David Rees' presentation on using System Dynamics Approaches in the Energy Cultures research project. Given at ENERGY AT THE CROSSROADS
ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY conference in Wellington, 2013.
Climate change policy and the moral agency of CCS technologies - Presentation from Matthew Cotton (University of Sheffield) at the UKCCSRC's CCS: Issues in governance and ethics workshop in Edinburgh, 23 September 2014
Mapping the CCS ethical landscape - Presentation by Dr Clair Gough (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) at the UKCCSRC's CCS: Issues in governance and ethics workshop in Edinburgh, 23 September 2014
Developing s stakeholders' engagement model based on foundations of transdisciplinarity. The model captures challenges of the energy efficiency problem in housing, engages housing stakeholders to identify strategic interventions and links theories to practices.
David Rees' presentation on using System Dynamics Approaches in the Energy Cultures research project. Given at ENERGY AT THE CROSSROADS
ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY conference in Wellington, 2013.
Climate change policy and the moral agency of CCS technologies - Presentation from Matthew Cotton (University of Sheffield) at the UKCCSRC's CCS: Issues in governance and ethics workshop in Edinburgh, 23 September 2014
Mapping the CCS ethical landscape - Presentation by Dr Clair Gough (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) at the UKCCSRC's CCS: Issues in governance and ethics workshop in Edinburgh, 23 September 2014
Developing s stakeholders' engagement model based on foundations of transdisciplinarity. The model captures challenges of the energy efficiency problem in housing, engages housing stakeholders to identify strategic interventions and links theories to practices.
2014 254102 Professional and Ethical Practice writing workshop 1Martin McMorrow
This presentation is designed for students enrolled in the Ethical and Professional Practice paper [254.102] at Massey University, New Zealand. It highlights key issues related to writing the first assignment in the course.
Role of Women in Energy Conservation Exploring Link between Energy Conservati...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Motto:
Striving for the planet in peril
Vision :
To create awareness, carry out research, disseminate knowledge and capacity building as a team to promote environmental friendly and sustainable policies and channelize the outcomes through this online thought leadership platform.
Explores the key notions around Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Health in the context of enabling Resilience and Sustainable Development. Key areas of investigation include Concepts (balancing among planetary, socio-ecological systems dynamics), Methodologies (evolving regenerative science, innovation and governance), Analysis (profiling emergent patterns), and Applications (reorganizing multiscale systems).
Transport, Energy and Socio-Economic Transformation: Solutions for Sustainabi...Robin Lovelace
Rural communities face specific challenges if they are to become sustainable in a future resource constrained world. Whilst only 20% of the population in Scotland reside in rural communities, they have a proportionally higher transport ecological footprint (EF). This paper presents the results of an investigation of three Scottish rural communities, where transport is essential. The communities’ transport EF, which was calculated using Stockholm Environment Institute’s resource accounting model (REAP) and data from household questionnaires, was found to be between 60% and 100% of the “fairshare” of the Earth’s available biocapacity (measured on a per capita basis) and unsustainable. Scenarios were developed to model the impact of technology and renewable energy on the EF. The results showed that switching to electric cars powered by renewable energy significantly reduced the EF. However, a sustainable transport EF (one which was less than 20% of the “fairshare”) was only achieved when community-wide changes in car ownership and mobility, requiring community co-operation and transformation, accompanied the switch to new technologies. This approach of future scenario modelling gives new insights into the priorities for rural policy. Community access to renewable resources and capacity to implement the community-wide changes are likely to be pre-requisites for sustainability.
Community perspectives on sustainability and resilience within a social ecolo...Alex Webb
Thesis defense presenting results from social science research project examining community knowledge and perspectives related to coupled human and natural systems or social-ecological systems dynamics in St. Thomas, USVI.
Threefold Sustainability: New Direction for DevelopmentMartin Ossewaarde
Sustainability is about balancing the economic, social and environmental aspect of every human venture. Countries everywhere now have an obligation to achieve the SDGs. Higher education for sustainable development should lead. Why not start a positive impact career?
