All Outputs (3)

Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones (2016)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018). Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones. Journal of Cleaner Production, 173, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.054

This paper reviews the literature on smart cities. Offering a critical synthesis of the material, it advances a Triple Helix inspired account of smart cities as future internet-based developments. In particular, as future internet-based developments... Read More about Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones.

The census as an information source in public policy-making (2016)
Journal Article
Killick, L., Hall, H., Duff, A. S., & Deakin, M. (2016). The census as an information source in public policy-making. Journal of Information Science, 42(3), 386-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551516628471

This paper provides an assessment of the value of national population censuses as information sources with specific reference to
UK census data and its use in policy-making. Mixed methods were adopted to collect quantitative and qualitative data fro... Read More about The census as an information source in public policy-making.

Power to the Population? the population census under review. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Killick, L., Duff, A., Hall, H., & Deakin, M. (2015, November). Power to the Population? the population census under review. Presented at Asian Conference on Technology, Information and Society (ACTIS), Kobe, Japan

Many regard the population census as the backbone of national statistics. It is also regarded as a national institution; a data source held in high regard by the academic, policymaker, historian and genealogist alike. However, technological advances,... Read More about Power to the Population? the population census under review..