Jean-Pierre Roux

University of Exeter | UoE · Department of Geography

Many academics and practitioners of energy development have recently turned their gaze to the importance of democracy and justice. Indeed, published literature has exploded in recent years in particular, with insights informing local development patterns and macro-scale policy initiatives. In this chapter, we address what we see as an important gap...

Many countries have ambitious plans for increasing the generation of electricity from offshore wind energy in the coming decades. Realising these ambitions requires concerted, often innovative, political action across several policy domains. To understand the unique political challenges facing offshore wind deployment, this article presents a case...

This study examined ways in which climate information was mobilized for use under Future Climate for Africa (FCFA), an applied research program to improve the use of climate information to support medium-term (5–40 years) policies and planning in sub-Saharan Africa. Past research has underscored the interdependent relationship between user engageme...

Many sub-Saharan countries are failing to include climate information in long-term development planning. Ensuring climate-resilient development requires a step change in how medium- to long-term climate information is produced, communicated and utilized in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

This dataset can be accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive at https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/seaiattitudeswatersolarpower/seaiattitudeswatersolarpower2022/ The purpose of the survey is to understand attitudes and beliefs of people on the topic of commercial wind and solar power infrastructure and specific public policy measures under th...

This report seeks to provide a reflection on the research completed within the network by combining the accumulated knowledge of the MISTRAL network on key social acceptance variables and key papers addressing them, providing a ‘travel guide’ to social acceptance research for those embarking on research on social dimensions of renewable energy and...

While the impacts of climate change are being felt by people and communities now, many of the most severe impacts will be felt in the decades to come. This presents significant barriers to achieving long-term development objectives – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with low capacity to adapt to the future impacts of climate change. Fac...

The impacts of climate change in Africa will be significant and long-term (see for example www.cdkn.org/ar5-toolkit for some headline messages for Africa). Long-lived infrastructure and development planning are likely to be particularly aff ected. Factoring climate change into their design and implementation is, therefore, vital to development outc...