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Ethical Issues at the University-Industry Interface
This paper forms an introduction to this issue, the contents of which arose directly or indirectly from a conference in May 2001 on Corruption of scientific integrity? - The commercialisation of academic science. The...
Day one sustainability
Emissions reductions targets for the UK set out in the Climate Change Act for the period to 2050 will only be achieved with significant changes to the built environment, which is currently estimated to account for 50% of the...
Winds and tides of the Antarctic mesosphere and lower thermosphere
Shaun Dempsey, Neil Hindley, Tracy Moffat-Griffin, Corwin Wright, Anne K. Smith, Jian Du, Nicholas J. Mitchell
Jan 31, 2021
Atmospheric tides play a critical role in the dynamics and coupling of mesosphere and lower-thermosphere (MLT). Global Circulation Models (GCMs) that aim to span the lower, middle and upper atmosphere must therefore be capable...
Performance of a dynamic cobble berm revetment for coastal protection, under increasing water level.
Paul Bayle, Chris Blenkinsopp, Daniel Conley, Gerd Masselink, Tomas Beuzen, Rafael Almar
Aug 31, 2020
In a changing climate, sea level rise and projected regional–scale changes in storminess may increase the vulnerability of sandy coastlines to coastal erosion and flooding. As a result, there is increased interest in the...
Coastal adaptation Composite beach DynaRev Dynamic cobble berm revetment Dynamic revetment /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2305 name=Environmental Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2212 name=Ocean Engineering /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
How Psychology Can Help Limit Climate Change
Kristian S. Nielsen, Susan Clayton, Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Stuart Capstick, Lorraine Whitmarsh
Dec 31, 2020
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has encouraged psychologists to become part of the integrated scientific effort to support the achievement of climate change targets such as keeping within 1.5°C or 2°C of global...
Global competition dynamics of fossil fuels and renewable energy under climate policies and peak oil
We develop a stochastic decision model to analyse the global competitive dynamics of fossil fuels and renewable energy. It describes coal, oil/gas, solar and wind. These differ not only in pollution intensities but also in...
climate change Energy policy Externalities learning Peak oil /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100/2100 name=General Energy /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2308 name=Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Socio-technical transitions in UK electricity - Part 1
A large interdisciplinary consortium of engineers, social scientists and policy analysts has developed three low emissions, more-electric transition pathways for the UK. The approach is based on earlier work on understanding...
Business climate change Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Co-Simulation Methods for Holistic Vehicle Design
Nikolaos Kalantzis, Tom Fletcher, Ahmed Ahmedov, Ruoyang Yuan, Antonios Pezouvanis, Kambiz Ebrahimi, Sina Shojaei, Richard Osborne
Apr 14, 2020
Vehicle development involves the design and integration of subsystems of different domains to meet performance, efficiency, and emissions targets set during the initial developmental stages. Before a physical prototype of a...
Reaching consensus promotes the internalization of commitment to social change
Solving the world’s most pressing problems (climate change, global poverty) will require the commitment of large numbers of people. The current research draws upon the joint insights of self-determination theory and the...
Collective action hope internalization self-determination Social Change social identity formation Social interaction /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3207 name=Social Psychology /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316 name=Cultural Studies /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3315 name=Communication /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1201 name=Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 name=Sociology and Political Science /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/clean_water_and_sanitation name=SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Energy or carbon? Exploring the relative size of universal zero carbon and zero energy design spaces
One aim of zero carbon, or zero energy, buildings is to help slow climate change. However, regulatory definitions frequently miss substantial emissions, for example ones associated with the materials the building is constructed...
Ecological and demographic correlates of cooperation from individual to budding dispersal
Identifying the ecological and demographic factors that promote the evolution of cooperation is a major challenge for evolutionary biologists. Explanations for the adaptive evolution of cooperation seek to determine which...
Altruism Behaviour climate change inclusive fitness kin selection movement ecology /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 name=Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities name=SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
The challenges of detecting subtle population structure and its importance for the conservation of emperor penguins
Jane L. Younger, Gemma V. Clucas, Damian Kao, Alex D. Rogers, Karim Gharbi, Tom Hart, Karen J. Miller
Jul 27, 2017
Understanding the boundaries of breeding populations is of great importance for conservation efforts and estimates of extinction risk for threatened species. However, determining these boundaries can be difficult when...
Antarctica dispersal population genomics RAD-seq Ross Sea Southern Ocean /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 name=Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1311 name=Genetics /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Trust and CO emissions
Although the effect of trust on local cooperation is well-documented, little is known about how trust influences global cooperation. Building on a large body of theoretical and experimental literature, we hypothesize that trust...
Behaviour and performance of a dynamic cobble berm revetment during a spring tidal cycle in North Cove, Washington State, USA
Paul M. Bayle, George M. Kaminsky, Chris E. Blenkinsopp, Heather M. Weiner, David Cottrell
Aug 31, 2021
In many places, sandy coastlines and their associated assets are at high risk of erosion and flooding, with this risk increasing under climate change and sea level rise. In this context, dynamic cobble berm revetments...
Coastal adaptation Coastal protection Dynamic cobble berm revetment Lidar Sediment dynamics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2305 name=Environmental Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2212 name=Ocean Engineering /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Biodegradable Active Packaging with Controlled Release
Jessica R. Westlake, Yunhong Jiang, Martine W. Tran, Ming Xie, Andrew D. Burrows, Xinyu Zhang
Aug 19, 2022
Climate change is accelerated by increasing food waste; more importantly, this pressing challenge is compounded by the environmentally damaging effects of conventional plastics used in food packaging. We have critically...
Active packaging Biodegradable controlled release Encapsulation food Natural Plastics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1106 name=Food Science /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600/1602 name=Analytical Chemistry /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600/1605 name=Organic Chemistry /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600/1601 name=Chemistry (miscellaneous) /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Editorial article
With a growing global concern about climate change, the building industry is facing the question of how predicted changes in climate will impact on the performance of buildings around the world. This is resulting in a...
Designing integrated local production systems
Centralised production of essential products and services based on fossil fuels and large scale distribution infrastructures has contributed to a plethora of issues such as deterioration of ecosystems, social-economic injustice...
Local production system Food-energy-water nexus Resource consumption Mathematical optimisation exergy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Interpreting the influence of tree root water uptake on the long term hydrology of a clay fill railway embankment
This paper uses a numerical model to investigate the influence of tree root water uptake on pore water pressures and the vertical displacement of a clay fill railway embankment. The simulated results of soil wetting and drying...
climate model Embankment Railway Trees vegetation /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1909 name=Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2205 name=Civil and Structural Engineering /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
The influence of UK emissions reduction targets on the emissions of the global steel industry
André Cabrera Serrenho, Zenaida Sobral Mourão, Jonathan Norman, Jonathan M. Cullen, Julian M. Allwood
Feb 01, 2016
The steel industry is the world's largest industrial source of CO2 emissions. Recent UK economic policies have led to reduced domestic steel production giving an apparent reduction in national emissions. However...
Underwater acoustic signatures of glacier calving
Oskar Glowacki, Grant Deane, Mateusz Moskalik, Philippe Blondel, Jaroslaw Tegowski, Małgorzata Błaszczyk
Mar 16, 2015
Climate-driven ice-water interactions in the contact zone between marine-terminating glaciers and the ocean surface show a dynamic and complex nature. Tidewater glaciers lose volume through the poorly-understood process of...
Non-stationarity in annual and seasonal series of peak flow and precipitation in the UK
When designing or maintaining an hydraulic structure, an estimate of the frequency and magnitude of extreme events is required. The most common methods to obtain such estimates rely on the assumption of stationarity, i.e. the...
Urban form and function as building performance parameters
The climate in cities differs significantly from those found in the surrounding area. These differences results from modifications of the Earth's surface that alters the disposition of “natural energy balance” at a micro-scale...
The role of uncertainty and learning for the success of international climate agreements
Transnational externalities (e.g. transboundary pollution, trade, contagious diseases and terror¬ism) warrant coordination and cooperation between governments, but this proves often difficult. One reason for meager success is...
Estimation of the urban heat island for UK climate change projections
Cities are known to exert a significant influence on their local climate, and are generally warmer than their surroundings. However, climate models generally do not include a representation of urban areas, and so climate...
Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities
Many of the decisions relating to future urban development require information on climate change risks to cities This review of the academic and “grey” literature provides an overview assessment of the state of the art in the...
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