David Elliott (professor)
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David Elliott is Professor of Technology Policy at the
Open University The Open University (OU) is a Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate ...
. He has created several courses in Design and Innovation, with special emphasis on how the innovation development process can be directed towards
sustainable technologies Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecology, ecological sustain ...
. Elliott's main research interests include the development of
sustainable energy Energy system, Energy is sustainability, sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the e ...
technologies, particularly
renewable energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...
systems.Nuclear Or Not?
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Selected publications

*'' Nuclear or Not? Does nuclear power have a place in a sustainable energy future?'', Palgrave, 2007. *''Sustainable Energy: Opportunities and Limitations'', Palgrave, 2007. *"Energy Regime Choices: Nuclear or Not?", ''Technology Analysis & Strategic Management'', Vol. 18, No. 5, 1–6, December 2006. *"Comparing Support for Renewable Power" in V Lauber (ed) ''Switching to Renewable Power'',
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, pp 219–227, 2005, *'Fukushima: impacts and implications', Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 *'Renewables: A review of sustainable energy', supply options Institute of Physics, 2013 *'Green Energy Futures', Palgrave Pivot e-book, 2015 *'Balancing Green Power', Institute of Physics, 2016 *'Nuclear Power: past, present and future', Institute of Physics, 2017 *'Renewable Energy: from Europe to Africa', Palgrave pivot, with T.Cook, 2018 *'Renewable Energy: past, present and future'. Palgrave, 2019 *Web link to Blogs and Renew newsletter: https://renewnatta.wordpress.com


See also

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Andy Stirling Andy Stirling (born 3 March 1961STIRLING, Prof. Andrew Charles
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Stephen Thomas (economist) Stephen Thomas is a professor at the University of Greenwich Business School, working in the area of energy policy. Before moving to the University of Greenwich in 2001, Thomas worked for twenty-two years at the University of Sussex. Research wor ...
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Gordon Walker (professor) Gordon Peter Walker is emeritus professor in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK, retiring in 2023. He is British, and also taught at an earlier incarnation of Staffordshire University. He studied geography at the Univers ...


References

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