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Industry and Policy Implementation of Material Efficiency
10.17863/CAM.20174
Cooper-Searle, Simone
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Allwood, Julian
The UK has committed to deep, long-term reductions in national greenhouse
gas emissions as part of a global effort to address climate change. Material efficiency,
reducing the material inputs per service output, has long been identified as a globally
underexplored mitigation strategy. Previous studies show unrealised technical potential
to improve the efficiency of steel use, a large contributor of industry emissions, in the
UK. This thesis explores why these opportunities may be unrealised along the steel
supply chain.
University of Cambridge
2018-02-12
Thesis
Doctoral
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) PhD studentship (reference EP/L504920/1).
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material efficiency
steel
greenhouse gas emissions
multidisciplinary
UK
socio-technical systems
input-output modelling
climate change
supply chain
automotive
construction
policy agenda