All Outputs (8)

Green economy and living well (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of the achievements and pitfalls of these policy paradigms.

Solidarity for environmental justice: ALBA’s contribution in Latin America and the Caribbean (2017)
Book Chapter

Environmental justice embraces the concept and movement for a healthy and safe environment; equal access to environmental resources alongside avoidance of environmental harms; and meaningful participation in environmental decision-making. Central and... Read More about Solidarity for environmental justice: ALBA’s contribution in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A photovoltaic panel modelling method for flexible implementation in Matlab/Simulink using datasheet quantities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. This paper presents a detailed method for creating an embedded Matlab model in Simulink for any solar photovoltaic panel starting with its datasheet values. It links extrinsic functions to the Simulink embedded model to provide fast and... Read More about A photovoltaic panel modelling method for flexible implementation in Matlab/Simulink using datasheet quantities.

Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper proposes a DC microgrid system based on multiple locally available renewable energy sources in an off-grid rural community, based on a field study carried out in a rural, off-grid village in Nepal. The site has been assessed as suitable fo... Read More about Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities.

Working with paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes: The centrality of by-products of social research (2017)
Book

© Rosalind Edwards, John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor and Ann Phoenix 2017. All rights reserved. This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbrea... Read More about Working with paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes: The centrality of by-products of social research.

Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy (2017)
Journal Article

A discussion of the work of Fidel Castro in relation to sustainability in Cuba. When Fidel Castro became President of Cuba in 1959, the country's environment was in ruins as a result of hundreds of years of US and Spanish colonial exploitation of nat... Read More about Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy.

‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the author. While there is wide agreement on the need to move towards fairer and more sustainable societies, how to best achieve this is still the source of some debate. In particular, there are tensions between more market-based/technologi... Read More about ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Living well within planetary limits (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the Bolivian approach to sustainability and wellbeing - the concept of 'Vivir Bien'. It describes the importance of redistribution of wealth for achieving sustainability and living within the limits of the one planet that we hav... Read More about Living well within planetary limits.