Jon Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7066-0632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 333 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail
High Speed 2—the planned new railway from London to the north of England—is one of the largest and most controversial public sector investment projects Britain has attempted in decades. Much has been written about the huge cost overruns that the project has suffered, and why this led to the eventual cancellation of the line beyond its first phase now under construction. In this article, we explore two under‐appreciated aspects of this story: firs…
Ruminating on Seaweed: An Annotated Photo-Essay. Exploring the Film-Philosophy of Pierre Creton with the Seaweed-Eating Sheep of North Ronaldsay
In 1993, recently graduated filmmaker Pierre Creton returned to his rural Normandy roots. There, he has continued to make films alongside his neighbours in the agricultural environment to which he remains intimately tied. His philosophy of film- making is summarised in the title of a 2010 book, Cultiver, habiter, filmer - inhabit, cultivate, film. Contrary to more traditional notions of framing, distance and objectivity, here lens-based media is …
The shops were only made for people who could walk: Impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England
Based on research carried out with a group of adults with Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham, UK, we consider the complex inter-relationship between the accessibility of the urban environment for those with impaired gross motor skills, and the ability of these people to lead full and independent lives. Drawing on a framework that considers mobility as movement, meaning-making and political, we demonstrate the reality of differentiated mobility. For tho…
Transport Matters
This book shows that transport matters. Comprising a series of highly accessible chapters written by respected experts, it reviews key transport issues and explains how and why effective and efficient transport is fundamental to successfully addressing all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore how we ‘do’ transport, as a result of the technologies available to us and the cultures surrounding how we use them, and examine how this has…
Transport Matters: Why Transport Matters and How We Can Make It Better
The curious death – and life? – of British transport policy
This article analyses the transport policy record of the 2010–2015 Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition and 2015–2016 Conservative majority UK governments. We argue that the style of policy making under these administrations departed significantly from that of previous decades, which had been characterised by the ascendancy of specific technical disciplines and decision-making norms about how transport planning should be carried out. Our key c…
The Economic Value of Climate Information in Adaptation Decisions: Learning in the Sea-level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure Context
© 2018 The Authors Traditional methods of investment appraisal have been criticized in the context of climate change adaptation. Economic assessment of adaptation options needs to explicitly incorporate the uncertainty of future climate conditions and should recognise that uncertainties may diminish over time as a result of improved understanding and learning. Real options analysis (ROA) is an appraisal tool developed to incorporate concepts of f…
Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running
Jogging is a relatively under-researched mobile practice with much existing literature focusing on ‘serious’ and competitive running. In this paper, we provide an account of some of the movements, meanings and experiences that together help produce the practice of jogging in the south-western English city of Plymouth. Drawing upon participant diaries and interviews, we uncover rich detail about how joggers ascribe not one but a number of meanings…
Sea-level rise impacts on transport infrastructure: The notorious case of the coastal railway line at Dawlish, England
Future climate change is likely to increase the frequency of coastal storms and floods, with major consequences for coastal transport infrastructure. This paper assesses the extent to which projected sea-level rise is likely to impact upon the functioning of the Dawlish to Teignmouth stretch of the London to Penzance railway line, in England. Using a semi-empirical modelling approach, we identify a relationship between sea-level change and rail i…
Geographies of mobilities: Practices, spaces, subjects – Edited by Tim Cresswell and Peter Merriman
The Transformation of Transport Policy in Great Britain? 'New Realism' and New Labour's Decade of Displacement Activity
In 1999 Goodwin announced 'the transformation of transport policy in Great Britain'. His central point was that consensus was emerging among policy makers and academics, based on earlier work, including "Transport: the new realism", which rejected previous orthodoxy that the supply of road space could and should be continually expanded to match demand. Instead, a combination of investment in public transport, walking and cycling opportunities, an…
Devolution as Process: Institutional Structures, State Personnel and Transport Policy in the United Kingdom
Devolution has been described as a key ‘global trend’ over recent decades as governments have decentralised power and responsibilities to subordinate regional institutions. UK devolution is characterised by its asymmetrical nature with different territories granted different institutional arrangements and powers. This paper seeks to examine the role of state personnel in mobilising the new institutional machinery and managing the process of devol…
