Articles     and
Other Writings

Civil Rights/Digital Rights

This section lists articles related to civil rights, the right to protest, and the parallel issue of civil rights within technologically mediated spaces ("Internet/Digital Rights").

The Internet, Disintermediation and Campaign Groups
Written for ECOS, the quarterly journal of the British Association of Nature Conservationists, p25-32, Vol.21 No.1, 2000.
A study of the development of the Internet, its effects on grassroots campaigning, and the future prospects of the larger campaign groups (adapted from an earlier work I wrote for the Free Range Network, The Detractor's Convention).

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Energy & Environment

The following articles relate to my work on energy issues, and mostly follow on from my original research for the book Energy Beyond Oil.

Uranium Supply and the Nuclear Option
Published in Oxford Energy Forum, the quarterly journal of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Issue 61, May 2005.
A short paper on the global availability – past, present and future – of uranium, and the critical limitation that the likely future shortage of uranium represents to the much trumpeted "nuclear renaissance".

Turning the World Upside Down
Published in an edited form in The World Today, the journal of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), vol.60 no.12, December 2004.
An article I wrote for Chatham House, to which they added the snappy introduction, "Could you live with the same amount of energy now available to those in the third world? A dramatic change such as this is likely within fifty years as present energy sources are used up. So future generations will have to manage with just a third of the energy we use now."

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Planning & Development

This section covers articles and papers related to town planning and development.

New Labour and the Planning Agenda
Written for the CorporateWatch journal, 2000.
An article, written for and published by Corporate Watch, on the way that New Labour has sought to restructure the planning system to favour corporate interests and keep out the public.

• My original article
• The published article

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Pollution

Short articles, speeches and papers on the issue of environmental pollution and nuisance.

AEA Harwell – Nuclear and Environmental Hazards
1990
An article published in SCRAM on the hazards of the Harwell Laboratory site in Oxfordshire.

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Waste Management

Short articles, speeches and papewrs on the issue of waste.

'Best Value' and Waste Management in Local Authorities: An Independent View
A report for the Institute of Waste Management's 'Best Value in Waste Management' Seminar, November 1998
A paper for a seminar I gave to the Institute of Waste Management's conference on 'best balue'.

Sustainable Waste Management – Possibility or Pipe-dream?
February 1994
An article on the meaning of the word 'sustainable' as applied to the term "sustainable waste management" – written for The Recycling Council's annual seminar in Birmingham, 17^th February, 1994 (and published in the proceedings of the conference, Why Recycle?, A.K.M. Rainbow [editor], A.A. Balkema publishing, 1994). Please note that this report has been converted from a now redundant file format and so the pagination has been lost, along with any graphics.

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