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Journal articles
2024, 'Sustainability scientists' critique of neoclassical economics', Global Sustainability, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.36
,2023, 'Analyzing the Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Risk Posed by a Mature Fusion Technology and Economy', Energies, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16031123
,2022, 'Funding of the Energy Transition by Monetary Sovereign Countries', Energies, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15165908
,2022, 'Can energy descent be justified by critiquing 100% renewable energy scenarios? A reply to Floyd et al.', Futures, 137, pp. 102907, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102907
,2022, 'Comment on Seibert, M.K.; Rees, W.E. Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508', Energies, 15, pp. 964, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15030964
,2022, 'Scenarios for mitigating CO
2022, 'Scenarios for the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels in Australia in the absence of CO
2020, 'Implications of Trends in Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI) for Transitioning to Renewable Electricity', Ecological Economics, 176, pp. 106726, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106726
,2020, 'COVID-19 and economic recovery in compliance with climate targets', Global Sustainability, 3, pp. e36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.32
,2018, 'The feasibility of 100% renewable electricity systems: A response to critics', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 93, pp. 318 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.05.042
,2018, 'Modeling the carbon budget of the Australian electricity sector's transition to renewable energy', Renewable Energy, 125, pp. 712 - 728, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.02.013
,2018, 'Learning from Fukushima: Nuclear Power in East Asia', Energy Research & Social Science, 39, pp. 162 - 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.020
,2018, 'Critiquing the use of war to mobilise peaceful climate action: A response to Kester & Sovacool', Energy Policy, 112, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.09.046
,2018, 'Who owns an energy transition? Strategic action fields and community wind energy in Denmark', Energy Research and Social Science, 35, pp. 108 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.044
,2017, 'Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy', Energy, 122, pp. 746 - 747, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.01.117
,2017, 'Computing life-cycle emissions from transitioning the electricity sector using a discrete numerical approach', Energy, 137, pp. 314 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.06.175
,2017, 'Distributed energy infrastructure paradigm: Community microgrids in a new institutional economics context', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 72, pp. 1355 - 1365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.10.047
,2016, 'Can local government play a greater role for community renewable energy? A case study from Australia', Energy Research and Social Science, 21, pp. 33 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.06.019
,2016, 'Shunning nuclear power but not its waste: Assessing the risks of Australia becoming the world's nuclear wasteland', Energy Research and Social Science, 19, pp. 142 - 147
,2016, 'Modeling the benefits of electric cooking in Bhutan: A long term perspective', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 59, pp. 494 - 503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.265
,2016, 'Carbon footprint scenarios for renewable electricity in Australia', Journal of Cleaner Production, 124, pp. 236 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.02.080
,2016, 'Strengthening the climate action movement: strategies from contemporary social action campaigns', Interface: a journal for and about social movements
,2016, 'Subjective judgments in the nuclear energy debate', Conservation Biology
,2015, 'Strengthening the climate action movement: strategies from histories', Carbon Management, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2015.1005396
,2014, 'Comparing least cost scenarios for 100% renewable electricity with low emission fossil fuel scenarios in the Australian National Electricity Market', Renewable Energy, 66, pp. 196 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.12.010
,2013, 'Comment on "prevented mortality and greenhouse gas emissions from historical and projected nuclear power"', Environmental Science and Technology, 47, pp. 6715 - 6717, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es401667h
,2013, 'Book Review: Contesting the future of nuclear power: A critical global assessment of atomic energy,', Energy Policy, 56, pp. 738 - 739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.01.005
,2013, 'Impacts on the biophysical economy and environment of a transition to 100% renewable electricity in Australia', Energy Policy Journal, 54, pp. 288 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.11.038
,2013, 'Is wartime mobilisation a suitable policy model for rapid national climate mitigation?', Energy Policy, 58, pp. 371 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.03.036
,2013, 'Least cost 100% renewable electricity scenarios in the Australian National Electricity Market', Energy Policy Journal, 59, pp. 270 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.03.038
,2012, 'A sustainable energy future for Australia', Dialogue, 31, pp. 5 - 12
,2012, 'Simulations of scenarios with 100% renewable electricity in the Australian National Electricity Market', Energy Policy, 45, pp. 606 - 613, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.011
,2011, 'The adoption of short-rotation energy cropping as a new land use option in the New South Wales Central West', Rural Society. The journal of research into rural and regional social issues in Australia, 20, pp. 266 - 279, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=447056174821879;res=IELHSS
,2010, 'A Big Australia', Overland, 2010, pp. 22 - 30, http://web.overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-201/feature-mark-diesendorf/
,2010, 'Addendum to “Design limitations in Australian renewable electricity policies”', Energy Policy Journal, 38, pp. 7539 - 7540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.06.016
,2010, 'Design limitations in Australian renewable electricity policies', Energy Policy Journal, 38, pp. 3365 - 3376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.009
,2009, 'Response to comment on `Sustainability of uranium mining and milling: Toward quantifying resources and eco-efficiency`', Environmental Science and Technology, 43, pp. 3969 - 3970
,2008, 'Sustainability of uranium mining: toward quantifying resources and eco-efficiency', Environmental Science and Technology, 42, pp. 2624 - 2630
,2007, 'Clean energy scenarios for Australia', Energy Policy Journal, 35, pp. 1245 - 1256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.013
,2007, 'Is nuclear energy a possible solution to global warming?', Social Alternatives, 26, pp. 8 - 11
,2006, 'Response to John Spencer`s obfuscation of the results of his own paper', Fluoride, 39, pp. 327 - 330
,2006, 'Wind power in Australia', International Journal of Environmental Studies, 63, pp. 765 - 776
,2005, 'Comparison of Employment potential of the coal and wind power industries', International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 1, pp. 82 - 90
,2004, 'Can photovoltaic technology help attain sustainable rural development in Bangladesh?', Energy Policy Journal, 32, pp. 1199 - 1208
,2003, 'Financial subsidies to the Australian fossil fuel industry', Energy Policy, 31, pp. 125 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00017-4
,2002, 'I=PAT or I=PBAT?', Ecological Economics, 42, pp. 3 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(02)00085-x
,2001, 'Model for empowering rural poor through renewable energy technologies in Bangladesh', Environmental Science and Policy, 4, pp. 333 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1462-9011(01)00031-4
,2001, 'Models of sustainability and sustainable development', International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 1, pp. 109 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijarge.2001.000007
,2000, 'Energy scenarios in global economic models of greenhouse gas reduction', International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 13, pp. 70 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijgei.2000.000861
,2000, 'Urban transportation in the 21st century', Environmental Science & Policy, 3, pp. 11 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1462-9011(00)00009-5
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