date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:42:41 +0100 from: Trevor Davies subject: Edinburgh to: c.bentham@uea,p.jones@uea,j.palutikof@uea,p.liss@uea,m.hulme@uea, r.k.turner@uea,k.brown@uea,j.darch@uea >Envelope-to: e022@cpca11.uea.ac.uk >From: "Simon J Shackley" >To: t.d.davies@uea.ac.uk >Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:49:24 BST >Subject: Edinburgh >Reply-to: Simon.Shackley@umist.ac.uk >CC: brian.launder@umist.ac.uk >Priority: normal >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) > >dear Trevor > >Tom and I enjoyed the meeting last friday - it is an exciting agenda >ahead of us. Today, Tom and I met with Brian Launder today and we >are embarking on more comprehensive internal discussions to define >the UMIST role more clearly. > >Just on the topic of Edinburgh, two areas they have that seem to be >relatively less covered by the other 4 partners are: > >C sequestration: particularly John Grace and Paul Jarvis - who have >excellent international reputations > >Carbon Trading: there is a centre working on carbon trading, headed >up by Richard Tipper > >There are also other depts. that replicate some of our existing >strengths (e.g. Bert Whittington in electrical engineering and Nick >Hanley in Environmental economics). And then there is Steven Salter >and wave power .... > >The weaknesses on the social science side between all partners, seem >to me to be energy policy, energy modelling and empirical work on >energy efficiency. (I may be in ignorance of work at CSERGE). I >reckon we could buy in expertise in these areas where necessary - >except possibly energy modelling, where a large start-up cost could >occur. Imperial / Cambridge have a lead over us here. But the >energy modelling I've seen tends to be lacking in integration, so we >could put the onus on integration and developing new approaches. >(Afterall, a lot of energy modelling to look at impacts of a carbon / >energy tax has already been done - do we really need any more?). The >more interesting / novel areas could be looking at economics of >carbon trading, and looking at the costs and impacts of the energy >tax both pre- and post its introduction in 2001. > >Best wishes for now > >Simon Shackley > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Dr Simon Shackley >Lecturer in Environmental Management and Policy >Manchester School of Management and UMIST Environment Programme >UMIST, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK >Tel: (0) 161 200 8781 >Fax: (0) 161 200 3505 >Email: Simon.Shackley@umist.ac.uk > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Professor Trevor D. Davies Dean, School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom Tel. +44 1603 592836 Fax. +44 1603 507719 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++