobility theories allows for a fuller explanation of the development of smart electricity metering policy in Australia. The MSA is based originally on empirical research within a single country – the USA – in the late 1970s, and all th…
Climate change and the professions
Accounting for Carbon
Since the turn of the century accounting professional organisations have been involved in a number of debates about climate change, catalysed initially by technical discussions about the treatment of European carbon credits in financial accounts. These bodies are positioning themselves as leading on climate change, for example, through launching professional training courses, funding research, and initiating corporate workshops and seminars. The …
Governing the carbon offset market
Carbon offsets are produced and sold under the international climate change regime (the United Nations Kyoto Protocol) and also within an expanding voluntary offset market in which companies and individuals can voluntarily opt to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions. The volume of carbon produced and consumed within compliance and voluntary markets has grown dramatically in the last 5 years, raising a number of governance challenges. Thi…
Understanding Carbon Offset Technologies
In this article we unpack the ‘black box’ of carbon offsetting through a critical examination of the technologies and techniques that create carbon credits. Drawing on empirical research of compliance (Clean Development Mechanism) and voluntary carbon offset markets, we highlight the diversity of technologies, techniques and devices involved in carbon offsetting, ranging from refrigerant plants to systems of calculation and audit. We suggest that…
Understanding Carbon Offset Technologies
In this article we unpack the ‘black box’ of carbon offsetting through a critical examination of the technologies and techniques that create carbon credits. Drawing on empirical research of compliance (Clean Development Mechanism) and voluntary carbon offset markets, we highlight the diversity of technologies, techniques and devices involved in carbon offsetting, ranging from refrigerant plants to systems of calculation and audit. We suggest that…
Accounting for Carbon
Since the turn of the century accounting professional organisations have been involved in a number of debates about climate change, catalysed initially by technical discussions about the treatment of European carbon credits in financial accounts. These bodies are positioning themselves as leading on climate change, for example, through launching professional training courses, funding research, and initiating corporate workshops and seminars. The …
Agencement in housing markets
Policy failure mobilities
This paper concerns the movement of negative lessons and worst practice in public policy. It focuses on a relatively new branch of scholarship – policy mobilities – which explores the global movement of policies. Within policy mobilities research there is concern about an empirical bias towards successful policies: there has been insufficient attention to whether policy failures might also be mobile. Ideas and concepts about policy failure from p…
Carbon Offsetting
In this paper we examine how theories of sustainable and ethical consumption help us to understand a new, rapidly expanding type of consumer product designed to mitigate climate change: carbon offsets. The voluntary carbon offset market grew by 200% between 2005 and 2006, and there are now over 150 retailers of voluntary carbon offsets worldwide. Our analysis concentrates on the production and consumption of carbon offsets, drawing on ideas from …
Are policy failures mobile? An investigation of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program in the State of Victoria, Australia
This article is about a case of policy failure and negative lesson drawing, namely the implementation of a mandatory smart metering programme - the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program - in the State of Victoria, Australia, in the period 2009-2013. The article explores the framing of policy failure, and the ways in which failed polices might be mobile. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program provides an important empirical counterbalance…
The Role of International Policy Transfer Within the Multiple Streams Approach
This article draws on Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach ( MSA ) to consider international, not just domestic, flows of policy. It is argued that using the MSA in conjunction with international policy transfer and mobility theories allows for a fuller explanation of the development of smart electricity metering policy in Australia. The MSA is based originally on empirical research within a single country – the USA – in the late 1970s, and all th…
Salmon, sensors, and translation
This paper explores the emerging role of Big Data in environmental governance. We focus on the case of salmon aquaculture management from 2011 to 2017 in Macquarie Harbour, Australia, and compare this with the foundational case that inspired the development of the concept of 'translation' in actor-network theory, that of scallop domestication in St Brieuc Bay, France, in the 1970s. A key difference is the salience of environmental data in the con…
Mobile policies and policy streams
Governing the carbon offset market
Carbon offsets are produced and sold under the international climate change regime (the United Nations Kyoto Protocol) and also within an expanding voluntary offset market in which companies and individuals can voluntarily opt to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions. The volume of carbon produced and consumed within compliance and voluntary markets has grown dramatically in the last 5 years, raising a number of governance challenges. Thi…
Supply and Demand for Low Energy Housing in the UK
Economic theory about supply and demand suggests that if consumer demand for a product increases then producers respond by increasing supply. In the UK housing market there is emerging evidence of consumer demand for low energy housing, yet little has been built to date by private sector housebuilders: existing low energy housing is largely within the social housing and self-build sectors. Ideas from science and technology studies (STS) are intro…
Sensing Reality? New Monitoring Technologies for Global Sustainability Standards
In the 1990s, civil society organizations partnered with business to “green” global supply chains by setting up formal sustainability standard-setting organizations (SSOs) in sectors including organic food, fair trade, forestry, and fisheries. Although SSOs have withstood the long-standing allegations that they are unnecessary, costly, nondemocratic, and trade-distorting, they must now respond to a new challenge, arising from recent developments …