Making links: On (re)engaging with transport and transport geography
Recent reviews have suggested a vibrancy and diversity in transport geography. But these articles were the first progress reports on transport geography since 1988, indicating how the field has been relatively marginal to broader disciplinary debates. Meanwhile, a lively literature on mobilities has developed. In these contexts and as a supplement to the recent progress reports, a review of otherwise largely distinct fields reminds us how transpo…
New State Spaces, Agency and Scale: Devolution and the Regionalisation of Transport Governance in Scotland
New state spaces can be seen as products of the interaction between emerging initiatives and pre‐existing institutional arrangements ( Peck 1998 , Space and Polity 2:5–31). In the devolved territories of the UK devolution has created new political centres of policy formulation and this paper is concerned with how devolved policy initiatives are reshaping and rescaling sub‐national spaces of governance. We focus on the rescaling of transport gover…
Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities: Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities
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Moving on with ‘filling in’? Some thoughts on state restructuring after devolution
The term ‘filling in’ was developed in the context of research into UK devolution in order to move beyond the literature on the ‘hollowing out’ of the national state. We critically unpack the concept of filling in and assess its value, identifying three main ambiguities. First, we emphasise the need to distinguish between what we term structural and relational forms of filling in, ensuring a clear analytical separation between structure and agenc…
N‐gauging’ geographies: Craft consumption, indoor leisure and model railways
Hobbies and crafts have been neglected by geographers concerned with leisure activities. Drawing upon a study of model railway layouts, we use Campbell's concept of the craft consumer to re‐focus attention on the geographies of indoor leisure ( Campbell 2005 The craft consumer: culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society Journal of Consumer Culture 5 23–42). We argue that spatialities of hobby activities contribute to identity formatio…
Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: Union Renewal in the Privatised Rail Industry
Researchers are becoming more alert to the importance of geography to union renewal in counteracting the strategies of corporate and state actors. In this article the example of the UK's rail industry is used to show how privatisation created a new geography of employment relations. Unions responded to the destruction of national collective bargaining and a new fragmented geography of employment relations through organisational restructuring, whi…
Divergence or Convergence? Devolution and Transport Policy in the United Kingdom
We examine the impact of devolution in the United Kingdom on transport policies in the first two terms of devolved government, from 1999/2000 to 2007/08. In particular, we discuss the nature and extent of policy convergence and divergence between the devolved territories (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and London) and England (wherein responsibility for policy formulation remains with the UK government at Westminster), and between the devolve…
Developing an Evaluation for Crosscutting Policy Goals: The Accessibility Policy Assessment Tool
This paper reports upon the development of a policy assessment tool designed to evaluate the outcomes of policies promoting increased accessibility to services in rural areas. Much public policy is now concerned with addressing issues (such as accessibility) that span traditional organisational responsibilities and boundaries and thus require 'joined-up' thinking. At the same time, public policy is also increasingly required to be 'evidence based…
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Low-cost airlines in Europe: Reconciling liberalization and sustainability
Rescaling Employment Relations: Key Outcomes of Change in the Privatised Rail Industry
The past decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the role of labour in political and economic restructuring. Following a period in the 1980s and early 1990s when trade unions and employees were routinely portrayed as passive victims of corporate restructuring, the past ten years have seen a resurgence of work by geographers highlighting the continued agency of labour. Despite this 'new labour geography', however, there has been little empir…
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Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities: Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities
peer reviewed
Making links: On (re)engaging with transport and transport geography
Recent reviews have suggested a vibrancy and diversity in transport geography. But these articles were the first progress reports on transport geography since 1988, indicating how the field has been relatively marginal to broader disciplinary debates. Meanwhile, a lively literature on mobilities has developed. In these contexts and as a supplement to the recent progress reports, a review of otherwise largely distinct fields reminds us how transpo…
Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running
