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Faced with ever-growing climate-related financial risks, the role of central banks in climate governance has intensified debates surrounding central bank independence (CBI).Informed by elite interviews with UK monetary policy experts and a discourse …

Luke Yates' new book, Platform Politics: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy, investigates the 鈥榮haring economy鈥�, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo. This new model promised to revolutionise the way …

In this forum, I seek to demonstrate how the growing confluence of climate change and inflation offers a fruitful research agenda for environmental politics scholars. It develops two independent, yet interrelated, concepts first proposed by …

Written by Tetyana SoloveyAs a teenager in post-USSR Ukraine, I vividly remember visiting secondhand clothes shops. For the elderly, the biggest obstacle to accepting secondhand clothes wasn鈥檛 just the lingering smell of naphthalene 鈥� a potent …

The English Premier League (EPL) has drawn the attention of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in recent years, yet its underlying economic model and the politics underpinning it remain underexplored within the literature. To …

It is accepted that electricity networks need to grow in scale and scope to facilitate decarbonisation. It is also accepted that infrastructural change is incremental. Yet, the incremental delivery of network capacity and the relevance of this …

How is British politics changing in ways that affect the pursuit of ambitious climate action? In this report, based on a workshop of academic experts and key NGO participants, we present the key implications of recent changes, notably a rising …

In his new book, Everyday Eating: Food, Taste and Trends in Britain since the 1950s Alan Warde explores how eating habits have changed in recent decades and asks what it means for us to eat well.He traces the changing culinary landscape of food …

In 2017, the UK鈥檚 Industrial Strategy was thought to have marked an unconventional moment in British politics, as the state began to explicitly 鈥榩ick the winners鈥� necessary to both grow and decarbonise the economy. This article demonstrates …

The goal of the workshop is to build conversations among researchers about the political economy of energy transitions, focused on the question of their disruptive qualities. This is part of a project funded internally at 91直播 with the …

Critical metals, such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese, are key to the path towards net zero. The UK Government released their Critical Minerals Strategy in early 2023, which sets out to improve the resilience of the critical metal …

The Government鈥檚 Net Zero Strategy (2022) calls for more attention to community-based action to meet ambitious targets. Similarly, the recently-published report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for 鈥榣eft behind鈥� neighbourhoods, 鈥楢 neighbourhood …

Dr Helen Holmes, current Inclusive and Prosperous Challenge Lead for Sustainable Futures and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, has been newly appointed as Deputy Director for Sustainable Futures. Helen will start in post from the New Year and we …

Animal agriculture is responsible for considerable environmental burden, and a key contributor to climate change. Meat alternatives are increasingly understood as potential solutions to decreasing this burden by enabling a shift away from …

A new postgraduate course addressing the global environmental crisis and the challenges of building sustainable societies has been launched by The University of Manchester.According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …

Many mainstream visions of sustainable societies assume that 鈥榞reen鈥� products will come to replace existing ones, reducing the footprint of consumption and enabling daily life to continue relatively undisturbed. However, several sustainable …

The role of central banks in perpetuating and tackling the economic patterns associated with climate change has increasingly been subject to academic and political attention. The Bank of England is no exception, having received a new mandate to …

This article explores a backlash against the net zero greenhouse gas emissions target within the UK. It introduces the term 鈥渁nti-net zero populism鈥� to analyse ideological and opportunistic counter-movements working to undermine climate …

Written by Andrew Lockhart, Simon Marvin and Aidan WhileClimate/ecological breakdown and automation are two defining challenges of the current era, yet there is little research on their conjunctural intersection. Across experimental landscapes from …

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research …

The complexities and scope of environmental issues have not only outpaced the capacities and responsiveness of traditional political actors but also generated new innovations, constituencies, and approaches to governing environmental …

This article analyses and theorizes the political strategies of businesses in the new digital 鈥榩latform鈥� economy. Airbnb, Uber and meal delivery companies have transformed travel, urban space and repertoires of everyday exchange; they are also …

Written by Torik Holmes, Carla De Laurentis and Rebecca Windemer.The making of low-carbon places is crucial for achieving decarbonisation, but where are such places made? In extending and combining existing research and ideas, the authors take …

Maybe you have one bin or many boxes. You might even have a compost caddy. Whatever your recycling setup, chances are that at some point you鈥檝e been left wondering what should go where and if a particular item is indeed recyclable or if it should …

Dr Maria Sharmina has written a commentary for the Academy of Social Sciences about what a Net Zero society might look like by 2050, based on her work with the Government Office for Science and the Department for BEIS.In this piece Maria describes …

Product longevity is one of the most vexed issues in emerging Circular Economy initiatives as it is antithetical to prevailing corporate business models. Yet there are many ways in which the lifespans of products and materials are currently extended …

Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes …

Plastic recycling remains a persistent and stubborn challenge. The UK simply does not recycle enough. And while waste reduction and reuse remain important, there is no getting away from the need to drastically improve rates of recycling.A new policy …

The seminar discussed Professor Gabrys鈥� recent book of the same title. The book is available open access here. Here is a synopsis: Environments are increasingly sites of pollution, extraction, disaster, and development. Citizens of Worlds …

The UK鈥檚 recycling system requires a dramatic overhaul to effectively tackle the issue of plastic waste, according to a new report published by The University of Manchester鈥檚 One Bin to Rule Them All project team.