All Outputs (6)

Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels (2015)
Journal Article

In less than a decade, biofuels transitioned from being a socially and politically acceptable alternative to conventional transport fuels to a deeply contested solution. Claims of land grabs, forest loss and food riots emerged to undermine the sustai... Read More about Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels.

Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels (2015)
Journal Article

The paper clarifies the social and value dimensions for integrated sustainability assessments of lignocellulosic biofuels. We develop a responsible innovation approach, looking at technology impacts and implementation challenges, assumptions and valu... Read More about Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels.

Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus (2015)
Journal Article

Climate change has been the subject of increasing efforts by scientists to understand its causes and implications; it has been of growing interest to policymakers, international bodies, and a variety of nongovernment organizations; and it has attract... Read More about Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus.

How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (2015)
Journal Article

This article presents findings from an analysis of English-language media reports following the publication of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report in September 2013. Focusing on the way they reported the Intergovernm... Read More about How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report.

Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop (2015)
Report

The potential for an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation about RRI at the University of Nottingham (UoN) was identified during a research project conducted in summer 2014 to investigate how RRI is being interpreted within UoN (Pearce et al., 2014)... Read More about Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop.

Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels (2015)
Journal Article

Purpose Bioenergy is increasingly used to help meet greenhouse gas (GHG) and renewable energy targets. However, bioenergy’s sustainability has been questioned, resulting in increasing use of life cycle assessment (LCA). Bioenergy systems are global a... Read More about Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels.