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Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology
Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low‐carbon urban transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear and hierarchical ontologies, and miss out on the long‐standing development of more nuanced conceptions of scale within...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6563166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31217632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12275 |
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description | Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low‐carbon urban transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear and hierarchical ontologies, and miss out on the long‐standing development of more nuanced conceptions of scale within Human Geography. This paper aims to advance a relational understanding of scale in the analysis and evaluation of low‐carbon urban initiatives (LCUIs). We wish to lay the path towards an innately geographical conceptualisation of low‐carbon urban transformations more generally, in which cities are not seen as rigid and passive physical containers for decarbonisation initiatives, but rather as key nodes within vibrant socio‐technical networks operating across multiple material sites. Using a case study of the transnational and translocal REACH (Reduce Energy use And Change Habits) project funded by the European Union as illustration, we argue that low‐carbon urban transformations are immanently constituted of three sets of relational processes across scale, involving (1) politicisation, (2) enrolment and (3) the hybridisation of human and material agencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-65631662019-06-17 Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology Bouzarovski, Stefan Haarstad, Håvard Trans Inst Br Geogr Regular Papers Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low‐carbon urban transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear and hierarchical ontologies, and miss out on the long‐standing development of more nuanced conceptions of scale within Human Geography. This paper aims to advance a relational understanding of scale in the analysis and evaluation of low‐carbon urban initiatives (LCUIs). We wish to lay the path towards an innately geographical conceptualisation of low‐carbon urban transformations more generally, in which cities are not seen as rigid and passive physical containers for decarbonisation initiatives, but rather as key nodes within vibrant socio‐technical networks operating across multiple material sites. Using a case study of the transnational and translocal REACH (Reduce Energy use And Change Habits) project funded by the European Union as illustration, we argue that low‐carbon urban transformations are immanently constituted of three sets of relational processes across scale, involving (1) politicisation, (2) enrolment and (3) the hybridisation of human and material agencies. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-10-07 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6563166/ /pubmed/31217632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12275 Text en The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2018 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Regular Papers Bouzarovski, Stefan Haarstad, Håvard Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology |
title | Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology |
title_full | Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology |
title_fullStr | Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology |
title_full_unstemmed | Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology |
title_short | Rescaling low‐carbon transformations: Towards a relational ontology |
title_sort | rescaling low‐carbon transformations: towards a relational ontology |
topic | Regular Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6563166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31217632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12275 |
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