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Gavin Bridge is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and focuses their research within the social sciences, specifically addressing issues related to energy, sustainability, and political economy. Their work spans several intersecting fields including renewable energy, sustainability, political science, international relations, building and construction, global and planetary change, and general energy studies.

Bridge's research covers a broad range of topics, with particular attention to:

  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Global Energy Security and Policy
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization

Their publication record includes contributions to various academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • The AAG Review of Books
  • Geography Compass

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Bridge include:

  • "New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition" (2020) published in Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • "Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains" (2022) published in Energy Research & Social Science

Other relevant papers associated with their collaborative network but authored by frequent co-authors include:

  • "Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions" (2020) by Caroline Kuzemko in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review" (2021) by Mathieu Blondeel in Geography Compass
  • "Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama" (2021) by Beatriz Bustos in Geoforum

Frequent co-authors in Bridge's research include Caroline Kuzemko, Michael Bradshaw, Mathieu Blondeel, Erika Faigen, and Magdalena Kuchler. Collaborative efforts with these scholars have contributed to multi-disciplinary insights into energy transitions and resource management.

Best Publications

  • Geographies of energy transition : space, place and the low-carbon economy

    Gavin Bridge;Stefan Bouzarovski;Michael J. Bradshaw;Nick Eyre

  • Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature':

    Karen Bakker;Gavin Bridge

  • CONTESTED TERRAIN: Mining and the Environment

    Gavin Bridge

  • The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology

    Tom Perreault;Gavin Bridge;James McCarthy

  • Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development

    Gavin Bridge

  • Mapping the Bonanza: Geographies of Mining Investment in an Era of Neoliberal Reform*

    Gavin Bridge

  • Material worlds: Natural resources, resource geography and the material economy

    Gavin Bridge

  • Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions

    Caroline Kuzemko;Michael J. Bradshaw;Gavin Bridge;Andreas Goldthau

  • The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review

    Mathieu Blondeel;Michael J. Bradshaw;Gavin Bridge;Caroline Kuzemko

  • Resource geographies 1 Making carbon economies, old and new

    Gavin Bridge

  • Resource geographies II: The resource-state nexus

    Gavin Bridge

  • Down the black hole : sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland.

    Magdalena Kuchler;Gavin Bridge

  • Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue

    Gavin Bridge;Begüm Özkaynak;Ethemcan Turhan

  • The social regulation of resource access and environmental impact: production, nature and contradiction in the US copper industry

    Gavin Bridge

  • Territory, now in 3D!

    Gavin Bridge

  • Sticks and Stones: Environmental Narratives and Discursive Regulation in the Forestry and Mining Sectors

    Gavin Bridge;Phil McManus

  • Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains

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  • The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn

    Gavin Bridge

  • Resource Triumphalism: Postindustrial Narratives of Primary Commodity Production

    Gavin Bridge

  • New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition

    Gavin Bridge;Ludger Gailing

  • Grounding globalization: the prospects and perils of linking economic processes of globalization to environmental outcomes

    Gavin Bridge

  • Adaptive Management of the Global Climate Problem: Bridging the Gap Between Climate Research and Climate Policy

    Joseph Arvai;Gavin Bridge;Nives Dolsak;Robert Franzese

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Bouzarovski
Stefan Bouzarovski University of Manchester
Gordon Walker
Gordon Walker Lancaster University
Stewart Barr
Stewart Barr University of Exeter
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Karen Bakker
Karen Bakker University of British Columbia
Terry Marsden
Terry Marsden Cardiff University
Tomas M. Koontz
Tomas M. Koontz University of Washington
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Andrew E. G. Jonas
Andrew E. G. Jonas University of Hull
Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison

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