Undermining Infrastructure
Publications
All publications from the Undermining Infrastructure Project are collected here.
Journal Papers
- Dawson D; Purnell P; Roelich K; Busch J; Low Carbon Technology Performance vs Infrastructure Vulnerability: Analysis through the Local and Global Properties Space, Environmental Science and Technology, 48, 12970−12977. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1021/es500902 [PDF]
- Roelich K; Dawson D; Purnell P; Knoeri C; Revell R; Busch J; Steinberger JK (2014) Assessing the Dynamic Material Criticality of Infrastructure Transitions: A Case of Low Carbon Electricity, Applied Energy, In Press. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.052 [PDF]
- Busch J; Steinberger JK; Dawson D; Purnell P; Roelich K (2014) Managing Critical Materials with a Technology-Specific Stocks and Flows Model, Environmental Science and Technology, 48 (2), pp. 1298–1305. doi: 10.1021/es404877u [PDF]
- Purnell P; Dawson D; Roelich KE; Steinberger JK; Busch J (2013) Critical materials for infrastructure: local vs global properties, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability, 166, pp. 272-280. doi: 10.1680/ensu.12.00031
Conference Papers
- Roelich, K.E.; Busch, J.; Dawson, D.; Purnell, P.; and Steinberger, J.K. (2013) Assessing the critical material constraints on low carbon infrastructure transitions. Presented at the European Society of Ecological Economics. June 2013. [PDF]
- Dawson, D.; Purnell, P.; Busch, J.; Roelich, K.E.; Steinberger, J.K.; and Revell, R. (2012) Towards Sustainable and Resilient (SuRe) Infrastructure: material dependency and the analysis of local vs global properties, 1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience. [PDF]
- Busch, J.; Dawson, D.; Roelich, K.E.; Revell, R.; Purnell, P.; and Steinberger, J.K. (2012) Material Risks to Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Transitions, 1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience. [PDF]
- Purnell, P.; Dawson, D.; Roelich, K.E.; Steinberger, J.K.; and Busch, J. (2012) Critical materials for low-carbon infrastructure: the analysis of local vs global properties, Earth Systems Engineering. [PDF]
- Busch, J.; Dawson, D.; Roelich, K.; Steinberger, J.K.; and Purnell, P. (2012) Enhancing Stocks and Flows modelling to support sustainable resource management in low carbon infrastructure transitions, 2012 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Managing Resources of a Limited Planet, Internaitonal Environmental Modelling and Software Society. [PDF]
Briefing Notes
Results from case studies:
Initial Working Papers setting out concepts and methods that this project builds on:
Presentations
Work from the UI project has been presented at many international conferences, seminars and workshops. Key presentations that summarise the work are listed below.
Project Overview – presented at the Undermining Infrastructure final dissemination event on the 13th March 2014 at the British Library in London.
Properties – presentation on Dawson et al, “Low Carbon Technology Performance vs Infrastructure Vulnerability: Analysis through the Local and Global Properties Space” paper, presented at the Undermining Infrastructure final dissemination event on the 13th March 2014 at the British Library in London.
Criticality – presentation on the Roelich et al, “Assessing the Dynamic Material Criticality of Infrastructure Transitions: A Case of Low Carbon Electricity” paper, presented at the International Society for Industrial Ecology – Socio-Economic Metabolism Conference in Melbourne in November 2014.
Model – presentation on the Busch et al, “Managing Critical Materials with a Technology-Specific Stocks and Flows Model” paper, presented at the International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference in Ulsan in July 2013.
Isle of Wight Case Study – presented on a forthcoming case study paper presented at the International Society for Industrial Ecology – Socio-Economic Metabolism Conference in Melbourne in November 2014.