All Stories

  1. Reconstructing Risk–Risk Analysis to Support Effective Governance of High-Risk Climate Interventions

    Article • European Journal of Risk Regulation, July 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Duncan McLaren

  2. Solar geoengineering research faces geopolitical deadlock

    Article • Science, January 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Duncan McLaren

  3. Carbon Dioxide Removal: What Is Sustainable and Just?

    Article • Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  4. Profit-seeking solar geoengineering exemplifies broader risks of market-based climate governance

    Article • Earth System Governance, January 2025, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  5. Scientific models versus power politics: How security expertise reframes solar geoengineering

    Article • Review of International Studies, November 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Duncan McLaren

  6. Carbon removal for a just transition

    Article • Climate Policy, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  7. Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering

    Article • Cooperation and Conflict, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Duncan McLaren

  8. Governance for Earth system tipping points – A research agenda

    Article • Earth System Governance, August 2024, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  9. Developing a minifesta for effective academic-activist collaboration in the context of the climate emergency

    Article • Frontiers in Education, June 2024, Frontiers

    Duncan McLaren

  10. The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

    Article • PLOS Climate, April 2024, PLOS

    Dhanasree Jayaram , Duncan McLaren

  11. Governance for Earth System Tipping Points – a Research Agenda

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  12. “It's Not the Climate, Stupid”: Exploring Nonideal Scenarios for Solar Geoengineering Development

    Article • Ethics & International Affairs, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Duncan McLaren

  13. Specialty grand challenge: renaming our section to “Carbon Dioxide Removal”

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, September 2023, Frontiers

    Duncan McLaren

  14. Governing Emerging Solar Geoengineering: A Role for Risk-Risk Evaluation?

    Article • Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, September 2023, Project Muse

    Duncan McLaren

  15. Disentangling the “net” from the “offset”: learning for net-zero climate policy from an analysis of “no-net-loss” in biodiversity

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, July 2023, Frontiers

    Duncan McLaren

  16. “Our Way of Life is not up for Negotiation!”: Climate Interventions in the Shadow of ‘Societal Security’

    Article • Global Studies Quarterly, July 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Duncan McLaren, Professor Olaf Corry

  17. Toward Dangerous US Unilateralism on Solar Geoengineering

    Article • Environmental Politics, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Prakash Kashwan, Duncan McLaren

  18. Life in the hole: practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence

    Article • European Journal of Futures Research, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Duncan McLaren

  19. Which Net Zero? Climate Justice and Net Zero Emissions

    Article • Ethics & International Affairs, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Duncan McLaren

  20. Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies

    Article • Qualitative Research, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Duncan McLaren

  21. Attractions of delay: Using deliberative engagement to investigate the political and strategic impacts of greenhouse gas removal technologies

    Article • Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Duncan McLaren

  22. The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Sweden

    Article • Circular Economy and Sustainability, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Duncan McLaren

  23. The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report

    Article • Environmental Politics, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Prakash Kashwan, Duncan McLaren

  24. It Would Be Irresponsible, Unethical, and Unlawful to Rely on NETs at Large Scale Instead of Mitigation

    Article • June 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Duncan McLaren

  25. The risks of solar geoengineering research

    Article • Science, June 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Duncan McLaren

  26. Navigating Potential Hype and Opportunity in Governing Marine Carbon Removal

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, June 2021, Frontiers

    Duncan McLaren

  27. The politics and governance of research into solar geoengineering

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, March 2021, Wiley

    Duncan McLaren, Professor Olaf Corry

  28. Repair for a Broken Economy: Lessons for Circular Economy from an International Interview Study of Repairers

    Article • Sustainability, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Duncan McLaren

  29. Why states disagree about geoengineering

    Article • Global Policy, January 2021, Wiley

    Duncan McLaren, Professor Olaf Corry

  30. Reconfiguring repair: Contested politics and values of repair challenge instrumental discourses found in circular economies literature

    Article • Resources Conservation & Recycling X, December 2020, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  31. Local conflicts and national consensus: The strange case of circular economy in Sweden

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, July 2020, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  32. Social Science Sequestered

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, June 2020, Frontiers

    Duncan McLaren

  33. Quantifying the potential scale of mitigation deterrence from greenhouse gas removal techniques

    Article • Climatic Change, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Duncan McLaren

  34. The co-evolution of technological promises, modelling, policies and climate change targets

    Article • Nature Climate Change, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Duncan McLaren

  35. Beyond “Net-Zero”: A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, August 2019, Frontiers

    Duncan McLaren

  36. Whose climate and whose ethics? Conceptions of justice in solar geoengineering modelling

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, October 2018, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  37. In a broken world: Towards an ethics of repair in the Anthropocene

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, April 2018, SAGE Publications

    Duncan McLaren

  38. Towards a cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence by negative emissions technologies (NETs)

    Article • Global Sustainability, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Duncan McLaren

  39. Sharing Cities

    Article • Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  40. Mitigation deterrence and the “moral hazard” of solar radiation management

    Article • Earth s Future, December 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Duncan McLaren

  41. Public conceptions of justice in climate engineering: Evidence from secondary analysis of public deliberation

    Article • Global Environmental Change, November 2016, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  42. Sharing Cities

    Article • January 2016, The MIT Press

    Duncan McLaren

  43. Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability

    Article • January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof David Butler, Duncan McLaren

  44. Tomorrow's World

    Article • November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  45. A comparative global assessment of potential negative emissions technologies

    Article • Process Safety and Environmental Protection, November 2012, Elsevier

    Duncan McLaren

  46. Procedural Justice in Carbon Capture and Storage

    Article • Energy & Environment, May 2012, SAGE Publications

    Duncan McLaren

  47. Just Sustainabilities

    Article • April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  48. Third Party Rights of Appeal: Enhancing Democracy or Hindering Progress?

    Article • Planning Theory & Practice, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  49. Global Stakeholders: corporate accountability and investor engagement

    Article • Corporate Governance An International Review, April 2004, Wiley

    Duncan McLaren

  50. The Crisis of London

    Article • September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  51. Multinational Companies and Environmental Issues

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Duncan McLaren

  52. From Seattle to Johannesburg: 'Anti-globalisation' or 'inter-localism'?

    Article • Local Environment, November 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  53. Overcoming the barriers to effective national sustainable development strategies: The role of environmental space analysis

    Article • Local Environment, October 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  54. ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF ‘ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE’: A TRANS-EUROPEAN PROJECT

    Article • European Environment, May 1996, Wiley

    Duncan McLaren

  55. ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF ‘ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE’: A TRANS‐EUROPEAN PROJECT

    Article • European Environment, May 1996, Wiley

    Duncan McLaren

  56. Enduring decisions: Evaluating environmental impacts for sustainability planning

    Article • Local Environment, February 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  57. Friends of the Earth

    Article • Planning Practice and Research, December 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren

  58. “Action for cities” and the urban environment

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, August 1989, SAGE Publications

    Duncan McLaren

  59. LONDON AS ECOSYSTEM

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Duncan McLaren