Tim has invited piece in Nature-Energy

Nature-Energy has just published an invited “News and Views” piece by Tim.

 

The article “Public engagement: Building energy futures” discusses issues around the need for both greater public engagement and greater consideration of the social realm within the development of future climate and energy scenarios.  The piece is linked to a research article by Christina Demski and colleagues at Cardiff University which examines the influence of different framings in the use of the UK government’s 2050 calculator.

Tim’s article: http://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201730

Demski et al.’s article http://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201727

 

Everyday Futures essay in ACM Interactions journal

Tim has just had an essaypublished in the ACM journal Interactions.

The essay , co-written with Georgia Newmarch at Lancaster University, is titled “The Future is Already Here…It’s Just not Very Evenly Distributed”  is a quote from  sci-fi author William Gibson.  The essay twists the original intended sentence to examine how the rectification of current social inequalities needs to play a greater role in the development of future climate change and energy scenarios.

http://interactions.acm.org/archive/toc/march-april-2017