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Paul Chatterton is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses several areas within the social sciences and environmental science fields, with a focus on sustainability, climate change governance, and housing finance.

The main fields of study in which Paul Chatterton has contributed include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these broad fields, Chatterton has worked on various subfields of study such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Finance
  • Urban Studies
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The principal topics they have explored in their research include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Paul Chatterton has published several papers in diverse academic journals. Some recent papers are:

  • "Six modes of co-production for sustainability" (2021) published in Nature Sustainability
  • "Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations" (2021) published in Global Environmental Change
  • "Contested subjectivities in a UK housing cooperative: old hippies and Thatcher's children negotiating the commons" (2020) published in Geoforum
  • "It is 'more than just about building houses': collaborating towards a housing commons in Leeds" (2024) published in City
  • "The Climate Emergency and Place-Based Action: The Case of Climate Action Leeds, UK" (2025) published in Sustainability

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Josephine M. Chambers
  • Carina Wyborn
  • Melanie Ryan
  • Robin S. Reid
  • Maraja Riechers

Chatterton's work has appeared in journals such as:

  • Nature Sustainability
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Geoforum
  • City
  • Sustainability

In addition to journal articles, Paul Chatterton has authored book publications. Notably, their book How to Save the City was published in 2023 by Agenda Publishing eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power

    Paul Chatterton;Robert Hollands

  • The Response of Higher Education Institutions to Regional Needs

    Paul Chatterton;John Goddard

  • Notes towards autonomous geographies: creation, resistance and self-management as survival tactics:

    Jenny Pickerill;Paul Chatterton

  • Theorising urban playscapes: Producing, regulating and consuming youthful nightlife city spaces

    Paul Chatterton;Robert Hollands

  • Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds

    Paul Chatterton;Jenny Pickerill

  • Six modes of co-production for sustainability

    Josephine M. Chambers;Josephine M. Chambers;Josephine M. Chambers;Carina Wyborn;Carina Wyborn;Melanie E. Ryan;Robin S. Reid

  • Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the Commons, and Solidarity

    Paul Chatterton;David Featherstone;Paul Routledge

  • University students and city centres – the formation of exclusive geographies: The case of Bristol, UK

    Paul Chatterton

  • Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

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  • Regional Development Agencies and the Knowledge Economy: Harnessing the Potential of Universities:

    J B Goddard;P Chatterton

  • The cultural role of universities in the community: revisiting the university^community debate

    Paul Chatterton

  • Towards an Agenda for Post‐carbon Cities: Lessons from Lilac, the UK's First Ecological, Affordable Cohousing Community

    Paul Chatterton

  • Producing nightlife in the new urban entertainment economy: corporatization, branding and market segmentation

    Robert Hollands;Paul Chatterton

  • ''Give up Activism'' and Change the World in Unknown Ways: Or, Learning to Walk with Others on Uncommon Ground

    Paul Chatterton

  • Seeking the urban common: Furthering the debate on spatial justice

    Paul Chatterton

  • Making autonomous geographies: Argentina’s popular uprising and the ‘Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados’ (Unemployed Workers Movement)

    Paul Chatterton

  • Building transitions to post-capitalist urban commons

    Paul Chatterton

  • The Student City: An Ongoing Story of Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Commodification

    Paul Chatterton

  • Relating action to activism: Theoretical and methodological reflections

    Paul Chatterton;Duncan Fuller;Paul Routledge

  • Autonomy in the city

    Stuart Hodkinson;Paul Chatterton

  • Will the real Creative City please stand up

    Paul Chatterton

Frequent Co-Authors

John Goddard
John Goddard Newcastle University
Wendy Larner
Wendy Larner Victoria University of Wellington
Stephen Wearing
Stephen Wearing University of Technology Sydney
James M. Ervasti
James M. Ervasti University of Minnesota
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Sarah E. Cornell
Sarah E. Cornell Stockholm Resilience Centre
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Nathan J. Bennett
Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester

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