Jogging is a relatively under-researched mobile practice with much existing literature focusing on ‘serious’ and competitive running. In this paper, we provide an account of some of the movements, meanings and experiences that together help produce the practice of jogging in the south-western English city of Plymouth. Drawing upon participant diaries and interviews, we uncover rich detail about how joggers ascribe not one but a number of meanings…
The ecological footprint as a key indicator of sustainable tourism
Low-cost airlines in Europe: Reconciling liberalization and sustainability
Car dependence in rural Scotland: Transport policy, devolution and the impact of the fuel duty escalator
New State Spaces, Agency and Scale: Devolution and the Regionalisation of Transport Governance in Scotland
New state spaces can be seen as products of the interaction between emerging initiatives and pre‐existing institutional arrangements ( Peck 1998 , Space and Polity 2:5–31). In the devolved territories of the UK devolution has created new political centres of policy formulation and this paper is concerned with how devolved policy initiatives are reshaping and rescaling sub‐national spaces of governance. We focus on the rescaling of transport gover…
Community transport, social capital and social exclusion in rural areas
The concept of social capital has been used by numerous authors to investigate various topics. As yet, however, little attention has been paid to its relationship with mobility and social exclusion. Those findings which have been published suggest that the maintenance of social capital and associated networks within and between communities largely depends on mobility, but that local social networks are being undermined as a result of growing car …
Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: Union Renewal in the Privatised Rail Industry
Researchers are becoming more alert to the importance of geography to union renewal in counteracting the strategies of corporate and state actors. In this article the example of the UK's rail industry is used to show how privatisation created a new geography of employment relations. Unions responded to the destruction of national collective bargaining and a new fragmented geography of employment relations through organisational restructuring, whi…
State intervention in contemporary transport
Assessing the potential for a ‘railway renaissance’ in Great Britain
The Transformation of Transport Policy in Great Britain? 'New Realism' and New Labour's Decade of Displacement Activity
In 1999 Goodwin announced 'the transformation of transport policy in Great Britain'. His central point was that consensus was emerging among policy makers and academics, based on earlier work, including "Transport: the new realism", which rejected previous orthodoxy that the supply of road space could and should be continually expanded to match demand. Instead, a combination of investment in public transport, walking and cycling opportunities, an…
Moving on with ‘filling in’? Some thoughts on state restructuring after devolution
The term ‘filling in’ was developed in the context of research into UK devolution in order to move beyond the literature on the ‘hollowing out’ of the national state. We critically unpack the concept of filling in and assess its value, identifying three main ambiguities. First, we emphasise the need to distinguish between what we term structural and relational forms of filling in, ensuring a clear analytical separation between structure and agenc…
N‐gauging’ geographies: Craft consumption, indoor leisure and model railways
Hobbies and crafts have been neglected by geographers concerned with leisure activities. Drawing upon a study of model railway layouts, we use Campbell's concept of the craft consumer to re‐focus attention on the geographies of indoor leisure ( Campbell 2005 The craft consumer: culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society Journal of Consumer Culture 5 23–42). We argue that spatialities of hobby activities contribute to identity formatio…
The shops were only made for people who could walk: Impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England
Based on research carried out with a group of adults with Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham, UK, we consider the complex inter-relationship between the accessibility of the urban environment for those with impaired gross motor skills, and the ability of these people to lead full and independent lives. Drawing on a framework that considers mobility as movement, meaning-making and political, we demonstrate the reality of differentiated mobility. For tho…
Rescaling Employment Relations: Key Outcomes of Change in the Privatised Rail Industry
The past decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the role of labour in political and economic restructuring. Following a period in the 1980s and early 1990s when trade unions and employees were routinely portrayed as passive victims of corporate restructuring, the past ten years have seen a resurgence of work by geographers highlighting the continued agency of labour. Despite this 'new labour geography', however, there has been little empir…
Priorities, policies and (time)scales: The delivery of emissions reductions in the UK transport sector
The transport sector is consistently responsible for around 30 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in developed countries and is one of few sectors where emissions continue to increase as a result of apparently insatiable demand for road and air travel. This paper examines how the formulation of transport policy fits into the exposition of UK climate policy, focusing on three principal areas of tension: policy priority (congestion and carbon red…
