Pomham Rocks Lighthouse: Reuse and Rehabilitation Feasibility Report

The lighthouse has withstood the passing of time, including the harsh coastal weather elements. Pomham Rocks’ significance was obtained through its historic function, architectural style and keeper history. Pomham Rocks Lighthouse was listed in 1976 on the National Register of Historic Places. Pomham Rocks Light Station consists of nearly half an acre situated atop of a promontory, approximately 800 feet off the mainland of East Providence at the upper reaches of Narragansett Bay in what is called the Providence River

Injustices at the air-energy nexus

This article maps the socio-technical interconnections between atmospheric systems, on the one hand, and the infrastructural networks associated with the extraction, production, transport and consumption of energy resources, on the other hand. The exchanges, interdependencies and injustices that arise at this interface can broadly be understood as the ‘air–energy nexus’. Despite energy inequalities almost always being entangled with some form of atmospheric injustice, their intersection has rarely been articulated to date. With the aid of a critical literature review, we focus on the domestic air–energy nexus to explore the ability of air to act as a social and physical agent of deprivation and injustice in the case of energy vulnerability: a condition characterized by a household’s propensity to secure adequate levels of energy services in the home. We argue that an integrated and critical perspective on the air–energy nexus challenges existing understandings of the quality and nature of domestic energy and atmospheric services, such as space heating and cooling. We propose future research and policy directions focused on addressing energy vulnerability in the home by embracing the unruly and fluid character of air–energy interactions, and transcending the socio-material boundaries between indoor and outdoor environments. </jats:p

Energy justice and gender

Globally, many of the most pervasive inequalities are those embedded in unequal gender relations. Despite this, gender has only recently emerged as a focus in conversations about energy justice. Understanding gender as an intersectional axis of social power that shapes social relations in an unequal way, this chapter reviews global energy-gender debates. In doing do, we set out a framework for understanding the ways in which energy justice is shaped by gender relations, and vice versa. We illustrate this framework with multi-scalar examples from the European context, evaluating both national scale gender-energy indicators and detailed qualitative evidence from households in Poland, Czechia and Greece. We set out an agenda for possible future research and policy on gendered energy injustices that considers: intersectional energy injustices; temporal dimensions of gendered energy injustice; and the importance of mixed methods approaches

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is heralded as the largest investment in infrastructure in history and is expected to re‐shape the geographies of urbanization in the coming decades. In this paper we review the burgeoning, yet still embryonic literature on the BRI. Our aim is to move beyond currently dominant framings of the BRI as a geopolitical or economic strategy that tend to overlook the complex embeddedness of infrastructure. Drawing on theories of planetary urbanization, we argue that the BRI constitutes a form of urbanization that is bound up with the socio‐spatial and ecological restructuring of global capitalism. We illustrate this by mapping and analysing energy projects under the BRI. Overall, we outline a research agenda on the BRI that calls for: 1) a more nuanced analysis of its spatial and scalar politics; 2) approaching the BRI as a distinctly urban question; and 3) a disruption of the dominant China‐centric discussions through critical in‐depth case‐study analysis

Green Infrastructure and Urban Transformation: Interdisciplinary Showcasing Workshop

Green Infrastructure (GI) as both a research topic and policy objective, is uniquely positioned at the intersection of a broad range of disciplines that straddle both the physical and social sciences. In recent years there has been considerable growth in GI-related academic research, due to evidence of a catalogue of benefits related to biodiversity, climate change, health and wellbeing, amongst others. This agenda is notable both for its rapid emergence but also for the diversity of perspectives and the potential for productive cross-discipline learning. However, the intersecting and frequently competing demands for GI present a considerable challenge for policy and research. To begin to address these challenges, the Green Infrastructures and Urban Transformations Workshop brought together a range of stakeholders from across the Northwest of England. The aim of the workshop was to build up a holistic picture of current research and activities in GI, providing a forum in which stakeholders could share insights from a variety of specialist fields. The workshop aimed to foster a dialogue amongst different perspectives, sharing best practice, common challenges and conceptual developments. It represented a novel cross-sector networking opportunity for academic, industry and practitioner GI experts to reach across traditional silos, with the aim of fostering an interdisciplinary network