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Overview

Richard Cowell is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Pollution.

The main topics of Cowell's work include Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Integrated Energy Systems Optimization, Energy and Environment Impacts, Environmental Justice and Health Disparities, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, and Regional Development and Policy.

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of issues related to energy transitions, planning, and governance. These include:

  • The role of place in energy transitions: Siting gas-fired power stations and the reproduction of high-carbon energy systems (2020, Geoforum)
  • Making useful knowledge for heat decarbonisation: Lessons from local energy planning in the United Kingdom (2021, Energy Research & Social Science)
  • Understanding the effects of spatial planning on the deployment of on-shore wind power: insights from Italy and the UK (2021, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management)

Cowell has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, notably Thomas B. Fischer, Urmila Jha-Thakur, Carla De Laurentis, Olivier Sykes, and Jan Webb.

The scientist has published multiple articles in key academic journals such as Energy Research & Social Science, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, BMJ Case Reports, Geoforum, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Among these publications, Energy Research & Social Science stands out as a frequent venue.

Richard Cowell has also contributed to book publications, including a 2023 title named "Planning in a Failing State" published by Bristol University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Acceptance, acceptability and environmental justice: the role of community benefits in wind energy development

    Richard John Westley Cowell;Gillian Irene Bristow;Maxim C. R. Munday

  • Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process

    Susan Owens;Richard John Westley Cowell

  • Wind Farms in Rural Areas: How Far Do Community Benefits from Wind Farms Represent a Local Economic Development Opportunity?.

    Maxim C. R. Munday;Gillian Irene Bristow;Richard John Westley Cowell

  • Wind power, landscape and strategic, spatial planning—The construction of ‘acceptable locations’ in Wales

    Richard John Westley Cowell

  • What determines ethical behavior in public organizations: is it rules and/or leadership?

    James Daniel Downe;Richard John Westley Cowell;Karen Morgan

  • Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World

    Peter A. Strachan;Richard Cowell;Geraint Ellis;Fionnguala Sherry-Brennan

  • Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability

    Richard Cowell;Susan Owens

  • Windfalls for whom? The evolving notion of ‘community’ in community benefit provisions from wind farms

    Gillian Irene Bristow;Richard John Westley Cowell;Maxim C. R. Munday

  • The Joy of Joining Up: Modes of Integrating the Local Government Modernisation Agenda:

    Richard John Westley Cowell;Stephen James Martin

  • Scoping in environmental impact assessment: Balancing precaution and efficiency?

    Tim Snell;Richard Cowell

  • The Utilisation of Environmental Knowledge in Land-Use Planning: Drawing Lessons for an Ecosystem Services Approach

    Richard John Westley Cowell;Michael Lennon

  • Stretching the Limits: Environmental Compensation, Habitat Creation and Sustainable Development

    Richard Cowell

  • Wind power and ‘the planning problem’: the experience of Wales

    Richard Cowell

  • Supporting Effective Citizenship in Local Government: Engaging, Educating and Empowering Local Citizens

    Rhys William Andrews;Richard John Westley Cowell;James Daniel Downe;Stephen James Martin

  • Managing Nature and Narratives of Dispossession: Reclaiming Territory in Cardiff Bay:

    Richard Cowell;Huw Thomas

  • Rescaling the Governance of Renewable Energy: Lessons from the UK Devolution Experience

    Richard Cowell;Geraint Ellis;Fionnguala Sherry-Brennan;Peter A. Strachan

  • Community Planning: Fostering Participation in the Congested State?

    Richard Cowell

  • Substitution and Scalar Politics: negotiating environmental compensation in Cardiff Bay

    Richard John Westley Cowell

  • Land Use and the Limits to (Regional) Governance: Some Lessons from Planning for Housing and Minerals in England

    Richard Cowell;Jonathan Murdoch

  • Suitable Locations: Equity and Sustainability in the Minerals Planning Process

    Richard Cowell;Susan Owens

  • A 'delivery-democracy dilemma'? Mapping and explaining policy change for public engagement with energy infrastructure

    Richard Cowell;Patrick Devine-Wright

  • Global Energy Justice: Problems, Principles, and Practices

    Richard Cowell

  • Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World: Policy Developments in the UK

    P.A. Strachan;R.J. Cowell;Geraint Ellis;Fionnguala Sherry-Brennan

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Neil Carter
Neil Carter University of York
Rhys William Andrews
Rhys William Andrews Cardiff University
Terry Marsden
Terry Marsden Cardiff University
Patrick Devine-Wright
Patrick Devine-Wright University of Exeter
Tony Bovaird
Tony Bovaird University of Birmingham
Vivien Lowndes
Vivien Lowndes University of Birmingham
Simon Bulmer
Simon Bulmer University of Sheffield
Jonathan Murdoch
Jonathan Murdoch Cardiff University

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