Climate change and the professions
Singular memory or institutional memories? Toward a dynamic approach
The ability of the civil service to act as a reservoir of institutional memory is central to the pragmatic task of governing. But there is a growing body of scholarship that suggests the bureaucracy is failing at this core task. In this article, we distinguish between two different ways of thinking about institutional memory: one “static” and one “dynamic.” In the former, memory is singular and held in document form, especially by files and proce…
Frustration, confusion and excitement
Exploring the Role of Materials in Policy Change
There remains uncertainty in models of the policy process about how and when radical change takes place. Most policy authors focus on explaining incremental change, and yet in practice a pattern of change described as punctuated equilibrium has been observed, with periods of stability interspersed with periods of rapid, abrupt change. It is argued here that the influence of materials and technologies—the substance of policy—must be incorporated i…
The absences in climate’s human geographies
This short commentary explores two absences in Bulkeley’s (2019) human geographies of climate change. First, the absence of other environment problems, signifying how in the debate about climate change our response often acts to crowd out other problems. Second, in considering the temporal boundaries of climate’s human geographies, the absence of the future, which is increasingly being brought into being by scenarios, visualizations and creative …
How do meters mediate? Energy meters, boundary objects and household transitions in Australia and the United Kingdom
Rural laboratories and experiment at the fringes
Policy mobilities and the policy cycle
This paper adds to scholarship on policy mobilities by borrowing a typology and set of ideas from political science about the different stages of the policy making process, namely agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision making, implementation, and evaluation. To date policy mobilities scholarship has mostly not been explicit about which stage of the policy process is being examined. We therefore provide a structure for analysing mobile polic…
Smart grid knowledges and the state
In this paper we call for a closer analysis of the role of the nation state in shaping the geographies of knowledge created through public–private infrastructure collaborations, focusing on the empirical case of smart grids. We draw on contributions from economic geographers and political scientists, identifying an empirical and analytical blind spot around how states shape knowledge production and mobility in regulated infrastructure economies. …
Expert views on the legitimacy of renewable hydrogen certification schemes
In this article, we draw on findings from a mixed-methods international survey of experts in the energy sector ( n = 179) to better understand the role of legitimacy theory in informing the development of renewable hydrogen standards, certification, and labelling (SCL). The investigation is viewed through two conceptions of legitimacy: the sociological legitimacy of increasing the availability of renewable hydrogen technologies and the normative …
The Emergence, Articulation and Negotiation of a New Food Industry Initiative in Rural Australia
This article reports on research to track and trace the development and diffusion of a new initiative for clustering a diverse range of agro-food businesses located in the rural state of Tasmania, Australia. The initiative is termed 'FermenTasmania'. To structure our analysis, our research team leveraged the concepts of boundary objects and organisations, and the Triple Helix model of innovation; testing these sociological concepts and model as a…
Supply and Demand for Low Energy Housing in the UK
Economic theory about supply and demand suggests that if consumer demand for a product increases then producers respond by increasing supply. In the UK housing market there is emerging evidence of consumer demand for low energy housing, yet little has been built to date by private sector housebuilders: existing low energy housing is largely within the social housing and self-build sectors. Ideas from science and technology studies (STS) are intro…
Exploring the Role of Materials in Policy Change
There remains uncertainty in models of the policy process about how and when radical change takes place. Most policy authors focus on explaining incremental change, and yet in practice a pattern of change described as punctuated equilibrium has been observed, with periods of stability interspersed with periods of rapid, abrupt change. It is argued here that the influence of materials and technologies—the substance of policy—must be incorporated i…
Carbon Offsetting
In this paper we examine how theories of sustainable and ethical consumption help us to understand a new, rapidly expanding type of consumer product designed to mitigate climate change: carbon offsets. The voluntary carbon offset market grew by 200% between 2005 and 2006, and there are now over 150 retailers of voluntary carbon offsets worldwide. Our analysis concentrates on the production and consumption of carbon offsets, drawing on ideas from …
Governing the carbon offset market
Carbon offsets are produced and sold under the international climate change regime (the United Nations Kyoto Protocol) and also within an expanding voluntary offset market in which companies and individuals can voluntarily opt to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions. The volume of carbon produced and consumed within compliance and voluntary markets has grown dramatically in the last 5 years, raising a number of governance challenges. Thi…
Understanding Carbon Offset Technologies
In this article we unpack the ‘black box’ of carbon offsetting through a critical examination of the technologies and techniques that create carbon credits. Drawing on empirical research of compliance (Clean Development Mechanism) and voluntary carbon offset markets, we highlight the diversity of technologies, techniques and devices involved in carbon offsetting, ranging from refrigerant plants to systems of calculation and audit. We suggest that…
Agencement in housing markets
Accounting for Carbon
Since the turn of the century accounting professional organisations have been involved in a number of debates about climate change, catalysed initially by technical discussions about the treatment of European carbon credits in financial accounts. These bodies are positioning themselves as leading on climate change, for example, through launching professional training courses, funding research, and initiating corporate workshops and seminars. The …
