Challenge 5

‘We're going all out for shale:’ explaining shale gas energy policy failure in the United Kingdom
Published September 2022
By Bradshaw, Devine-Wright, Evensen, King, Martin, Ryder, Short, Sovacool, Stretesky, Szolucha and Williams


Lessons from the framing contest over UK shale development: impotence and austerity in environmental politics
Published 2022
By Williams, L.


Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK
Published November 2021
By Ryder, Stacia and Devine-Wright, Patrick


Watching fracking: Public engagement in postindustrial Britain
Published 2021
By: Anna Szolucha


Shale gas developments in England: Social impacts and comparisons
Published 2021
By: Anna Szolucha


Induced seismicity or political ploy?: Using a novel mix of methods to identify multiple publics and track responses over time to shale gas policy change
Published 5 August 2021
By: Devine-Wright, Ryder, Dickie, Evensen, Varley, Whitmarsh and Bartie 


Futures of Fracking and the Everyday: Hydrocarbon Infrastructures, Unruly Materialities and Conspiracies
Published 26 March 2021
By: Anna Szolucha


Effect of “finite pool of worry” and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions
Published 19 January 2021
By: Darrick Evensen, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Phil Bartie, Patrick Devine-Wright, Jen Dickie, Adam Varley, Stacia Ryder, Adam Mayer


Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: The “lived experience” of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom’s Fylde communities
Published 5 December 2020
By: Sovacool, BK, Williams, L, Martin, A and Axsen, J


Shale gas development and crime: A review of the literature. The Extractive Industries and Society
Published July 2020
By: Stretesky, Paul, and Philipp Grimmer


Shale Gas Development and Community Distress: Evidence from England
Published July 2020
By: Feizel Aryee, Anna Szolucha, Paul B. Stretesky, Damien Short, Michael A. Long, Liesel A. Ritchie and Duane A. Gill


Energy democracy, dissent and discourse in the party politics of shale gas in the United Kingdom
Published March 2020
By Laurence Williams, Benjamin K. Sovacool


The discursive politics of ‘fracking’: Frames, storylines, and the anticipatory contestation of shale gas development in the United Kingdom
Published September 2019
By L. Williams and B. Sovacool


Mistrust and earthquakes: why Lancashire communities are so shaken by fracking tremours
By: Anna Szolucha


A social take on unconventional resources: Materiality, alienation and the making of shale gas in Poland and the United Kingdom
By: Anna Szolucha


The discursive politics of ‘fracking’: Frames, storylines, and the anticipatory contestation of shale gas development in the United Kingdom
By: Laurence Williams, Benjamin Sovacool