Anna R Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna R Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna R |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Evolving foodscapes: Tracing trajectories of urban and peri-urban food sharing initiatives for just food transitions
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future
Expanding adaptive capacity: Innovations in education for place-based climate change adaptation planning
The IPCC emphasises the need to centre climate change adaptation in climate actions due to a lack of progress on meaningful climate change mitigation. This requires the expansion of adaptive capacity across many sectors, including education. Research asserts the key role formal education plays in increasing the learning and cognitive aspects of adaptive capacity and associated capabilities, but further work is required to understand the impacts o…
Public participation, engagement, and climate change adaptation: A review of the research literature
There is a clear need for a state‐of‐the‐art review of how public participation in climate change adaptation is being considered in research across academic communities: The Rio Declaration developed in 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) included explicit goals of citizen participation and engagement in climate actions (Principle 10). Nation states were given special responsibility to facilitate these by ensuring acc…
Share It: Co-designing a sustainability impact assessment framework for urban food sharing initiatives
Urban food systems must undergo a significant transformation if they are to avoid impeding the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals. One reconfiguration with claimed sustainability benefits is ICT-mediated food sharing - an umbrella term used to refer to technologically-augmented collective or collaborative practices around growing, cooking, eating and redistributing food - which some argue improves environmental efficiencies by reduci…
[Re]Valuing Surplus: Transitions, technologies and tensions in redistributing prepared food in San Francisco
Attention to value, exchange and circulation has long been a central feature of trade flow analyses. More recently, scholars have sought to extend these frames to examine the ongoing movements of end-of-life goods; essentially examining the waste mobilities of commodities. These flows have particular geographies and practices of valuing and revalorization depending on the material and relational qualities of the commodities in question. However, …
Transitioning without confrontation? Shared food growing niches and sustainable food transitions in Singapore
Following a series of global food crises and an increasing dependence on food imports, the Singaporean government has begun to support local food production as a means to improve the sustainability of its food regime. This extends to the development of state-led ventures which support shared food growing in the city. In parallel, informal citizens' groups are experimenting with collaborative forms of food provisioning. Both types of initiatives u…
Environmental Futures
Critical thinking about environmental futures has a distinguished lineage. From Thomas More and William Morris to Ebenezer Howard and Peter Kropotkin, alternative environmental futures replete with geographical concerns regarding scale, place, and nature–society interactions have long been imagined, articulated, and critiqued. Since the 1970s, expositions of environmental futures in geography have become dominated by increasingly sophisticated mo…
Sharing economies: Moving beyond binaries in a digital age
In periods of turbulence, the tendency to simplify messages and polarise debates is nothing new. In our hyper-mediated world of online technologies, where it seems that even national policy can be forged in the 140 characters of Twitter, it is more important than ever to retain spaces for in-depth debate of emergent phenomena that have disruptive and transformative potential. In this article, we follow this logic and argue that to fully understan…
Making visible: Interrogating the performance of food sharing across 100 urban areas
Interpersonal sharing of food has been an omnipresent feature of human civilisation from hunter-gatherer societies to the present, both as a mechanism through which sustenance is secured and as a means to cement social relations. While the evolutionary dynamism of this food sharing is relatively well documented, critical scholarship has tended to examine contemporary food sharing practices beyond family and friends through case studies of individ…
Creative construction: Crafting, negotiating and performing urban food sharing landscapes
Activities utilising online tools are an increasingly visible part of our everyday lives, providing new subjects, objects and relationships – essentially new landscapes – for research, as well as new conceptual and methodological challenges for researchers. In parallel, calls for collaborative interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, research are increasing. Yet practical guidance and critical reflection on the challenges and opportunities of c…
Disrupting household food consumption through experimental HomeLabs: Outcomes, connections, contexts
This article explores the implications of conceptualising, designing and implementing experimental sites seeking to support more sustainable home-based eating practices, or HomeLabs for brevity. Building on earlier phases of practice-oriented participatory backcasting and transition framework construction, the HomeLabs involved collaboration with public, private and civil society sectors and with the members of participating households. These col…
Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments
Following the rhetoric of an impending “perfect storm” of increasing demand for energy, water, and food, it is recognized that ensuring sustainability will require significant shifts in both production and consumption patterns. This recognition has stimulated a plethora of future-oriented studies often using scenario, visioning, and transition planning techniques. These approaches have produced a multitude of plans for future development, but man…
