Steve Griffith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Griffith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffith |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Khalifa University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9593-4724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond a single path: A meta-theoretical review of how spatial, political, and institutional dynamics shape China's net-zero transition
How can we comprehend China's net-zero transition approach when distinct theoretical frameworks offer differing explanations? Drawn from extensive original field research and 52 semi-structured interviews with experts on China, we apply a meta-theoretical approach that first describes three complementary frameworks (Geographies of Energy Transition, Variegated Capitalism, and Fragmented Authoritarianism) to interpret China's net-zero transition u…
A critical meta-survey of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of hydrogen energy systems
Hydrogen energy systems are central to decarbonization strategies, yet their full climatic footprint remains contested. Lifecycle assessments reveal significant variability influenced by feedstock choices, energy inputs, and production processes. This paper conducts a meta-survey to examine assumptions behind varying estimations and identify improvement areas. We analyzed 653 academic studies, applying rigorous exclusion criteria to extract 906 e…
Beyond geography, destiny, and politics: Exploring policy styles for industrial decarbonisation in Norway, the United Arab Emirates and the United States
Are AI and environmental technology innovations converging
The Future of China‐Gulf Solar and Wind Supply Chains
This paper examines the medium‐term trajectory of China‐Gulf renewable energy supply chains amid growing global trade restrictions on China. The research explores how the Arab Gulf states, key collaborators in China's renewable energy sector, navigate these challenges, focusing on the dominance of China in global supply chains for solar and wind components. Using a demand‐pull, supply‐push framework, qualitative analysis assesses two potential sc…
Bridging the gap between defossilization and decarbonization to achieve net-zero industry
This paper examines the compatibility of broad decarbonization efforts, as embodied in the circular carbon economy (CCE) framework, with a narrower concept of defossilization in achieving net-zero industry. Through case studies of the United States, Norway, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), we analyze national industrial decarbonization strategies and present findings from extensive fieldwork, including 139 expert interviews and 124 site visits…
Establishing leadership in bringing carbon capture, utilisation and storage to scale
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, often referred to simply as CCUS, refers to a suite of technologies to decarbonise many hard-to-abate industries. However, commercial-scale adoption of CCUS technologies faces critical barriers related to application scope, societal acceptance, and financing. Here we propose how fossil energy-exporting countries are uniquely situated to expedite CCUS deployment at scale. Using a sociotechnical systems pers…
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization
This article reveals how interaction among values and different material, economic, political, and cultural dimensions shapes sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization. In identifying this range of phenomena, the article highlights the persistent obstacles that countries face in aligning their approaches to net-zero industry. The article is based on a mixed-methods research design involving 139 in-depth interviews with experts from t…
Addressing energy and mobility poverty in the Middle East: Lived experience, spatial injustice, and temporary migrants in the United Arab Emirates
Energy and mobility poverty are often experienced together by vulnerable and disadvantaged segments of society. Effectively addressing these issues requires identifying specific groups within unique contexts and devising context-specific interventions. Based on extensive original research, this study uncovers the energy, mobility and broader socio-economic challenges faced by working class citizens housed in Abu Dhabi's labour camps and how these…
Prescribing by level of deprivation in Wales: An investigation of selected medicine groups
BACKGROUND: Prescribing is the most common intervention made by healthcare professionals. Our study aimed to compare prescribing between general practitioner (GP) practices with the highest and lowest levels of deprivation. METHODS: The deprivation level of each GP practice was determined using data from the income domain of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation and individual patient postcodes. We compared prescribing data between the highest …
Six bold steps towards net-zero industry
The rapid and deep decarbonization of global industry is key to reaching climate policy targets, yet it remains an incredibly difficult challenge. We propose six bold steps for accelerating progress on achieving net-zero industrial carbon emissions by mid-century with a focus on lessons learned and emerging analysis from both the Global North and Global South, the latter of which we consider as low or middle income countries primarily located in …
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates
Energy and mobility poverty limits people’s choices and opportunities and negatively impinges upon structural economic and social welfare patterns. It also hampers the ability of planners to implement more equitable and just decarbonization pathways. Research has revealed that climate policies have imposed a financial burden on low-income and other vulnerable groups by increasing food and energy prices, leading as well to global inequality. Simil…
Industrial decarbonization via natural gas: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Policy mixes for more sustainable smart home technologies
Smart home technologies refer to devices that provide some degree of digitally connected, automated, or enhanced services to household occupants. Smart homes have become prominent in recent technology and policy discussions about energy efficiency, climate change, and the sustainability of buildings. Nevertheless, do they truly promote sustainability goals? Based on an extensive original dataset involving expert interviews, supplemented with a re…
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Culture and low-carbon energy transitions
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology
The global Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and overburdened struggling health care systems and other social institutions around the world. While such impacts of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, the implications of the disease for energy and climate policy are more prosaic. This Special Section seeks to offer more clarity on the emerging connections between Covid-19 and energy supply and demand, en…
