L Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 2597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1611-9239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Enhancing the uptake and quality of SuDS within new housing developments
Examining the centralization heuristic in Swedish peri-urban and rural wastewater management
Creating Legitimacy for Citizen Initiatives
Citizen-led initiatives raise practical and theoretical questions about the criteria by which their democratic legitimacy should be judged. While existing analytical and normative frameworks are problematically based on a `state'/`citizen' binary, a network ontology which sees these as strategically-deployed constructs is more practically adequate for analysis. We demonstrate this through a case of a successful citizen initiative, and conclude th…
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories
Concerns about the climate crisis and the escalating pace of global consumption are accelerating the pressure on governments to moderate public demand for resources like water, food and energy. Notwithstanding their increasing sophistication, standard behavioural change approaches continue to be criticised for a narrow understanding of what shapes behaviour. One alternative theoretical position comes from practice theories, which draw on interpre…
Reflexive adaptation for resilient water services
‘Adaptive management’ concern attempts to manage complex social-ecological and socio-technical systems in nimble ways to enhance their resilience. In this paper, three forms of adaptive management are identified, ‘scientific’ forms focused on collation of scientific data in response to management experiments, but more recent developments adding processes of collaboration as well as emphasising the need for reflexivity, that is, conscious processe…
The water–energy–food nexus at home
The nexus of water–energy–food ( WEF ) is as apparent at the household scale as it is anywhere else. We introduce the “Nexus at Home” as a starting point for exploring the dynamics of WEF resource use and household sustainability. Drawing on two research projects we focus specifically on domestic kitchens as a site where practices of cooking, eating, cleaning and disposing of waste come together. While these practices have long been targets for p…
Resource efficiency and the imagined public
Resource efficiency initiatives seek to moderate how water and energy are used at a domestic level. They can address local and regional issues of resource supply while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and water in-security, hence enabling both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Although they form an increasingly important part of our resource governance landscape, these interventions have received relatively little academic s…
Developing adaptive capacity through reflexivity
This paper develops debates about reflexivity and its role in adaptive management and collaborative research through recounting the case of an action research project aiming to support water utilities in adapting to climate change. The project sought to produce ‘usable’ knowledge about adaptation through interpretive social scientists working closely with water utility practitioners operating within a positivist knowledge context. Developing the …
Positivism, post‐positivism and domestic water demand
The contributions and limitations of the positivist and post‐positivist approaches to research into domestic water demand are analysed and compared, and the potential for bringing the two perspectives together is evaluated. The analysis is based on a 4‐year investigation of water demand conducted as part of a larger multidisciplinary research programme on sustainable urban environments and specifically the role of water in new developments. The p…
Making power explicit in sustainable water innovation
This article offers a new perspective on environmental citizenship by proposing the ‘subjectivity–institution–structure’ framework. Applying the framework to a sustainable water innovation project in north-west England, it argues that the meaning of environmental rights, the understanding of required environmental responsibilities, and the degree of public participation in decision-making, are shaped by individuals' subjective values, institution…
Collaborative research in sustainable water management
This paper reflects on what is meant by interdisciplinary engagement in the context of two integrated urban water management research programmes in the UK and New Zealand. Different extents of interdisciplinary engagement in research teams are conceptualised on a continuum that ranges from rhetorical intentions to joint research. We discuss how interdisciplinary working in research programmes is shaped through the processes of bidding, research m…
Remaking Local Governance through Community Participation? The Case of the UK Community Waste Sector
This article explores the role played by community sector organisations in terms of community participation and local governance. It focuses on organisations concerned with waste reduction, reuse and recycling-community waste projects. The current UK government has high expectations of the potential and actual role of the community sector in service delivery. To indicate how these expectations might be fulfilled, the article employs the local gov…
Reflections on Foucauldian discourse analysis in planning and environmental policy research
Discourse analysis is becoming an increasingly common approach in planning and environmental policy research. This paper asserts that the generic treatment of discourse analysis obscures distinct approaches in which ‘discourses’ can combine different elements of text, systems of thought and action. Textually oriented approaches have been more prevalent during the 1990s, but this paper explores a different approach, grounded in the theory of Miche…
