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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). 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'.

City-regionalism as a politics of collective provision : regional transport infrastructure in Denver, USA (2013)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E. G., Goetz, A. R., & Bhattacharjee, S. (2014). City-regionalism as a politics of collective provision : regional transport infrastructure in Denver, USA. Urban studies, 51(11), 2444-2465. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013493480

The rise of the city-region concept has focused attention on the nature of territorial politics underpinning city-regionalism. This paper investigates the relationship between territorial politics, city-regionalism and the collective provision of mas... Read More about City-regionalism as a politics of collective provision : regional transport infrastructure in Denver, USA.

The competition state, city-regions, and the territorial politics of growth facilitation (2013)
Journal Article
While, A., Gibbs, D., & Jonas, A. E. G. (2013). The competition state, city-regions, and the territorial politics of growth facilitation. Environment & planning. A, 45(10), 2379-2398. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45210

As urban centres of agglomeration expand and compete for investment, new demands may arise for additional housing, infrastructure, and services. Failure to meet these demands imposes costs on firms and workers, stifles expansion, and potentially comp... Read More about The competition state, city-regions, and the territorial politics of growth facilitation.

Scaling sustainable development? How voluntary groups negotiate spaces of sustainability governance in the United Kingdom (2012)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E. G., & Kythreotis, A. P. (2012). Scaling sustainable development? How voluntary groups negotiate spaces of sustainability governance in the United Kingdom. Environment and planning. D, Society & space, 30(3), 381-399. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11810

This paper seeks to address the way the politics of sustainability governance is spatially organised and contested by voluntary and community sector (VCS) groups in the United Kingdom. Using the research lens of the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP),... Read More about Scaling sustainable development? How voluntary groups negotiate spaces of sustainability governance in the United Kingdom.

The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control (2011)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E., Gibbs, D., & While, A. (2011). The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control. Urban studies, 48(12), 2537-2554. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011411951

The new urban politics (NUP) literature has helped to draw attention to a new generation of entrepreneurial urban regimes involved in the competition to attract investment to cities. Interurban competition often had negative environmental consequence... Read More about The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control.

Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California: region, places, and ecological governance (2011)
Journal Article
Pincetl, S., Jonas, A., & Sullivan, J. (2011). Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California: region, places, and ecological governance. Geoforum, 42(4), 427-438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.03.001

The county of Riverside California has a long history of land conservation. In this comparative case study between Western Riverside County and the Coachella Valley area in the county we show how governance institutions that encompass regions that ha... Read More about Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California: region, places, and ecological governance.

Are you alternative? ‘Alternative’ food networks and consumers’ definitions of alterity (2010)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L., Cox, R., Kneafsey, M., Dowler, E., Venn, L., & Tuomainen, H. (2010). Are you alternative? ‘Alternative’ food networks and consumers’ definitions of alterity. In D. Fuller, A. E. Jonas, & R. Lee (Eds.), Interrogating Alterity : Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (161-173). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589633

Concepts of ‘alternative’ food practices, enterprises or networks (AFns) have become increasingly prevalent in European and north American agri-food writing, with their suggestion and promise of solutions to some of the ecological, economic and socia... Read More about Are you alternative? ‘Alternative’ food networks and consumers’ definitions of alterity.

From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development (2009)
Journal Article
While, A., Jonas, A. E. G., & Gibbs, D. (2010). From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 35(1), 76-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00362.x

The management of carbon emissions holds some prospect for challenging sustainable development as the organising principle of socio-environmental regulation. This paper explores the rise of a distinctive low-carbon polity as an ideological state proj... Read More about From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development.

Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision (2009)
Journal Article
Gibbs, D. C., Jonas, A. E. G., & While, A. H. (2010). Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision. Regional studies, 44(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400802662666

JONAS A. E. G., WHILE A. H. and GIBBS D. C. Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: the new territorial politics of collective provision, Regional Studies. Research on the geography of urban and regional economic developm... Read More about Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision.