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Bregje van Veelen

@bvanveelen.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at Lund University, Sweden. Decarbonisation, decentralisation, democratisation. Currently: imaginaries and governance of fossil fuel phase-out. www.post-carbon.co.uk

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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yesterday The Guardian published a long read on mass timber skyscrapers. Three years ago Sarah Knuth and I published an academic analysis of this trend, identifying the key characteristics of this trend, and what is obscured in visions for an urban timber future.
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The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
The long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?
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Andrew Whitehouse @anthrobirder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Here's an AHRC-funded PhD project I'm involved with on 'Walking the Energy Transition'. Come and work with me, Jo Vergunst and Jen Clarke in Aberdeen and investigate walking, heritage, art and landscape on the North Sea coast. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jasper Blom @jasprblom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Sounds like an interesting PhD project at Lund university: the role of finance in shaping (dis)orderly energy transitions. With @bvanveelen.bsky.social and @amyjanzwood.bsky.social. Fully funded! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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PhD in Sustainability science
Department: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) The Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) is an institute hosting research and education to address sustaina
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/06/2026
play the FT's chart game - how well do you know what happened since Brexit? as.ft.com/r/102554df-5...
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Draw your own chart game: how well do you know Brexit?
Test your knowledge on what has happened in the 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
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TRAJECTS Climate Centre @trajects.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📣 Call for Applications — TRAJECTS PhD 2026 Do you have a research proposal aligned with Just Transition & Sustainability? This could be your opportunity 👇
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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🛢️New in Geo🛢️ 'Mental oil spills: Visualising petroleumscapes to uncover petro-hegemony in Stavanger, Norway' by Bjørk Tørnqvist & @bvanveelen.bsky.social This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Bjørk Tørnqvist & Bregje van Veelen (2026) entitled: 'Mental Oil Spills: Visualising Petroleumscapes to Uncover Petro-Hegemony in Stavanger, Norway' with an orange banner at the top.

With the urgent need to address climate change, it is critical to confront fossil fuel dependency, particularly in the Global North. This requires confronting the spatio-cultural dimensions of fossil fuels, including how they have become embedded in those locations most closely tied to the fossil fuel industry. This article integrates insights from energy geographies with Hein's concept of petroleumscape to unpack how oil is embedded in Stavanger, Norway's oil capital. This article argues that attention must be paid to local petroleumscapes in order to better unpack how fossil fuel dependency becomes spatially embedded in locally differentiated ways, while simultaneously reinforcing a global petroleumscape. Through qualitative participatory mapping, the article visualises perceived spatialities of petroleum by Stavanger's citizens. Empirically, the article finds that although petroleum is seen as at once hyper-visible and obscured, the city is characterised by a petro-omnipresence. Furthermore, the article finds that petroleum produces a particular social space through the funding of public goods, while also producing social inequalities that are experienced spatially through unequal housing patterns and leisure activities. These insights contribute to uncovering the obscured, yet all-encompassing influences of petroleum on social–ecological spaces in a highly oil-dependent and oil-producing region.
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Great looking job and very useful application advice for those unfamiliar with Nordic academia!
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This also reminds me of the guardian article about Curtis Yarvin in December
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The provincial government in Alberta has (once again) lifted the moratorium on coal mining . They previously did this in 2020, before reinstating it the following year. I discuss this in the second part of this recently published paper, exploring coal's lingering promise doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Newspaper story of Alberta liftin ban on coal exploration: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/aer-grassy-mountain-eastern-slopes-brian-jean-1.7436871
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It feels somewhat frivolous to post this with everything going on in the world, but nonetheless I feel very fortunate to be back at @uvic.bsky.social, spending the next two months reading, writing, and connecting with some of my favourite Canadian energy scholars.
A picture of forests, the Salish sea, and Canada's 11th province in the distance.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.
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KTH | Assistant professor in Environmental History with a specialization in Anthropocene History
KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Workshop / Call for papers Green Jobs: Exploring labour within shifting energy regimes Lund University, June 3-5 2025 Deadlines: - Abstract submission: 25 January - Acceptance notification: early February - Paper submission (5-7000 words): 23 May We'll pay for your food and accommodation :).
The full 'Call for Papers' text
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We can’t understand the geography of capitalism in our present moment without seeing how these old industries overlap with the new. "Two Towns" features an interactive map showing how ex-industrial towns were not “left behind” but actively made into havens for low-paid work.
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In one of my courses students read books about alternative economic ideas/models (e.g. @katearonoff.bsky.social, @kateraworth.bsky.social, @mazzucatom.bsky.social) and analyse how they can address sustainability challenges. I would love to include more non-European/N.American books. Any suggestions?
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This news article exemplifies perfectly what Sarah Knuth and I wrote about in a paper earlier this year: How the push for timber relies on a mix of nostalgic and technofuturist visions while overly simplifying the supposed carbon benefits of these new developments.
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A 'crazy town looking to go fossil free': Sweden's wooden city that was green before Greta
Nearly a decade before Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was even born, Växjö set itself on a path to a new vision of green urban living.
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Interested in energy & climate issues? Here are 9 starter packs to fill your feed with.
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
For the Swedish speakers: one of my research projects, Changing Places of Work, is featured in the latest Forte magasin. The report (and project) explores what the transition towards fossil-free steel making means for old industrial towns. forte.se/wp-content/u...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Come work with me and the amazing team at The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity at AU! We're hiring a postdoc to work on our project studying civic engagement and activism around climate in the US. The fellow will also help oversee our new DataCorps Program. for details:
cece.american.edu
Opportunities at CECE - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE)
Full-Time CECE Postdoctoral Fellow The School of International Service at American University (AU) invites applications for an eighteen-month Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Postdoc...
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Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
We have a Call for Papers out on ‘Green capital landing' in the journal Finance and Space. The SI highlights how carbon finance actors and instruments enable, or impede, capital to land in specific (green) territories. The deadline for abstracts is 10 January. More info: bit.ly/RFAS1.
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Finance and Space: Green capital landing and the distributional effects of carbon finance
This issue will enhance insights into studies of carbon finance by focusing on the landing of carbon finance and green investments from a bottom-up perspective.
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