Laurence Williams

481 total citations
12 papers, 335 citations indexed

About

Laurence Williams is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurence Williams has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 335 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Laurence Williams's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (3 papers). Laurence Williams is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (3 papers). Laurence Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Hungary. Laurence Williams's co-authors include Benjamin K. Sovacool, Sarah Curtis, Phil Macnaghten, Richard J. Davies, Timothy J. Foxon, William F. Lamb, Lina Brand-Correa, Finn Müller-Hansen, Jan C. Minx and Michael Jakob and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Policy and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Laurence Williams

10 papers receiving 319 citations

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Bente Johnsen Rygg Norway

Marius Korsnes Norway

Henk‐Jan Kooij Netherlands

Shane Fudge United Kingdom

Julie MacArthur New Zealand

Saskia Ellenbeck Germany

Imogen Rattle United Kingdom

James Gaede Canada

Margaret Tingey United Kingdom

Lukáš Lehotský Czechia

Bente Johnsen Rygg Norway

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All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

Williams, Laurence, et al.. (2025). Plausibility, Acceptability, and Trustworthiness: The Resonance of Shale Gas Frames in the United Kingdom. Environmental Communication. 19(4). 783–818.

Williams, Laurence. (2024). Expect the unimaginable: A document analysis of expectations for 5G in UK newspapers. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 209. 123762–123762.

Williams, Laurence. (2023). Lessons from the Framing Contest over UK Shale Development. Nature and Culture. 18(1). 42–64. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Laurence, Benjamin K. Sovacool, & Timothy J. Foxon. (2022). The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 157. 112033–112033. 55 indexed citations

Bradshaw, Michael, Patrick Devine‐Wright, Darrick Evensen, et al.. (2022). ‘We're going all out for shale:’ explaining shale gas energy policy failure in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy. 168. 113132–113132. 11 indexed citations

Williams, Laurence & Noam Bergman. (2022). Koomey's law forevermore? A document analysis of the production and circulation of the promise of ‘green 5G’. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 187. 122193–122193. 5 indexed citations

Williams, Laurence & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2020). Energy democracy, dissent and discourse in the party politics of shale gas in the United Kingdom. Environmental Politics. 29(7). 1239–1263. 29 indexed citations

Lamb, William F., Miklós Antal, Katharina Bohnenberger, et al.. (2020). What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature. Environmental Research Letters. 15(11). 113006–113006. 73 indexed citations

Sovacool, Benjamin K., et al.. (2020). Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the “lived experience” of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom’s Fylde communities. Local Environment. 25(11-12). 944–966. 11 indexed citations

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Williams, Laurence & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2019). The discursive politics of ‘fracking’: Frames, storylines, and the anticipatory contestation of shale gas development in the United Kingdom. Global Environmental Change. 58. 101935–101935. 35 indexed citations

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Williams, Laurence, Phil Macnaghten, Richard J. Davies, & Sarah Curtis. (2015). Framing ‘fracking’: Exploring public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom. Public Understanding of Science. 26(1). 89–104. 114 indexed citations

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Williams, Laurence. (1968). PETROLEUM EXPLORATION OUTLOOK FOR 1968. The APEA Journal. 8(2). 22–25. 1 indexed citations

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