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City
As the global trend toward urbanization continues, new models for the design and governance of sustainable cities are being developed. The Abu Dhabi government announced in 2006 its intent to spend $22 billion to build one such city, Masdar City, as a carbon-neutral, zero-waste city that would demonstrate the state-of-the-art in sustainable city design. As initially planned, Masdar City was a bold experiment: an incubator of clean-technologies th…
Domestic Violence and Voluntary Perpetrator Programmes: Engaging Men in the Pre-Commencement Phase
In a longitudinal evaluation of two multi-agency Projects providing holistic, early intervention to victim/survivors of domestic violence, their children and perpetrators, the voluntary perpetrator programmes (VPPs) were the least successful aspect of the initiatives. This article explores why there were relatively low numbers of abusive partners self-referring and/or being referred into programmes and high drop-out rates in the pre-commencement …
Taming of the casino dragon
The Gambling Act 2005 reformed the gambling market with far-reaching implications for the market as a whole, and casino gambling in particular. A small survey was conducted in Swansea to review community perceptions of casinos in their locality. This paper examines the alleged benefits of gambling and to discuss the concern that the Gambling Act will be likely to harm those who are most deprived and vulnerable in society. This paper explores the …
An overview of the Supporting People programme
Supporting People All the Way, a review for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by Steve Griffiths, examines the Supporting People programme in the context of other government plans. Looking at the boundary between residential care and the Supporting People programme, the review finds arbitrary divisions which undermine the programme's objectives, and argues for a redrawing of the boundary with a more coherent relationship between the Government's com…
Rachmaninov
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology
The global Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and overburdened struggling health care systems and other social institutions around the world. While such impacts of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, the implications of the disease for energy and climate policy are more prosaic. This Special Section seeks to offer more clarity on the emerging connections between Covid-19 and energy supply and demand, en…
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City
As the global trend toward urbanization continues, new models for the design and governance of sustainable cities are being developed. The Abu Dhabi government announced in 2006 its intent to spend $22 billion to build one such city, Masdar City, as a carbon-neutral, zero-waste city that would demonstrate the state-of-the-art in sustainable city design. As initially planned, Masdar City was a bold experiment: an incubator of clean-technologies th…
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization
This article reveals how interaction among values and different material, economic, political, and cultural dimensions shapes sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization. In identifying this range of phenomena, the article highlights the persistent obstacles that countries face in aligning their approaches to net-zero industry. The article is based on a mixed-methods research design involving 139 in-depth interviews with experts from t…
Six bold steps towards net-zero industry
The rapid and deep decarbonization of global industry is key to reaching climate policy targets, yet it remains an incredibly difficult challenge. We propose six bold steps for accelerating progress on achieving net-zero industrial carbon emissions by mid-century with a focus on lessons learned and emerging analysis from both the Global North and Global South, the latter of which we consider as low or middle income countries primarily located in …
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates
Energy and mobility poverty limits people’s choices and opportunities and negatively impinges upon structural economic and social welfare patterns. It also hampers the ability of planners to implement more equitable and just decarbonization pathways. Research has revealed that climate policies have imposed a financial burden on low-income and other vulnerable groups by increasing food and energy prices, leading as well to global inequality. Simil…
Taming of the casino dragon
The Gambling Act 2005 reformed the gambling market with far-reaching implications for the market as a whole, and casino gambling in particular. A small survey was conducted in Swansea to review community perceptions of casinos in their locality. This paper examines the alleged benefits of gambling and to discuss the concern that the Gambling Act will be likely to harm those who are most deprived and vulnerable in society. This paper explores the …
Industrial decarbonization via natural gas: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Culture and low-carbon energy transitions
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South
Rachmaninov
An overview of the Supporting People programme
Supporting People All the Way, a review for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by Steve Griffiths, examines the Supporting People programme in the context of other government plans. Looking at the boundary between residential care and the Supporting People programme, the review finds arbitrary divisions which undermine the programme's objectives, and argues for a redrawing of the boundary with a more coherent relationship between the Government's com…
Taming of the casino dragon
The Gambling Act 2005 reformed the gambling market with far-reaching implications for the market as a whole, and casino gambling in particular. A small survey was conducted in Swansea to review community perceptions of casinos in their locality. This paper examines the alleged benefits of gambling and to discuss the concern that the Gambling Act will be likely to harm those who are most deprived and vulnerable in society. This paper explores the …
Domestic Violence and Voluntary Perpetrator Programmes: Engaging Men in the Pre-Commencement Phase
In a longitudinal evaluation of two multi-agency Projects providing holistic, early intervention to victim/survivors of domestic violence, their children and perpetrators, the voluntary perpetrator programmes (VPPs) were the least successful aspect of the initiatives. This article explores why there were relatively low numbers of abusive partners self-referring and/or being referred into programmes and high drop-out rates in the pre-commencement …
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City
As the global trend toward urbanization continues, new models for the design and governance of sustainable cities are being developed. The Abu Dhabi government announced in 2006 its intent to spend $22 billion to build one such city, Masdar City, as a carbon-neutral, zero-waste city that would demonstrate the state-of-the-art in sustainable city design. As initially planned, Masdar City was a bold experiment: an incubator of clean-technologies th…