The Social Challenge of 1.5°C Webinar: Ilan Chabaytewksjj
Karen O'Brien, Susanne Moser, Ioan Fazey and others from Future Earth's Transformations Knowledge-Action Network discuss mobilising research around the social challenge of a 1.5°C target for climate action.
2014 254102 Professional and Ethical Practice writing workshop 1Martin McMorrow
This presentation is designed for students enrolled in the Ethical and Professional Practice paper [254.102] at Massey University, New Zealand. It highlights key issues related to writing the first assignment in the course.
Role of Women in Energy Conservation Exploring Link between Energy Conservati...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Motto:
Striving for the planet in peril
Vision :
To create awareness, carry out research, disseminate knowledge and capacity building as a team to promote environmental friendly and sustainable policies and channelize the outcomes through this online thought leadership platform.
Explores the key notions around Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Health in the context of enabling Resilience and Sustainable Development. Key areas of investigation include Concepts (balancing among planetary, socio-ecological systems dynamics), Methodologies (evolving regenerative science, innovation and governance), Analysis (profiling emergent patterns), and Applications (reorganizing multiscale systems).
Transport, Energy and Socio-Economic Transformation: Solutions for Sustainabi...Robin Lovelace
Rural communities face specific challenges if they are to become sustainable in a future resource constrained world. Whilst only 20% of the population in Scotland reside in rural communities, they have a proportionally higher transport ecological footprint (EF). This paper presents the results of an investigation of three Scottish rural communities, where transport is essential. The communities’ transport EF, which was calculated using Stockholm Environment Institute’s resource accounting model (REAP) and data from household questionnaires, was found to be between 60% and 100% of the “fairshare” of the Earth’s available biocapacity (measured on a per capita basis) and unsustainable. Scenarios were developed to model the impact of technology and renewable energy on the EF. The results showed that switching to electric cars powered by renewable energy significantly reduced the EF. However, a sustainable transport EF (one which was less than 20% of the “fairshare”) was only achieved when community-wide changes in car ownership and mobility, requiring community co-operation and transformation, accompanied the switch to new technologies. This approach of future scenario modelling gives new insights into the priorities for rural policy. Community access to renewable resources and capacity to implement the community-wide changes are likely to be pre-requisites for sustainability.
Community perspectives on sustainability and resilience within a social ecolo...Alex Webb
Thesis defense presenting results from social science research project examining community knowledge and perspectives related to coupled human and natural systems or social-ecological systems dynamics in St. Thomas, USVI.
Threefold Sustainability: New Direction for DevelopmentMartin Ossewaarde
Sustainability is about balancing the economic, social and environmental aspect of every human venture. Countries everywhere now have an obligation to achieve the SDGs. Higher education for sustainable development should lead. Why not start a positive impact career?
The Social Challenge of 1.5°C Webinar: Ilan Chabaytewksjj
Karen O'Brien, Susanne Moser, Ioan Fazey and others from Future Earth's Transformations Knowledge-Action Network discuss mobilising research around the social challenge of a 1.5°C target for climate action.
Dangerous olives and other stories: The future of transdisciplinary behaviour change’
Dr Fiona Spotswood, Senior Lecturer of Marketing in UWE provides an introduction to social practice theory.
After the completion of her PhD which criticised the individualistic and psychologically-underpinned nature of much social marketing activity, Fiona has continued to focus on the cultural view of socially problematic behaviours, with a specific interest into the implications of marketing on various cultural phenomena which are damaging to societal wellbeing.
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Our Task 24 talk presenting the exciting CHS hospital building manager pilot at the Behavior, Energy & Climate Change conference in Sacramento, October 2017
My paper for the session on embedding behavioural science within local government at the Public Health England Conference 2017
This session will provide practical advice and examples of how we can develop the behavioural science capability of the public health system. We will build on the work of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Centre for Workforce Intelligence in an interdisciplinary approach to start delivering on the ‘fifth wave’ of public health where healthy behaviours become the norm in a ‘culture of health’.
