by Caroline Kennedy | Aug 12, 2025
Whilst dominant science-policy framings focus on getting publics to accept widespread infrastructural changes deemed necessary for net zero, social science scholarship has argued for the need to move ‘beyond acceptance’. In this paper we advance on existing studies...
by Caroline Kennedy | Aug 5, 2025
Many current approaches to net zero and public engagement render the temporal implications of change for people and communities as essentially invisible. This paper demonstrates how creative design techniques and methods drawn from SHAPE-based research can help...
by Caroline Kennedy | Aug 4, 2025
Short rotation coppice (SRC) willow is a second-generation lignocellulosic energy crop with a background of research and breeding programmes carried out globally for more than three decades. While commercial standards include planting in mixtures of 6–8 willow...
by Caroline Kennedy | Jul 25, 2025
Enhanced weathering of silicate rocks in agriculture is an option for atmospheric CO2 removal and fertility improvement. The objective of our work is to characterise some of the agricultural consequences of a basaltic powder amendment on soil-crop systems. Two doses...
by Helen Bunting | Jul 23, 2025
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at gigaton-scale is essential to meet the Paris climate goals. Relevant CDR rates can only be achieved through the co-deployment of multiple CDR approaches. However, synergisms between different CDR methods and joint co-benefits beyond CDR...
