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Climate finance (2023)
Book Chapter
Knuth, S., & Taylor, Z. (2023). Climate finance. In International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley

Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law (2023)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (in press). Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13219

This article argues that the protection of ‘community interests’ in international law includes intertemporal obligations of States, in cases where it is scientifically foreseeable that (fully) maintaining the ‘status quo’ of a protected community int... Read More about Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law.

Dynamic Project Expediting: A Stochastic Shortest-Path Approach (2023)
Journal Article
Bertazzi, L., Mogre, R., & Trichakis, N. (2023). Dynamic Project Expediting: A Stochastic Shortest-Path Approach. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4876

We deal with the problem of managing a project or a complex operational process by controlling the execution pace of the activities it comprises. We consider a setting in which these activities are clearly defined, are subject to precedence constrain... Read More about Dynamic Project Expediting: A Stochastic Shortest-Path Approach.

Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown (2023)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Cox, S., Hofmann, S., Morris, J., Taylor, Z., & McElvain, B. (2023). Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown. Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2229462

As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the US housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regula... Read More about Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown.

Optimum operational planning of wind-integrated power systems with embedded Multi-terminal High Voltage Direct Current Links using the Flexible Universal Branch Model (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Hamzah, S. K., & Kazemtabrizi, B. (2023). Optimum operational planning of wind-integrated power systems with embedded Multi-terminal High Voltage Direct Current Links using the Flexible Universal Branch Model. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2023 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC/ICPSEurope57605.2023.10194786

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of a meshed MT-HVDC topology with three wind farms connected to the Substation Ring Topology (SRT) and investigates the steady state performance of the MT-HVDC system based on the VSC control strategies (i... Read More about Optimum operational planning of wind-integrated power systems with embedded Multi-terminal High Voltage Direct Current Links using the Flexible Universal Branch Model.

Stochastic Optimization of an Active Network Management Scheme for a DER-Rich Distribution Network Comprising Various Aggregators (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Adeniji, O., & Kazemtabrizi, B. (2023). Stochastic Optimization of an Active Network Management Scheme for a DER-Rich Distribution Network Comprising Various Aggregators. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2023 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC/ICPSEUROPE57605.2023.10194840

With large-scale acceptance of solar and wind energy generation into electric grids, large energy storage is expected to provide sufficient flexibility for the safe, stable and economic operation of power systems under uncertainty. Active Network Man... Read More about Stochastic Optimization of an Active Network Management Scheme for a DER-Rich Distribution Network Comprising Various Aggregators.

An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city (2023)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (in press). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815

What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘pl... Read More about An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city.

Multi-objective optimisation of a power generation system integrating solid oxide fuel cell and recuperated supercritical carbon dioxide cycle (2023)
Journal Article
Roy, D., Samanta, S., Roy, S., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. P. (2023). Multi-objective optimisation of a power generation system integrating solid oxide fuel cell and recuperated supercritical carbon dioxide cycle. Energy, 281, Article 128158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.128158

This article presents an advanced power generation system that integrates a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) module with a recuperated supercritical CO2 (s-CO2) cycle. The waste heat generated by the exhaust of the SOFC module is utilised to drive the s-... Read More about Multi-objective optimisation of a power generation system integrating solid oxide fuel cell and recuperated supercritical carbon dioxide cycle.

How does technological opportunism affect firm performance? The mediating role of resource orchestration (2023)
Journal Article
Li, L., Chen, L., Yan, J., Xu, C., & Jiang, N. (2023). How does technological opportunism affect firm performance? The mediating role of resource orchestration. Journal of Business Research, 166, Article 114093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114093

Despite widespread acknowledgment of the disruptive effects of digital technologies on firm performance, the mechanisms underlying such effects have not been adequately explained. To fill this gap, we consider two sub-components of technological oppo... Read More about How does technological opportunism affect firm performance? The mediating role of resource orchestration.

Towards Cyber Security for Low-Carbon Transportation: Overview, Challenges and Future Directions (2023)
Journal Article
Cao, Y., Li, S., Lv, C., Wang, D., Sun, H., Jiang, J., …Cheng, X. (2023). Towards Cyber Security for Low-Carbon Transportation: Overview, Challenges and Future Directions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 183, Article 113401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113401

In recent years, low-carbon transportation has become an indispensable part as sustainable development strategies of various countries, and plays a very important responsibility in promoting low-carbon cities. However, the security of low-carbon tran... Read More about Towards Cyber Security for Low-Carbon Transportation: Overview, Challenges and Future Directions.

Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, R. J., Van Eaton, A. R., Hernández, W., Condren, P., Sweeney, C., Tournigand, P., & Vallance, J. W. (in press). Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Article 107845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107845

The VEI 6, Tierra Blanca Joven pyroclastic sequence (30–90 km3 DRE volume), erupted from Ilopango caldera, El Salvador, in 431 CE, is the product of one of the largest eruptions of the last two millennia. The eruption devastated Central America's May... Read More about Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador.

Twist-induced interlayer charge buildup in a WS2 bilayer revealed by electron Compton scattering and density functional theory (2023)
Journal Article
Talmantaite, A., Xie, Y., Cohen, A., Mohapatra, P., Ismach, A., Mizoguchi, T., …Mendis, B. (2023). Twist-induced interlayer charge buildup in a WS2 bilayer revealed by electron Compton scattering and density functional theory. Physical Review B, 107(23), Article 235424. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.235424

Exotic properties emerge from the electronic structure of few-layer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as direct band gaps in monolayers and moiré excitons in twisted bilayers, which are exploited in modern optoelectronic devices and twist... Read More about Twist-induced interlayer charge buildup in a WS2 bilayer revealed by electron Compton scattering and density functional theory.

Techno-economic analysis of large-scale green hydrogen production and storage (2023)
Journal Article
Villarreal Vives, A. M., Wang, R., Roy, S., & Smallbone, A. (2023). Techno-economic analysis of large-scale green hydrogen production and storage. Applied Energy, 346, Article 121333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121333

Producing clean energy and minimising energy waste are essential to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals such as Sustainable Development Goal 7 and 13. This research analyses the techno-economic potential of waste heat recovery fr... Read More about Techno-economic analysis of large-scale green hydrogen production and storage.

Multivariate CNN-LSTM model for wind power forecast and input variables correlation analysis based on SHAPLEY values (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Pina-Gongora, D. C., & Kazemtabrizi, B. (2023, May). Multivariate CNN-LSTM model for wind power forecast and input variables correlation analysis based on SHAPLEY values. Paper presented at Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) 2023, Glasgow, UK

Wind Power forecast based on the use of modern Deep Neural Network (DNN) methods is being explored as a tool to support decision-making by wind farm developers and operators for investment, grid integration and operational planning of the site. Techn... Read More about Multivariate CNN-LSTM model for wind power forecast and input variables correlation analysis based on SHAPLEY values.

A “Phase Scrambling” Algorithm for Parallel Multislice Simulation of Multiple Phonon and Plasmon Scattering Configurations (2023)
Journal Article
Mendis, B. (2023). A “Phase Scrambling” Algorithm for Parallel Multislice Simulation of Multiple Phonon and Plasmon Scattering Configurations. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 29(3), 1111-1123. https://doi.org/10.1093/micmic/ozad052

Multislice simulations of 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D STEM) data are computationally demanding due to the large number of STEM probe positions that must be calculated. For accurate analysis, inelastic scattering from phonons and... Read More about A “Phase Scrambling” Algorithm for Parallel Multislice Simulation of Multiple Phonon and Plasmon Scattering Configurations.

Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities (2023)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (in press). Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities. Mobilities, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2209829

This paper explores negotiations of futures within and beyond Germany’s formerly fastest shrinking city, the East German city of Hoyerswerda. Originally built for the German Democratic Republic’s miners and energy workers, its model socialist New Cit... Read More about Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities.

The organizational determinants of open innovation: a literature framework and future research directions (2023)
Journal Article
Yao, N., Yan, K., Tsinopoulos, C., & Bai, J. (in press). The organizational determinants of open innovation: a literature framework and future research directions. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2023.2210014

This paper aims to explore the organizational determinants of open innovation (OI). A review of 154 publications taken from management and innovation journals makes us identify four dimensions of ‘resource-related’ organizational factors that can det... Read More about The organizational determinants of open innovation: a literature framework and future research directions.

Hydrogen supply chain and refuelling network design: assessment of alternative scenarios for the long-haul road freight in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Raeesi, R., Searle, C., Balta-Ozkan, N., Marsiliani, L., Tian, M., & Greening, P. (in press). Hydrogen supply chain and refuelling network design: assessment of alternative scenarios for the long-haul road freight in the UK. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.474

Shifting from fossil fuels to clean alternative fuel options such as hydrogen is an essential step in decarbonising the road freight transport sector and facilitating an efficient transition towards zero-emissions goods distribution of the future. De... Read More about Hydrogen supply chain and refuelling network design: assessment of alternative scenarios for the long-haul road freight in the UK.