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Rapid and deep energy system decarbonisation is essential to a safe future. Thermal energy storage may hold the key to significant carbon reduction of the heating, cooling and electricity sectors, but the UK remains largely locked in to a fossil-fuel based heating regime. Global urbanisation trends mean cities are crucial to the net-zero transition. This thesis provides a sociotechnical analysis o
Shared ground heat exchange can deliver low-carbon electrified heat where individual heat pumps or heat networks are not feasible, such as in terraced homes. However, there is a policy gap around these mid-scale heat solutions. We outline the benefits and challenges of shared ground heat exchange, and actions needed by policy, housing, and innovation stakeholders to support further deployment.
State-of-the-art attosecond photoionization experiments are identified as a new platform to test Born’s rule—a postulate of quantum mechanics. A simulation of the so-called Sorkin test under typical experimental conditions infers an achievable measurement precision in the range of the best Sorkin tests to date, demonstrating new opportunities for high-precision tests of Born’s rule via nonlinear m
Denna studie undersöker konflikten i Taranto, en stad i södra Italien som sedan 1960 talet har hyst ett av Europas största stålverk, Ilva. Under årtiondenas lopp har Ilva omformat Tarantos socioekonomiska och miljömässiga landskap och orsakat allvarlig förorening, som epidemiologiska studier har kopplat till överdödlighet och ökad sjuklighet. Denna kris har lett till en konflikt som också har utkäThis study examines the conflict in Taranto, a city in Southern Italy that has hosted one of Europe’s largest steel plants, Ilva, since the 1960s. Over the decades, Ilva has reshaped Taranto’s socioeconomic and environmental landscape, causing severe pollution that epidemiological studies have linked to excess mortality and morbidity. This crisis has led to a conflict fought also through legal mea
This article explores the lived contradictions entailed in being a young member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) today. The focus is on how political and existential issues intersect. It explores partymembership as a strategy for personal mobility among Beijing elite university students by providing an ethnographic account of the quandaries of two young CCP members. Even though one student is
Regime change is considered essential for sustainability transitions. An important source of regime change is pressure from alternative innovations developed in niches and the actors involved. Governments often play an important role in such niche-regime interactions and affect whether, and how, this results in regime change. However, an overview of the various roles governments can play with resp
Purpose: This paper seeks to explore the manner in whichsecondary vocational education in agriculture can facilitateunlearning among young farmers. In this context, ‘unlearning’means deliberately letting go of mindsets, practices, and routinesthat are no longer fit for purpose.Design/Methodology/Approach: We use a course on sustainablefamily-farm succession as a case study in order to illustrate h
Med “paradigmeskiftet" i dansk udlændingepolitik i februar 2019 er alle flygtninges ophold blevet af midlertidig karakter. Udlændingemyndigheder skal nu gå til grænsen af Danmarks internationale forpligtelser i deres vurderinger af opholdstilladelser og ikke vægte flygtninges tilknytning til landet i samme grad som tidligere. Flygtninge skal sendes tilbage til deres oprindelsesland, så snart det e
This special issue addresses questions of how the practices of (welfare) state practitioners and policy makers (trans)form the lives of families. The aim is to illuminate how social policies and educational institutions influence parents’ hope for the wellbeing and future success of their children through new forms of audit culture and policies of early interventions. We i
This article examines the ways in which parenting practices of refugee parents are the object of concern for the Danish welfare state. Emphasis is placed on how interventions of daycare institutions and other welfare professionals have been experienced by refugee families who live in a context of radical uncertainty since they hold temporary residence permits in Denmark. Based on ethnographic fiel
