On April 13, 1999, Dolf Gielen of ECN Policy Studies earned his Ph.D. degree with a thesis titled:
A summary of the thesis is available.
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Dolf Gielen.
Materialising dematerialisation:
Integrated energy and materials systems engineering
for greenhouse gas emission mitigation.
Abstract
Current environmental policy initiatives strive to achieve a reduction in the
emission of greenhouse gas (GHG). Different strategies can be applied to achieve
this goal. Significant greenhouse gas emissions arise during the production of
materials and materials waste handling.
These emissions can be reduced by changing the quality and quantity of material flows
in our economy (called "materials strategies").
Partly because of methodological problems, these emission reduction
strategies have not yet been analysed properly.
A new MARKAL model application (MATTER) is developed for the analysis of materials strategies.
This approach is applied for the Netherlands and for western Europe.