Culture and low-carbon energy transitions
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology
The global Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and overburdened struggling health care systems and other social institutions around the world. While such impacts of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, the implications of the disease for energy and climate policy are more prosaic. This Special Section seeks to offer more clarity on the emerging connections between Covid-19 and energy supply and demand, en…
Policy mixes for more sustainable smart home technologies
Smart home technologies refer to devices that provide some degree of digitally connected, automated, or enhanced services to household occupants. Smart homes have become prominent in recent technology and policy discussions about energy efficiency, climate change, and the sustainability of buildings. Nevertheless, do they truly promote sustainability goals? Based on an extensive original dataset involving expert interviews, supplemented with a re…
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Industrial decarbonization via natural gas: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Six bold steps towards net-zero industry
The rapid and deep decarbonization of global industry is key to reaching climate policy targets, yet it remains an incredibly difficult challenge. We propose six bold steps for accelerating progress on achieving net-zero industrial carbon emissions by mid-century with a focus on lessons learned and emerging analysis from both the Global North and Global South, the latter of which we consider as low or middle income countries primarily located in …
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates
Energy and mobility poverty limits people’s choices and opportunities and negatively impinges upon structural economic and social welfare patterns. It also hampers the ability of planners to implement more equitable and just decarbonization pathways. Research has revealed that climate policies have imposed a financial burden on low-income and other vulnerable groups by increasing food and energy prices, leading as well to global inequality. Simil…
Addressing energy and mobility poverty in the Middle East: Lived experience, spatial injustice, and temporary migrants in the United Arab Emirates
Energy and mobility poverty are often experienced together by vulnerable and disadvantaged segments of society. Effectively addressing these issues requires identifying specific groups within unique contexts and devising context-specific interventions. Based on extensive original research, this study uncovers the energy, mobility and broader socio-economic challenges faced by working class citizens housed in Abu Dhabi's labour camps and how these…
Prescribing by level of deprivation in Wales: An investigation of selected medicine groups
BACKGROUND: Prescribing is the most common intervention made by healthcare professionals. Our study aimed to compare prescribing between general practitioner (GP) practices with the highest and lowest levels of deprivation. METHODS: The deprivation level of each GP practice was determined using data from the income domain of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation and individual patient postcodes. We compared prescribing data between the highest …
The Future of China‐Gulf Solar and Wind Supply Chains
This paper examines the medium‐term trajectory of China‐Gulf renewable energy supply chains amid growing global trade restrictions on China. The research explores how the Arab Gulf states, key collaborators in China's renewable energy sector, navigate these challenges, focusing on the dominance of China in global supply chains for solar and wind components. Using a demand‐pull, supply‐push framework, qualitative analysis assesses two potential sc…
Bridging the gap between defossilization and decarbonization to achieve net-zero industry
This paper examines the compatibility of broad decarbonization efforts, as embodied in the circular carbon economy (CCE) framework, with a narrower concept of defossilization in achieving net-zero industry. Through case studies of the United States, Norway, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), we analyze national industrial decarbonization strategies and present findings from extensive fieldwork, including 139 expert interviews and 124 site visits…
Establishing leadership in bringing carbon capture, utilisation and storage to scale
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, often referred to simply as CCUS, refers to a suite of technologies to decarbonise many hard-to-abate industries. However, commercial-scale adoption of CCUS technologies faces critical barriers related to application scope, societal acceptance, and financing. Here we propose how fossil energy-exporting countries are uniquely situated to expedite CCUS deployment at scale. Using a sociotechnical systems pers…
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization
This article reveals how interaction among values and different material, economic, political, and cultural dimensions shapes sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization. In identifying this range of phenomena, the article highlights the persistent obstacles that countries face in aligning their approaches to net-zero industry. The article is based on a mixed-methods research design involving 139 in-depth interviews with experts from t…
Beyond a single path: A meta-theoretical review of how spatial, political, and institutional dynamics shape China's net-zero transition
How can we comprehend China's net-zero transition approach when distinct theoretical frameworks offer differing explanations? Drawn from extensive original field research and 52 semi-structured interviews with experts on China, we apply a meta-theoretical approach that first describes three complementary frameworks (Geographies of Energy Transition, Variegated Capitalism, and Fragmented Authoritarianism) to interpret China's net-zero transition u…
A critical meta-survey of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of hydrogen energy systems
Hydrogen energy systems are central to decarbonization strategies, yet their full climatic footprint remains contested. Lifecycle assessments reveal significant variability influenced by feedstock choices, energy inputs, and production processes. This paper conducts a meta-survey to examine assumptions behind varying estimations and identify improvement areas. We analyzed 653 academic studies, applying rigorous exclusion criteria to extract 906 e…
Beyond geography, destiny, and politics: Exploring policy styles for industrial decarbonisation in Norway, the United Arab Emirates and the United States
Are AI and environmental technology innovations converging
Business (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (4 works) · Environmental economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works)