Determinants of Wealth Disparities in the EU: A Multi-scale Development Accounting Investigation

Author(s):  
Georges Daw
Lithos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 350-351 ◽  
pp. 105235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Rospabé ◽  
Georges Ceuleneer ◽  
Nicolas Granier ◽  
Shoji Arai ◽  
Anastassia Y. Borisova

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Martin ◽  
Cristina Madrid-López ◽  
Laura Talens-Peiró ◽  
Bryn Pickering

<p>A decarbonized, renewable energy system is generally assumed to represent a cleaner and more sustainable one. However, while they do promise day-to-day reductions in carbon emissions, many other environmental impacts could occur, and these are often overlooked. Indeed, in the two documents that form the EU Energy Union Strategy (COM/2015/080) the words ‘water’, ‘biodiversity’ or ‘raw materials’ do not appear. This ‘tunnel vision’ is often also adopted in current energy systems models, which do not generally provide a detailed analysis of all of the environmental impacts that accompany different energy scenarios. Ignoring the trade-offs between energy systems and other resources can result in misleading information and misguided policy making.</p><p>The environmental assessment module ENVIRO combines the bottom up, high resolution capabilities of life cycle assessment (LCA) with the hierarchical multi-scale upscaling capabilities of the Multi-Scale Integrated Assessment of Socioecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach in an effort to address this gap. ENVIRO also takes the systemic trade-offs associated with the water-energy-food-(land-climate-etc.) nexus from MuSIASEM while considering the supply chain perspective of LCA. The module contains a built-in set of indicators that serve to assess the constraints that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, pollution, water use and raw material demands pose to renewable energy system scenarios. It can be used to assess the coherence between energy decarbonization targets and water or raw material targets; this can be extended to potentially any economic or political target that has a biophysical component.</p><p>In this work, we introduce the semantics and formalization aspects of ENVIRO, its integration with the energy system model Calliope, and the results of a first testing of the module in the assessment of decarbonization scenarios for the EU. The work is part of the research developed in the H2020 Project SENTINEL: Sustainable Energy Transition Laboratory (contract 837089).</p>


2019 ◽  

The EU is often discussed as a new form that is neither a state nor an international organisation, nor an international treaty. In addition, a perspective dominates in which politics is reinterpreted as a problem of administration and experts, and is thus withdrawn from democratic decision-making. This anthology develops a different perspective that is critical of domination in order to understand the EU as a state project in crisis. Whether the multi-scale state apparatus ensemble of the EU will develop into a state with inner coherence, or whether the EU will disintegrate during the current crisis depends on social struggles and power relations. Here, it is crucial whether the neoliberal European state project can be stabilised or whether a new post-neoliberal state project will emerge from these struggles. Otherwise, the disintegration processes will continue to intensify. With contributions by Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Hauke Brunkhorst, Moritz Elliesen, Fabian Georgi, Nicholas Henkel, John Kannankulam, Daniel Keil, Sophie Kempe, Elisabeth Klatzer, Lukas Oberndorfer, Christa Schlager, Etienne Schneider, Felix Syrovatka, Jens Wissel und Stefanie Wöhl.


Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Boutard

The in-service hardening and increase of the Ductile Brittle Transition Temperature (DBTT) of Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) steels are controlled at the atomic scale by the clustering of point defects with co-segregation of alloying elements like Cu, Mn, Ni, Si and P. The effort and strategy within the European Project PERFECT for developing advanced multi-scale numerical tools to predict this microstructure and the induced hardening as well as their experimental validation at the relevant scale will be presented. The first results obtained since January 2004, starting date of PERFECT, will be discussed and perspectives given.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinus van Schendelen
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