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A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability (2021)
Journal Article
Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2022). A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability. Sustainability Science, 17(1), 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01080-0

Tools purposed towards supporting the transition to more sustainable urban futures typically focus on specific phenomena at the local level. Whilst such approaches remain valuable, there is a need to complement this micro approach with broader integr... Read More about A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability.

Optimising Decarbonisation Investment for Firms towards Environmental Sustainability (2019)
Journal Article
Tran, T., Mao, Y., & Siebers, P. (2019). Optimising Decarbonisation Investment for Firms towards Environmental Sustainability. Sustainability, 11(20), https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205718

We develop a mixed-integer non-linear programming model for firms’ decarbonisation investment decision-making towards a sustainable environment. Our model seeks the optimal investment for a firm to achieve maximum profit under constraints derived fro... Read More about Optimising Decarbonisation Investment for Firms towards Environmental Sustainability.

Modelling Urban Housing Stocks for Building Energy Simulation using CityGML EnergyADE (2019)
Journal Article
Rosser, J. F., Long, G., Zakhary, S., Boyd, D. S., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Modelling Urban Housing Stocks for Building Energy Simulation using CityGML EnergyADE. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(4), Article 163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8040163

Understanding the energy demand of a city’s housing stock is an important focus for local and national administrations to identify strategies for reducing carbon emissions. Building energy simulation offers a promising approach to understand energy u... Read More about Modelling Urban Housing Stocks for Building Energy Simulation using CityGML EnergyADE.

Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems (2019)
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Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems. Entropy, 21(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21010056

Since its conception over 150 years ago, entropy has enlightened and confused scholars and students alike, from its origins in physics and beyond. More recently, it has been considered within the urban context in a rather eclectic range of applicatio... Read More about Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems.

Bio-inspired hierarchical designs for stiff, strong interfaces between materials of differing stiffness (2018)
Journal Article
Rayneau-Kirkhope, D., Mao, Y., & Rauch, C. (2018). Bio-inspired hierarchical designs for stiff, strong interfaces between materials of differing stiffness. Physical Review Applied, 10(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.10.034016

Throughout biology, geometric hierarchy is a recurrent theme in structures where strength is achieved with efficient material usage. Acting over vast timescales, evolution has brought about beautiful solutions to problems of mechanics that are only n... Read More about Bio-inspired hierarchical designs for stiff, strong interfaces between materials of differing stiffness.

Predicting residential building age from map data (2018)
Journal Article
Rosser, J., Boyd, D., Long, G., Zakhary, S., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Predicting residential building age from map data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.08.004

The age of a building influences its form and fabric composition and this in turn is critical to inferring its energy performance. However, often this data is unknown. In this paper, we present a methodology to automatically identify the construction... Read More about Predicting residential building age from map data.

Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins (2018)
Journal Article
Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins. Sustainability Science, 14(3), 681-695. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0627-5

The three pillar conception of (social, economic and environmental) sustainability, commonly represented by three intersecting circles with overall sustainability at the centre, has become ubiquitous. With a view to identifying the genesis and theore... Read More about Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins.

Integrating slacks-based measure of efficiency and super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Tran, T. H., Mao, Y., Nathanail, P., Siebers, P., & Robinson, D. (2019). Integrating slacks-based measure of efficiency and super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis. Omega, 85, 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2018.06.008

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In this paper, we develop an integrated model for slacks-based measure (SBM) simultaneously of both the efficiency and the super-efficiency for decision-making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Unlike the traditiona... Read More about Integrating slacks-based measure of efficiency and super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis.

Thermodynamic entropy as an indicator for urban sustainability? (2017)
Journal Article
Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (in press). Thermodynamic entropy as an indicator for urban sustainability?. Procedia Engineering, 198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.131

As foci of economic activity, resource consumption, and the production of material waste and pollution, cities represent both a major hurdle and yet also a source of great potential for achieving the goal of sustainability. Motivated by the desire to... Read More about Thermodynamic entropy as an indicator for urban sustainability?.