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Gill Seyfang is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on several interconnected subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Building and Construction.

Their work addresses multiple main topics within these disciplines, such as:

  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure

Recent publications by Seyfang include:

  • "Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe," 2022, Energy Research & Social Science
  • "100 Social Sciences and Humanities priority research questions for renewable energy in Horizon Europe," 2020, Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)
  • "Exploring intersectional approaches to waste through grassroots innovations in the U.K.," 2024, Local Environment

The scientist has published in venues such as Energy Research & Social Science, Local Environment, and Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz).

Gill Seyfang frequently collaborates with multiple co-authors including:

  • Seweryn Krupnik
  • Aleksandra Wagner
  • Tadeusz Józef Rudek
  • Robert Wade
  • Matúš Mišík

This network of collaboration and the range of topics covered reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding environmental and social challenges related to renewable energy, waste management, and governance. Seyfang's contributions provide insights into how social sciences and humanities intersect with technological and environmental research.

Best Publications

  • Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda

    Gill Seyfang;Adrian Smith

  • Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the Role of Community-Based Initiatives in Governing Sustainable Energy Transitions:

    Gill Seyfang;Alex Haxeltine

  • Ecological Citizenship and Sustainable Consumption: Examining Local Organic Food Networks.

    Gill Seyfang

  • Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development

    Tom Hargreaves;Sabine Hielscher;Gill Seyfang;Adrian Smith

  • A thousand flowers blooming? An examination of community energy in the UK

    Gill Seyfang;Jung Jin Park;Adrian Smith

  • Governance for Sustainability: Towards a ‘Thick’ Analysis of Environmental Decisionmaking

    W Neil Adger;Katrina Brown;Jenny Fairbrass;Andrew Jordan

  • The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption

    Gill Seyfang

  • A grassroots sustainable energy niche?:Reflections on community energy in the UK

    Gill Seyfang;Sabine Hielscher;Tom Hargreaves;Mari Martiskainen

  • Public engagement with carbon and climate change: To what extent is the public ‘carbon capable’?

    Lorraine E. Whitmarsh;Lorraine E. Whitmarsh;Gill Seyfang;Saffron O'Neill;Saffron O'Neill

  • Shopping for Sustainability: Can Sustainable Consumption Promote Ecological Citizenship?

    Gill Seyfang

  • Community action for sustainable housing: Building a low-carbon future

    Gill Seyfang

  • Growing green money? Mapping community currencies for sustainable development

    Gill Seyfang;Noel Longhurst

  • Making the most of community energies: Three perspectives on grassroots innovation:

    Adrian Smith;Tom Hargreaves;Sabine Hielscher;Mari Martiskainen

  • Desperately seeking niches: Grassroots innovations and niche development in the community currency field

    Gill Seyfang;Noel Longhurst

  • Up, Down, round and round: Connecting Regimes and Practices in Innovation for Sustainability:

    Tom Hargreaves;Noel Longhurst;Gill Seyfang

  • Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy

    Rhys Owen Jenkins;Ruth Pearson;Gill Seyfang

  • What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability? Investigating community currency niches

    Gill Seyfang;Noel Longhurst

  • Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability

    Adrian Smith;Gill Seyfang

  • New Hope or False Dawn?: Voluntary Codes of Conduct, Labour Regulation and Social Policy in a Globalizing World

    Ruth Pearson;Gill Seyfang

  • The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change

    Gill Seyfang

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Jouni Paavola
Jouni Paavola University of Leeds
Irene Lorenzoni
Irene Lorenzoni University of East Anglia
Lorraine Whitmarsh
Lorraine Whitmarsh University of Bath
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Paul M. Weaver
Paul M. Weaver University of Limerick
René Kemp
René Kemp Maastricht University
Jochen Markard
Jochen Markard ETH Zurich
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex

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