System leaders will present perspectives from aspects of the system. A national leader will explain the developing system-wide approach to a Behavioural Science Strategy for Public Health. This will highlight the policy demand and how this is being met by national organisations to provide the environment for behavioural science to have maximum effect at local level. It will introduce the disciplines and organisations involved, the types of expertise and how they can help. A director of public health will describe how behavioural science can contribute to delivery of STPs, how to make the business case and different approaches to build capability at the local level. An expert from local government will describe the practical approach of behavioural science in day-to-day public health delivery, their scope of work, how they enhance delivery and how they prioritise and manage demand.
Throughout we will address ‘what are the benefits?’, ‘why embed behavioural science?’ and provide case examples to demonstrate how behavioural science has added value. Our aim is to promote world leading behavioural science and communicate this throughout the public health system.
WEBINAR | DEC 2017 | Closing the Knowledge Gap - Solar Waste Disposal in Bang...Smart Villages
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In September 2017, the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN) held its annual conference on the topic of "Equity and Energy Justice" at Durham University, UK. As a follow-up to this conference, we held two webinars to share highlights from the conference.
The first webinar focussed on energy justice. This month, we examined a second theme from the conference, and focused on questions of how academic research can best have impact at the grassroots of energy access and productive use, how that "knowledge gap" can be closed, and what some of the most effective solutions might be for ensuring that research can be applied effectively and equitably.
The speakers included Practical Action's Sarah Begg, who has been leading a participatory learning study with LCEDN looking at how academic research impacts the grassroots. She will be joined by her colleague from Practical Action's Bangladesh office, Iffat Khan, who will present some of the specific outcomes and experiences of the study in Bangladesh. Finally, the Smart Villages Initiative will share the global perspectives they have been able to gather on bridging academic research and making it relevant to energy access practitioners, entrepreneurs, and rural communities.
Sarah Begg, Global Knowledge and Learning Officer, Practical Action
Iffat Khan, Knowledge and Business Development Specialist, Practical Action Bangladesh
Dr Bernie Jones, Co-Leader, Smart Villages Initiative
More more information, please visit e4sv.org
Greening of Corrections: Creating a Sustainable System
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How to reach the hard-to-reach (energy users)?Leonardo ENERGY
Energy efficiency is sometimes called "the greatest market failure of all times" - it makes so much sense, is imperative to achieve the energy transition affordably, and yet it remains difficult to achieve the energy efficiency potential that technological and policy innovations promise to deliver. Is this because our technological and policy advances fail to reach all energy users in the same way? We believe that there is a significant percentage of the human population who can be regarded as “hard-to-reach (HTR) energy users”. These are the people policymakers, utility programme managers and research experts often struggle to engage with when designing and rolling out technological and behavioural interventions. Their barriers and needs are different to those "lower hanging fruit" energy users we understand well. This HTR audience segment becomes even larger once we expand from hard-to-reach individuals and groups in the residential, to those in the non-residential, particularly the commercial sector – especially if we look across all fuels and energy services, including mobility. This, potentially very large energy user segment is the focus of this new research collaboration and we present our first findings in this webinar.
How to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change interventions in hospi...Leonardo ENERGY
The Carolina Healthcare System (CHS) in the Carolinas is among the leading, and largest healthcare organisations in the U.S., employing 62,000 people in 940 care locations. The system has 7,500 beds and over 12 million patient encounters every year. In its commitment to energy management, efficiency and conservation, the organisation is pursuing strategies to decrease its energy use. One such strategy is implementing programmes that encourage building facilities staff to change their behaviour. The first phase in the CHS behaviour change program, Energy Connect, is an intervention that encourages operators to detect and act on energy inefficiencies within the buildings they are responsible for. Building operators account for a small percentage of people in each building, but have a disproportionally high impact on energy use. Therefore, if they were to change their behaviours, they could dramatically reduce overall energy use. IEA DSM Task 24 and ACEEE’s Behavior and Human Dimensions of Energy Efficiency program helped the Sustainability Director of CHS to co-create a highly collaborative behaviour change field trial.
