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The full paper is available, open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Altogether the paper shows that processes of coal phase out are not straightforward, linear processes, but struggles, and that time plays a key role in them, requiring us to come to grips with coal's unfinished histories and continued promise.

I also discuss how coal companies were using 'temporal strategies' to counter the 2022 reinstatement of the coal mining ban, by calculating their financial losses not based on money spent, but on anticipated future returns. These lawsuits seem to play a part in the current reversal of the ban.

In it, I explore how decades after the closure of the last mine, coal continued to have a promissory power for some in the local community, embodying hope for a better future.

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Paper: An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city
doi.org/10.1177/2514...

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A student forwarded this article to me yesterday. It looks very interesting and I can't wait to read it (when I find the time...)!