Challenging Consumption: Pathways to a More Sustainable Future
1. Introduction Anna R. Davies, Frances Fahy and Henrike Rau Part 1: Living 2. Situating Sustainable Consumption in a Policy Context Frances Fahy, Ruth Doyle, Henrike Rau, Anna R. Davies and Jessica Pape 3. Unpacking the challenges of researching sustainable consumption and lifestyles Mary Jo Lavelle and Frances Fahy Part 2: Moving - Part Introduction Henrike Rau 4. Changing Everday Commuting Practices Barbara Heisserer 5. Consuming Distance or (…
Co-creating sustainable eating futures: Technology, ICT and citizen–consumer ambivalence
Cleantech clusters: Transformational assemblages for a just, green economy or just business as usual
Future visioning for sustainable household practices: Spaces for sustainability learning
Despite widely articulated concerns about unsustainable production and consumption processes, governance interventions have led to only incremental shifts in routinised production and consumption behaviour, particularly within households of western, industrialised societies. In response, techniques of future visioning have been mooted as more ambitious governing mechanisms that could help to liberate policymakers and other stakeholders from curre…
Geography and the matter of waste mobilities
It is the case that ‘all societies both throw things away and abandon them’ (Gregson et al. 2007a, 697). Such divestment does not mean that those things, commonly called waste, cease to exist, rather it often marks the beginning of relocation and rematerialisation processes, which are conducted at varying scales, from the molecular to the international over different time periods, and with varying amounts of human intervention and environmental i…
Civil society activism and waste management in Ireland: The Carranstown anti-incineration campaign
Environmental justice as subtext or omission: Examining discourses of anti-incineration campaigning in Ireland
Environmental Education, Ethics and Citizenship Conference, Held at the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers), 20 May 1998
The search for a worldwide environmental ethic is linked to the increase in environmental concern since (particularly) the 1960s, and the recognition that environmental problems can have a global impact. Numerous people and organizations have put forward their understanding of the necessary components of such an ethic and these have converged in a series of international statements (Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment, 1972; World Char…
Environmental education, ethics and citizenship conference, held at the royal geographical society (with the institute of British geographers), 20 may 1998: Report of discussion
Environmental justice as subtext or omission: Examining discourses of anti-incineration campaigning in Ireland
Making visible: Interrogating the performance of food sharing across 100 urban areas
Interpersonal sharing of food has been an omnipresent feature of human civilisation from hunter-gatherer societies to the present, both as a mechanism through which sustenance is secured and as a means to cement social relations. While the evolutionary dynamism of this food sharing is relatively well documented, critical scholarship has tended to examine contemporary food sharing practices beyond family and friends through case studies of individ…
Disrupting household food consumption through experimental HomeLabs: Outcomes, connections, contexts
This article explores the implications of conceptualising, designing and implementing experimental sites seeking to support more sustainable home-based eating practices, or HomeLabs for brevity. Building on earlier phases of practice-oriented participatory backcasting and transition framework construction, the HomeLabs involved collaboration with public, private and civil society sectors and with the members of participating households. These col…
Co-creating sustainable eating futures: Technology, ICT and citizen–consumer ambivalence
Geography and the matter of waste mobilities
It is the case that ‘all societies both throw things away and abandon them’ (Gregson et al. 2007a, 697). Such divestment does not mean that those things, commonly called waste, cease to exist, rather it often marks the beginning of relocation and rematerialisation processes, which are conducted at varying scales, from the molecular to the international over different time periods, and with varying amounts of human intervention and environmental i…
Cleantech clusters: Transformational assemblages for a just, green economy or just business as usual
Transitioning without confrontation? Shared food growing niches and sustainable food transitions in Singapore
Following a series of global food crises and an increasing dependence on food imports, the Singaporean government has begun to support local food production as a means to improve the sustainability of its food regime. This extends to the development of state-led ventures which support shared food growing in the city. In parallel, informal citizens' groups are experimenting with collaborative forms of food provisioning. Both types of initiatives u…
Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments
Following the rhetoric of an impending “perfect storm” of increasing demand for energy, water, and food, it is recognized that ensuring sustainability will require significant shifts in both production and consumption patterns. This recognition has stimulated a plethora of future-oriented studies often using scenario, visioning, and transition planning techniques. These approaches have produced a multitude of plans for future development, but man…
Future visioning for sustainable household practices: Spaces for sustainability learning
