Richard Wood
| richard.wood@ntnu.no | |
| Phone | +47 73598938 |
| Office address | Realfagbygget*E1-143, Høgskoleringen 5 |
| Position | Researcher |
| Unit | Industrial Ecology Programme |
Richard Wood is a Senior Researcher at the Industrial Ecology Program at NTNU. Currently working on the PROSUITE and CREEA projects. In PROSUITE he is focussing on applying hybrid LCA techniques to look at the sustainability of emerging technologies. He previously contributed to the EXIOPOL project. In EXIOPOL he has focussed on utilising techniques to handle and optimise large datasets, the end result being a set of disaggregated and harmonised input-output tables across the world.
Richard has completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2008 under Manfred Lenzen and Chris Dey. His PhD looked at investigating the environmental implications of structural change in the Australian economy. He has had experience and published papers on time-series analysis; structural decomposition analysis; structural path analysis; indexing techniques; optimisation techniques; and methods for handling large data sets. Applications have included investigating greenhouse gas emissions embodied in consumption and trade; ecological footprint analysis; material flow analysis; energy use and triple bottom line accounting.
Part of Richard's PhD entailed the construction of a time series of input-output tables for Australia in nominal and constant prices.
Launched in June 2010, Richard has co-edited a book on the use of input-output analysis for sustainability assessment. Entitled "The Sustainability Practitioner's Guide to Input-Output Analysis", the book offers a non-expert introduction to one of the more powerful tools available for calculating carbon footprints, ecological footprints, LCA, etc.
