Gordon Peter Walker is emeritus professor in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, 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 and University of Leeds (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 and inequality,Environmental justice: Research and resources and community energy initiatives which involve embedding renewable energy at the local level.Community energy initiatives Embedding socio-technical innovation?
He is best known for elaborating how environmental justice 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.https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/gordon-walker#activities
In 2021, he published a major work on Rhythmanalysis, a term coined by Henri Lefebvre 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 David Elliott (professor) Andy Stirling Stephen Thomas (economist)
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External links Lancaster University: Professor Gordon Walker Scientists take on Brown over nuclear plans