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Dr Declan Kuch

Dr Declan Kuch

Visiting Fellow

PhD

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

I'm a Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities at UNSW. My research covers climate change, energy policy and the social dimensions of the life sciences. I jointly hold the position (together with Dr. Sophie Adams) of Operating Agent for Australia's involvement with the User-Centred Energy Systems Technology Collaboration Program under the International Energy Agency. I also co-lead (with Prof. Matthew Kearnes) the Social Dimensions stream of ARC Centre of Excellence in CBNS. My primary r...
E-mail
d.kuch@unsw.edu.au
Location
227 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2015
    Kuch DL, 2015, The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave MacMillan, London, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Carbon-Emissions-Trading/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137490377
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2020, 'Diverse legalities: Pluralism and Instrumentalism', in Gibson K; Dombrowski K (ed.), Handbook of Diverse Economies, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 323 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788119962.00047
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Kuch D; Stringer N; Marshall L; Young S; Roberts M; Macgill I; Bruce A; Passey R, 2019, 'An Energy Data Manifesto', in Good Data, Institute of Networked Cultures, Amsterdam, pp. 77 - 93, http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2017, 'Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism', in Assembling Neoliberalism, Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 219 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1_11
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2017, 'Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism', in Higgins V; Larner W (ed.), Assembling Neoliberalism, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 219 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Conclusion: Beyond 8%: Resituating Emissions Trading', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 163 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_8
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Governing Carbon Emissions: NSW GGAS', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 60 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_4
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Introduction', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_1
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The Rise of Emissions Trading as a Market Mechanism and the Promise of ‘Civilized Markets’', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 13 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_2
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The Technopolitics of National Carbon Accounts', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 95 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_5
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Marketizing Civil Regulation: Acid Rain Regulation as the Experimental Bridge to Carbon Markets', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 29 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_3
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The Paradox of Measurable Counterfactuals and the Fall of Emissions Trading', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 148 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_7
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, '‘Economists in the Wild’: Clean Development and the Global Politics of Carbon Offsets', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 120 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_6
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Adams S; Kuch D; Diamond L; Fröhlich P; Henriksen IM; Katzeff C; Ryghaug M; Yilmaz S, 2022, 'Corrigendum to “Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand side management” (Energy Research & Social Science (2021) 80, (S2214629621003030), (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102210))', Energy Research and Social Science, 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102601
    Journal articles | 2022
    Green F; Kuch D, 2022, 'Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks', Global Environmental Politics, 22, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00654
    Journal articles | 2022
    Michellod JL; Kuch D; Winzer C; Patel MK; Yilmaz S, 2022, 'Building Social License for Automated Demand-Side Management—Case Study Research in the Swiss Residential Sector', Energies, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15207759
    Journal articles | 2022
    Miller G; Kuch D; Kearnes M, 2022, 'Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism', Minerva, 60, pp. 235 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09456-3
    Journal articles | 2022
    Phan T; Goldenfein J; Mann M; Kuch D, 2022, 'Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech', Science as Culture, 31, pp. 121 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1990875
    Journal articles | 2021
    Adams S; Kuch D; Diamond L; Fröhlich P; Henriksen IM; Katzeff C; Ryghaug M; Yilmaz S, 2021, 'Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management', Energy Research and Social Science, 80, pp. 102210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102210
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kuch D; Kearnes M; Gulson K, 2020, 'The promise of precision: datafication in medicine, agriculture and education', Policy Studies, 41, pp. 527 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2020.1724384
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kuch D, 2019, 'Locating Postgenomics – Precision Medicine, Justice and Democracy', BioSocieties, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00156-6
    Journal articles | 2018
    Kearnes M; Kuch D; Johnston A, 2018, 'How to do things with metaphors: Engineering life as hodgepodge', Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 14, pp. 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-018-0084-z
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kuch DL, 2017, '“Fixing” climate change through carbon capture and storage: situating industrial risk cultures', Futures, vol. 92, pp. 90 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.02.001
    Journal articles | 2016
    Morgan B; Kuch DL, 2016, 'The Socio-Legal Implications of the New Politics of Climate Change', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 39, pp. 1715 - 1740, http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/39-4-1.pdf
    Journal articles | 2015
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2015, 'Dissonant Justifications: an organisational perspective of support for Australian community energy', People, Place and Policy Online, 9, pp. 177 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0009.0003.0002
    Journal articles | 2015
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2015, 'Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness, Diverse Economies, and the Sharing Economy', Journal of Law and Society, 42, pp. 556 - 587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00725.x
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The politics of carbon markets, edited by Benjamin Stephan and Richard Lane (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy), London, Routledge, 2015, xiii + 284 pp., $155.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-707-13-8', Environmental Politics, vol. 24, pp. 844 - 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.1055883
    Journal articles | 2014
    Kuch DL; Titus A, 2014, 'Emerging Dimensions of Networked Energy Citizenship: the case of Coal Seam Gas mobilization in Australia', Communication, Politics and Culture, vol. 47, pp. 35 - 59, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=820717668178881;res=IELAPA
    Journal articles | 2010
    Kuch D, 2010, 'Science studies comes to market', Metascience, vol. 19, pp. 489 - 492, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9433-0
    Journal articles | 2008
    Kuch D; Healy SA, 2008, 'Emissions trading: `Grip on reality` or just `trust in numbers`?', Australian Journal of Public Affairs
  • Reports | 2023
    Roberts M; Adams S; Samarakoon S; Kallmier E; Dillon M; Szczepaniak R; Passey R; Bruce A; Macgill I; Egan R; Kuch D, 2023, Energy resilience in bushfires and extreme weather events: Final report of the ESKIES project, https://energy-resilience.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ESKIES-Report-2023-08-17.pdf
    Preprints | 2021
    Adams S; Kuch D; Diamond L; Froehlich P; Henrisksen IM; Katzeff C; Ryghaug M; Yilmaz S, 2021, Social License to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management, http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/f8rud
    Reports | 2021
    Dagraville R; Anwar M; Tomka K; Thorpe A; Kuch D; Milton A; Hasan K; McGrath B; Meegahapola L; Tirunagari S; Jalili M; Newman P; Verschuer M; Economou D; James B; Hargroves C; Mouritz M; Dwyer S; Nagrath K; Paevere P; Spak B; Pellow M; Chhaya S; Barnfather P; Jafari B; Fick J, 2021, Electric vehicles and the grid, https://www.racefor2030.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/N1-EV-Opportunity-Assessement-Report-FINAL_04112021.pdf
    Reports | 2020
    Roberts M; Adams S; Kuch D, 2020, VPP User Research - Final Report
    Other | 2017
    MacGill I; Bruce A; Kuch D; Marshall L; Stringer N, 2017, CEEM Submission to the Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market, Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market
    Reports | 2013
    Morgan B; Kuch D; Ngo J, 2013, Submission to Crowd-Sourced Equity Financing Enquiry (2013)
    Reports | 2013
    Kuch DL; Ladwig J; Titus A; Webb S, 2013, Managing Low Emissions Coal Technologies project risk: The role of public awareness, Coal Innovation Board of the NSW Department of Trade and Investment,

World Social Science Fellow (ISSC)

Social Studies of Science Society

Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Studies Network