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Papers & Articles

Papers, articles and book chapters in various journals, with subjects ranging from hydrogen emissions, to greening school gardens or climate policy. At their core is the topic of systemic change and how complexity science can inform our views.

Climate Impacts of Hydrogen and Methane Emissions Can Considerably Reduce the Climate Benefits across Key Hydrogen Use Cases and Time Scales

Martin, Paul; Ilissa B. Ocko; Sofia Esquivel‐Elizondo; Roland Kupers; David Cebon; Tom Baxter; Steven P. Hamburg

Environmental Science & Technology 58, no. 12 (2024): 5299–5309

A review of challenges with using the natural gas system for hydrogen

Martin, Paul; Ilissa B. Ocko; Sofia Esquivel‐Elizondo; Roland Kupers; David Cebon; Tom Baxter; Steven P. Hamburg

Energy Science & Engineering 12, no. 10 (2024): 3995–4000

An argument for immodesty – from Lahontan through Graeber to Wolfram

Roland Kupers

De Gids – 2/2024

The Methane Challenge: Navigating Emissions in the Global LNG Value Chain

Roland Kupers, Andris Piebalgs

Florence School of Regulation – March 15, 2024

Fast action on Methane Emissions as a climate and Energy security imperative

Roland Kupers; Manfredi Caltagirone; Mark Radka

G20 Digest Vol. 3 | No.1 & 2 | January–June 2023

Greening schoolyards – An urban resilience perspective

Leah Flax; Renet Korthals Altes; Roland Kupers; Brett Mons

Cities 106 (2020) 102890

Complexity as a big idea for secondary education – evaluating a complex systems curriculum

Sara Heinrich; Roland Kupers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, August 2018

Complexity – a big idea for education?

Jane Drake; Roland Kupers; Rose Hipkins

International Schools Magazine, Spring 2017

A Resilience Framework for Smart Cities

Roland Kupers; Song Hsi Ching

Civil Service College Singapore, Nov. 2016

A case study for a new metrics for economic complexity: The Netherlands

A. Zaccaria; M. Cristelli; R. Kupers; A. Tacchella; L. Pietronero

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (2015)

Thresholds Models of Technological Transitions

P. Zeppini; K. Frenken; R. Kupers

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (2013)

Living in the Futures: How Shell’s Scenario Planning Approach Delivers Better Leadership

A. Wilkinson; R. Kupers

Harvard Business Review (May 2013)

Multiple scenarios, multiple equilibria: An alternative assessment of climate policy in Europe

A. Mandel et al.

Submitted (January 2013)

How plausibility-based scenario practices are grappling with complexity

A. Wilkinson; R. Kupers; D. Mangalagiu

Technological Forecasting & Social Change 80 (2013)

Transformative targets in sustainability policy-making

J. D. Tabara et al.

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2012)

Assessing green growth: The case of Europe

C. Jaeger et al.

Routledge (2011)

When futures lock-in the present

D. Mangalagiu; A. Wilkinson; R. Kupers

Routledge (2011)

Financial crisis and strategic learning

D. Mangalagiu; R. Kupers; A. Wilkinson

EGOS 2010

Reintegrating the social sciences

The Dahlem Group

Middlebury College Discussion Paper (2010)

Climate change policy – positive or negative economic impact?

R. Kupers; D. Mangalagiu

European Climate Foundation (2010)

Beyond control – managing strategic alignment through corporate dialogue

Lachotzki and Noteboom

Wiley (2005)

What organisational leaders should know about the new science of complexity

R. Kupers

Complexity, Wiley (2001)

A stochastic approach to large scale clustering of matter in the universe

L. Pietronero; R. Kupers

Fractals in Physics (1986)