Paul Munro
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Dr Munro is a Scientia Associate Professor in Human Geography within the Environment and Society Group, School of Humanities and Languages, at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, where he convenes the Environmental Humanities and Geographical Studies majors. He has an established research record in the fields of political ecology and environmental history and has written extensively on forest governance and energy justice, with a particular geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. His current research is focused on the changing geographies of energy poverty: developing an understanding how the emergence of new technologies (e.g., photovoltaic power), new trade dynamics and financial platforms have reshaped how people realise their energy needs in poor rural and urban settings. He is currently engaged in research in Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi and Vanuatu. Prior to his work in academia, he co-founded Energy For Opportunity (EFO) in 2008 in Sierra Leone, an organisation dedicated to the dissemination of renewable energy in West Africa.
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Title & place of publication | Author | Research area | Type | Links | Date |
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'Workshop Background Paper: Energy Resilience in Pacific Island Countries & Territories' | Anna Bruce, Iain MacGill, Paul Munro, Atul Raturi, Manu Rawali, Darcy Small, Ashleigh Nicholls, Thomas Jeffrey, Long Seng To | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Sustainability & general | Reports and Working Papers | ||
The Afterlife of Solar | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon | Large-scale Renewable Energy, Sustainability & general, Technology Assessments | Media | YouTube | |
'Energy Bricolage in Northern Uganda: Rethinking Energy Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa', Energy Research and Social Science, 55 | Paul Munro, Anne Bartlett | Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Energy Research and Social Science, 55 | |
'Energy solution or future pollution? Applying an energy justice perspective to coal seam gas in New South Wales', Australian Geographer, 51 | Paul Munro, Breana Macpherson-Rice, Kim de Rijke | Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Australian Geographer, 51, RG | |
'On, Off, Below and Beyond the Urban Electrical Grid: The Energy Bricoleurs of Gulu Town', Urban Geography, 41 | Paul Munro | Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Urban Geography, 41 | |
'Energy economics as an energy justice dilemma: Case studies of normative trade-offs in Malawi, Mexico and Germany', Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, pp.317-327 | Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Kirsten Jenkins | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, pp.317-327 | |
'Los Proyectos de Muerte: Energy Justice on Mexico’s unconventional gas frontier', The Extractive Industries and Society, 5 | Paul Munro, Letizia Silva Ontiveros, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita | Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Sustainability & general | Journal papers | The Extractive Industries and Society, 5 | |
'Energy Justice for All? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone Energy Policy', Energy Policy, 105 | Paul Munro, Stephen Healy, Greg van der Horst | Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Energy Policy, 105 | |
Research and innovation agenda for energy resilience in Pacific Island Countries and Territories | Anna Bruce, Paul Munro, Edoardo Santagata, Iain MacGill, Manu Rawali, Atul Raturi, Long Seng To | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Journal papers | Nature Energy, 6, RG | |
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon, Matthew Kearnes, Courtney Paisley | Journal papers | Political Geography, 106 | ||
Towards a repair research agenda for off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon, Anna Bruce, Ulrich E. Hansen, Matthew Kearnes, Jamie Cross, Sarah Walker, Collen Zalengera | Journal papers | Nature Energy, 8 | ||
'Off-Grid Electrical Urbanism: Emerging Solar Energy Geographies in Ordinary Cities', Journal of Urban Technology, 30 | Paul Munro, Shanil Samarakoon | Electricity Markets & Restructuring | Journal papers | Journal of Urban Technology, 30 | |
'The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42 | Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Collen Zalengera, Matthew Kearnes | Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42 | |
'Somewhat original: energy ethics in Malawi’s off-grid solar market', Environmental Sociology, 7 | Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Anne Bartlett | Sustainability & general | Journal papers | Environmental Sociology, 7 |