【平成25年度 環境人材育成コンソーシアム(EcoLeaD)事業】
日付:平成25年12月14日
イベント:第3回アジア環境人材育成研究交流大会-国際シンポジウム2部
タイトル:高等教育におけるサステイナビリティの実現に向けて:オーストラリアにおける模範例の紹介 / Leading for sustainability in higher education: Exemplars from Australian contexts
発表者:スー・エリオット 氏(ニューイングランド大学教育学部教授、オーストラリア環境教育学会副会長) / Dr. Sue Elliott(Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of New England, Vice President, Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc.)
詳細:http://www.eco-lead.jp/active/seminar/2013-2/
1. Apply the steps of the scientific method, along with qualitative .docxmonicafrancis71118
1. Apply the steps of the scientific method, along with qualitative and quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills, to complete laboratory exercises on environmental issues and document the results. Insert course learning outcome 2. Explain basic ecological concepts and how they relate to the goal of achieving environmental sustainability. 3. Examine how human actions have affected Earth’s capacity to sustain life. 4. Discuss some of the major environmental challenges facing modern societies and the social, economic, political, and ecological choices and tradeoffs these challenges pose. 5. Describe ways in which natural phenomena affect living things and the physical world. 6. Apply changes to one’s daily life choices in order to promote sustainability by reducing one’s ecological footprint.
Apply logic and critical thinking to evaluate reasoning, explore diverse perspectives, and engage in metacognition.
Communicate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in written and oral forms.
Leverage digital technologies to solve problems, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.
Demonstrate information literacy through accessing, evaluating, and using information.
Construct ethical responses to contemporary problems.
Cultivate knowledge of and respect for people with diverse backgrounds, values, and lifestyles.
Apply knowledge of commonalities and differences across varying cultural, economic, and geographic populations as part of global citizenship.
Demonstrate personal accountability using effective interpersonal communication and emotional intelligence.
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Mary Jo Lavelle "Adopting the energy cultures framework to promote pro-environmental behavioural change on the island of Ireland." Lightening Talk Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Benjamin Sovacool "The Nordic Low-Carbon Transition: Implications and Insights for Researchers and Practitioners" Keynote Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Ebru Ergoz Karahan “The Relation between the Occupant Behaviour, Energy Efficiency and the Residential Building Characteristics: Case of Turkey.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Phillipa Watson “Getting Bill-Smart: Outcomes of an energy efficiency project for low income householders in Tasmania.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Amanda Thomas “Energy transitions from the grassroots up: opportunities and barriers to oil free and climate justice groups in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
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(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
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11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
2. What’s unique about the Energy
Cultures approach?
• Interdisciplinary team
• Energy transitions, behaviour change
• Whole-picture thinking
• Energy Cultures framework
Material
culture
Energy
practices
Norms Do
Have
Think
3. ENERGY CULTURES 2
1. Energy efficiency in households, businesses &
their transport
2. Future transport systems
4. Energy Cultures 2
• led from Otago University
• 4 years 2012-2016
• 12 researchers
• 2 PhD & 4 Masters scholarships
5. Prof. Gerry
Carrington
physics/
engineering
Dr Paul
Thorsnes
economics
Dr Janet Stephenson
sociology/
human geography
Prof. Rob Lawson
consumer
psychology
Prof. Barry Barton
law & policy
Dr John
Williams
marketing
Dr Rebecca
Ford
engineering
Dr Sara
Walton
management
Dr David Rees
system
dynamics
Dr Charles Sullivan
psychology;
transport statistics
Michelle Scott
psychology, HCI
Debbie Hopkins
environmental
sociology
The Energy Cultures team today
Dr Adam Doering
social science;
transport
6. Research questions posed by MBIE
1. Considering the current pattern of energy usage in
New Zealand homes, small businesses and transport,
where do the ‘highest impact’ opportunities lie for
energy savings and how can these be cost effectively
leveraged?
2. In transport, what is possible with new
technologies and practices for energy efficiency and
conservation and how can consumers be encouraged to
adopt them and encourage markets to deliver them?
7.
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9. Many existing unlinked data sets
relating to energy use/behaviours
Data mining; statistical analysis
10. 2nd (& 3rd ?) national household
surveys plus transport questions
Longitudinal study: changes, trends,
energy culture clusters
11. Energy use and efficiency potential
in SMEs
Survey, interviews