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Scenarios and Sensitivities on Long-term UK Carbon Reductions using the UK MARKAL and MARKAL-Macro Energy System Models

Scenarios and Sensitivities on Long-term UK Carbon Reductions using the UK MARKAL and MARKAL-Macro Energy System Models. 1 January 2008. Scenarios and Sensitivities on Long-term UK Carbon Reductions using the UK MARKAL and MARKAL-Macro Energy System…

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Quantifying socioeconomic characteristics of drought-sensitive regions: Evidence from Chinese provincial agricultural data

Quantifying socioeconomic characteristics of drought-sensitive regions: Evidence from Chinese provincial agricultural data. 1 January 2008. In some cases, even relatively minor perturbations to growing season rainfall cause major harvest losses. In…

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Path of least resistance: The government's fallacious use of carbon pricing means that it can disguise its aviation expansion plans as alleviating climate change'

Path of least resistance: The government's fallacious use of carbon pricing means that it can disguise its aviation expansion plans as alleviating climate change'. 1 January 2008. Path of least resistance: The government's fallacious use of carbon…

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Scaling and allometry in the building geometries of Greater London

Scaling and allometry in the building geometries of Greater London. 1 January 2008. Many aggregate distributions of urban activities such as city sizes reveal scaling but hardly any work exists on the properties of spatial distributions within…

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The role of international drivers on UK scenarios of a low-carbon society

The role of international drivers on UK scenarios of a low-carbon society. 1 January 2008. An integrated set of low-carbon society (LCS) scenarios for the UK were analysed using the UK MARKAL Macro (M-M) model. A $100/tCO(2) carbon price scenario…

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Improving Collection and Monitoring of Urban Travel Data: An International Review

Improving Collection and Monitoring of Urban Travel Data: An International Review. 1 January 2008. Sound and reliable data are essential for the development of effective urban transport strategies, yet national governments differ considerably in…

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Hybrid modelling of long-term carbon reduction scenarios for the UK

Hybrid modelling of long-term carbon reduction scenarios for the UK. 1 January 2008. This paper summarizes the development of a new hybrid MARKAL-Macro (M-M) energy system model for the UK. This hybrid model maintains the technological and sectoral…

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Policy implications from the Low-Carbon Society (LCS) modelling project

Policy implications from the Low-Carbon Society (LCS) modelling project. 1 January 2008. Under the Japan-UK research project 'Low-Carbon Society (LCS) Scenarios Towards 2050', an international modelling comparison was undertaken by nine national…

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The Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios-Part I: Development of a backcasting methodology with stakeholder participation

The Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios-Part I: Development of a backcasting methodology with stakeholder participation. 1 January 2008. The Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios project has outlined alternative pathways whereby a 60% reduction in CO2…

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The Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios-Part II: Scenarios for a 60% CO2 reduction in the UK

The Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios-Part II: Scenarios for a 60% CO2 reduction in the UK. 1 January 2008. This paper describes the Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios, the first to take account of CO2 emissions from the whole of the UK's energy…

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