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Beauty and the beast: opportunities and threats arising from distorted global flows of materials
Beauty and the beast: opportunities and threats arising from distorted global flows of materials. 1 January 2014. Beauty and the beast: opportunities and threats arising from distorted global flows of materials. In Brattberg,, E.r.i.c., Hamilton,…
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Eco-innovation and competitiveness. Enabling the transition to a resource-efficient circular economy
Eco-innovation and competitiveness. Enabling the transition to a resource-efficient circular economy. 1 January 2014. Eco-innovation and competitiveness Enabling the transition to a resource-efficient circular economy: annual report 2013…
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Methodologies for representing the road transport sector in energy system models
Methodologies for representing the road transport sector in energy system models. 1 January 2014. Energy system models are often used to assess the potential role of hydrogen and electric powertrains for reducing transport CO emissions in the future.…
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Un-burnable oil: an examination of oil resource utilisation in a decarbonised energy system
Un-burnable oil: an examination of oil resource utilisation in a decarbonised energy system. 1 January 2014. This paper examines the volumes of oil that can and cannot be used up to 2035 during the transition to a low-carbon global energy system…
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Re-Assessing resource dependency and criticality. Linking future food and water stress with global resource supply vulnerabilities for foresight analysis
Re-Assessing resource dependency and criticality. Linking future food and water stress with global resource supply vulnerabilities for foresight analysis. 1 January 2014. While strategic studies on natural resources usually focus on the criticality…
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Shaping the urban sustainability research landscape – Public Engagement Fellowship
Shaping the urban sustainability research landscape – Public Engagement Fellowship. 12 December 2013. What’s the role of the public in achieving low carbon urban futures? UCL-Energy and UCL ISR Research Associate Charlotte Johnson has been…
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Blogpost: Tales from foreign parts
Blogpost: Tales from foreign parts. 27 November 2013. Foreign travel, especially air travel, is bad for the climate, so that at ISR I think carefully about invitations that involve it. But sometimes, in this globalised world, it is just necessary to…
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A whole systems analysis of the benefits of hydrogen storage to the UK
A whole systems analysis of the benefits of hydrogen storage to the UK. 28 September 2013. A whole systems analysis of the benefits of hydrogen storage to the UK. Presented at: World Hydrogen Technologies Convention 2013 Shanghai, China. Dodds, P.E. …
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Greening the UK economy: Challenges and opportunities
Greening the UK economy: Challenges and opportunities. 18 September 2013. Will McDowall, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources researcher and member of the UCL Green Economy Policy Commission, joined Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State…
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Can we use hydrogen as a storage vector to reduce the cost of intermittent renewables?
Can we use hydrogen as a storage vector to reduce the cost of intermittent renewables? 29 August 2013. Hydrogen has long been identified as a zero-carbon energy carrier for transport applications. Yet there are other potential roles for hydrogen in…
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