The Economic Value of Climate Information in Adaptation Decisions: Learning in the Sea-level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure Context
© 2018 The Authors Traditional methods of investment appraisal have been criticized in the context of climate change adaptation. Economic assessment of adaptation options needs to explicitly incorporate the uncertainty of future climate conditions and should recognise that uncertainties may diminish over time as a result of improved understanding and learning. Real options analysis (ROA) is an appraisal tool developed to incorporate concepts of f…
Devolution as Process: Institutional Structures, State Personnel and Transport Policy in the United Kingdom
Devolution has been described as a key ‘global trend’ over recent decades as governments have decentralised power and responsibilities to subordinate regional institutions. UK devolution is characterised by its asymmetrical nature with different territories granted different institutional arrangements and powers. This paper seeks to examine the role of state personnel in mobilising the new institutional machinery and managing the process of devol…
Applying the new appraisal approach to transport policy at the local level in the UK
Labour's New Trunk-Roads Policy for England: An Emerging Pragmatic Multimodalism
In 1998 the UK government introduced a new, integrated transport policy signalling a move away from the principles of 'predict and provide' towards 'new realism'. Labour's approach involved promoting a reduction in car use through (among other things) seeking to improve public transport provision and, in line with the trend which had begun in 1994, scaling down the national trunk-road building programme. But despite claiming that building new roa…
Communicating academic geography—the continuing challenge
The curious death – and life? – of British transport policy
This article analyses the transport policy record of the 2010–2015 Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition and 2015–2016 Conservative majority UK governments. We argue that the style of policy making under these administrations departed significantly from that of previous decades, which had been characterised by the ascendancy of specific technical disciplines and decision-making norms about how transport planning should be carried out. Our key c…
Sea-level rise impacts on transport infrastructure: The notorious case of the coastal railway line at Dawlish, England
Future climate change is likely to increase the frequency of coastal storms and floods, with major consequences for coastal transport infrastructure. This paper assesses the extent to which projected sea-level rise is likely to impact upon the functioning of the Dawlish to Teignmouth stretch of the London to Penzance railway line, in England. Using a semi-empirical modelling approach, we identify a relationship between sea-level change and rail i…
American Contributions to the Fourth International Congress of Slavicists, Moscow, September 1958
The great British railway disaster
The Privatization of British Rail
Communicating academic geography—the continuing challenge
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Car dependence in rural Scotland: Transport policy, devolution and the impact of the fuel duty escalator
Irrigated Eden: The making of an agricultural landscape in the American West
Labour's New Trunk-Roads Policy for England: An Emerging Pragmatic Multimodalism
In 1998 the UK government introduced a new, integrated transport policy signalling a move away from the principles of 'predict and provide' towards 'new realism'. Labour's approach involved promoting a reduction in car use through (among other things) seeking to improve public transport provision and, in line with the trend which had begun in 1994, scaling down the national trunk-road building programme. But despite claiming that building new roa…
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Applying the new appraisal approach to transport policy at the local level in the UK
Land in the American West: Private claims and the common good
Assessing the potential for a ‘railway renaissance’ in Great Britain
State intervention in contemporary transport
RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London 2006
Community transport, social capital and social exclusion in rural areas
The concept of social capital has been used by numerous authors to investigate various topics. As yet, however, little attention has been paid to its relationship with mobility and social exclusion. Those findings which have been published suggest that the maintenance of social capital and associated networks within and between communities largely depends on mobility, but that local social networks are being undermined as a result of growing car …
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The ecological footprint as a key indicator of sustainable tourism
Priorities, policies and (time)scales: The delivery of emissions reductions in the UK transport sector
The transport sector is consistently responsible for around 30 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in developed countries and is one of few sectors where emissions continue to increase as a result of apparently insatiable demand for road and air travel. This paper examines how the formulation of transport policy fits into the exposition of UK climate policy, focusing on three principal areas of tension: policy priority (congestion and carbon red…
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