Climate change and the professions
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the mobilisation of desires, and the articulation of dissent. Using case studies from the US, Australia, and Europe, the book examines the creation and contestation of new forms of cultural politics - of ho…
The Role of International Policy Transfer Within the Multiple Streams Approach
This article draws on Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach ( MSA ) to consider international, not just domestic, flows of policy. It is argued that using the MSA in conjunction with international policy transfer and mobility theories allows for a fuller explanation of the development of smart electricity metering policy in Australia. The MSA is based originally on empirical research within a single country – the USA – in the late 1970s, and all th…
How do meters mediate? Energy meters, boundary objects and household transitions in Australia and the United Kingdom
Rural laboratories and experiment at the fringes
Sensing Reality? New Monitoring Technologies for Global Sustainability Standards
In the 1990s, civil society organizations partnered with business to “green” global supply chains by setting up formal sustainability standard-setting organizations (SSOs) in sectors including organic food, fair trade, forestry, and fisheries. Although SSOs have withstood the long-standing allegations that they are unnecessary, costly, nondemocratic, and trade-distorting, they must now respond to a new challenge, arising from recent developments …
Policy failure mobilities
This paper concerns the movement of negative lessons and worst practice in public policy. It focuses on a relatively new branch of scholarship – policy mobilities – which explores the global movement of policies. Within policy mobilities research there is concern about an empirical bias towards successful policies: there has been insufficient attention to whether policy failures might also be mobile. Ideas and concepts about policy failure from p…
Mobile policies and policy streams
Are policy failures mobile? An investigation of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program in the State of Victoria, Australia
This article is about a case of policy failure and negative lesson drawing, namely the implementation of a mandatory smart metering programme - the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program - in the State of Victoria, Australia, in the period 2009-2013. The article explores the framing of policy failure, and the ways in which failed polices might be mobile. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program provides an important empirical counterbalance…
Singular memory or institutional memories? Toward a dynamic approach
The ability of the civil service to act as a reservoir of institutional memory is central to the pragmatic task of governing. But there is a growing body of scholarship that suggests the bureaucracy is failing at this core task. In this article, we distinguish between two different ways of thinking about institutional memory: one “static” and one “dynamic.” In the former, memory is singular and held in document form, especially by files and proce…
The Emergence, Articulation and Negotiation of a New Food Industry Initiative in Rural Australia
This article reports on research to track and trace the development and diffusion of a new initiative for clustering a diverse range of agro-food businesses located in the rural state of Tasmania, Australia. The initiative is termed 'FermenTasmania'. To structure our analysis, our research team leveraged the concepts of boundary objects and organisations, and the Triple Helix model of innovation; testing these sociological concepts and model as a…
Salmon, sensors, and translation
This paper explores the emerging role of Big Data in environmental governance. We focus on the case of salmon aquaculture management from 2011 to 2017 in Macquarie Harbour, Australia, and compare this with the foundational case that inspired the development of the concept of 'translation' in actor-network theory, that of scallop domestication in St Brieuc Bay, France, in the 1970s. A key difference is the salience of environmental data in the con…
The absences in climate’s human geographies
This short commentary explores two absences in Bulkeley’s (2019) human geographies of climate change. First, the absence of other environment problems, signifying how in the debate about climate change our response often acts to crowd out other problems. Second, in considering the temporal boundaries of climate’s human geographies, the absence of the future, which is increasingly being brought into being by scenarios, visualizations and creative …
Frustration, confusion and excitement
Smart grid knowledges and the state
In this paper we call for a closer analysis of the role of the nation state in shaping the geographies of knowledge created through public–private infrastructure collaborations, focusing on the empirical case of smart grids. We draw on contributions from economic geographers and political scientists, identifying an empirical and analytical blind spot around how states shape knowledge production and mobility in regulated infrastructure economies. …
Understanding Energy Innovation
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective.
Remote sensing of night‐time lights and electricity consumption
Night‐time light (NTL) satellite imagery can provide unique insights into the energy sector. Nevertheless, there are limited studies that have systematically reviewed the literature on the relationship between electricity consumption and NTL. Therefore, this paper aims to provide a systematic review of studies that have explored this relationship. The review identified over 200 regression models estimating electricity consumption using NTL satell…
Policy mobilities and the policy cycle
This paper adds to scholarship on policy mobilities by borrowing a typology and set of ideas from political science about the different stages of the policy making process, namely agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision making, implementation, and evaluation. To date policy mobilities scholarship has mostly not been explicit about which stage of the policy process is being examined. We therefore provide a structure for analysing mobile polic…
Sociology (17 obras) · Economics (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Policy Transfer and Learning (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras)