D Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 30318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3778-9503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Acceleration mechanisms and tipping dynamics in Australia’s renewable energy transition
Non-Technical Summary Achieving sustainability and climate goals requires accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This study explores how and why Australia’s electricity transition has accelerated in recent years. By examining developments in solar and wind technologies, policies, and public attitudes, the research uncovers the feedback mechanisms and ‘tipping points’ that have driven progress and those that now risk sl…
Moving beyond implementation gaps in climate policy: Exploring the transformative innovation potential of municipal sustainability actors
Urban municipalities are commonly viewed as critical actors in net zero transitions due to their unique positionality between vertical levels of government and the communities they represent. Despite a swathe of ambitious climate policy stances at the municipal level, we are yet to witness the level of change required to achieve net zero transitions. Whilst the disconnect between policy rhetoric and implementation is well-documented, this study s…
Navigating the emotional landscape of urban futures: Exploring the role of feelings in participatory backcasting for net zero transitions
Participatory backcasting is an established foresight method that engages stakeholders in the development of actions to achieve future goals. However, it overlooks the affective dimensions of transformative change. This paper presents an innovative methodology for participatory backcasting that integrates emotions into transition management processes in the context of an urban precinct undergoing net zero transformation in Melbourne, Australia. W…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Framing of innovation in urban Australian municipal climate policy
Despite growing recognition of the importance of innovation in achieving net zero transitions, it remains unclear how to govern transformative innovation. Urban municipalities are consistently recognised for going above and beyond their state and national counterparts in their policy stances on climate change, yet there is limited investigation into how municipalities engage with and frame innovation in their decarbonisation policies, plans and s…
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: Insights From 18 International Case Studies
In recent years, scholarly debate has grown around a perceived gap between societal impact rhetoric and the support structures for interdisciplinary and applied research, education, and innovation in universities. University Living Labs (UniLLs) provide a window into this relationship as they transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear modes of engagement to enable real-world experimentation and learning in response to societal challenges such a…
Bridging Data Governance and Socio-Technical Transitions to Understand Sustainable Smart Cities
Smart city (SC) studies that have drawn on socio-technical transitions literature do not explicitly consider data governance (DG) as a significant component of smart city transitions (SCTs). This article works towards this gap by bridging the literature on DG and socio-technical transitions in SCs. We aim to answer two overarching questions: (1) What can SCTs learn from DG?; and (2) What can DG learn from SCTs? Against this backdrop, we outline t…
Actors, agency, and institutional contexts: Transition intermediation for low-carbon mobility transition
Transition intermediaries are recognized as key actors in sustainability transitions. While the structural embeddedness of intermediaries has been explored in innovation studies and economic geography literature, few transition studies have systematically examined how the agency of transition intermediaries is affected by institutional contexts. Without a deeper understanding of this interplay, the literature risks a naive perception of transitio…
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale
This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews and secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), the analysis points towards four frames of net-zero at precinct scale: 'Electrify Everything' focuses on technology development to achieve carbon emissions reductions; 'Place Matters'…
Design cards as visual interventions: Visualising and Visioning Net Zero Futures
This article discusses the possibilities enabled by design ethnography cards which combine images and text to disseminate ethnographic insights and prompt stakeholder ideation in interdisciplinary applied research. In doing so, we draw on the example of a 58 card deck developed to be used in design ethnography workshops in Monash University in Victoria, Australia, within a project which combines design anthropological and transition management ap…
The politics of intermediation in transitions: Conflict and contestation over energy efficiency policy
Urban Planning by Experiment at Precinct Scale: Embracing Complexity, Ambiguity, and Multiplicity
Urban living labs have emerged as spatially embedded arenas for governing urban transformation, where heterogenous actor configurations experiment with new practices, institutions, and infrastructures. This article observes a nascent shift towards experimentation at the precinct scale and responds to a need to further investigate relevant processes in urban experimentation at this scale, and identifies particular challenges for urban planning. We…
To Serve and Protect: The Experiences of Policing in the Community of Young People from Black and Other Ethnic Minority Groups
This article presents findings from a study conducted in the West Midlands (UK) which builds on Brunson and Miller's (2006) US study, on young men from ethnic minority groups during their encounters with the police. Using a similar methodological approach, our study seeks to further understand the impact of police misconduct on young people from ethnic minority groups. The reports by the participants are characterized by hostility, lack of confid…
Participatory Cultural Production and the Diy Internet: From Theory to Practice and Back Again
The free and open source software movements have inspired a new mode of participatory cultural production. The early hacker communities elaborated a sophisticated socio-technical system of network-enabled collaboration culminating in the GNU-Linux operating system. More recently, a range of do-it-yourself (DIY) media technologies have given any user with internet access the ability to become a producer in a variety of social fields. This has spaw…
Assaults on Transport Workers
The Obesity Epidemic
Fearing Growing Old
Hard Drugs and "British" Solutions
High Living
Improving City Health: How Can We Tell?
Solution to crossword
Bursting with cancer!” Vacuous marketing slogans from around the world
Silencing Cities
Regional cooperation in telecommunications: Two examples from Africa
An example of cooperation among telecommunications entities in different developing countries is examined. Two multicountry projects in sub-Saharan Africa are discussed in the framework of the International Telecommunication Union's recent recommendations for concerted actions at the regional level. The problems that the least developed countries encounter in carrying out what in the industrialized world might be considered straightforward tasks …
To Serve and Protect: The Experiences of Policing in the Community of Young People from Black and Other Ethnic Minority Groups
This article presents findings from a study conducted in the West Midlands (UK) which builds on Brunson and Miller's (2006) US study, on young men from ethnic minority groups during their encounters with the police. Using a similar methodological approach, our study seeks to further understand the impact of police misconduct on young people from ethnic minority groups. The reports by the participants are characterized by hostility, lack of confid…
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale
This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews and secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), the analysis points towards four frames of net-zero at precinct scale: 'Electrify Everything' focuses on technology development to achieve carbon emissions reductions; 'Place Matters'…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Actors, agency, and institutional contexts: Transition intermediation for low-carbon mobility transition
Transition intermediaries are recognized as key actors in sustainability transitions. While the structural embeddedness of intermediaries has been explored in innovation studies and economic geography literature, few transition studies have systematically examined how the agency of transition intermediaries is affected by institutional contexts. Without a deeper understanding of this interplay, the literature risks a naive perception of transitio…
The politics of intermediation in transitions: Conflict and contestation over energy efficiency policy
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: Insights From 18 International Case Studies
In recent years, scholarly debate has grown around a perceived gap between societal impact rhetoric and the support structures for interdisciplinary and applied research, education, and innovation in universities. University Living Labs (UniLLs) provide a window into this relationship as they transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear modes of engagement to enable real-world experimentation and learning in response to societal challenges such a…
Design cards as visual interventions: Visualising and Visioning Net Zero Futures
This article discusses the possibilities enabled by design ethnography cards which combine images and text to disseminate ethnographic insights and prompt stakeholder ideation in interdisciplinary applied research. In doing so, we draw on the example of a 58 card deck developed to be used in design ethnography workshops in Monash University in Victoria, Australia, within a project which combines design anthropological and transition management ap…
Regional cooperation in telecommunications: Two examples from Africa
An example of cooperation among telecommunications entities in different developing countries is examined. Two multicountry projects in sub-Saharan Africa are discussed in the framework of the International Telecommunication Union's recent recommendations for concerted actions at the regional level. The problems that the least developed countries encounter in carrying out what in the industrialized world might be considered straightforward tasks …
Improving City Health: How Can We Tell?
