Gordon Peter Walker is emeritus professor in the Lancaster Environment Centre at
Lancaster University
Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...
, UK, retiring in 2023. He is British, and also taught at an earlier incarnation of
Staffordshire University. He studied geography at the
University of Cambridge
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and
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...
(PhD in Geography, 1986, ''Planning control of hazardous installations and development in their vicinity'').
Scholarship
Walker has contributed to scholarship on the social, spatial, temporal and normative dimensions of environment, sustainability, climate and risk issues (particularly flooding). He is the author of many publications on
environmental justice
Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...
and inequality, and community energy initiatives which involve
embedding renewable energy at the local level.
He is best known for elaborating how
environmental justice
Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...
can be conceptualised and put into practice, and for a major project and several publications on energy demand in the UK with
Elizabeth Shove and others.
In 2021, he published a major work on
Rhythmanalysis, a term coined by
Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre ( ; ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for furthering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social ...
and
Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos.
[https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/energyandrhythm/]
.
Major works
*Walker, G.P. 2021. ''Energy and Rhythm: Rhythmanalysis for a Low Carbon Future''. Rowman & Littlefield. .
*Bridge, G., Barr, S., Bouzarovski, S., Bradshaw, M., Brown, E., Bulkeley, H., Walker, G.P. 2018. ''Energy and Society: a critical perspective''. Routledge. .
*Hui, A., Day, R., Walker, G.P. (eds.). 2017. ''Demanding energy: space, time and change''. Palgrave Macmillan. .
*Walker, G.P. 2012. ''Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics''. Routledge. .
*Holifield, R., Chakraborty, J., Walker, G.P. (eds.). 2017. ''Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice''. Routledge. .
*Holifield, R., Porter, M., Walker, G.P. (eds.). 2010. ''Spaces of Environmental Justice''. Wiley Blackwell. .
*Kivell, P., Roberts, P., Walker, G.P. (eds.). 2008. ''Environment, planning and land use''. Routledge. .
See also
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David Elliott (professor)
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Stephen Thomas (economist)
Stephen Thomas is a professor at the University of Greenwich Business School, working in the area of energy policy. Before moving to the University of Greenwich in 2001, Thomas worked for twenty-two years at the University of Sussex.
Research wor ...
References
External links
Lancaster University: Professor Gordon WalkerScientists take on Brown over nuclear plans
People associated with energy
Sustainability advocates
Academics of Lancaster University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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