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Category: Recent conference presentations

The AAG in Tampa: Energy geographers take over

Following its overwhelming presence at the last three Annual Conferences of the Royal Geographical Society, energy geography research is now … More

AAG, american, conference, Energy, geographers

Large-scale hydropower: ‘Clean’ energy threatens one of Europe’s key biodiversity hotspots

The European Union is currently gearing its forces to become a world champion of low carbon economic development, with Germany … More

dams, energiewende, hydropower, macedonia, mavrovo, national park, rivers

Energy poverty discussed at the annual conference of the European Renewable Energy Council – EREC2013

Research associate Sergio Tirado Herrero participated in EREC2013 in Brussels last week, where he discussed energy poverty in a session about heating and cooling market action. Here is his account of some relevant aspects of the discussions that took place in the conference.

European Commission, European Union, heating, Policy, Renewable energy

New perspectives on urban energy governance

Last week I attended a fascinating two-day workshop organized by the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires and Sociétés (LATTS) in Paris. The … More

Energy, governance, urban

Energy geographies at the RGS-IBG annual conference: Reflections

I have just returned from the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, which, once again, has been replete with … More

(De)politicising energy vulnerability at the European scale

By Stefan Bouzarovski Continuing along the politicisation theme that Sergio started in his previous post, readers of this blog may … More

depoliticisation, energy vulnerability, regional, urban

EVALUATE team member participates at the RESPONDER conference

By Sergio Tiraro Herrero Last week I was in Barcelona for the 2nd ‘multinational knowledge brokerage’ event of the RESPONDER project … More

housing, refurbishment, retrofit, sustainability

Fighting fuel poverty in Europe through common action

By Stefan Bouzarovski I recently gave a plenary talk on ‘Energy poverty in Eastern and Central Europe’ at the ‘Energy … More

Energy poverty, EU, fuel poverty, Ireland, Vulnerability

The regulation of energy transitions in Europe

By Stefan Bouzarovski Earlier in March, the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu hosted a conference titled ‘Energy Transitions: Regulation … More

Energy transition, Europe, governance

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