Despite widely articulated concerns about unsustainable production and consumption processes, governance interventions have led to only incremental shifts in routinised production and consumption behaviour, particularly within households of western, industrialised societies. In response, techniques of future visioning have been mooted as more ambitious governing mechanisms that could help to liberate policymakers and other stakeholders from curre…
Civil society activism and waste management in Ireland: The Carranstown anti-incineration campaign
Expanding adaptive capacity: Innovations in education for place-based climate change adaptation planning
The IPCC emphasises the need to centre climate change adaptation in climate actions due to a lack of progress on meaningful climate change mitigation. This requires the expansion of adaptive capacity across many sectors, including education. Research asserts the key role formal education plays in increasing the learning and cognitive aspects of adaptive capacity and associated capabilities, but further work is required to understand the impacts o…
[Re]Valuing Surplus: Transitions, technologies and tensions in redistributing prepared food in San Francisco
Attention to value, exchange and circulation has long been a central feature of trade flow analyses. More recently, scholars have sought to extend these frames to examine the ongoing movements of end-of-life goods; essentially examining the waste mobilities of commodities. These flows have particular geographies and practices of valuing and revalorization depending on the material and relational qualities of the commodities in question. However, …
Sharing economies: Moving beyond binaries in a digital age
In periods of turbulence, the tendency to simplify messages and polarise debates is nothing new. In our hyper-mediated world of online technologies, where it seems that even national policy can be forged in the 140 characters of Twitter, it is more important than ever to retain spaces for in-depth debate of emergent phenomena that have disruptive and transformative potential. In this article, we follow this logic and argue that to fully understan…
Share It: Co-designing a sustainability impact assessment framework for urban food sharing initiatives
Urban food systems must undergo a significant transformation if they are to avoid impeding the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals. One reconfiguration with claimed sustainability benefits is ICT-mediated food sharing - an umbrella term used to refer to technologically-augmented collective or collaborative practices around growing, cooking, eating and redistributing food - which some argue improves environmental efficiencies by reduci…
Creative construction: Crafting, negotiating and performing urban food sharing landscapes
Activities utilising online tools are an increasingly visible part of our everyday lives, providing new subjects, objects and relationships – essentially new landscapes – for research, as well as new conceptual and methodological challenges for researchers. In parallel, calls for collaborative interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, research are increasing. Yet practical guidance and critical reflection on the challenges and opportunities of c…
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future
Environmental Education, Ethics and Citizenship Conference, Held at the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers), 20 May 1998
The search for a worldwide environmental ethic is linked to the increase in environmental concern since (particularly) the 1960s, and the recognition that environmental problems can have a global impact. Numerous people and organizations have put forward their understanding of the necessary components of such an ethic and these have converged in a series of international statements (Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment, 1972; World Char…
Environmental education, ethics and citizenship conference, held at the royal geographical society (with the institute of British geographers), 20 may 1998: Report of discussion
Environmental justice as subtext or omission: Examining discourses of anti-incineration campaigning in Ireland
Civil society activism and waste management in Ireland: The Carranstown anti-incineration campaign
Geography and the matter of waste mobilities
It is the case that ‘all societies both throw things away and abandon them’ (Gregson et al. 2007a, 697). Such divestment does not mean that those things, commonly called waste, cease to exist, rather it often marks the beginning of relocation and rematerialisation processes, which are conducted at varying scales, from the molecular to the international over different time periods, and with varying amounts of human intervention and environmental i…
Future visioning for sustainable household practices: Spaces for sustainability learning
Despite widely articulated concerns about unsustainable production and consumption processes, governance interventions have led to only incremental shifts in routinised production and consumption behaviour, particularly within households of western, industrialised societies. In response, techniques of future visioning have been mooted as more ambitious governing mechanisms that could help to liberate policymakers and other stakeholders from curre…
Cleantech clusters: Transformational assemblages for a just, green economy or just business as usual
Challenging Consumption: Pathways to a More Sustainable Future
1. Introduction Anna R. Davies, Frances Fahy and Henrike Rau Part 1: Living 2. Situating Sustainable Consumption in a Policy Context Frances Fahy, Ruth Doyle, Henrike Rau, Anna R. Davies and Jessica Pape 3. Unpacking the challenges of researching sustainable consumption and lifestyles Mary Jo Lavelle and Frances Fahy Part 2: Moving - Part Introduction Henrike Rau 4. Changing Everday Commuting Practices Barbara Heisserer 5. Consuming Distance or (…
Co-creating sustainable eating futures: Technology, ICT and citizen–consumer ambivalence
Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments
