Geraint Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3718700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geraint Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geraint |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4273-2923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Long-term follow-up of the public health impacts and co-benefits of an urban greenway intervention
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the long-term impact of urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) interventions remains limited. This study is a 15-year evaluation of an urban greenway development in Belfast (United Kingdom), assessing the potential effects of this UGBS intervention on physical activity (PA), mental wellbeing and co-benefits. METHODS: Using natural experimental design, a repeated cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2010 (baseline), 2017 (po…
Built environment influences on park visits for older adults
Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK
This paper reconsiders the roles of ‘counter-professionals’ (Goodman 1972) in urban social movements, focusing on the generation of students, activists and planners involved in the UK’s community action movement from the late-1960s. The paper therefore provides the first historical account of the ways community action stimulated the development of a distinctive counter-tradition of radical planning in the UK, inspiring experimentation with new, a…
Imagining climate resilient futures
This paper in using a novel application of the Delphi panel method, explores and consolidates the future visions of a low carbon and climate resilient future in Ireland through community-based visioning processes that emerged through co-created, deliberative approaches at local level. It embraces a visioning process that applies a transdisciplinary approach, which aims to match different visions and stakeholder needs, combining bottom-up and top-…
Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions
Age-friendly cities, knowledge and urban restructuring
Age-friendly cities and communities have emerged as a significant policy, participative and governance response to ageing and its spatial effects. This paper argues that it has important benefits in mobilizing older people, placing age on the urban agenda and building recognition across politicians, policy makers and programme managers. Based on the experience of Belfast (UK), the analysis suggests, however, that it needs to be understood within …
We could have been leaders”
Many countries have ambitious plans for increasing the generation of electricity from offshore wind energy in the coming decades. Realising these ambitions requires concerted, often innovative, political action across several policy domains. To understand the unique political challenges facing offshore wind deployment, this article presents a case study of the Republic of Ireland, where decades of sporadic political ambition to support offshore w…
Integrating Planning and Environmental Protection
Debates around the impacts of the UK’s exit from the European Union (‘Brexit’) have exposed the limited critical attention given to how planning systems intersect with environmental protection. This is an important omission, especially given deregulatory pressures on both planning and environment in many countries. In response, this paper uses documentary, interview and focus group data, to conceptualise different regulatory styles governing the …
Neighbourhood Supports for Active Ageing in Urban India
Developing urban environments that promote healthy, active living for older adults is at the forefront of global planning policy debates, resulting in concepts and design guidelines to support population ageing. However, current urban planning in India is overlooking the design of age-friendly cities. The share of older adults in India is estimated to increase from 8 per cent in 2015 to 20 per cent in 2050. This demographic shift towards a higher…
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy
Built environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in older adults
Study protocol
The HULAP study has been designed and implemented by a multi-disciplinary team and integrates differing methodologies to purposefully impact on policy and practice on healthy ageing in high and low-middle income countries. It has particular strengths in its combination of objective and self-reported measures using validated tools and the integration of GPS, accelerometer and GIS data to provide a robust assessment of 'spatial energetics'. The str…
Sub-national government and pathways to sustainable energy
In an effort to understand how to promote more sustainable forms of energy provision, researchers have begun addressing the scale of political and governance processes, yet the effects of sub-national government remain neglected. At the same time, analysts of political devolution, decentralisation and independence have rarely given attention to the energy sector. Papers in this special issue seek to better understand the relationship between sub-…
Subnational governance for the low carbon energy transition
