James Van Alstine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Van Alstine |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Alstine |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ALSTINE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3649-321X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping the Global South Circular Economy: A Bibliometric‐Narrative Analysis
Although the circular economy ( CE ) is gaining popularity because of its propensity to optimise the sustainability of resources, few scholars have examined how this field has evolved in the Global South. Using bibliometric‐narrative analysis, our paper maps general and thematic trends of CE in the Global South using micro, meso, and macro level frameworks. Based on our dataset, retrieved from the WoS database, we found that the first reference t…
Defusing a carbon bomb: Exploring the strategies of anti-fracking activists in Mexico
The divergence of South Korea's Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS ) from the EU ETS: An institutional complementarity view
Emissions trading schemes (ETS) have spread across the globe to tackle climate change. However, limited attention has been given to how ETS characteristics and designs differ and why. We use the concept of institutional complementarity to explore how the EU ETS and South Korea's ETS (K‐ETS) adapt to complement established political economy. The EU ETS is characterized as a market with stakeholder ownership, while the K‐ETS is more regulatory in n…
Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea
Many countries have set net-zero targets to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals. However, we do not know why and how transitioning countries have set net-zero targets, given the narratives of economic growth persistent in them. We address this gap by examining the 2050 carbon neutrality target setting in South Korea and assessing its potential to foster transitioning to a carbon neutral society. We draw from Historical Institutionalism to examine…
The making of an oil frontier: Territorialisation dynamics in Uganda's emerging oil industry
Extractive industries are operating in an increasingly complex global context with concerns about human rights, environmental protection, and transparency high on the agenda. To establish a new oil project, oil companies must navigate a landscape of competing territorialisation processes, where the state and extractive companies put in place measures to recognise community rights, conduct ESIAs and provide local benefits. Indigenous groups, socia…
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: Evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance
Understanding mechanisms of policy engagement and the participation of different actors in urban climate governance is particularly important as cities follow climate emergency declarations with corresponding action, to ensure that inequalities are not exacerbated by climate action. Citizens’ juries are a deliberative democracy tool that allows a demographically representative sample of the population to learn about a contested issue from experts…
Politics on display: The realities of artisanal mining formalisation in Ghana
Conceptualizing Climate Vulnerability in Complex Adaptive Systems
This Perspective develops a novel approach for assessing the vulnerability of complex adaptive systems to climate change. Our characterization focuses on the dynamic nature of vulnerability and its role in developing differential risk across multi-dimensional systems, communities, or societies. We expand on past conceptualizations that have examined vulnerability as processual rather than a static or binary state and note the necessary role of co…
Google fracking: ” The online information ecology of the English shale gas debate
A strong online response has marked contention on shale gas from the outset, as campaign members link across borders to share information and inform themselves about the impacts of development. In this article, we apply a post-political lens to online activity in the English shale gas debate, to determine how this complex information ecology has shaped the dynamics of protest. Using shale gas development in Lancashire, North West England, as our …
Ghana's petroleum industry: Expectations, Frustrations and Anger in Coastal Communities
With much fanfare, Ghana's Jubilee Oil Field was discovered in 2007 and began producing oil in 2010. In the six coastal districts nearest the offshore fields, expectations of oil-backed development have been raised. However, there is growing concern over what locals perceive to be negative impacts of oil and gas production. Based on field research conducted in 2010 and 2015 in the same communities in each district, this paper presents a longitudi…
Can national policy blockages accelerate the development of polycentric governance? Evidence from climate change policy in the United Kingdom
Many factors can conspire to limit the scope for policy development at the national level. In this paper, we consider whether blockages in national policy processes − resulting for example from austerity or small state political philosophies − might be overcome by the development of more polycentric governance arrangements. Drawing on evidence from three stakeholder workshops and fifteen interviews, we address this question by exploring the Unite…
Critical reflections on 15 years of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti)
Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a Systems Perspective of Social Change in Mitigation and Adaptation
There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental adjustments, aiming instead for society‐wide transformation. In this context, sociotechnical ( ST ) transitions and social–ecological ( SE ) resilience are two prominent normative agendas. Reviewing these literatures reveals how both share a complex‐systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregro…
Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis
Transparency in Resource Governance: The Pitfalls and Potential of “New Oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa
An international agenda has evolved over the past decade to establish hard and soft rules to govern the impacts of the extractive industries. The international community and some resource-rich states have increasingly embraced norms such as transparency in resource governance. This paper explores how multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign have sough…
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20): A sign of the times or ‘ecology as spectacle
The fourteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development: The energy session
A review of the Fourteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, focusing on international energy issues
Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a Systems Perspective of Social Change in Mitigation and Adaptation
There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental adjustments, aiming instead for society‐wide transformation. In this context, sociotechnical ( ST ) transitions and social–ecological ( SE ) resilience are two prominent normative agendas. Reviewing these literatures reveals how both share a complex‐systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregro…
Transparency in Resource Governance: The Pitfalls and Potential of “New Oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa
An international agenda has evolved over the past decade to establish hard and soft rules to govern the impacts of the extractive industries. The international community and some resource-rich states have increasingly embraced norms such as transparency in resource governance. This paper explores how multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign have sough…
Politics on display: The realities of artisanal mining formalisation in Ghana
Google fracking: ” The online information ecology of the English shale gas debate
A strong online response has marked contention on shale gas from the outset, as campaign members link across borders to share information and inform themselves about the impacts of development. In this article, we apply a post-political lens to online activity in the English shale gas debate, to determine how this complex information ecology has shaped the dynamics of protest. Using shale gas development in Lancashire, North West England, as our …
Critical reflections on 15 years of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti)
Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea
Many countries have set net-zero targets to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals. However, we do not know why and how transitioning countries have set net-zero targets, given the narratives of economic growth persistent in them. We address this gap by examining the 2050 carbon neutrality target setting in South Korea and assessing its potential to foster transitioning to a carbon neutral society. We draw from Historical Institutionalism to examine…
Defusing a carbon bomb: Exploring the strategies of anti-fracking activists in Mexico
The divergence of South Korea's Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS ) from the EU ETS: An institutional complementarity view
Emissions trading schemes (ETS) have spread across the globe to tackle climate change. However, limited attention has been given to how ETS characteristics and designs differ and why. We use the concept of institutional complementarity to explore how the EU ETS and South Korea's ETS (K‐ETS) adapt to complement established political economy. The EU ETS is characterized as a market with stakeholder ownership, while the K‐ETS is more regulatory in n…
The making of an oil frontier: Territorialisation dynamics in Uganda's emerging oil industry
Extractive industries are operating in an increasingly complex global context with concerns about human rights, environmental protection, and transparency high on the agenda. To establish a new oil project, oil companies must navigate a landscape of competing territorialisation processes, where the state and extractive companies put in place measures to recognise community rights, conduct ESIAs and provide local benefits. Indigenous groups, socia…
Ghana's petroleum industry: Expectations, Frustrations and Anger in Coastal Communities
With much fanfare, Ghana's Jubilee Oil Field was discovered in 2007 and began producing oil in 2010. In the six coastal districts nearest the offshore fields, expectations of oil-backed development have been raised. However, there is growing concern over what locals perceive to be negative impacts of oil and gas production. Based on field research conducted in 2010 and 2015 in the same communities in each district, this paper presents a longitudi…
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20): A sign of the times or ‘ecology as spectacle
The fourteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development: The energy session
A review of the Fourteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, focusing on international energy issues
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20): A sign of the times or ‘ecology as spectacle
Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis
Transparency in Resource Governance: The Pitfalls and Potential of “New Oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa
An international agenda has evolved over the past decade to establish hard and soft rules to govern the impacts of the extractive industries. The international community and some resource-rich states have increasingly embraced norms such as transparency in resource governance. This paper explores how multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign have sough…
Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a Systems Perspective of Social Change in Mitigation and Adaptation
There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental adjustments, aiming instead for society‐wide transformation. In this context, sociotechnical ( ST ) transitions and social–ecological ( SE ) resilience are two prominent normative agendas. Reviewing these literatures reveals how both share a complex‐systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregro…
Can national policy blockages accelerate the development of polycentric governance? Evidence from climate change policy in the United Kingdom
Many factors can conspire to limit the scope for policy development at the national level. In this paper, we consider whether blockages in national policy processes − resulting for example from austerity or small state political philosophies − might be overcome by the development of more polycentric governance arrangements. Drawing on evidence from three stakeholder workshops and fifteen interviews, we address this question by exploring the Unite…
Critical reflections on 15 years of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti)
Conceptualizing Climate Vulnerability in Complex Adaptive Systems
This Perspective develops a novel approach for assessing the vulnerability of complex adaptive systems to climate change. Our characterization focuses on the dynamic nature of vulnerability and its role in developing differential risk across multi-dimensional systems, communities, or societies. We expand on past conceptualizations that have examined vulnerability as processual rather than a static or binary state and note the necessary role of co…
Google fracking: ” The online information ecology of the English shale gas debate
A strong online response has marked contention on shale gas from the outset, as campaign members link across borders to share information and inform themselves about the impacts of development. In this article, we apply a post-political lens to online activity in the English shale gas debate, to determine how this complex information ecology has shaped the dynamics of protest. Using shale gas development in Lancashire, North West England, as our …
Ghana's petroleum industry: Expectations, Frustrations and Anger in Coastal Communities
With much fanfare, Ghana's Jubilee Oil Field was discovered in 2007 and began producing oil in 2010. In the six coastal districts nearest the offshore fields, expectations of oil-backed development have been raised. However, there is growing concern over what locals perceive to be negative impacts of oil and gas production. Based on field research conducted in 2010 and 2015 in the same communities in each district, this paper presents a longitudi…
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: Evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance
Understanding mechanisms of policy engagement and the participation of different actors in urban climate governance is particularly important as cities follow climate emergency declarations with corresponding action, to ensure that inequalities are not exacerbated by climate action. Citizens’ juries are a deliberative democracy tool that allows a demographically representative sample of the population to learn about a contested issue from experts…
Politics on display: The realities of artisanal mining formalisation in Ghana
The making of an oil frontier: Territorialisation dynamics in Uganda's emerging oil industry
Extractive industries are operating in an increasingly complex global context with concerns about human rights, environmental protection, and transparency high on the agenda. To establish a new oil project, oil companies must navigate a landscape of competing territorialisation processes, where the state and extractive companies put in place measures to recognise community rights, conduct ESIAs and provide local benefits. Indigenous groups, socia…
The divergence of South Korea's Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS ) from the EU ETS: An institutional complementarity view
Emissions trading schemes (ETS) have spread across the globe to tackle climate change. However, limited attention has been given to how ETS characteristics and designs differ and why. We use the concept of institutional complementarity to explore how the EU ETS and South Korea's ETS (K‐ETS) adapt to complement established political economy. The EU ETS is characterized as a market with stakeholder ownership, while the K‐ETS is more regulatory in n…
Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea
Many countries have set net-zero targets to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals. However, we do not know why and how transitioning countries have set net-zero targets, given the narratives of economic growth persistent in them. We address this gap by examining the 2050 carbon neutrality target setting in South Korea and assessing its potential to foster transitioning to a carbon neutral society. We draw from Historical Institutionalism to examine…
Defusing a carbon bomb: Exploring the strategies of anti-fracking activists in Mexico
Mapping the Global South Circular Economy: A Bibliometric‐Narrative Analysis
Although the circular economy ( CE ) is gaining popularity because of its propensity to optimise the sustainability of resources, few scholars have examined how this field has evolved in the Global South. Using bibliometric‐narrative analysis, our paper maps general and thematic trends of CE in the Global South using micro, meso, and macro level frameworks. Based on our dataset, retrieved from the WoS database, we found that the first reference t…
Political science (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mining and Resource Management (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)