Following the rhetoric of an impending “perfect storm” of increasing demand for energy, water, and food, it is recognized that ensuring sustainability will require significant shifts in both production and consumption patterns. This recognition has stimulated a plethora of future-oriented studies often using scenario, visioning, and transition planning techniques. These approaches have produced a multitude of plans for future development, but man…
Disrupting household food consumption through experimental HomeLabs: Outcomes, connections, contexts
This article explores the implications of conceptualising, designing and implementing experimental sites seeking to support more sustainable home-based eating practices, or HomeLabs for brevity. Building on earlier phases of practice-oriented participatory backcasting and transition framework construction, the HomeLabs involved collaboration with public, private and civil society sectors and with the members of participating households. These col…
Environmental Futures
Critical thinking about environmental futures has a distinguished lineage. From Thomas More and William Morris to Ebenezer Howard and Peter Kropotkin, alternative environmental futures replete with geographical concerns regarding scale, place, and nature–society interactions have long been imagined, articulated, and critiqued. Since the 1970s, expositions of environmental futures in geography have become dominated by increasingly sophisticated mo…
Sharing economies: Moving beyond binaries in a digital age
In periods of turbulence, the tendency to simplify messages and polarise debates is nothing new. In our hyper-mediated world of online technologies, where it seems that even national policy can be forged in the 140 characters of Twitter, it is more important than ever to retain spaces for in-depth debate of emergent phenomena that have disruptive and transformative potential. In this article, we follow this logic and argue that to fully understan…
Making visible: Interrogating the performance of food sharing across 100 urban areas
Interpersonal sharing of food has been an omnipresent feature of human civilisation from hunter-gatherer societies to the present, both as a mechanism through which sustenance is secured and as a means to cement social relations. While the evolutionary dynamism of this food sharing is relatively well documented, critical scholarship has tended to examine contemporary food sharing practices beyond family and friends through case studies of individ…
Creative construction: Crafting, negotiating and performing urban food sharing landscapes
Activities utilising online tools are an increasingly visible part of our everyday lives, providing new subjects, objects and relationships – essentially new landscapes – for research, as well as new conceptual and methodological challenges for researchers. In parallel, calls for collaborative interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, research are increasing. Yet practical guidance and critical reflection on the challenges and opportunities of c…
[Re]Valuing Surplus: Transitions, technologies and tensions in redistributing prepared food in San Francisco
Attention to value, exchange and circulation has long been a central feature of trade flow analyses. More recently, scholars have sought to extend these frames to examine the ongoing movements of end-of-life goods; essentially examining the waste mobilities of commodities. These flows have particular geographies and practices of valuing and revalorization depending on the material and relational qualities of the commodities in question. However, …
Transitioning without confrontation? Shared food growing niches and sustainable food transitions in Singapore
Following a series of global food crises and an increasing dependence on food imports, the Singaporean government has begun to support local food production as a means to improve the sustainability of its food regime. This extends to the development of state-led ventures which support shared food growing in the city. In parallel, informal citizens' groups are experimenting with collaborative forms of food provisioning. Both types of initiatives u…
Share It: Co-designing a sustainability impact assessment framework for urban food sharing initiatives
Urban food systems must undergo a significant transformation if they are to avoid impeding the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals. One reconfiguration with claimed sustainability benefits is ICT-mediated food sharing - an umbrella term used to refer to technologically-augmented collective or collaborative practices around growing, cooking, eating and redistributing food - which some argue improves environmental efficiencies by reduci…
Public participation, engagement, and climate change adaptation: A review of the research literature
There is a clear need for a state‐of‐the‐art review of how public participation in climate change adaptation is being considered in research across academic communities: The Rio Declaration developed in 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) included explicit goals of citizen participation and engagement in climate actions (Principle 10). Nation states were given special responsibility to facilitate these by ensuring acc…
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future
Expanding adaptive capacity: Innovations in education for place-based climate change adaptation planning
The IPCC emphasises the need to centre climate change adaptation in climate actions due to a lack of progress on meaningful climate change mitigation. This requires the expansion of adaptive capacity across many sectors, including education. Research asserts the key role formal education plays in increasing the learning and cognitive aspects of adaptive capacity and associated capabilities, but further work is required to understand the impacts o…
Evolving foodscapes: Tracing trajectories of urban and peri-urban food sharing initiatives for just food transitions
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Citizen journalism (5 works)