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Timothy J. Foxon is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with notable contributions across various subfields including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, global and planetary change, electrical and electronic engineering, sociology and political science, and environmental engineering.

Their work encompasses several key topics, particularly in the areas of sustainability and climate change governance, environmental impact and sustainability, energy, environment, and transportation policies, climate change policy and economics, social acceptance of renewable energy, green IT and sustainability, and global energy and sustainability research.

Foxon has published extensively in numerous scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy Policy
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects" (2022) in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Beware the value gap: Creating value for users and for the system through innovation in digital energy services business models" (2021) in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "What structural change is needed for a post-growth economy: A framework of analysis and empirical evidence" (2020) in Ecological Economics
  • "Systems thinking and efficiency under emissions constraints: Addressing rebound effects in digital innovation and policy" (2023) in Patterns
  • "A systemic approach to transitions towards circular economy: The case of Brighton and Hove" (2021) in Cleaner Environmental Systems

Collaboration figures prominently in Foxon's research efforts. Frequent coauthors include Steven Sorrell, Noam Bergman, Yao Shi, Claire Copeland, and Lukas Hardt, each having worked with Foxon on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • UK innovation systems for new and renewable energy technologies: drivers, barriers and systems failures

    T.J Foxon;R Gross;A Chase;J Howes

  • A coevolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy

    Timothy J. Foxon

  • Overcoming barriers to innovation and diffusion of cleaner technologies: some features of a sustainable innovation policy regime

    Tim Foxon;Tim Foxon;Peter J. G. Pearson

  • Transition pathways for a UK low carbon electricity future

    Timothy J. Foxon

  • Developing transition pathways for a low carbon electricity system in the UK

    T.J. Foxon;G.P. Hammond;P.J. Pearson

  • Energy and complexity: New ways forward

    Catherine S.E. Bale;Liz Varga;Timothy J. Foxon

  • The macro-economic rebound effect and the UK economy

    Terry Barker;Paul Ekins;Tim Foxon

  • Governing long-term social–ecological change: what can the adaptive management and transition management approaches learn from each other?

    Timothy J. Foxon;Mark S. Reed;Lindsay C. Stringer

  • A low carbon industrial revolution? Insights and challenges from past technological and economic transformations

    Peter J.G. Pearson;Timothy J. Foxon

  • Infrastructure transformation as a socio-technical process — Implications for the governance of energy distribution networks in the UK

    Ronan Bolton;Timothy J. Foxon

  • Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Equitable Transitions to a Low-Carbon Economy

    Bradley D. Parrish;Timothy J. Foxon

  • Sustainability criteria for decision support in the UK water industry

    T. J. Foxon;G. McIlkenny;Daniel J. Gilmour;C. Oltean-Dumbrava

  • Financing the civic energy sector: How financial institutions affect ownership models in Germany and the United Kingdom

    Stephen Hall;Timothy J. Foxon;Ronan Bolton

  • The co-evolutionary relationship between energy service companies and the UK energy system: implications for a low-carbon transition

    Matthew J. Hannon;Timothy J. Foxon;William F. Gale

  • Investing in low-carbon transitions: energy finance as an adaptive market

    Stephen Hall;Timothy J Foxon;Ronan Bolton

  • Towards improved policy processes for promoting innovation in renewable electricity technologies in the UK

    T. J. Foxon;T. J. Foxon;Peter J. G. Pearson

  • Branching points for transition pathways : assessing responses of actors to challenges on pathways to a low carbon future

    Timothy J. Foxon;Peter J. G. Pearson;Stathis Arapostathis;Anna Carlsson-Hyslop

  • Sociopsychological perspectives on the active roles of domestic actors in transition to a lower carbon electricity economy

    Michael Nye;Lorraine Whitmarsh;Timothy Foxon

  • A socio-technical perspective on low carbon investment challenges – Insights for UK energy policy

    Ronan Bolton;Timothy J. Foxon

  • Greener Skills and Jobs

    Nick Jagger;Tim Foxon;Andy Gouldson

  • Towards a new complexity economics for sustainability

    Timothy J. Foxon;Jonathan Köhler;Jonathan Michie;Christine Oughton

Frequent Co-Authors

John Barrett
John Barrett University of Leeds
Stuart Galloway
Stuart Galloway University of Strathclyde
Julia K. Steinberger
Julia K. Steinberger University of Lausanne
David Butler
David Butler University of Exeter
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
Lindsay C. Stringer
Lindsay C. Stringer University of York
Andy Gouldson
Andy Gouldson University of Leeds
Ken Green
Ken Green University of Manchester
Richard Ashley
Richard Ashley University of Sheffield
Jacquelin Burgess
Jacquelin Burgess University of East Anglia

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