Dr Matthew Cotton

Lecturer: Sustainability

Telephone number: temp (31163)
Email address: M.Cotton@leeds.ac.uk
Room: temp (10.118)

Publications

• Cotton MD; Devine-Wright P (2012) Making electricity networks ‘visible’: industry actor representations of ‘publics’ and public engagement in infrastructure planning., Public Understanding of Science, 21, pp.17-35. doi: 10.1177/0963662510362658
• Cotton MD (2012) Industry and stakeholder perspectives on the social and ethical aspects of radioactive waste management options, The Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies, 11, pp.8-26.
• Cotton M; Motta B (2011) Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship, Inter-Disciplinary Press.
• Cotton MD (2011) Public Participation in UK Infrastructure Planning: Democracy, Technology and Environmental Justice, In: Cotton M; Motta B (Ed) Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship, Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp.201-211.
• Cotton MD; Devine-Wright P (2011) Discourses of energy infrastructure development: a Q-method study of electricity transmission line siting in the UK, Environment and Planning A, 43, pp.942-960. doi: 10.1068/a43401
• Cotton MD (2011) Public engagement and community opposition to wind energy in the UK, In: Tortora M (Ed) Sustainable Systems and Energy Management at the Regional Level: Comparative Approaches, IGI Global, pp.310-327.
• Cotton MD (2010) Discourse, upstream public engagement and the governance of human life extension research, Poiesis and Praxis: international journal of technology assessment and ethics of science, 7, pp.135-150. doi: 10.1007/s10202-009-0072-8
• Cotton MD; Devine-Wright P (2010) NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning, In: Devine-Wright P (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation, Earthscan, pp.115-128.
• Cotton MD (2009) Evaluating the ‘ethical matrix’ as a radioactive waste management deliberative decision-support tool, Environmental Values, 18, pp.153-176. doi: 10.3197/096327109X438044
• Cotton MD (2009) Ethical assessment in radioactive waste management: a proposed reflective equilibrium-based deliberative approach, Journal of Risk Research, 12, pp.603-618. doi: 10.1080/13669870802519455
• Cotton MD (2006) Developing a deliberative process for ethically informed radioactive waste management decision-making., In: Andersson K (Ed) Values in Decisions on Risk Proceedings, Informationsbolaget Nyberg & Co, pp.181-189.
• Cotton MD (2005) The Problem of Moral Philosophy and Intergenerational Equity in a Potential Radioactive Waste Siting Process: An Ethical Conundrum with a Pragmatic Solution., In: Andersson K (Ed) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, pp.2300-2306.
• Cotton MD (Not yet published) Deliberating intergenerational environmental equity: a pragmatic, future studies approach, Environmental Values, .
• Cotton MD; Devine-Wright P (Not yet published) Putting pylons into place: a UK case study of public perspectives on the impacts of high voltage overhead transmission lines, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, .