Policy publication by Dimitri Zenghelis on 26 Feb 2016
Submission to inquiry on by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. External link to publication
Working paper by Ben Wood, Andy Dougill, Claire Quinn, Lindsay Stringer on 11 Feb 2016
Climate-Compatible Development (CCD) is gaining traction as a conceptual framework for mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation within development efforts. Understanding whether and how CCD design processes reconcile the preferences of different stakeholders operating across global, national and local scales is important for revealing: how the concept contends with patterns of socio-cultural and political oppression […]
Research article by Timothy Laing on 6 Jan 2016
Laing, Timothy (2015). In: Resources Policy, 46 (2). pp. 250-261.
Research article by Matthew Hannon, Tim Foxon, William F. Gale on 1 Dec 2015
Product-Service Systems (PSSs) constitute a family of service-based business models designed to satisfy our societal needs in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. To date however PSS application has remained niche due to a variety of critical barriers. This paper explores how ‘demand pull’ national government policies could support PSS activity by addressing these barriers […]
Research article by Dabo Guan, Andy Gouldson, Q. Zhang on 8 Oct 2015
Following a series of extreme air pollution events, the Chinese government released the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan in 2013 (China’s State Council 2013). The Action Plan sets clear goals for key regions (i.e. cities above the prefecture level, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Province, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta) and establishes near-term […]
Research article by John Barrett, Peter Taylor on 7 Oct 2015
As is the case in a number of countries, the UK construction industry faces the challenge of expanding production whilst making ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions. Embodied carbon constitutes a growing proportion of whole-life carbon emissions and accounts for a significant share of total UK emissions. A key mitigation strategy is increasing the use of […]