The UK has a ‘national’ strategy to decarbonise its energy sector, yet the transfer of key responsibilities to its Devolved Administrations has meant that they control many of the powers that determine the rate and extent of the decarbonisation process. This reflects an asymmetrical distribution of legal responsibilities that has cast a complex range of powers ‘downward’ from the national sphere to subnational scales and which plays a crucial rol…
Energy transitions, sub-national government and regime flexibility
Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World
Small‐scale, decentralized and community‐owned renewable energy is widely acknowledged to be a desirable feature of low carbon futures, but faces a range of challenges in the context of conventional, centralized energy systems. This paper draws on transition frameworks to investigate why the UK has been an inhospitable context for community‐owned renewables and assesses whether anything fundamental is changing in this regard. We give particular a…
Physical activity and the rejuvenation of Connswater (Parc study)
The Connswater Community Greenway provides a significant opportunity to achieve long-term, population level behaviour change. We argue that urban regeneration may be conceptualised meaningfully as a complex intervention comprising multiple components with the potential, individually and interactively, to affect the behaviour of a diverse population. The development and implementation of our comprehensive evaluation framework reflects this complex…
Scotland, Renewable Energy and the Independence Debate
Political support for renewable energy development, especially offshore renewables, is particularly conspicuous in Scotland and is a centrepiece of SNP policy. However, this is built on something of a paradox because, put simply, without the subsidies paid by electricity consumers in the rest of the UK , the Scottish Government's ambitious targets for renewable energy would be politically unachievable. We argue in this paper that if Scotland does…
Skills, Conflict and Spatial Planning in Northern Ireland
The skills to manage sustainable and cohesive communities have placed a particular emphasis on collaborative and consensual methods of working. This paper suggests that in ethnically divided places, the notion of collaboration is largely conceptual and that more agonistic strategies provide a sounder basis for marginal communities to advance their claims and rights. Specifically, it draws on research conducted in Northern Ireland to suggest that …
Wind Power
papier publié dans la cadre d'un interface: Ellis, Geraint, Cowell, Richard, Warren, Charles, Strachan, Peter, Szarka, Joseph, Hadwin, Richard, Miner, Paul, Wolsink, Maarten and NadaÏ, Alain(2009) 'Wind Power: Is There A "Planning Problem"?Expanding Wind Power: A Problem of Planning, or of Perception?The Problems Of Planning--A Developer's PerspectiveWind Farms: More Respectful and Open Debate Needed, Not LessPlanning: Problem "Carrier" or Proble…
Land-use Planning and Traveller-Gypsies
Cool Rationalities and Hot Air
A key obstacle to the wide-scale development of renewable energy is that public acceptability of wind energy cannot be taken for granted when wind energy moves from abstract support to local implementation. Drawing on a case study of opposition to the siting of a proposed off-shore wind farm in Northern Ireland, we offer a rhetorical analysis of a series of representative documents drawn from government, media, pro- and anti-wind energy sources, …
Making sustainability ‘real’
Sustainable development is now widely held as a transcendental ideal of town and country planning, yet the way in which it is taught in planning schools remains problematic. This arises from a range of factors, including the all‐persuasive nature of sustainability and the lack of solid examples of success through implementation. The issue of how best to promote learning for sustainable development in planning has arguably intensified in the last …
Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’
This paper explores the nature of public acceptance of wind farms by investigating the discourses of support and objection to a proposed offshore scheme. It reviews research into opposition to wind farms, noting previous criticisms that this has tended to provide descriptive rather than explanatory insights and as a result, has not effectively informed the policy debate. One explanation is that much of this research has been conceived within an u…
The Difference Context Makes
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Cool Rationalities and Hot Air
A key obstacle to the wide-scale development of renewable energy is that public acceptability of wind energy cannot be taken for granted when wind energy moves from abstract support to local implementation. Drawing on a case study of opposition to the siting of a proposed off-shore wind farm in Northern Ireland, we offer a rhetorical analysis of a series of representative documents drawn from government, media, pro- and anti-wind energy sources, …
Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World
Small‐scale, decentralized and community‐owned renewable energy is widely acknowledged to be a desirable feature of low carbon futures, but faces a range of challenges in the context of conventional, centralized energy systems. This paper draws on transition frameworks to investigate why the UK has been an inhospitable context for community‐owned renewables and assesses whether anything fundamental is changing in this regard. We give particular a…
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy
Discourses of Objection
Public participation is central to the practice, legitimacy, and dominant normative principles of spatial planning. It has a strong presence in the discourse of communicative governance, which suggests that participatory rights should be strengthened as part of a systematic institutional design. Interest in the concept of rights within planning has been gathering pace, but is still undeveloped. In terms of third-party rights, attention has been f…
Energy transitions, sub-national government and regime flexibility
Scotland, Renewable Energy and the Independence Debate
Political support for renewable energy development, especially offshore renewables, is particularly conspicuous in Scotland and is a centrepiece of SNP policy. However, this is built on something of a paradox because, put simply, without the subsidies paid by electricity consumers in the rest of the UK , the Scottish Government's ambitious targets for renewable energy would be politically unachievable. We argue in this paper that if Scotland does…
Imagining climate resilient futures
This paper in using a novel application of the Delphi panel method, explores and consolidates the future visions of a low carbon and climate resilient future in Ireland through community-based visioning processes that emerged through co-created, deliberative approaches at local level. It embraces a visioning process that applies a transdisciplinary approach, which aims to match different visions and stakeholder needs, combining bottom-up and top-…
Subnational governance for the low carbon energy transition
The UK has a ‘national’ strategy to decarbonise its energy sector, yet the transfer of key responsibilities to its Devolved Administrations has meant that they control many of the powers that determine the rate and extent of the decarbonisation process. This reflects an asymmetrical distribution of legal responsibilities that has cast a complex range of powers ‘downward’ from the national sphere to subnational scales and which plays a crucial rol…
Skills, Conflict and Spatial Planning in Northern Ireland
The skills to manage sustainable and cohesive communities have placed a particular emphasis on collaborative and consensual methods of working. This paper suggests that in ethnically divided places, the notion of collaboration is largely conceptual and that more agonistic strategies provide a sounder basis for marginal communities to advance their claims and rights. Specifically, it draws on research conducted in Northern Ireland to suggest that …
Social exclusion, equality and the Good Friday Peace Agreement
English The Good Friday Peace Agreement has attempted to establish a constitutional settlement in Northern Ireland by trying to address the long-term causes of conflict in the region. While it primarily deals with the region’s relationship to Britain and the Republic of Ireland, it also includes measures that tackle social exclusion and discrimination in policy making. The article examines the impact of these on land use planning in the region, w…
Belfast
The Difference Context Makes
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Making sustainability ‘real’
Sustainable development is now widely held as a transcendental ideal of town and country planning, yet the way in which it is taught in planning schools remains problematic. This arises from a range of factors, including the all‐persuasive nature of sustainability and the lack of solid examples of success through implementation. The issue of how best to promote learning for sustainable development in planning has arguably intensified in the last …
Addressing Inequality
This paper reviews how inequality is accentuated by the planning process and how discrimination may take place in terms of ethnicity, gender and disability. The specific situation in Northern Ireland is described and government attempts to reduce inequality in policy are outlined. The impact of one of these initiatives, Policy Appraisal and Fair Treatment, is assessed and shown to have been unable to substantially influence planning in the region…
We could have been leaders”
Many countries have ambitious plans for increasing the generation of electricity from offshore wind energy in the coming decades. Realising these ambitions requires concerted, often innovative, political action across several policy domains. To understand the unique political challenges facing offshore wind deployment, this article presents a case study of the Republic of Ireland, where decades of sporadic political ambition to support offshore w…
Sub-national government and pathways to sustainable energy
In an effort to understand how to promote more sustainable forms of energy provision, researchers have begun addressing the scale of political and governance processes, yet the effects of sub-national government remain neglected. At the same time, analysts of political devolution, decentralisation and independence have rarely given attention to the energy sector. Papers in this special issue seek to better understand the relationship between sub-…
Dublin
Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK
This paper reconsiders the roles of ‘counter-professionals’ (Goodman 1972) in urban social movements, focusing on the generation of students, activists and planners involved in the UK’s community action movement from the late-1960s. The paper therefore provides the first historical account of the ways community action stimulated the development of a distinctive counter-tradition of radical planning in the UK, inspiring experimentation with new, a…
Stereophonic nation
Radio broadcasting in Wales has always been a controversial subject, as demands for increased Welsh language provision and distinctive English language programming have reflected the complexity of Welsh identity and tensions, not only between Welsh pressure groups and the government and BBC in London, but also within Wales itself. The recent changes to Radio Cymru, the BBC’s Welsh language service, provoked a fierce debate and led to a campaign o…
Stereophonic nation
Radio broadcasting in Wales has always been a controversial subject, as demands for increased Welsh language provision and distinctive English language programming have reflected the complexity of Welsh identity and tensions, not only between Welsh pressure groups and the government and BBC in London, but also within Wales itself. The recent changes to Radio Cymru, the BBC’s Welsh language service, provoked a fierce debate and led to a campaign o…
Addressing Inequality
This paper reviews how inequality is accentuated by the planning process and how discrimination may take place in terms of ethnicity, gender and disability. The specific situation in Northern Ireland is described and government attempts to reduce inequality in policy are outlined. The impact of one of these initiatives, Policy Appraisal and Fair Treatment, is assessed and shown to have been unable to substantially influence planning in the region…
Belfast
Dublin
Social exclusion, equality and the Good Friday Peace Agreement
English The Good Friday Peace Agreement has attempted to establish a constitutional settlement in Northern Ireland by trying to address the long-term causes of conflict in the region. While it primarily deals with the region’s relationship to Britain and the Republic of Ireland, it also includes measures that tackle social exclusion and discrimination in policy making. The article examines the impact of these on land use planning in the region, w…
Discourses of Objection
Public participation is central to the practice, legitimacy, and dominant normative principles of spatial planning. It has a strong presence in the discourse of communicative governance, which suggests that participatory rights should be strengthened as part of a systematic institutional design. Interest in the concept of rights within planning has been gathering pace, but is still undeveloped. In terms of third-party rights, attention has been f…
Reparation or Retribution
It is an axiom of good planning practice that procedure is informed by up-to-date research. Consequently, it is surprising to discover that there remains a dearth of specialised planning-enforcement literature relating to theory and implementation. In this paper an evaluation is given of the effectiveness of planning enforcement in Britain by reviewing existing legislative mechanisms and strategies employed by officials. Theoretical perspectives …
Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’
This paper explores the nature of public acceptance of wind farms by investigating the discourses of support and objection to a proposed offshore scheme. It reviews research into opposition to wind farms, noting previous criticisms that this has tended to provide descriptive rather than explanatory insights and as a result, has not effectively informed the policy debate. One explanation is that much of this research has been conceived within an u…
Land-use Planning and Traveller-Gypsies
Cool Rationalities and Hot Air
A key obstacle to the wide-scale development of renewable energy is that public acceptability of wind energy cannot be taken for granted when wind energy moves from abstract support to local implementation. Drawing on a case study of opposition to the siting of a proposed off-shore wind farm in Northern Ireland, we offer a rhetorical analysis of a series of representative documents drawn from government, media, pro- and anti-wind energy sources, …
Making sustainability ‘real’
Sustainable development is now widely held as a transcendental ideal of town and country planning, yet the way in which it is taught in planning schools remains problematic. This arises from a range of factors, including the all‐persuasive nature of sustainability and the lack of solid examples of success through implementation. The issue of how best to promote learning for sustainable development in planning has arguably intensified in the last …
Wind Power
