Life Within Energy Policy

Nuclear Development Externalities and Energy Policy : The Life Cycle

Externalities and Energy Policy: The Life Cycle Analysis Approach

This paper presents a summary of recent studies on external costs of energy systems, in particular the ExternE (External Costs of Energy) Project of the European Commission. To evaluate the impact and damage cost of a pollutant, one needs to carry out an impact pathway analysis; this involves the calculation of increased pollutant concentrations in all affected regions due to an incremental emi...

Accounting for Energy-Reliant Services within Everyday Life at Home

Researchers in pervasive and ubiquitous computing have produced much work on new sensing technologies for disaggregating domestic resource consumption, and on designs for energy-centric interventions at home. In a departure from this, we employ a service-oriented approach, where we account for not only the amount of resources that specific appliances draw upon, but also how the associated servi...

Energy Efficiency and Energy Policy

Policy Evolution within an Organization

A plan of action is given for a newly funded research project on organizational evolution. In this study, our goals are to apply an evolutionary framework to organizational learning. The process includes a collaborative effort with partner companies to identify the working mechanisms behind the evolution of policies or decision rules. We also use computer simulations as a tool to examine our fi...