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Small cities and towns in global city-centred regionalism: Observations from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China (2023)
Journal Article
Jonas, A., & Li, Y. (in press). Small cities and towns in global city-centred regionalism: Observations from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231157225

This paper examines the historical and recent efforts towards constructing an integrated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei global city-region, arguably the most politically privileged urban agglomeration in China. It considers how a progressive national policy d... Read More about Small cities and towns in global city-centred regionalism: Observations from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China.

Social enterprise-led local development of the circular economy : socio-spatial networks and value-impact scaling pathways (2023)
Thesis
Pusz, M. (2023). Social enterprise-led local development of the circular economy : socio-spatial networks and value-impact scaling pathways. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224743

The circular economy (CE) paradigm has emerged to challenge a predominantly linear economic development model by extracting and retaining the highest possible value from existing resources through their recirculati... Read More about Social enterprise-led local development of the circular economy : socio-spatial networks and value-impact scaling pathways.

City-regionalism and (re)framing the urban question in China (2022)
Journal Article
Jonas, A., & Li, Y. (in press). City-regionalism and (re)framing the urban question in China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221116062

This paper situates the rise of city-regionalism in China in the context of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s approach to the urban question since 1949. From strictly controlling urbanization during the first two decades of socialist central planni... Read More about City-regionalism and (re)framing the urban question in China.

Public-Private Partnerships in Denver, CO: Analysis of the Role of PPPs in the Financing and Construction of Transportation Infrastructure in the USA (2022)
Book Chapter
Brady, S. A., Goetz, A. R., & Jonas, A. E. (2022). Public-Private Partnerships in Denver, CO: Analysis of the Role of PPPs in the Financing and Construction of Transportation Infrastructure in the USA. In S. Hakim, R. M. Clark, & E. A. Blackstone (Eds.), Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in Transportation, Vol. 1 : Airports, Water Ports, Rail, Buses, Taxis, and Finance (195-222). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83484-5_11

This chapter examines the expanding role of public-private partnerships (PPPs or P3s) in metro transportation projects in the USA through the innovative funding and financing of transit and highway infrastructure. The chapter draws on research undert... Read More about Public-Private Partnerships in Denver, CO: Analysis of the Role of PPPs in the Financing and Construction of Transportation Infrastructure in the USA.

Re-evaluating the changing geographies of climate activism and the state in the post-climate emergency era in the build-up to COP26 (2021)
Journal Article
Kythreotis, A. P., Howarth, C., Mercer, T. G., Awcock, H., & Jonas, A. E. (2021). Re-evaluating the changing geographies of climate activism and the state in the post-climate emergency era in the build-up to COP26. Journal of the British Academy, 9(s5), 69-93. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s5.069

A key aim of much climate activism is to enhance climate ambition and hold local and national governments, as well as global governance forums like the United Nations (UN), to account for the ways in which they implement and monitor climate policy ac... Read More about Re-evaluating the changing geographies of climate activism and the state in the post-climate emergency era in the build-up to COP26.

Circularity as Alterity? Untangling Circuits of Value in the Social Enterprise–Led Local Development of the Circular Economy (2021)
Journal Article
Lekan, M., Jonas, A. E., & Deutz, P. (2021). Circularity as Alterity? Untangling Circuits of Value in the Social Enterprise–Led Local Development of the Circular Economy. Economic geography, 97(3), 257-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2021.1931109

In recent years, the circular economy (CE) paradigm has emerged as a mainstream policy discourse having the potential to disrupt linear economic development pathways by extracting and retaining the maximum value from existing resources through their... Read More about Circularity as Alterity? Untangling Circuits of Value in the Social Enterprise–Led Local Development of the Circular Economy.

Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc (2021)
Journal Article
Valler, D., Jonas, A. E., & Robinson, L. (in press). Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc. Territory, Politics, Governance, https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1851751

© 2020 Regional Studies Association. The process of imagination is central to region formation, underpinning the spatial definition and territorial bounding of areas, the development of spatial identity and institutional capacity, and the cultivation... Read More about Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc.

Rethinking urban adaptation as a scalar geopolitics of climate governance: climate policy in the devolved territories of the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Kythreotis, A., Jonas, A. E., Mercer, T., & Marsden, T. (2020). Rethinking urban adaptation as a scalar geopolitics of climate governance: climate policy in the devolved territories of the UK. Territory, Politics, Governance, https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1837220

This paper exposes missing interconnections between the urban, national and international scales in the analysis of climate adaptation policy and territorial governance in the UK. Drawing upon the results of interviews with adaptation stakeholders in... Read More about Rethinking urban adaptation as a scalar geopolitics of climate governance: climate policy in the devolved territories of the UK.

Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania (2020)
Book Chapter
Mele, M., & Jonas, A. E. (2020). Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania. In L. B. Drummond, & D. Young (Eds.), Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms : critical reflections from a global perspective (227-245). Toronto: University of Toronto Press

One well-known feature of capitalist forms of urban development in North America and Western Europe is the emergence of a politics of the suburban living place, the spatial appearance of which seems to be separate from class and political tensions ar... Read More about Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania.

