Industry and Policy Implementation of Material Efficiency

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.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

Doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of Cambridge

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Cooper-Searle, Simone

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Allwood, Julian

• material efficiency
• steel
• greenhouse gas emissions
• multidisciplinary
• UK
• socio-technical systems
• input-output modelling
• climate change
• supply chain
• automotive
• construction
• policy agenda

Licence

• https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/f74b97f1-80bd-42cf-8bef-e2cadabddaa0/download
• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language dc:language

en

Author Identifier

0000-0002-3160-6457

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/273169