Solution to crossword
Bursting with cancer!” Vacuous marketing slogans from around the world
Silencing Cities
Hard Drugs and "British" Solutions
High Living
The Obesity Epidemic
Fearing Growing Old
Assaults on Transport Workers
Participatory Cultural Production and the Diy Internet: From Theory to Practice and Back Again
The free and open source software movements have inspired a new mode of participatory cultural production. The early hacker communities elaborated a sophisticated socio-technical system of network-enabled collaboration culminating in the GNU-Linux operating system. More recently, a range of do-it-yourself (DIY) media technologies have given any user with internet access the ability to become a producer in a variety of social fields. This has spaw…
To Serve and Protect: The Experiences of Policing in the Community of Young People from Black and Other Ethnic Minority Groups
This article presents findings from a study conducted in the West Midlands (UK) which builds on Brunson and Miller's (2006) US study, on young men from ethnic minority groups during their encounters with the police. Using a similar methodological approach, our study seeks to further understand the impact of police misconduct on young people from ethnic minority groups. The reports by the participants are characterized by hostility, lack of confid…
Urban Planning by Experiment at Precinct Scale: Embracing Complexity, Ambiguity, and Multiplicity
Urban living labs have emerged as spatially embedded arenas for governing urban transformation, where heterogenous actor configurations experiment with new practices, institutions, and infrastructures. This article observes a nascent shift towards experimentation at the precinct scale and responds to a need to further investigate relevant processes in urban experimentation at this scale, and identifies particular challenges for urban planning. We…
The politics of intermediation in transitions: Conflict and contestation over energy efficiency policy
Bridging Data Governance and Socio-Technical Transitions to Understand Sustainable Smart Cities
Smart city (SC) studies that have drawn on socio-technical transitions literature do not explicitly consider data governance (DG) as a significant component of smart city transitions (SCTs). This article works towards this gap by bridging the literature on DG and socio-technical transitions in SCs. We aim to answer two overarching questions: (1) What can SCTs learn from DG?; and (2) What can DG learn from SCTs? Against this backdrop, we outline t…
Actors, agency, and institutional contexts: Transition intermediation for low-carbon mobility transition
Transition intermediaries are recognized as key actors in sustainability transitions. While the structural embeddedness of intermediaries has been explored in innovation studies and economic geography literature, few transition studies have systematically examined how the agency of transition intermediaries is affected by institutional contexts. Without a deeper understanding of this interplay, the literature risks a naive perception of transitio…
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale
This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews and secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), the analysis points towards four frames of net-zero at precinct scale: 'Electrify Everything' focuses on technology development to achieve carbon emissions reductions; 'Place Matters'…
Design cards as visual interventions: Visualising and Visioning Net Zero Futures
This article discusses the possibilities enabled by design ethnography cards which combine images and text to disseminate ethnographic insights and prompt stakeholder ideation in interdisciplinary applied research. In doing so, we draw on the example of a 58 card deck developed to be used in design ethnography workshops in Monash University in Victoria, Australia, within a project which combines design anthropological and transition management ap…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Framing of innovation in urban Australian municipal climate policy
Despite growing recognition of the importance of innovation in achieving net zero transitions, it remains unclear how to govern transformative innovation. Urban municipalities are consistently recognised for going above and beyond their state and national counterparts in their policy stances on climate change, yet there is limited investigation into how municipalities engage with and frame innovation in their decarbonisation policies, plans and s…
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: Insights From 18 International Case Studies
In recent years, scholarly debate has grown around a perceived gap between societal impact rhetoric and the support structures for interdisciplinary and applied research, education, and innovation in universities. University Living Labs (UniLLs) provide a window into this relationship as they transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear modes of engagement to enable real-world experimentation and learning in response to societal challenges such a…
Acceleration mechanisms and tipping dynamics in Australia’s renewable energy transition
Non-Technical Summary Achieving sustainability and climate goals requires accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This study explores how and why Australia’s electricity transition has accelerated in recent years. By examining developments in solar and wind technologies, policies, and public attitudes, the research uncovers the feedback mechanisms and ‘tipping points’ that have driven progress and those that now risk sl…
Moving beyond implementation gaps in climate policy: Exploring the transformative innovation potential of municipal sustainability actors
Urban municipalities are commonly viewed as critical actors in net zero transitions due to their unique positionality between vertical levels of government and the communities they represent. Despite a swathe of ambitious climate policy stances at the municipal level, we are yet to witness the level of change required to achieve net zero transitions. Whilst the disconnect between policy rhetoric and implementation is well-documented, this study s…
Navigating the emotional landscape of urban futures: Exploring the role of feelings in participatory backcasting for net zero transitions
Participatory backcasting is an established foresight method that engages stakeholders in the development of actions to achieve future goals. However, it overlooks the affective dimensions of transformative change. This paper presents an innovative methodology for participatory backcasting that integrates emotions into transition management processes in the context of an urban precinct undergoing net zero transformation in Melbourne, Australia. W…
Business (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Climate change (3 works)