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Participation in the 19th International SDEWES Conference 2024
From September 8th to 12th, 2024, we attended the 19th International Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environmental Systems (SDEWES), organized by the University of Zagreb, the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, and Sapienza University of...
Comment on the exclusion of our EROI estimates from the review paper Murphy et al (2022)
An unjustified exclusion In 2022 was published the paper: [1] Murphy, David J., Marco Raugei, Michael Carbajales-Dale, y Brenda Rubio Estrada. «Energy Return on Investment of Major Energy Carriers: Review and Harmonization». Sustainability 14, n.o 12 (enero de 2022):...
Join Our Team at the GEEDS Research Group!
Are you looking for an opportunity to continue your research career in a dynamic and multidisciplinary environment? The Energy, Economy, and Systems Dynamics Research Group (GEEDS) at the University of Valladolid is offering a postdoctoral position to work on...
Researchers offer three foci at the science-policy interface to accelerate Sustainable Development Goals
In the Summit of the Future, held on September 22-23, 2024, world leaders agreed to take bold, ambitious, accelerated, just, and transformative actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). An international group of more than 50 experts offers three foci...
Systematic literature review of De- and Post-growth related modeling studies published in Ecological Economics
Members of GEEDS have recently published a paper that conducts a systematic literature review analysing 75 peer-reviewed papers based on the results of modelling De- or Post-growth (DG/PG) scenarios. The field of DG/PG modeling is small but rapidly expanding, and we...
Building a New Submodule for the WILIAM Model: A Collaborative Journey
The PANTHEON’s team The Group of Energy, Economy and Systems Dynamics (GEEDS) of the University of Valladolid, led by Dr Jaime Nieto and Sara Pavesio recently hosted two visitors, Dr. Wenjun Meng from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Ke Jiang from Peking...
Participation in the International Conference on Socio-Environmental Footprints (ICSEF) 2024
From June 13 to 14, 2024, we attended the International Conference on Socio-Environmental Footprints (ICSEF), organized by the Life Cycle Thinking Research Group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the non-governmental organization Medicus Mundi. The...
New European project on potential benefits and risks of the hydrogen economy
GEEDS has recently joined the HYDRA project (Hydrogen Economy Benefits and Risks: tools development and policies implementation to mitigate possible climate impacts), whose main objective is to better understand the climate and systemic impacts of large-scale use of...
WILIAM model up and running
We are happy to announce the release of WILIAM 1.3 BETA (available for Vensim software). This is the last version of the WILIAM model in Vensim to be released within the framework of the LOCOMOTION project. Despite this project ended in November 2023, a final effort...
LOCOMOTION Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC)
Our research group and the entire LOCOMOTION project team are happy to announce the LOCOMOTION MOOC, a four-day online course that will happen on the 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 13th of November 2023. The course will teach participants how to use the WILIAM (Within Limits...
Participation in workshop “Advancing quantitative analysis for alternative sustainable futures” at ICTA-UAB
On June 28th and 29th several members of our group participated in the workshop "Advancing quantitative analysis for alternative sustainable futures" at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. We were invited...
GEEDS joins the Scientific Charter against Denialism on the European Green Deal
Recently, the European Green Deal, embodied in the Sustainable Use Regulation (SUR) and the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) currently in the pipeline, has been attacked from a denialist and anti-scientific position, with opponents claiming that these two regulations will...