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Bregje van Veelen

Lund University

Based in

Sweden
Europe

Bregje van Veelen is an Assistant Professor at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. Her research looks at how social dynamics shape the outcomes of low-carbon transitions. This means she is interested in how social interactions (such as participatory processes, culture and norms) and forms of organising influence in the implementation of low-carbon transitions. Additionally, she is not only concerned with the environmental or climate impact of transtions, but also their social impact. She thus asks how low-carbon transitions can contribute to the kind of society we want to be. Underpinning all this is the understanding that there is more than one way to a low-carbon society, she therefore asks how different pathways emerge, evolve, and to what effect.

Country(ies) of Specialty

Canada Sweden United Kingdom

Focus areas of expertise

Climate policy and politics Climate Justice Fossil fuels Renewable energy

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Publications

Articles

Van Veelen, B. (2025) A tale of two coals: The politics of time in coal phase outs. Environmental Politics.

Van Veelen, B., and Hague, A. (2024) How faith-based actors enact
multi-scalar climate action: insights from European churches. Global Environmental Politics.

Van Veelen, B., and Knuth, S. (2023) An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E.

Eadson, W., van Veelen, B., and Backius, S. (2023) Decarbonising industry: A places-of-work research agenda. The Extractive Industries and Society. 15: 101307.

Eadson, W., and van Veelen, B. (2023) Green and just regional path development. Regional Studies, Regional Science. 10(1), 218-233.

Van Veelen, B. (2021) Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance. Geoforum 118: 130-139.

Eadson, W. and van Veelen, B. (2021) Assemblage-democracy: reconceptualising democracy through material resource governance. Political Geography.

Van Veelen, B., Rella, L., Taylor Aiken, G., Judson, E., Gambino, E., Jenss, A., Parashar, A., and Pinker, A. (2021) Intervention: Democratizing Infrastructure. Political Geography.

Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., Langley, P., and van Veelen, B. (2020) Pluralizing and problematizing carbon finance. Progress in Human Geography. 44(4): 724-742.

Van Veelen, B. (2020) Caught in the middle? Constructing and contesting intermediary spaces in low carbon governance. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 38(1): 116-133.

Van Veelen, B., Pinker, A., Tingey, M., Taylor Aiken, G., and Eadson W. (2019) What can energy research bring to the social sciences? Reflections on 5 years of ERSS and beyond. Energy Research and Social Science. 57.

Creamer, E., Taylor-Aiken, G., van Veelen, B., Walker, G., and Devine-Wright, P. (2019) Community renewable energy: what does it do? Reflecting on Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on. Energy Research and Social Science. 57.

Van Veelen, B. (2018) Negotiating energy democracy in practice: governance processes in community energy projects. Environmental Politics. 27(3): 644-665.

Van Veelen, B. and van der Horst, D. (2018) What is Energy Democracy? Connecting social science energy research and political theory. Energy
Research and Social Science. 46: 19-28.

Creamer, E., Eadson, W., van Veelen, B., Pinker, A., Tingey, M., Braunholtz-Speight, T., Markantoni, M., Foden, M., and Lacey-Barnacle, M. (2018) Community Energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector. Geography Compass. 2018(12): e12378.

Van Veelen, B. (2017) Making sense of the Scottish community energy sector – an organising typology. Scottish Geographical Journal. 133(1): 1-20.

Van Veelen, B., and Haggett, C. (2017) Uncommon Ground: The role of different place attachments in explaining community renewable energy projects. Sociologia Ruralis. 57(S1): 533-554.

 

Articles

Nilsson, L., Bulkeley, H., Stripple J., van Veelen, B., Kalfagianni, A., van Sluisveld, M. (2022) Decarbonising Economies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.