papier publié dans la cadre d'un interface: Ellis, Geraint, Cowell, Richard, Warren, Charles, Strachan, Peter, Szarka, Joseph, Hadwin, Richard, Miner, Paul, Wolsink, Maarten and NadaÏ, Alain(2009) 'Wind Power: Is There A "Planning Problem"?Expanding Wind Power: A Problem of Planning, or of Perception?The Problems Of Planning--A Developer's PerspectiveWind Farms: More Respectful and Open Debate Needed, Not LessPlanning: Problem "Carrier" or Proble…
Skills, Conflict and Spatial Planning in Northern Ireland
The skills to manage sustainable and cohesive communities have placed a particular emphasis on collaborative and consensual methods of working. This paper suggests that in ethnically divided places, the notion of collaboration is largely conceptual and that more agonistic strategies provide a sounder basis for marginal communities to advance their claims and rights. Specifically, it draws on research conducted in Northern Ireland to suggest that …
Physical activity and the rejuvenation of Connswater (Parc study)
The Connswater Community Greenway provides a significant opportunity to achieve long-term, population level behaviour change. We argue that urban regeneration may be conceptualised meaningfully as a complex intervention comprising multiple components with the potential, individually and interactively, to affect the behaviour of a diverse population. The development and implementation of our comprehensive evaluation framework reflects this complex…
Scotland, Renewable Energy and the Independence Debate
Political support for renewable energy development, especially offshore renewables, is particularly conspicuous in Scotland and is a centrepiece of SNP policy. However, this is built on something of a paradox because, put simply, without the subsidies paid by electricity consumers in the rest of the UK , the Scottish Government's ambitious targets for renewable energy would be politically unachievable. We argue in this paper that if Scotland does…
Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World
Small‐scale, decentralized and community‐owned renewable energy is widely acknowledged to be a desirable feature of low carbon futures, but faces a range of challenges in the context of conventional, centralized energy systems. This paper draws on transition frameworks to investigate why the UK has been an inhospitable context for community‐owned renewables and assesses whether anything fundamental is changing in this regard. We give particular a…
Energy transitions, sub-national government and regime flexibility
Sub-national government and pathways to sustainable energy
In an effort to understand how to promote more sustainable forms of energy provision, researchers have begun addressing the scale of political and governance processes, yet the effects of sub-national government remain neglected. At the same time, analysts of political devolution, decentralisation and independence have rarely given attention to the energy sector. Papers in this special issue seek to better understand the relationship between sub-…
Subnational governance for the low carbon energy transition
The UK has a ‘national’ strategy to decarbonise its energy sector, yet the transfer of key responsibilities to its Devolved Administrations has meant that they control many of the powers that determine the rate and extent of the decarbonisation process. This reflects an asymmetrical distribution of legal responsibilities that has cast a complex range of powers ‘downward’ from the national sphere to subnational scales and which plays a crucial rol…
Study protocol
The HULAP study has been designed and implemented by a multi-disciplinary team and integrates differing methodologies to purposefully impact on policy and practice on healthy ageing in high and low-middle income countries. It has particular strengths in its combination of objective and self-reported measures using validated tools and the integration of GPS, accelerometer and GIS data to provide a robust assessment of 'spatial energetics'. The str…
Built environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in older adults
Integrating Planning and Environmental Protection
Debates around the impacts of the UK’s exit from the European Union (‘Brexit’) have exposed the limited critical attention given to how planning systems intersect with environmental protection. This is an important omission, especially given deregulatory pressures on both planning and environment in many countries. In response, this paper uses documentary, interview and focus group data, to conceptualise different regulatory styles governing the …
Neighbourhood Supports for Active Ageing in Urban India
Developing urban environments that promote healthy, active living for older adults is at the forefront of global planning policy debates, resulting in concepts and design guidelines to support population ageing. However, current urban planning in India is overlooking the design of age-friendly cities. The share of older adults in India is estimated to increase from 8 per cent in 2015 to 20 per cent in 2050. This demographic shift towards a higher…
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy
Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Engineering (21 works) · Economics (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (11 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 works)