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Dear All,
There are still some place available to the EPSRC funded SECURE Self Conserving Urban Environments Final Academic Conference to be held in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle University on the 8th July 2015. This Conference will be the final event of the SECURE Project, dedicated to informing academics nationally.
In SECURE a multidisciplinary research team from the Universities of Newcastle, Sheffield, Exeter and Loughborough has studied how sustainable the North East Region was in 2011 by estimating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from energy use in domestic buildings; commuter and school travel and treating waste and waste water etc. and carried out an audit of the cultivation of allotments and open space across Tees Valley, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
The potential for improving efficiency to reduce CO2 including kerbside collection of household recycling; children using the bus, walking and cycling to school; adoption of cycle hubs for commuter travel; adoption of electric vehicles; building refurbishment options; management of green spaces; growing vegetables and fruit in gardens and allotments etc. and generating energy (negative carbon) from anaerobic digestion of food waste and biofuel from short rotation coppice were explored and thus to quantify whether it is possible to achieve the mandatory target of 67% reduction in CO2 by 2050 over 2010 levels by adopting an integrated approach to policy making.
The project has modelled and quantified the impacts of interventions which have been informed by the early stages of the research on understanding the inefficiencies. Methods and approaches to modelling CO2 and important messages of value to the policy maker, consultants and industry have emerged from this research and we plan to share our results. Therefore we hope you are able to join us.
Please register by Friday 03/07/2015, using this link http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=8349
Best wishes,
Patrizia
Dr Patrizia Franco
Researcher in Transport Modelling and Analysis
Transport Operations Research Group (TORG)
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Newcastle University
Devonshire Building 3rd floor, Kensington Terrace - NE1 7RU
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 191 208 5543 , Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 6502
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