The Making of Low Carbon Economies

Dr Heather Lovell is a Reader in the Human Dimensions of Environmental Change in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has a first degree and PhD in Human Geography (both from the University of Cambridge, UK) and has researched and taught social science aspects of climate change and energy for the past ten years. Her research has led to new understandings of sociotechnical change across two empirical sites: low-energy housing, and the commodification of carbon. She has held research positions at Oxford University, Durham University, the University of Technology (Sydney), and in UK Parliament. Dr Lovell’s research has been widely cited (eg in Google Scholar she has 325 citations; h-index 11). She has been funded by the UK Research Councils (ESRC, EPSRC), the UK Tyndall Centre, and the Nuffield Foundation