I have published many journal articles, chapters and policy documents on environment and sustainability. Here, organised around themes, are some I am particularly proud of:
Building sustainability on a foundation of care
Parry, S. and Murphy, J. (2023) ‘Gender and sustainability in our home: a collaborative autoethnography linking experience, scholarship and progressive politics’, Families, Relationships and Societies, 12(3), pp.341-356.
Murphy, J. and Parry, S. (2021) ‘Gender, households and sustainability: Disentangling and re-entangling with the help of ‘work’ and ‘care’’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 1099-1120.
Understanding trade and regulatory standards
Murphy, J., Levidow, L. and Carr, S. (2006) ‘Regulatory standards for environmental risks: understanding the US-EU conflict over GM crops’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 36, No. 1. pp. 133-160.
Murphy, J. and Yanacopulos, H. (2005) ‘Understanding governance and networks: EU–US interactions and the regulation of genetically modified organisms’, Geoforum, Vol. 36, No. 5. pp. 593-606.
Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts
Murphy, J. and Smith, A. (2013) ‘Understanding transition-periphery dynamics: renewable energy in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Vol. 45, pp. 691-709.
Murphy, J. (2013) ‘Place and exile: resource conflicts and sustainability in Gaelic Ireland and Scotland’, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, Vol. 18, No. 7-8, pp. 801-816.
Helping society to shape technological innovation
Murphy, J., Parry, S., and Walls, J. (2016) ‘The EPSRC’s Policy of Responsible Innovation from a Trading Zones Perspective’, Minerva, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 151-174.
Murphy, J. and Gouldson, A. (2000) ‘Environmental policy and industrial innovation: integrating environment and economy through ecological modernisation’, Geoforum, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 33-44.
Research methods for progressive social change
Murphy, J. (2011) ‘Walking a public geography through Ireland and Scotland’, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 177, No. 4, pp. 367-379.
Murphy, J. (2011) ‘Walking paths through postcolonial political geographies’, Political Geography, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 239-240.
Improving theory linking society and environment
Murphy, J. (2000) ‘Ecological modernisation’, Geoforum, Vol. 31, No 1. pp. 1-8.
Gouldson, A. and Murphy, J. (1997) ‘Ecological modernisation: economic restructuring and the environment’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 74-86.
Contributions to politics, policy and public debate
Murphy, J. (2010) ‘At the edge: community ownership, climate change and energy in Scotland’, a Briefing Paper prepared for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York. ISBN 978 1 85935 797 2.
Murphy, J. and Chataway, J. (2003) ‘Science and International Agreements: The Case of Genetically Modified Organisms and Risk’, Written Evidence to the Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Lords (Sub-Committee I), Submitted by the INNOGEN research centre, 1 October 2003.