Brands and Branding: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Development of Baijiu Industry Clusters in China (2020)
Thesis
Yang, H. (2020). Brands and Branding: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Development of Baijiu Industry Clusters in China. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4508198

Research into industry clusters and brands and branding has emerged and developed in the Western world for decades. In China, the Reform and Opening up policy adopted since the late 1970s, has resulted in impressive economic growth around economic cl... Read More about Brands and Branding: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Development of Baijiu Industry Clusters in China.

Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies (2019)
Journal Article
Kythreotis, A. P., Jonas, A. E., & Howarth, C. (2020). Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies. Regional studies, 54(4), 576-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1678744

This paper adds new insights to the relationship between city-regionalism, the territorial logics of the competition state and how climate adaptation is located in state spaces. Whilst climate adaptation governance is positioned within national econo... Read More about Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies.

City-regionalism as countervailing geopolitical processes: The evolution and dynamics of Yangtze River Delta region, China (2019)
Journal Article
Li, Y., & Jonas, A. E. (2019). City-regionalism as countervailing geopolitical processes: The evolution and dynamics of Yangtze River Delta region, China. Political Geography, 73, 70-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.05.014

In many countries, national governments deploy city-regionalism not simply as a domestic policy tool but also as a geopolitical device enabling the internationalization of state territory and economy. Focusing upon the evolution of Yangtze River Delt... Read More about City-regionalism as countervailing geopolitical processes: The evolution and dynamics of Yangtze River Delta region, China.

Climate pioneership and leadership in structurally disadvantaged maritime port cities (2018)
Journal Article
Wurzel, R. K., Moulton, J. F., Osthorst, W., Mederake, L., Deutz, P., & Jonas, A. E. (2019). Climate pioneership and leadership in structurally disadvantaged maritime port cities. Environmental Politics, 28(1), 146-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1522039

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Innovative climate governance in small-to-medium-sized structurally disadvantaged cities (SDCs) are assessed. Considering their deeply ingrained severe economic and social proble... Read More about Climate pioneership and leadership in structurally disadvantaged maritime port cities.

The smart grid as commons: Exploring alternatives to infrastructure financialisation (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, S., Jonas, A. E., Shepherd, S., & Wadud, Z. (2019). The smart grid as commons: Exploring alternatives to infrastructure financialisation. Urban studies, 56(7), 1386-1403. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018784146

This paper explores a tension between financialisation of electricity infrastructures and efforts to bring critical urban systems into common ownership. Focusing on the emerging landscape of electricity regulation and e-mobility in the United Kingdom... Read More about The smart grid as commons: Exploring alternatives to infrastructure financialisation.

The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA (2018)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E., Goetz, A. R., & Brady, S. (2019). The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA. Urban studies, 56(7), 1426-1447. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018811506

Drawing upon a case study of regional transit in Denver, Colorado, this article describes and accounts for the emergence of the global infrastructure public-private partnership (GIP3) as a novel extra-territorial mechanism for financing and deliverin... Read More about The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA.

Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities (2017)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E. G., Wurzel, R. K., Monaghan, E., & Osthorst, W. (2017). Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities. Die Erde : Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 148(4), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-148-49

The concept of the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development (NEPUD) examines the impact of international and national environmental regulation on the politics of urban development. The NEPUD concept emerged from case studies of environmental g... Read More about Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities.

City regionalism as geopolitical processes: A new framework for analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E., & Moisio, S. (2018). City regionalism as geopolitical processes: A new framework for analysis. Progress in human geography, 42(3), 350-370. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516679897

This paper sets out a new conceptual framework for investigating how city regionalism is constituted as a variegated set of geopolitical processes operating within and beyond the national state. Our approach highlights: 1) the different forms of terr... Read More about City regionalism as geopolitical processes: A new framework for analysis.

Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus (2015)
Book Chapter
Jonas, A. E. (2015). Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus. In J. Cidell, & D. Prytherch (Eds.), Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space (281-293). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709680

Building on the main sections of the book, this concluding chapter identifies four thematic areas for future research into the urban-transportation-geography nexus as follows: (1) the everyday experience of transport and mobility in the “ordinary cit... Read More about Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus.

Urban fiscal austerity, infrastructure provision and the struggle for regional transit in 'Motor City' (2014)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Jonas, A. E. G. (2014). Urban fiscal austerity, infrastructure provision and the struggle for regional transit in 'Motor City'. Cambridge journal of regions economy and society, 7(1), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rst031

Studies suggest that urban fiscal crises trigger the institutional separation of strategic services from general purpose municipal functions. Traditional reformists have highlighted the economic benefits of regional approaches. Global austerity has c... Read More about Urban fiscal austerity, infrastructure provision and the struggle for regional transit in 'Motor City'.