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    • Broadening life cycle assessment by integrating engineering and social science approaches
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    • Toward a ‘Green Recovery’ in Food Provision: Influencing Policy in Manchester
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    • Understanding, modelling and visualizing regeneration and change
    • Understanding stability and change in British drinking
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Decentralised energy and ‘smart cities’

Julia Kasmire will work with Andrew Bollinger from the Urban Energy Systems Laboratory (UESL) at Empa in Switzerland and the Sustainable Cities working group within the SCI

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Our four research themes explore how we can achieve less resource-intensive ways of life.

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