Local policy for the global environment
British local government is placing a new emphasis on local action for the global environment. In the literature addressing these developments limited attention has been paid to the contested nature of sustainability, or to the local context in which initiatives arise. A cultural politics approach provides a means through which these shortcomings can be overcome (Hajer, 1996). Its discourse basis enables a local authority to be seen as a forum in…
Local State of the Environment Reporting
(1998). Local State of the Environment Reporting: Lessons from Experience in Britain and Canada. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 81-89
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories
Concerns about the climate crisis and the escalating pace of global consumption are accelerating the pressure on governments to moderate public demand for resources like water, food and energy. Notwithstanding their increasing sophistication, standard behavioural change approaches continue to be criticised for a narrow understanding of what shapes behaviour. One alternative theoretical position comes from practice theories, which draw on interpre…
The water–energy–food nexus at home
The nexus of water–energy–food ( WEF ) is as apparent at the household scale as it is anywhere else. We introduce the “Nexus at Home” as a starting point for exploring the dynamics of WEF resource use and household sustainability. Drawing on two research projects we focus specifically on domestic kitchens as a site where practices of cooking, eating, cleaning and disposing of waste come together. While these practices have long been targets for p…
Positivism, post‐positivism and domestic water demand
The contributions and limitations of the positivist and post‐positivist approaches to research into domestic water demand are analysed and compared, and the potential for bringing the two perspectives together is evaluated. The analysis is based on a 4‐year investigation of water demand conducted as part of a larger multidisciplinary research programme on sustainable urban environments and specifically the role of water in new developments. The p…
Developing adaptive capacity through reflexivity
This paper develops debates about reflexivity and its role in adaptive management and collaborative research through recounting the case of an action research project aiming to support water utilities in adapting to climate change. The project sought to produce ‘usable’ knowledge about adaptation through interpretive social scientists working closely with water utility practitioners operating within a positivist knowledge context. Developing the …
Remaking Local Governance through Community Participation? The Case of the UK Community Waste Sector
This article explores the role played by community sector organisations in terms of community participation and local governance. It focuses on organisations concerned with waste reduction, reuse and recycling-community waste projects. The current UK government has high expectations of the potential and actual role of the community sector in service delivery. To indicate how these expectations might be fulfilled, the article employs the local gov…
Making power explicit in sustainable water innovation
This article offers a new perspective on environmental citizenship by proposing the ‘subjectivity–institution–structure’ framework. Applying the framework to a sustainable water innovation project in north-west England, it argues that the meaning of environmental rights, the understanding of required environmental responsibilities, and the degree of public participation in decision-making, are shaped by individuals' subjective values, institution…
Collaborative research in sustainable water management
This paper reflects on what is meant by interdisciplinary engagement in the context of two integrated urban water management research programmes in the UK and New Zealand. Different extents of interdisciplinary engagement in research teams are conceptualised on a continuum that ranges from rhetorical intentions to joint research. We discuss how interdisciplinary working in research programmes is shaped through the processes of bidding, research m…
Resource efficiency and the imagined public
Resource efficiency initiatives seek to moderate how water and energy are used at a domestic level. They can address local and regional issues of resource supply while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and water in-security, hence enabling both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Although they form an increasingly important part of our resource governance landscape, these interventions have received relatively little academic s…
Local policy for the global environment
British local government is placing a new emphasis on local action for the global environment. In the literature addressing these developments limited attention has been paid to the contested nature of sustainability, or to the local context in which initiatives arise. A cultural politics approach provides a means through which these shortcomings can be overcome (Hajer, 1996). Its discourse basis enables a local authority to be seen as a forum in…
Local State of the Environment Reporting
(1998). Local State of the Environment Reporting: Lessons from Experience in Britain and Canada. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 81-89
Local policy for the global environment
British local government is placing a new emphasis on local action for the global environment. In the literature addressing these developments limited attention has been paid to the contested nature of sustainability, or to the local context in which initiatives arise. A cultural politics approach provides a means through which these shortcomings can be overcome (Hajer, 1996). Its discourse basis enables a local authority to be seen as a forum in…
