ABSTRACT
Economic geography is a strong candidate as a disciplinary home for stranded assets. The sub-discipline can both contribute to the development of stranded assets as a scholarly endeavour and itself benefit from interacting with a topic that intersects with some of the most pressing contemporary issues related to environmental sustainability. Economic geography is a sub-discipline both of geography and of economics. G. L. Clark et al. bounds economic geography as being 'concerned with the spatial configuration of firms, industries, and nations within the emerging global economy in all its manifestations'. Economic geography as practised by geographers is less easily defined than geographical economics and has undergone a number of significant periods of change. There is a strong case for economic geography to become a disciplinary home for stranded assets. It can play to economic geography's strengths and help to correct some of its weaknesses, particularly in relation to the environment.
