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Ranran Wang
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Power dynamics play a crucial role in inhibiting and advancing various policies, from climate action to wage negotiations. However, current integrated models addressing socio-economic and environmental issues often fail to account for the underlying drivers of these power dynamic
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Roads, homes, and power plants
A disaggregated hybrid multi-regional input-output model to reveal climate impacts of EU construction sectors
The construction of our built environment is a major driver of global material use, greenhouse gas emissions, and their impacts on people and ecosystems. Nevertheless, there is a critical gap in understanding which purposes of construction activity drive these environmental impac
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Living on Less
Sufficiency-enabling Policies as a Lever for a Just Housing Transition in Germany
The urgent need for a just transition in housing in Germany, to reduce the global environmental impacts and mitigate the risks of green colonialism, requires the development of policies that enable sufficiency. In the housing sector, this primarily involves reducing floor area pe
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Urban environments must be prepared to address the impacts of climate change and mitigate its repercussions. The rapidly surging rate of urbanization is expected to instigate significant land use and land cover changes, through expansion and densification of the built environment
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Mitigation strategies to achieve sustainable development
Insights from the Carbon Footprint of Manufactured Capital
In the spirit of equity, all humans should be entitled to a life congruous with a very high level of well-being. The development needed to achieve this would however heavily rely on manufactured assets, the production of which negatively impacts the climate system. Both efficienc
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The decarbonisation of process heat in the German food and beverages industry
A study quantifying the techno-economic potential of High-Temperature Heat Pumps in the German food and beverages industry, the GHG emission abatement potential, and evaluating the economic and political framework conditions for industrial decarbonisation
Industrial decarbonisation has largely stagnated over the last years in Germany. A large share of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions stem from the combustion of natural gas for producing higher temperature process heat. High-Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHPs) are an emerging technology t
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