ABSTRACT
The development of a low carbon Wales can be understood at the intersection of three sets of issues. The first of which is the devolution of limited powers from Westminster to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and National Assembly for Wales in 1999, and the ways this informs the balance of relationships between UK national government and the WAG. A second issue is the nature of relationships between urban and rural Wales, with a third being concerned with the ongoing responses over the last four decades to the deindustrialisation of Wales, and particularly south Wales.