Reflections on Foucauldian discourse analysis in planning and environmental policy research
Discourse analysis is becoming an increasingly common approach in planning and environmental policy research. This paper asserts that the generic treatment of discourse analysis obscures distinct approaches in which ‘discourses’ can combine different elements of text, systems of thought and action. Textually oriented approaches have been more prevalent during the 1990s, but this paper explores a different approach, grounded in the theory of Miche…
Remaking Local Governance through Community Participation? The Case of the UK Community Waste Sector
This article explores the role played by community sector organisations in terms of community participation and local governance. It focuses on organisations concerned with waste reduction, reuse and recycling-community waste projects. The current UK government has high expectations of the potential and actual role of the community sector in service delivery. To indicate how these expectations might be fulfilled, the article employs the local gov…
Collaborative research in sustainable water management
This paper reflects on what is meant by interdisciplinary engagement in the context of two integrated urban water management research programmes in the UK and New Zealand. Different extents of interdisciplinary engagement in research teams are conceptualised on a continuum that ranges from rhetorical intentions to joint research. We discuss how interdisciplinary working in research programmes is shaped through the processes of bidding, research m…
Making power explicit in sustainable water innovation
This article offers a new perspective on environmental citizenship by proposing the ‘subjectivity–institution–structure’ framework. Applying the framework to a sustainable water innovation project in north-west England, it argues that the meaning of environmental rights, the understanding of required environmental responsibilities, and the degree of public participation in decision-making, are shaped by individuals' subjective values, institution…
Positivism, post‐positivism and domestic water demand
The contributions and limitations of the positivist and post‐positivist approaches to research into domestic water demand are analysed and compared, and the potential for bringing the two perspectives together is evaluated. The analysis is based on a 4‐year investigation of water demand conducted as part of a larger multidisciplinary research programme on sustainable urban environments and specifically the role of water in new developments. The p…
Developing adaptive capacity through reflexivity
This paper develops debates about reflexivity and its role in adaptive management and collaborative research through recounting the case of an action research project aiming to support water utilities in adapting to climate change. The project sought to produce ‘usable’ knowledge about adaptation through interpretive social scientists working closely with water utility practitioners operating within a positivist knowledge context. Developing the …
Resource efficiency and the imagined public
Resource efficiency initiatives seek to moderate how water and energy are used at a domestic level. They can address local and regional issues of resource supply while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and water in-security, hence enabling both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Although they form an increasingly important part of our resource governance landscape, these interventions have received relatively little academic s…
The water–energy–food nexus at home
The nexus of water–energy–food ( WEF ) is as apparent at the household scale as it is anywhere else. We introduce the “Nexus at Home” as a starting point for exploring the dynamics of WEF resource use and household sustainability. Drawing on two research projects we focus specifically on domestic kitchens as a site where practices of cooking, eating, cleaning and disposing of waste come together. While these practices have long been targets for p…
Reflexive adaptation for resilient water services
‘Adaptive management’ concern attempts to manage complex social-ecological and socio-technical systems in nimble ways to enhance their resilience. In this paper, three forms of adaptive management are identified, ‘scientific’ forms focused on collation of scientific data in response to management experiments, but more recent developments adding processes of collaboration as well as emphasising the need for reflexivity, that is, conscious processe…
Creating Legitimacy for Citizen Initiatives
Citizen-led initiatives raise practical and theoretical questions about the criteria by which their democratic legitimacy should be judged. While existing analytical and normative frameworks are problematically based on a `state'/`citizen' binary, a network ontology which sees these as strategically-deployed constructs is more practically adequate for analysis. We demonstrate this through a case of a successful citizen initiative, and conclude th…
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories
Concerns about the climate crisis and the escalating pace of global consumption are accelerating the pressure on governments to moderate public demand for resources like water, food and energy. Notwithstanding their increasing sophistication, standard behavioural change approaches continue to be criticised for a narrow understanding of what shapes behaviour. One alternative theoretical position comes from practice theories, which draw on interpre…
Examining the centralization heuristic in Swedish peri-urban and rural wastewater management
Enhancing the uptake and quality of SuDS within new housing developments
Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works)